Center for Language Science at Penn State

🌱💬 What does it mean to be a heritage speaker?

Our upcoming newsletter explores the experiences of heritage speakers — people who grow up speaking one language at home while using another more widely in their communities — and how they use language in creative and meaningful ways that can shape language itself ✨

Stay tuned, and check out our previous newsletters as a little warm-up 💌

Newsletters Newsletters Our newsletters share research in bilingualism with the public, centered around themes in language science and bilingualism. In them you’ll find interesting summaries of research and informative interviews with researchers and other partners. Some even feature a fun game or activity! K...

Join us on Friday, May 1st, at 9:00 a.m. in Foster Auditorium for a talk, “Leveraging Prediction Error to Increase Syntactic Priming Effects in Aphasia”, presented by Dr. Chaleece Sandberg!

Join us on Friday, April 24th, at 9:00 a.m. in Foster Auditorium for a talk, “Speaking While Aging”, presented by Dr. Shana Poplack!

Join us on Friday, April 17th, at 9:00 a.m. in Foster Auditorium for a talk, “What’s So Important about Tonal Accents in Scandinavian Languages?”, presented by Dr. Michael Putnam!

The CLS is excited to host our annual Language and Linguistics Day this Wednesday, April 8th 9:15 am to 2:00 pm at the Penn Stater Hotel! 💙

We’ll be welcoming high school students from local schools for a day of workshops and games exploring language structure, variation, sign language, and sociolinguistics!