A Research Network that Investigates Language Maintenance and Shift amongst Heritage Speakers Past and Present

Activities

The programme of the CUSO workshop “Methodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic heritage language data”, to take place at the Université de Lausanne on 16 and 17 February 2018, is now online!
Guido Seiler and Mark Louden were interviewed about Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss German spoken in America for a Swissinfo article
Anita Auer features in the SRF 2 radio programme “Kontext” on 27 October 2017 where she talks about dialect speakers in the diaspora.
Talk by Anita Auer and Alexandra Derungs on “Preserving Swiss Dialect features in the diaspora: The case of New Glarus” on 13 October 2017 at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Talk by Guido Seiler about “Alemannisch im Kontakt: Konvergenz und Divergenz in der Sprachinsel des ‘Shwitzer’ (Indiana, USA)” in Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany).