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

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Team

Anita Auer

 

Anita Auer

Professor of English Linguistics

Université de Lausanne

 

Stephan Elspass

 

Stephan Elspass

Professor of German Linguistics

Universität Salzburg

 

 

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Head of the social computing group at the IDIAP Research Institute

Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

 

Jonathan Kasstan

 

Jonathan Kasstan

Teaching Fellow in Sociolinguistics

Queen Mary, University of London

 

Guido Seiler

 

Guido Seiler

Professor of German Linguistics

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

 

xanthos-aris

 

Aris Xanthos

Senior Lecturer of (Computational) Linguistics

Université de Lausanne

 

Recent Posts

  • Introducing the project “Swiss communities on the Northern Black sea coast”
  • An article by Ladina Knüsli on the language of Matthias Dürst’s diary (Glarus) has just been published!
  • Naomi Nagy and Jonathan Kasstan at the workshop “Entre Europe et Amérique du Nord: Regards croisés sur le francoprovençal”
  • 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

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