Recent Talks

2026 (30/10) – Cristina Flores & Esther Rinke: “Heritage language reinforcement and differential stability. European Portuguese returnee speakers’ comprehension of null objects”, 42º Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Universidade de Faro, Portugal.

23 October 2025 — Flores, C. & Rinke, E. “Overspecification of subjects and underspecification of objects: subject-object asymmetries in heritage Portuguese as a window into divergent diachronic pathways.” Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.

10 June 2025 — Flores, C. & Rinke, E. “On the resilience of heritage grammars: Insights from child heritage speakers of European Portuguese.” Symposium Resilience in Heritage Language Acquisition (org. Bradley Hoot), International Symposium on Bilingualism, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain.

24 October 2024 — Rinke, E., Weingärtner, D. & Flores, C. “Linguistic variation in heritage languages mirrors ongoing diachronic change. The interpretation of null objects by monolingual and bilingual speakers of different varieties of Portuguese.” 40th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.

23 October 2024 — Bennett, S., Flores, C., Monaghan, P. & Rebuschat, P. “Individual differences in heritage language development: A systematic review and meta-analysis.” 40th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics, University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.

13 September 2024 — Flores, C., Parafita Couto, C. & Rinke, E. “‘a branca Schere’ or ‘a tesoura weiβe’? Linguistic constraints on adjective placement in Portuguese-German code-switching by child heritage speakers.” 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 16), NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal.

27 June 2024 — Flores, C., Weingärtner, D. & Rinke, E. “Connecting heritage languages and diachronic change: null objects in different varieties of Portuguese.” 6th Conference on Variation and Language Processing (VALP6), University of Vigo, Spain.

19 April 2024 — Comesaña, M., Sá-Leite, A. R., Parafita, C., Haro, J. & Flores, C. “O impacto do Bilinguismo no sucesso académico e cognitivo.” 18th National Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

28 September 2023 — Correia, L., Flores, C., Lobo, M. & Eira, C. “How do cumulative input and input richness modulate heritage language development? A study with child heritage speakers of European Portuguese.” RUEG 2023 – Linguistic Variability in Heritage Language Research, Berlin, Germany.

25 September 2023 — Correia, L. & Flores, C. “The acquisition of European Portuguese (EP) as a Heritage Language (HL) in Germany: predictors of individual differences in the syntactic knowledge of child heritage speakers of EP.” Section Linguistische Besonderheiten romanischer Herkunftssprachen in Deutschland, 38th Romanistentag, Germany.

8 September 2023 — Flores, C., Zhou, C. & Eira, C. “On dominance shift, language attrition and language reactivation in bilingual returnees.” ESCOP 2023 – 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, University of Porto, Portugal.

14 July 2023 — Araújo, S., Flores, C. & Sousa, O. “How different are Portuguese monolingual and Portuguese-French bilingual children’s written narratives?” L2 Portuguese @ Lancaster (L2P@L 2023), Lancaster University, UK.

1 April 2023 — Gomes, J. N., Barbosa, P., Flores, C., Lourenço-Gomes, M. C. & Araújo, S. “Processing dative topics within wh-islands.” Workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

20 January 2023 — Correia, L., Lobo, M. & Flores, C. “A Sentence Repetition Task for European Portuguese: Results from a Study with Monolingual and Portuguese-German Bilingual Children.” OUR ID – Colloquium in honour of Inês Duarte, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal.