The Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, hosted by National Heritage Language Research Center, was held at UCLA from February 27–28, 2026, and a number of U-M affiliates were in attendance.
U-M Linguistics graduate students Isaias Ceballos III and Cecila Solís-Barroso gave presentations on “Attitudinal and Experiential Effects on Heritage Language Name Pronunciations” and “Morphological Innovation in Nahuatl/Spanish Bilingualism: Blending Boundaries in Possessive Morphology”, respectively.
The full list of U-M presentations is given below:
- “Attitudinal and Experiential Effects on Heritage Language Name Pronunciations”
Authors: Isaias Ceballos III (U-M graduate student), Teresa Satterfield (U-M faculty), Savithry Namboodiripad (U-M faculty) - “¿Cómo sé si soy un no sabo?: New insights from AI into Heritage Language Development and Identity in the Spanish HL”
Authors: Jacqueline Aguiar (U-M undergraduate student), Teresa Satterfield (U-M faculty), Sophia Sims (U-M undergraduate student) - “The Importance of Heritage Language Input: A Holistic Linguistic and Environmental Perspective on the Separate/Unified/Integrated Language Systems Debate”
Authors: Valeria Ortiz Villalobos (U-M graduate student), Zahira Flores Gaona (U-M graduate student), Ioulia Kovelman (U-M faculty), Teresa Satterfield (U-M faculty) - “Ian y Balam: Lessons from Latino Parents and Child Heritage Language Learners through Community Co-Design of Spanish Stories”
Authors: Viviana Vélez Negrón (U-M graduate student), Claudia Navarro Corona, Javier Farfan-Morales (U-M undergraduate student), Johnathan Diaz (U-M undergraduate student), Teresa Satterfield-Linares (U-M faculty) - “Morphological Innovation in Nahuatl/Spanish Bilingualism: Blending Boundaries in Possessive Morphology”
Author: Cecilia Solís-Barroso (U-M graduate student)
