Call for Submissions – Heritage Phonetics and Phonology Workshop

“Heritage Phonetics and Phonology” is a satellite workshop of the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference taking place on 25 June 2025 in Palma, Spain.

We welcome abstracts dealing with phonetic and phonological aspects in heritage language acquisition, including both segmental and suprasegmental levels (as well as their interfaces to other domains) and both children and adult populations. We are interested in individual differences and variation in different phonetic/phonological phenomena with a special focus on the factors that may shape the process of heritage language acquisition and maintenance such as the role of input, the age of onset of the ML, the accessibility to formal education and literacy, and family socio-economic status, among many others.

For further details and areas of interest, please visit the workshop webpage:
https://agenda.uib.es/120122/section/53628/6th-phonetics-and-phonology-in-europe-pape-2025.html

Submission guidelines: We invite abstracts for 15-minutes oral presentations.
Format: 500 words, excluding references, tables or figures, Times New Roman 12/ Arial 11, in English. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2025. Please send the abstracts to: workshop.heritagephonology@uni-konstanz.de
The notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of 28 February 2025.

Mariia Pronina (University of the Balearic Islands)
Svenja Krieger (University of Konstanz)

Upon the workshop, the organizers plan to submit a proposal for a Special Issue to Heritage Language Journal (HLJ) based on the accepted presentations. The participants of the workshop will be invited to contribute a full article to this Special Issue. At this stage, the Editor-in-Chief of HLJ, Rajiv Rao, expressed strong interest and enthusiasm for the proposed Special Issue.