Second Heritage Language Summer Institute:
Developing a Research Base for the Heritage Field
David Birdsong (BA Dartmouth; MA, PhD Harvard)is Professor of French and Romance Linguistics at the University of Texas. Currently he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen) and a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. His research insterest are in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. His forthcoming book is Age and Attainment in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press).
