I presented at these conferences

[titles, handouts, fabulous co-authors in my cv]:

• Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora, New York City
• 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Honolulu
• Multilingual Capital: A Panel Discussion with the Public, London, England
• Le francais à la mesure d'un continent, University of Florida
• The road less travelled. An international conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition. Toronto.
• Heritage languages: language contact-change-maintenance and loss in the wave of new migration landscapes. Wuppertal, Germany.
• NWAV-Asia Pacific 2, Tokyo.

and attended these other conferences:

• Canadian Acoustic Association, Montreal
• CRLC Special Event on multilingualism, York U
• CVC 7
• Engaging with local ethnic and linguistic communities, Multilingual Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Toronto
• Roundtable on Cultural Pluralism, York U

I met, or caught up with, more linguists, including some young Faetar scholars, when I was invited to lecture at:

• l'Université de Nice
• Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence

  where Priscilla Tolentino hopes to compare Faetar to the Francoprovençal spoken in Valjouffrey

• Université Paris Diderot
• Exeter University
• Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies, Manchester University
• University of Kent

  where Jonathan Kasstanis studying a learner variety of Francoprovençal and may draw connections with Faetar

• Queen Mary University London
• Women Scholars Speaker Series, University of Lethbridge
• University of Alberta
• University of Pittsburgh [preview for NWAV 42!]
• Penn State University

I continued work on the Heritage Language Variation and Change project with students and colleagues including:

• improving the Corpora in the Classroom website, with Natalia Lapinskaya and CHASS
• expanding the HLVC website
• completing an article about Voice Onset Time in several Toronto Heritage Languages with Alexei
• examining lexical frequency effects in Italian pro-drop with Derek
• finishing a chapter about connections between ethnic orientation and linguistic variation with Joanna and Michol
• working on a chapter about speech rate variation with Marisa
• working on a chapter about pro-drop patterns in the English of several ethnic groups in Toronto with recent alum Isobel Marr

Less connected with Heritage Languages, I worked on:

• writing a chapter about transcription with Devyani Sharma
• comparison of computer and human recognition of the variable (r) in New England English with George Nagy

Plus,

there was reviewing books, articles and abstracts, teaching a course, advising students, grant applications, learning more about stats and plots in R, and successfully applying for tenure and promotion to Associate professor.

Travel for research and presentations allowed for a little fun:

• British Columbia to ski
• family time in Vermont, Niagara on the Lake, Wisconsin, and Scotland
• Hawaii to explore the Billians' summer habitat
• hiking with Dagmar in Rhineland forests
• seeing Lipskis in Pittsburgh
• running from alligators in FL
• Hong Kong Cantonese immersion