2008 LSA SUMMER MEETING
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM
| Thursday, July 10 | |||
| 11:30-1:00 | Registration in McPherson Hall 1021 | ||
| 12:00-1:00 | Presenters set up posters in McPherson Hall 1040 & adjoining hallway for Poster session 1. | ||
| 1:00-2:30 | Parallel workshops: Applying to graduate school in linguistics and other fields: (McPherson Hall 1035) Jeri Jaeger (UBuffalo, Linguistics), Leslie Moore (Ohio State, College of Education & Human Ecology), Laura Wagner (Ohio State, Psychology) Applying for jobs in linguistics and related areas: (McPherson Hall 1021) Mary Paster (Pomona College, Linguistics), Chris Brew (Ohio State, Computer Science & Linguistics), Susan Hura (SpeechUsability) |
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| 2:45-3:30 | Workshop. McPherson Hall 1035 Applying for funding: Chris Brew (Ohio State, Computer Science & Linguistics), Mark Pitt (Ohio State, Psychology), Robert Fox (Ohio State, Speech & Hearing Sciences) |
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| 3:30-4:15 | Workshop. McPherson Hall 1035 Publishing your research: Don Winford (Editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages), David Odden (Editor, Journal of African Studies) |
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| 4:15-4:30 | Break | ||
| 4:30-6:00 | Poster session 1. Session Chair: Lark Hovey (See below for list of presenters.) McPherson Hall 1040 |
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| 6:15-8:15 | Cookout at the Faculty Club Registration |
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| Friday, July 11 | |||
| 9:00-10:30 | Chair: Beth Hume. McPherson Hall 1000 Panel on Professional ethics: Mary Beckman (Ohio State) & Susan Hura (SpeechUsability) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Paper presentations: Session 1. McPherson Hall 1000 The semantics of vagueness: Supertruth, subtruth and the cooperative principle Tough nuts to crack |
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| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters.
(McPherson Hall 1021) Presenters in Poster session 2 set up posters in McPherson Hall 1035 and adjoining hallway. |
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| 1:45-3:15 | Paper presentations: Session 2. McPherson Hall 1000 Communicative efficiency: native and non-native speakers in dialogue Is internal argumenthood relevant for pitch accenting of intransitive verbs in english? |
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| 3:15-3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:30-5:00 | Poster session 2. Session Chair: Lark Hovey & Chanelle Mays (See below for list of presenters.) McPherson Hall 1035 and adjoining hallway Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. |
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| 5:15-6:15 | Chair: David Odden Plenary Speaker: Mary Paster (BA, The Ohio State University; PhD, UC Berkeley; Faculty, Pomona College). The journey from linguistics major to professor McPherson Hall 1000 |
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| 7:00 | Party (Beth Hume's home) | ||
| Saturday, July 12 | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Chair: Mary Beckman Plenary Speaker: Ilse Lehiste (Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University) Interrelationship between language and music McPherson Hall 1000 |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Break. (McPherson Hall 1021) | ||
| 10:15-11:45 | Paper presentations: Session 3. McPherson Hall 1000 A variationist study of English modality in rural Ontario Lexical frequency effects in the psychological manifestation of morpheme structure constraints |
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| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. McPherson Hall 1021 | ||
| 1:00-3:00 | Paper presentations: Session 4. McPherson Hall 1000 Nasal assimilation in the speech of Detroit working class AAVE speakers Visual cues to language identification In- or ex-situ: a diagnosis of right node raising |
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| 3:00-4:00 | Break and advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. (McPherson Hall 1021) | ||
| 4:00-5:00 | Chair: Kathleen Currie Hall Plenary Speaker: Elizabeth Strand (Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary) The road to industry McPherson Hall 1000 |
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| 5:30 | Dinner: Kuhn Honors and Scholars House | ||
| 7:30 | Undergraduate social | ||
| Sunday, July 13 | |||
| 9:00-10:30 | Chair: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler Plenary speakers: John Rickford (Stanford), Tom Wasow (Stanford) Collaborations: As far as different subfields, we're all, "Ain't no reason we shouldn't work together" McPherson Hall 1000 |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Paper presentations: Session 5. McPherson Hall 1000 "A radical point of view": The linguistic construction of student activists' political identity From dialect to substandard: The future of Occitan dialectality |
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| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. McPherson Hall 1021 | ||
POSTER SESSION 1: Thursday 4:30-6:00
An embarassment of riches: The proliferation of Tlingit writing systems
James Crippen, University of Hawaii
Syntactic change and the emergence of prepositional finite clauses in Spanish and Portuguese
Manuel Delicado-Cantero, The Ohio State University
The production of acoustic correlates of lexical stress by Spanish ESL speakers
Paul Edmunds, University of New Mexico
Emergent unmarkedness in L2: What L2 Modern Greek reveals about L1 English
James Gruber, Georgetown University
L1 interference in the production of English lexical stress by French learners of English
Jasmine Heschuk, University of Victoria
The differential effects of corrective feedback on two target structures in L2 Korean
Sun Hee Hwang, Georgetown University
Loanword adaptation as perceptual approximation
Eunah Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Vowel length degradation in Latvian-English bilinguals
Edward King, University of Chicago
A cross-dialectal perceptual study of eastern Andalusian coda-neutralization
Jaymie Lao; Jason Bishop, Universiy of California, Los Angeles
L2 acquisition of phrasal prominence and rhythm in English
Emily Nava, University of Southern California
Contrastive stress and anaphora resolution in subordinate VP-ellipsis
Dan Parker, Eastern Michigan University
Informed models of human sentence comprehension
David Lutz, Michigan State University
Effects of dialect and talker variability on lexical recognition memory
Terrin Tamati, The Ohio State University
Missing surface inflection in L2 speech: a performance interface account
Darren Tanner, University of Washington
POSTER SESSION 2: Friday 3:30-5:00
The role of exposure to non-target material during foreign-accent adaptation
Melissa Michaud Baese; Ann Rosalie Bradlow, Northwestern University
Addressing challenges posed by speech corpora including non-native speakers
Rachel Baker; Kristin Van Engen, Northwestern University
Split DPs in German - a different view
Solveig Bosse, University of Delaware
PP shells and absolute constructions
Colin Gorrie, University of Toronto
Discourse markers in conversations between native and nonnative speakers
Midam Kim, Northwestern University
/ay/ Monophthongization in the pre-tap environment
Elizabeth Gentry; Andrew Pantos, Rice University
Phrasal prominence in the English of native Spanish Speakers
Gregory Madan; Emily Nava; Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California
The effects of L1 orthography on L2 perception
Marc Matthews, University of Florida
Moving new words into the neighborhood
Tim Poepsel, Northwestern University
MultiTree - A digital library of language relationships
Susan Smith; Bethany Townsend
Wayne State University; Eastern Michigan University
A phonological analysis of the dative alternation in spoken English
Michael Speriosu, Stanford University
A study of vowel duration as a cue for the underlying voicing of intervocalic alveolar flaps
Nancy Ward, University of California, Berkeley
English middles process linguistically
Jim Wood; Inna Livitz, New York University
So-inversion as polarity focus
Jim Wood, New York University
Frequency and learnability of harmony directionalities
Aleksandra Zaba, University of Utah
