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Thursday 7 January, Afternoon
| 1 |
Symposium: Medialingual: Representing Language in Film and Television |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizer: |
Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University) |
| 4:00: |
Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University): Introduction of symposium and issues in media production |
| 4:10: |
K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College/Living Tongues Institute): Illustrative vignettes from The Linguists |
| 4:30: |
K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College/Living Tongues Institute): Speakers, linguists, and the media |
| 4:50: |
Ashley Stinnett (University of Arizona): Illustrative vignettes from The Red Queen & The Ring of Fire |
| 5:10: |
Ashley Stinnett (University of Arizona): Interdisciplinary filmmaking: Linguistics, anthropology, & genetics |
| 5:30: |
Tamrika Khvtisiashvili (University of Utah): Illustrative claymations |
| 5:50: |
Tamrika Khvtisiashvili (University of Utah): Animation: A tool for language revitalization |
| 6:10: |
Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University): Illustrative vignettes from documentaries produced by the North Carolina Language and Life Project (e.g., Mountain Talk, The Carolina Brogue, Spanish Voices) |
| 6:30: |
Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University): Collaborative issues in language variation documentaries |
| 6:50: |
Sue Penfield (National Science Foundation): Discussant |
| 2 |
Perception/Acquisition of Phonology |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
Jason Riggle (University of Chicago) |
| 4:00: |
Ingvar Lofstedt (University of California, Los Angeles): Allomorphy driven by perceptibility |
| 4:30: |
Peter Graff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gregory Scontras (Harvard University): Metathesis as asymmetric perceptual realignment |
| 5:00: |
Kenji Yoshida (Indiana University), Kenneth deJong (Indiana University), Pia- Maria Paivio (Indiana University): A cross-linguistic study on perception of length contrast in Finnish and Japanese |
| 5:30: |
Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota), Sara Kemper: Implicit perception of speaker sex affects fricative categorization |
| 6:00: |
Michael Becker (Harvard University), Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of Alberta): Trajectories of faithfulness in child-specific phonology |
| 6:30: |
Peter Richtsmeier (Purdue University): The influence of phonetic variability and word-type frequency on phonotactic representations |
| 3 |
Sign Language |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Susan Fischer (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| 4:00: |
Dany Adone (University of Cologne), Anastasia Bauer (University of Cologne): The emergence of nonmanual markers in a young sign language |
| 4:30: |
Marie Nadolske (Purdue University): Patterns of variation in ASL semantic classifiers: Native and nonnative VEHICLE handshapes |
| 5:00: |
Aaron Shield (University of Texas at Austin), Richard Meier (University of Texas at Austin): Visual perspective taking in sign language: Evidence from deaf children with autism |
| 4 |
Language Classification |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Peter Austin (University of London) |
| 5:30: |
Tyler Schnoebelen (Stanford University): (Un)classifying Shabo |
| 6:00: |
Danny Law (University of Texas at Austin): Mixed languages and genetic relatedness: The case of Tojol-ab’al |
| 6:30: |
Fei Xia (University of Washington at Seattle), William Lewis (Microsoft Corporation), Carrie Lewis: Language ID for a thousand languages |
| 5 |
Syntax: Clitics and Agreement |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Stephen Anderson (Yale University) |
| 4:00: |
Hyun-Jong Hahm (University of Texas at Austin): Number agreement in American Sign Language (ASL) |
| 4:30: |
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington at Seattle): Cliticization and Old Chinese word order |
| 5:00: |
Jennifer Culbertson (Johns Hopkins University), Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University), Lisa Brunetti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Subject clitics as agreement in spoken French |
| 5:30: |
Elizabeth Coppock (Cycorp, Inc.), Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas): The definite conjugation in Hungarian: What is it and where did it come from? |
| 6:00: |
Christina Tortora (City University of New York): Clausal domains and clitic placement generalizations in Romance |
| 6:30: |
Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley), David Peterson (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology): Contact-induced spread of the rare Type 5 clitic |
| 6 |
Semantics: Quantification and Scope |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University) |
| 4:00: |
Erin Zaroukian (Johns Hopkins University): Expressing numerical uncertainty |
| 4:30: |
Stephanie Solt (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft): On the expression of proportion: Most and more than half |
| 5:00: |
Dongsik Lim (University of Southern California): Measure phrases and semantics of deadjectival inchoative verbs in Korean |
| 5:30: |
Aynat Rubinstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Gradations of force: Rethinking modal quantificational components |
| 6:00: |
Janet Anderson (University of Southern California): Distributivity, dependencies, and reduplication in Kannada |
| 6:30: |
Neal Whitman (Unaffiliated): Deriving wide-scoping operators in an associative Lambek categorial grammar |
| 7 |
Sociophonetics I |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University) |
| 4:00: |
Wil Rankinen (Indiana University Bloomington): Michigan's Upper Peninsula vowel Systems: Finnish- and Italian-American communities |
| 4:30: |
Wenhua Jin (Clark University): Place effects on the Korean spoken in a non- peninsular region: The case of vowel /y/ |
| 5:00: |
Tyler Kendall (Northwestern University), Valerie Fridland (University of Nevada, Reno): Mapping production and perception: The influence of regional & individual norms |
| 5:30: |
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania): Peripherality |
| 6:00: |
David Quinto-Pozos (University of Texas at Austin), Lisa Mellman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Amy DeVries: Rates of fingerspelling in American Sign Language |
| 6:30: |
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State University): Stylistic clustering in sociolinguistic perception |
| 8 |
Psycholinguistics: Phonology |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Jaye Padgett (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 4:00: |
Irene Vogel (University of Delaware), H. Timothy Bunnell (University of Delaware), Arild Hestvik (University of Delaware), Nadya Pincus (University of Delaware), Robin Aronow-Meredith (West Chester University): Perception of compound vs. phrasal stress with different speech types |
| 4:30: |
Elika Bergelson (University of Pennsylvania), Jennifer Merickel (University of Rochester), William Idsardi (University of Maryland), Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland): Structural biases in phonology: Evidence from artificial language learning in adults |
| 5:00: |
Amy LaCross (University of Arizona): Regularity and vowel harmony: Statistical learning and rule abstraction |
| 5:30: |
Matthew Adams (Stanford University): Noun information content influences verb duration in spontaneous speech |
| 6:00: |
Yao Yao (University of California, Berkeley): Separating talker- and listener- oriented forces in speech using phonological neighborhood density |
| 6:30: |
Marc Ettlinger (Northwestern University), Patrick Wong (Northwestern University), Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University): Production/perception asymmetries in the acquisition of opacity |
Thursday 7 January, Evening
| Welcome |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
7:15 PM |
| LSA President: Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan) |
| Invited Plenary Address |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
| Chair: |
Lila Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania) |
|
Rethinking the emergence of grammatical structure in signed languages: New evidence from variation and historical change in American Sign Language
Ted Supalla (University of Rochester)
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Friday 8 January, Morning
| 9 |
Symposium: A comparison of models for meter: Corpora and other sources of evidence for metrical theory and method |
| Room: |
Key 6 |
| Organizers: |
San Duanmu (University of Michigan)
Nigel Fabb (University of Strathclyde)
|
| 9:00: |
San Duanmu (University of Michigan): Investigating judgment on metrical form: variation and agreement |
| 9:15: |
Nigel Fabb (University of Strathclyde), Morris Halle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Dylan Thomas's syllabic verse, polymeters, and Bracketed Grid Theory |
| 9:30: |
Discussion |
| 9:45: |
Chris Golston (California State University, Fresno), Tomas Riad (Stockholm University): Meter and markedness |
| 10:00: |
Kristin Hanson (University of California, Berkeley): Interpreting metrical corpora |
| 10:15: |
Discussion |
| 10:30: |
Bruce Hayes (University of California Los Angeles), Anne Shisko (University of California, Los Angeles), Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University): Maxent grammars for the metrics of Shakespeare and Milton |
| 10:45: |
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University): Meter and performance as mutually constraining systems |
| 11:00: |
Discussion |
| 11:15: |
Stephanie Shih (Stanford University): Evaluating metrical theories using corpus and computational tools |
| 11:30: |
Gilbert Youmans (University of Missouri-Columbia): Optimal English verse |
| 11:45: |
Discussion |
| 10 |
Tutorial: Archiving ethically: Mediating the demands of communities and institutional sponsors when producing language documentation |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizers: |
Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)
Heidi Johnson (Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America)
|
| 9:00: |
Peter Austin (University of London): Managing rights and access to your archival data |
| 9:30: |
Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia): "What do they want from me?": Translating the Field to your IRB |
| 10:00: |
Tony Woodbury (University of Texas at Austin): Building projects around community members |
| 10:30: |
Keren Rice (University of Toronto): Ethics in fieldwork: Consent and archiving |
| 11:00: |
Jeff Good (University at Buffalo): Documenting consent, access, and rights |
| 11:30: |
Panel Discussion |
| 11 |
Experimental Phonology |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
Rachel Walker (University of Southern California) |
| 9:00: |
Anne Pycha (University of Pennsylvania), Delphine Dahan (University of Pennsylvania): Diphthong formants as a test case for the phonetics-phonology interface |
| 9:30: |
Jaye Padgett (University of California, Santa Cruz), Grant McGuire (University of California Santa Cruz), Alex Wolfe (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lillian Clark (University of California, Santa Cruz), Nathaniel Hinchey (University of California, Santa Cruz): On the bases of vowel dispersion: An experiment |
| 10:00: |
Daniel Scarpace (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Cynthia Kilpatrick (University of Texas at Arlington): How exceptional are exceptional forms? Perception of hiatus in Spanish |
| 10:30: |
Rebecca Morley (The Ohio State University): Inducing epenthesis: Phonetic, phonological, and morphological considerations |
| 11:00: |
Iris Berent (Northeastern University), Evan Balaban (McGill University), Tracy Lennertz (Northeastern University), Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum (University of Haifa): Phonological universals constrain the processing of non-speech stimuli |
| 11:30: |
Adam Buchwald (New York University), Michelle Miozzo (University of Cambridge/Johns Hopkins University): Evidence for language-internal cluster well-formedness differences |
| 12 |
Language Change, Loanwords, and Phonetic Methods |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Michael Cahill (SIL International) |
| 9:00: |
Paul Fallon (University of Mary Washington): The coronal ejectives in Proto- Agaw |
| 9:30: |
Andrew Dombrowski (University of Chicago): Vowel harmony loss in West Rumelian Turkish |
| 10:00: |
Adam Cooper (Cornell University): Constraint indexation locality and epenthesis in Vedic Sanskrit |
| 10:30: |
Morgan Sonderegger (University of Chicago), Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago): Combining data and mathematical models to study change: An application to an English stress shift |
| 11:00: |
Yaron McNabb (University of Chicago): Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic |
| 11:30: |
Laura Spinu (University of Delaware), Jason Lilley (University of Delaware): Acoustic methods of classifying fricatives |
| 13 |
Syntax/Semantics: Datives |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Alice Harris (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| 9:00: |
Maximilian Bane (University of Chicago): A combinatoric model of variation in the English dative alternation |
| 9:30: |
Mary Byram (University of Southern California), Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California): Contrastive and information focus as motivators of the dative alternation |
| 10:00: |
Effi Georgala (Cornell University): The base word order of German double object constructions revisited |
| 10:30: |
Silke Lambert (University at Buffalo): Dative indirect affectee and the causal chain |
| 11:00: |
Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen): The rise of dative substitution in the history of Icelandic |
| 11:30: |
Elena Shimanskaya (Syracuse University): Same preposition, different structure: The case of French á |
| 14 |
Semantics: Negation, Polarity, Indefinites |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Michael Israel (University of Maryland) |
| 9:00: |
Ljuba Veselinova (Stockholm University): Standard and special negators: Their evolution and interaction |
| 9:30: |
Hannah Pritchett (University of California, Berkeley): The development of double negatives in Chamic languages |
| 10:00: |
Nicholas Fleisher (Wayne State University): Comparative quantifiers and negation |
| 10:30: |
Natalia Fitzgibbons (University of Connecticut): A characterization of the distribution of Russian -nibud'-indefinites |
| 11:30: |
Akio Hasegawa (University at Buffalo), Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo): Multi-dimensionality and negative concord in the meaning of the Japanese focus particle shika |
| 15 |
Sociophonetics II |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
William Labov (Universit of Pennsylvania) |
| 9:00: |
Thomas Purnell (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Motor control of vowel space: Effect on dialect features under intoxication |
| 9:30: |
John Riebold (York University): Creak in the rain: Phonation in Oregon English |
| 10:00: |
Sai Samant (University of Michigan): Arab American ethnicity and the Northern Cities Shift |
| 10:30: |
Cathy Hicks Kennard (Central Michigan University): Pitch gender and speech style: Women and men's use of pitch in authoritative and non-authoritative speech styles |
| 11:00: |
Lal Zimman (University of Colorado at Boulder): Biology, socialization, and identity: Accounting for the voices of female-to-male transsexuals |
| 11:30: |
Tammy Gales (University of California, Davis), Vineeta Chand (University of California, Davis): A corpus-based approach to word frequency and syntactic categories |
| 16 |
Language Acquisition I |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Jennifer Bloomquist (Gettysburg College) |
| 9:00: |
Seung Kyung Kim (Stanford University): Young children's production of direct objects in spontaneous speech |
| 9:30: |
Rachel Theodore (Brown University), Katherine Demuth (Brown University), Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Acoustic evidence for position and complexity effects on children's production of plural -s |
| 10:00: |
Gregory Aist (Iowa State University), Donna Gates (Carnegie Mellon University), Margaret McKeown (Carnegie Mellon University), Jack Mostow (Carnegie Mellon University): Derivational morphology affects children's word reading in English earlier than previously thought |
| 10:30: |
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland), Rebecca Baier (University of Maryland): Predictive parsing impedes word learning in 16- and 19-month-olds |
| 11:00: |
Ann Bunger (University of Delaware), John Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania), Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware): Event apprehension for language production in children |
| 11:30: |
Jodi Reich (Yale University), Elena Grigorenko (Yale University), Maria Babyonyshev (Yale University): Nominal inflection in children with disorders of spoken language: Evidence from Russian |
| 17 |
Posters: Morphology/Syntax/Semantics |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
9:00 - 10:30 AM |
| Elizabeth Coppock (Cycorp Inc.): The predictability of predicativity |
| Francesca Del Gobbo (University of California, Irvine), Cecilia Poletto (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione): On sentential particles: A cross-linguistic study |
| Minta Elsman (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina): The morphosyntax of the American English perfect |
| Jonathan Howell (Cornell University): Adnominal emphatic reflexives and the use of web-harvested speech corpora |
| Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California, Los Angeles): DM approach to Japanese -rare and -sase |
| Linda Lanz (Rice University): Case stacking in Iñupiaq |
| Lauren Ressue (Ohio State University): Decomposability and semantic invariance: Russian verbal prefixes |
| Patrick Rich (Harvard University): What is n't doing there?: French expletive negation in comparative clauses |
David Schueler (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): Presuppositions and definite process nominals |
| 18 |
Posters: Syntax |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon |
| Leah Bateman (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Participant nominalizers and aspect in Tibetan |
| Chao-Ting Chou (University of Michigan): Feature inheritance and object raising in epistemic modal constructions in Mandarin Chinese |
| Oana Savescu Ciucivara (New York University): When syncretism meets word order: The case of Romanian postverbal clitics |
| Octav Eugen DeLazero (Cornell University): The syntax of modal adjectives: Movement and reanalysis |
| Carrie Gillon (Arizona State University), Hui-Ling Yang (Arizona State University): Southern Min postverbal negation |
| Peter Jenks (Harvard University): Evidence for structural diversity in classifier languages |
| Pei-Jung Kuo (University of Connecicut): Revisiting Chinese passives |
| Thomas Leu (Yale University): Adjectival inflection and V2 |
| Tanya Scott (Stony Brook University): Spurious coordination in Russian multiple Wh |
| Dennis Storoshenko (Simon Fraser University), Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University), Calen Walshe (Simon Fraser University): An experimental study of antecedent resolution for long-distance anaphor caki in Korean |
| Special Poster Session: Linguists in Government |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon |
| Rachel Lunde Brooks (Federal Bureau of Investigation): The critical need for linguists at the FBI |
| David Gunn (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency): Applied linguistics in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
| Justin R. Kelly (Second Language Testing, Inc.), Beth Mackey (Department of Defense), Philippe Casteuble (Department of State, Foreign Service Institute): Language testing in the US government |
| Deborah Kennedy (Center for Applied Linguistics), Kevin Gormley (National Security Education Program): Language proficiency in government service: The English for Heritage Language Speakers program |
| Yuling Pan (U.S. Census Bureau): Language and measurement research at the United States Census Bureau |
Friday 8 January, Afternoon
| Invited Plenary Address |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
12:45 - 1:45 PM |
| Chair: |
Roger Shuy (Georgetown University Emeritus) |
|
Abduction, dialogicality, and prior text: The taking on of voices in conversational discourse
Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University)
|
| 19 |
Panel: Interdisciplinarity and Current Trends in Undergraduate Linguistics Education |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizers: |
Gulsat Aygen (Northern Illinois University)
Nassira Nicola (University of Chicago)
|
| 2:00: |
Judith Parker (University of Mary Washington): Growing a healthy undergraduate program in linguistics: Strategizing and thriving in a public university |
| 2:15: |
Julie Roberts (University of Vermont): Creating undergraduate linguistics programming: Building from the ground up |
| 2:30: |
Kira Allman (The College of William and Mary): Undergraduate linguistics from the undergraduate perspective: One approach to interdisciplinarity |
| 2:45: |
Peter Arcus Farago (Reed College): Undergraduate linguistics from the undergraduate perspective: Comparing programs and outcomes |
| 3:00: |
Q&A and Discussion |
| 20 |
Symposium: Contributions from Linguistics to Educational Challenges |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizer: |
Carolyn Temple Adger (Center for Applied Linguistics) |
| Respondent: |
Diane August (Center for Applied Linguistics) |
| 3:30: |
Carolyn Temple Adger (Center for Applied Linguistics): Introduction |
| 3:35: |
James Bauman (Center for Applied Linguistics): A linguistically based framework for examining students' access to test items |
| 3:53: |
Response |
| 3:58: |
Discussion |
| 4:00: |
Mary Schleppegrell (University of Michigan): Linguistics for linking language and content area learning |
| 4:18: |
Response |
| 4:23: |
Discussion |
| 4:30: |
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania): Sociolinguistics for preventing reading difficulties |
| 4:48: |
Response |
| 4:53: |
Discussion |
| 21 |
Panel: Evidentials and evidential strategies in social interaction |
| Room: |
Key 6 |
| Organizers: |
Lev Michael (University of California, Berkeley)
Janis Nuckolls (Brigham Young University)
|
| 2:00: |
Victor Friedman (University of Chicago): The social embedding of evidentiality in the Balkans |
| 2:20: |
Discussion |
| 2:25: |
Ilana Mushin (University of Queensland): Evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation |
| 2:45: |
Discussion |
| 2:50: |
Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto): Evidentiality, epistemics and sequence organization in social interaction |
| 3:10: |
Discussion |
| 3:15: |
Lev Michael (University of California, Berkeley): Rethinking quotatives, reported speech, and utterance responsibility: Implications of Nanti self-quotation |
| 3:35: |
Discussion |
| 3:40: |
Janis Nuckolls (Brigham Young University): From quotative other to quotative self in Pastaza Quichua evidential usage |
| 4:00: |
Discussion |
| 4:05: |
Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle University): Evidentiality in Quechua narrative discourse: The roles of deixis and speaker subjectivity |
| 4:25: |
Discussion |
| 4:30: |
William Hanks (University of Texas at Austin): Discussant |
| 22 |
Phonology: Segmental Properties |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
Kenneth Olson (SIL International) |
| 2:00: |
Eun Jong Kong (The Ohio State University), Mary Beckman (The Ohio State University), Jan Edwards (University of Wisconsin-Madison): VOT trumps other measures in predicting Korean children's early mastery of fortis stops |
| 2:30: |
Mi Jang (University of Texas at Austin): The effect of prosodically driven phonetic properties on Korean stops |
| 3:00: |
Christian DiCanio (Université de Lyon): Cross-linguistic perception of Itunyoso Trique tone |
| 3:30: |
Eric Oglesbee (Bethel College): Language differences in the perceptual content of laryngeal contrasts |
| 4:00: |
Gillian Gallagher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Systemic markedness and laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions |
| 4:30: |
Laura Spinu (University of Delaware): Overriding markedness: Evidence from palatalization |
| 23 |
Phonology-Morphology Interfaces |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Robert Rankin (University of Kansas) |
| 2:00: |
Esra Kesici (Cornell University): Turkish stress and the prosodic structure |
| 2:30: |
James Stanford (Dartmouth College): Variation in adjective expressives among Sui clans |
| 3:00: |
Gabriela Caballero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Non- optimizing outward conditioning in Tarahumara allomorph selection |
| 24 |
Phonology: Verse |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Kristin Hanson (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 3:30: |
Joshua Jensen (University of Texas at Arlington): Hook-rhyme & binarity in Jarai folk verse |
| 4:00: |
Jonah Katz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Phonetic similarity in an English hip-hop corpus |
| 4:30: |
Bruce Hayes (University of California, Los Angeles), Claire Moore-Cantwell (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Gerard Manley Hopkins's Sprung Rhythm: Corpus study and stochastic grammar |
| 25 |
Syntax: Case and Agreement |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) |
| 2:00: |
Cherlon Ussery (University of Massachusetts Amherst): DP licensing and agreement optionality: A view from Icelandic |
| 2:30: |
William Badecker (University of Arizona), Andrew Nevins (Harvard University), Franc Marušič (Univerza v Novi Gorici): Effects of linear order and conjunct number on single conjunct agreement in Slovenian |
| 3:00: |
Zhanna Glushan (University of Connecticut): Deriving case syncretism in differential object marking systems |
| 3:30: |
Martin Walkow (University of Massachusetts Amherst): A unified analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-effects in Barceloní Catalan |
| 4:00: |
Omer Preminger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Basque unergatives, case-competition, and ergative as inherent case |
| 26 |
Information Structure, Discourse, Referentiality |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Jeanette Gundel (University of Minnesota) |
| 2:00: |
Nikola Predolac (Cornell University): Word order givenness and relative scope of focused arguments in Serbian |
| 2:30: |
Christopher Ahern (Northwestern University), Thomas Hayden (Northwestern University), Gregory Ward (Northwestern University): An empirical investigation of typicality and uniqueness effects on article choice |
| 3:00: |
Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Berkeley): Two exclusives in Persian |
| 3:30: |
Daniel Altshuler (Rutgers University): The Russian imperfective as a partitive discourse marker |
| 4:00: |
Tatiana Nikitina (Stanford University): Temporal deixis and deictic shift markers in Wan discourse |
| 4:30: |
Jennifer Dumont (University of New Mexico): Toward a better understanding of discourse referentiality |
| 27 |
Language Acquisition II |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Lisa Davidson (New York University) |
| 2:00: |
Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware), Joshua Viau (Johns Hopkins University), Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University): A new asymmetry in the use of locative prepositions |
| 2:30: |
Sara Finley (University of Rochester), Elissa Newport (University of Rochester): Morpheme segmentation in artificial grammars |
| 3:00: |
Megan Johanson (University of Delaware): The acquisition of path expressions in English and Greek: Universal and language-specific tendencies |
| 3:30: |
Jessica White-Sustaíta (University of Texas at Austin): The development of variation categoricity and felicity in the syntax of questions |
| 4:00: |
Rachel Pulverman (Temple University), Liqi Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Peng Chen (The University of Queensland), Kristin Rohrbeck (The Ohio State University), Twila Tardif (University of Michigan): Specificity of multiple semantic dimensions of verbs predicts toddlers' ability to learn them |
| 4:30: |
Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University), Thierry Nazzi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Louise Goyet (Université Paris 5), Isabelle Barrière (Brooklyn College): French personal pronouns and the acquisition of implicated presuppositions |
| 28 |
Psycholinguistics |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
Ann Bunger (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 2:00: |
Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego): On hallucinated garden paths |
| 2:30: |
Meghan Clayards (University of York): Using probability distributions to account for recognition of canonical and reduced word forms |
| 3:00: |
Philip Hofmeister (University of California, San Diego): Semantic processing and memory retrieval |
| 3:30: |
Edward Holsinger (University of Southern California), Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California): Effects of context on processing (non)-compositional expressions |
| 4:00: |
Klinton Bicknell (University of California, San Diego) Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego): Eye movements in reading as optimal responses to the contextualized structure of language |
| 4:30: |
Evan Bradley (University of Delaware), Arild Hestvik (University of Delaware): Testing the sensory hypothesis of the early left anterior negativity with auditory stimuli |
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Posters: Psycholinguistics I |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Zhong Chen (Cornell University), Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam): Locality cost in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Chinese |
| Elaine Francis (Purdue University), Laura A Michaelis (University of Colorado at Boulder): Discourse conditions on relative clause extraposition in English |
| Kyle Grove (Cornell University): Why unaccusatives have it easy: Garden path difficulty and intransitive verb type |
| Lara Hershcovitch (Vanderbilt University), Matthew Gelfand (Georgetown University), Michael Pelster (Vanderbilt University), Michael Ullman (Georgetown University), P. David Charles (Vanderbilt University): Linguistic deficits in early stage Parkinson's Disease patients receiving deep brain stimulation |
| Yufen Hsieh (University of Michigan), Julie Boland (University of Michigan): Predicting processing difficulty in Chinese syntactic ambiguity resolution: A parallel approach |
| Jessamy Norton-Ford (University of California, Irvine): Sensitivity of the gamma band auditory steady state response to linguistic aspects of a stimulus |
| Polly O'Rourke (Binghamton University): The P600 and syntactic processing |
| Rachel Pulverman (Temple University): Validating studies of infants' processing of manner and path: New evidence from adults |
| Evelyn Richter (Eastern Michigan University): The acquisition of prefix and particle verbs in German: Evidence from CHILDES |
| Hideko Teruya (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Usha Lakshmanan (Southern Illinois University Carbondale): Syntactic priming effects on the L2 production of relative clauses by Japanese-English bilinguals |
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Posters: Psycholinguistics II |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
3:30 - 5:00 PM |
| Ariel Goldberg (Tufts University), Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University), Brenda Rapp (Johns Hopkins University), Michele Miozzo (Columbia University): Experimental evidence for gradient heteromorphemic phonotactic restrictions |
| Michael Grosvald (University of California, Davis), David Corina (University of California, Davis): Perceptual invariance in sign language: Evidence from repetition priming |
| Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier (University of Rochester), Neil Bardhan (University of Rochester), Joyce McDonough (University of Rochester): The importance of the acoustic realization of pronunciation variation in lexical activation |
| Michael Wagner (Cornell University): Prosodic optionality or syntactic choice? |
| Kiyoko Yoneyama (Daito Bunka University), Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota): Lexical and phonetic influences on Japanese listeners' perception of spoken English words |
Friday 8 January, Evening
| LSA Business Meeting and Induction of 2010 Class of LSA Fellows |
| Room: |
Holiday 6 |
| Time: |
5:15 - 7:00 PM |
| Chair: |
Sarah Thomason |
| Invited Plenary Symposium: Documentary Linguistics: Retrospective and Prospective |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
7:00 - 8:30 PM |
| Organizers: |
Kenneth L. Rehg (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)
Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)
|
| 7:00: |
Michael Krauss (University of Alaska at Fairbanks): Linguistics for the sake of endangered languages, and/or endangered languages for the sake of linguistics? |
| 7:30: |
Peter Austin (University of London): Documentary linguistics: an overview |
| 8:00: |
Keren Rice (University of Toronto): Documentary linguistics and community relations |
| Graduate Student Panel |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
Saturday 9 January, Morning
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Symposium: Issues in the study of sociolinguistic variation and sexuality |
| Room: |
Key 6 |
| Organizers: |
Penelope Eckert (Stanford University)
Robert J. Podesva (Georgetown University)
|
| 9:00: |
Rusty Barrett (University of Kentucky): Introduction |
| 9:15: |
Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota): The sociophonetics of sexuality: Insights from laboratory phonology and experimental semantics |
| 9:30: |
Robert Podesva (Georgetown University): California accent features and gay identity: Acoustic patterns and listener perceptions |
| 9:45: |
Ron Smyth (University of Toronto, Scarborough): Phonetics, sexual orientation, and perceptual dialectology |
| 10:00: |
Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London): Teasing apart to bring together: Gender and sexuality in variationist research |
| 10:15: |
Penelope Eckert (Stanford University): Learning to talk like a heterosexual |
| 10:30: |
Q&A for all papers |
| 11:00: |
Gerard Docherty (Newcastle University): Discussant |
| 11:15: |
Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford): Discussant |
| 11:30: |
Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University): Discussant |
| 11:45: |
Q&A |
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Invited Symposium: Documentary Linguistics: Retrospective and Prospective |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizers: |
Kenneth L. Rehg (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)
Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)
|
| 9:00: |
Nicholas Evans (Australian National University): Land where the crow flies backwards: Putting the fieldworker back into fieldwork |
| 9:30: |
Bertney Langley (Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana), Linda Langley (McNeese State University), Jack Martin (College of William and Mary): A collaborative, community-based approach to text collection |
| 10:00: |
Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara), Spike Gildea (University of Oregon): Training at the university level: From linguistic description to language documentation |
| 10:30: |
Joyce McDonough (University of Rochester): Experimental and instrumental data collection in the field |
| 11:00: |
Nicholas Thieberger (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and University of Melbourne): Using the right tools for the job: Technology in support of language documentation |
| 11:30: |
General Discussion |
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Formal Phonological Theory |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
William Idsardi (University of Maryland) |
| 9:00: |
Thomas Purnell (University of Wisonsin-Madison), Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Bio-cognitive modularity and sound systems |
| 9:30: |
Jason Riggle (University of Chicago), Maximilian Bane (University of Chicago): Choosing the right constraints (and the right theory of how they interact) |
| 10:00: |
Aaron Kaplan (University of California, Santa Cruz): Gradualness and harmonic improvement without candidate chains in Chamorro |
| 10:30: |
Peter Jurgec (University of Tromsø): Non-phonological cues of stratal affiliation |
| 11:00: |
Matthew Wolf (Yale University): On the existence of counter-feeding from the past |
| 11:30: |
Rachel Walker (University of Southern California): Vowel fission in Jaqaru |
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Prosody and Temporal Organization |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Michael Wagner (McGill University) |
| 9:00: |
Jason Shaw (New York University): Linguistic influences on the temporal organization of words |
| 9:30: |
Jelena Krivokapic (Yale University): Prosodic structure: Local and distant effects of phrase length on pause duration |
| 10:30: |
Sam Tilsen (University of Southern California): Syllable stress modulates articulatory planning: evidence from a stop-signal experiment |
| 11:00: |
Susan Lin (University of Michigan): Effects of prosodic structure on the relative timing of articulatory movements in English laterals |
| 11:30: |
Meghan Sumner (Stanford University): The salience of canonical forms |
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Syntax: Eillpsis, Minimality, A(nti)symmetry |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Barbara Citko (University of Washington) |
| 9:00: |
Rebecca Shields (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Yafei Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Vivian Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Adverb classes and the nature of minimality |
| 9:30: |
Zhiguo Xie (Cornell University), Tsewang Rikzen (China Correspondence University of Logic and Language): Fixing the general minimality constraint |
| 10:00: |
David Medeiros (University of Michigan): Asymmetric resumption extension and the derivation of Hawaiian VSO |
| 10:30: |
Michael Barrie (University of Ottawa): Antisymmetry, headedness, and OVS |
| 11:00: |
Dan Parker (University of Maryland), T. Daniel Seely (Eastern Michigan University): MaxElide and its domain of application |
| 11:30: |
Vera Gribanova (University of California, Santa Cruz): A subject-object asymmetry in Russian argument drop |
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Semantics: Interfaces |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Christopher Potts (Stanford University) |
| 9:00: |
Benjamin Slade (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Why wh-words need ordinary semantic values (and what to do about intervention effects) |
| 9:30: |
Michael Freedman (Yale University): A contextual variable analysis for have and relational nouns |
| 10:00: |
Jean Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo), Karin Michelson (University at Buffalo): The semantics of pronominal affixes in Iroquoian |
| 10:30: |
Antje Muntendam (Middlebury College): Linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or pragmatics? |
| 11:00: |
Charles Beller (Johns Hopkins University): Accent and description: An account of anaphoric epithets |
| 11:30: |
Özge Gürcanlı (Johns Hopkins University), Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins University), Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University): Spatial factors that influence linguistic choice in English |
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Morphology |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| 9:00: |
Robert Malouf (San Diego State University), Farrell Ackerman (University of California, San Diego): An evolutionary explanation for the Paradigm Economy Principle |
| 9:30: |
Andrea Sims (Ohio State University): An entropy-based argument about the structure of inflection classes |
| 10:00: |
Matthew T. Carlson (University of Chicago), Colleen Balukas (Pennsylvania State University), Chip Gerfen (Pennsylvania State University): Suffix productivity and stem allomorph markedness in Spanish derivations with alternating diphthongs |
| 10:30: |
Cynthia Hansen (University of Texas at Austin): Inalienable possession in Iquito (Zaparoan): A frequency analysis |
| 11:00: |
Lindsey Newbold (University of California, Berkeley): Non-transitive affix ordering in Kuna: Non-local consequences of local constraints |
| 11:30: |
Eugenia Antić (University of California, Berkeley): Bound and free roots in Russian: Experimental evidence for a root continuum |
| 38 |
Language Learning |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Grant Goodall (University of California, San Diego) |
| 9:00: |
Rebecca Sachs (Georgetown University): Trees as feedback: Can diagrams of c-command help L2 learners acquire reflexive binding? |
| 9:30: |
Teresa Lee (University of Virginia): UG accessibility: L2 acquisition of Korean floated quantifiers |
| 10:00: |
Oksana Laleko (University of Minnesota): What errors can't tell us about heritage grammars: On covert restructuring of aspect in Russian |
| 10:30: |
Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva (University of South Carolina): Comprehension and production skills in L2 Bulgarian and Spanish |
| 11:00: |
Bozena Pajak (University of California, San Diego): L2 knowledge facilitates perception of L3 |
| 11:30: |
Daniel J. Ginsberg (Center for Applied Linguistics), Maya Honda (Wheelock College), Wayne O'Neil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Looking beyond English: Linguistic inquiry for English language learners |
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Posters: Phonetics |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
9:00 - 10:30 AM |
| Yung-hsiang Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Lip rounding in Taiwan Mandarin retroflex sibilants |
| Ann Delforge (Montclair State University): The Andean Spanish plural and Quechua pas: The role of frequency in a contact-induced phonetic change |
| Olga Dmitrieva (Stanford University): Perception of consonant length is universal: Evidence from American and Russian listeners |
| Christina Esposito (Macalester College): An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong phonation |
| Zhaleh Feizollahi (Georgetown University): Does Turkish implement a two-way voicing contrast in stops as prevoiced vs. voiceless aspirated? |
| Melissa Frazier (University of California, Santa Cruz): Anti-Paninian rankings of articulatory constraints at the phonetics-phonology interface |
| Michael Grosvald (University of California, Davis), David Corina (University of California, Davis): A production and perception study of coarticulation in American Sign Language |
| Jen-ching Kao (University of Colorado at Boulder): The role of lexical tones and segments: Word recognition in context |
| Abby Kaplan (University of California, Santa Cruz): Articulatory reduction in intoxicated speech |
| Robert Kennedy (University of California, Santa Barbara), Matthew Gordon (University of California, Santa Barbara), Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona): Overlap as a measure of coarticulary extent |
| Kevin McGowan (University of Michigan): Aerodynamic modeling of coarticulation for concatenative speech synthesis |
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Posters: Phonology |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon |
| Tuuli Adams (New York University): The effect of word learning and fluent speech listening on second language segmentation |
| Young-ran An (Stony Brook University): What can lexical statistics tell us about speakers' behavior? |
| Ian Clayton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): On the perceptual robustness of preaspirated stops |
| Emily Elfner (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Stress-epenthesis interactions in harmonic serialism |
| Sara Finley (University of Rochester): Learning non-participating vowels |
| Maria Giavazzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jonah Katz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Phonological faithfulness and morphosyntactic well-formedness in Kinande loanword adaptation |
| Laurel MacKenzie (University of Pennsylvania): Reduplication in Itawes |
| Sarah Ouwayda (University of Southern California): Contrast preservation in dialects of North Levantine Arabic |
| Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Backcopying in Korean |
| Bridget Samuels (University of Maryland): Basque vowel assimilation: A direct interface approach |
| Katharina Schuhmann (Stony Brook University): An OO-analysis of German i-truncations |
| Irene Vogel (University of Delaware): The role of native language and universals in the perception of coda clusters |
Saturday 9 January, Afternoon
| Invited Plenary Address |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
12:45 - 1:45 PM |
| Chair: |
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) |
|
Grammatical illusions: Where you see them, where you don't
Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)
|
| 41 |
Workshop: Towards a linguistically-motivated annotation scheme for information status |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizers: |
Cathy O'Connor (Boston University)
Annie Zaenen (Palo Alto Research Center)
|
| 2:00: |
Cathy O'Connor (Boston University), Annie Zaenen (Palo Alto Research Center): Conceptualizing and investigating annotation of information status |
| 2:30: |
Betty Birner (Northern Illinois University): Annotation of speaker- and hearer- status |
| 3:00: |
Jeanette Gundel (University of Minnesota): Annotation for referential (cognitive status) and relational (topic-focus structure) givenness/newness |
| 3:30: |
Ann Taylor (University of York), Susan Pintzuk (University of York): Investigating information structure in Old English |
| 4:00: |
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh University): Comments on topics |
| 4:30: |
Gregory Ward (Northwestern University): Discussant |
| 42 |
Workshop: The analysis of morphological phenomena in the indigenous languages of the Americas |
| Room: |
Key 6 |
| Organizers: |
Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley)
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)
|
| 2:00: |
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona), Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley): Introduction |
| 2:05: |
Alana Johns (University of Toronto): Word-internal nominalization in Inuktitut |
| 2:20: |
Jerrold Sadock (University of Chicago): Discussant |
| 2:30: |
Q&A/Discussion |
| 2:35: |
Tanya Slavin (University of Toronto): On the interaction of phonology and syntax in the Ojibwe verb complex |
| 2:50: |
Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley): Discussant |
| 3:00: |
Q&A/Discussion |
| 3:05: |
Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia): The syntax of feature composition |
| 3:20: |
David Beck (University of Alberta): Discussant |
| 3:30: |
Q&A/Discussion |
| 3:35: |
Break |
| 3:50: |
Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Syntactic approaches to Na-Dene morphology |
| 4:05: |
Peggy Speas (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Discussant |
| 4:15: |
Q&A/Discussion |
| 4:20: |
Rolf Noyer (University of Pennsylvania): General commentary |
| 4:30: |
Steve Marlett (SIL International/University of North Dakota): Commentary |
| 4:40: |
General Q&A/Discussion |
| 4:50: |
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona), Richard Rhodes (University of California, Berkeley): Closing Statement |
| 43 |
Phonological Typology/General Phonology |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin) |
| 2:00: |
Kenneth S. Olson (SIL International/University of North Dakota), Christine A. Keating (SIL International): Crosslinguistic insights on bilabial trill genesis |
| 2:30: |
Michael Cahill (SIL International): Tonal polarity and dissimilation are distinct |
| 3:00: |
Carmen Jany (California State University San Bernardino): Positional and cooccurrence restrictions on ejectives |
| 3:30: |
Sverre Stausland Johnsen (Harvard University): Contrast maintenance in Norwegian retroflexion |
| 4:00: |
Keith Plaster (Harvard University): Conflicting directionality and root-accent contrast in Thompson River Salish |
| 4:30: |
Michael Becker (Harvard University), Andrew Nevins (Harvard University): Initial syllable faithfulness as the best explanation for size effects in voicing alternations |
| 44 |
Phonology: Modelling Acquisition and Change |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Chris Golston (California State University, Fresno) |
| 2:00: |
Joe Pater (University of Massachusetts Amherst), David Smith (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Robert Staubs (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Karen Jesney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ramgopal Mettu (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Learning hidden structure with a log-linear model of grammar |
| 2:30: |
Giorgio Magri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Constraint promotion |
| 3:00: |
Gaja Jarosz (Yale University): Pairwise ranking learning for optimality theory: The hidden structure problem |
| 3:30: |
Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware), William Idsardi (University of Maryland): Learning opaque phonological generalizations: The case of Samala (Chumash) |
| 4:00: |
Andrew Martin (Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics), Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics), Emmanuel Dupoux (Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics): Learning phonemes with a pseudo-lexicon |
| 4:30: |
James Kirby (University of Chicago): The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization |
| 45 |
Syntax: Control and Licensing |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California) |
| 2:00: |
Maria do Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho): Overt subjects in raising and control complements and the Null Subject Parameter |
| 2:30: |
Michael Barrie (University of Ottawa), Christine Pittman (University of Toronto): On the derivation of partial control |
| 3:00: |
Jong Un Park (Georgetown University): On the ambiguity of obligatory control into the tolok-clause in Korean |
| 3:30: |
Alice Davison (University of Iowa): Long-distance agreement and restructuring |
| 4:00: |
Michael Diercks (Georgetown University): Complementizer agreement and logophoricity in Lubukusu |
| 4:30: |
Kyumin Kim (University of Toronto): Licensing of argument structures by functional heads: Evidence from English have |
| 46 |
Syntax/Semantics: Focus |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 2:00: |
Cinzia Russi (University of Texas at Austin): On the relationship between sentence-focus category, subject inversion, and genericity |
| 2:30: |
Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan): Focus on conditional and quantificational coordination |
| 3:00: |
Nyurguyana Petrova (University at Buffalo): Syntax-pragmatics interface in converbal constructions |
| 3:30: |
Roksolana Mykhaylyk (Stony Brook University), Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina (Reed College/Stony Brook University): On the interaction of prosody and scrambling in Ukrainian |
| 4:00: |
Evangelia Adamou (CNRS-LACITO), Amalia Arvaniti (University of California, San Diego): Focus expression in Romani |
| 4:30: |
Christina Kim (University of Rochester), Christine Gunlogson (University of Rochester), Michael Tanenhaus (New York University), Jeffrey Runner (University of Rochester): Focus alternatives and discourse parallelism |
| 47 |
Sociolinguistics: Acquisition and Change |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
Penelope Eckert (Stanford University) |
| 2:00: |
Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State University): Transmission & diffusion contact and space & symmetry in the acquisition of norms |
| 2:30: |
Tara Sanchez (University of Virginia): Individuals social factors and linguistic structure in speech community innovation |
| 3:00: |
Vineeta Chand (University of California, Davis): The implications of healthy versus moribund variables on sound change |
| 3:30: |
Christopher Odato (University of Michigan): Children's use of vernacular functions of like in peer conversation |
| 4:00: |
Jingya Zhong (University of Florida): The influence of language change on stylistic variation: Two French sociolinguistic variables |
| 4:30: |
Kara Becker (New York University): The current state of bought-raising on Manhattan's Lower East Side: Who uses c[ɔ]ffee t[ɔ]lk? |
| 48 |
Psycholinguistics: Syntax |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
William Badecker (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 2:00: |
Grant Goodall (University of California, San Diego), Shin Fukuda (University of California, San Diego) Dan Michel (University of California, San Diego), Henry Beecher (University of California, San Diego): Comparing three methods for sentence judgment experiments |
| 2:30: |
Johannes Jurka (University of Maryland): Extraction out of internal and external subjects in German |
| 3:00: |
Akira Omaki (University of Maryland), Ellen Lau (Massachusetts General Hospital/Tufts University), Colin Phillips (University of Maryland): Resolving English filler-gap dependencies in advance of verb information |
| 3:30: |
Lisa Levinson (Oakland University), Jonathan Brennan (New York University): The behavioral and neural correlates of silent causativity in verbs |
| 4:00: |
John Drury (McGill University), Karsten Steinhauer (McGill University), Nicolas Bourguignon (University of Montreal): ERP evidence of transfer effects: L1 grammar influences L2 sentence processing |
| 4:30: |
Dan Michel (University of California, San Diego): Relating working memory and d-linked wh-islands: An experimental syntax study |
| 49 |
Posters: Historical Linguistics and Typology |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Claire Bowern (Yale University): Two missing pieces in a Nyulnyulan jigsaw puzzle |
| Eugene Buckley (University of Pennsylvania): Tifinagh and consonantal writing systems |
| Gwendolyn Hyslop (University of Oregon): Sonorants fricatives and a tonogenetic typology |
| Ann Irvine (Johns Hopkins University): Visualizing data in the World Atlas of Language Structures: the language-feature network |
| Matthew Juge (Texas State University - San Marcos): Toward a typology of suppletion on semantic principles |
| Claudia Brugman (University of Maryland), Monica Macaulay (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Characterizing evidentiality |
| Shakthi Poornima (University at Buffalo), Jeff Good (University at Buffalo): Conceptual and implementational considerations in modeling word lists |
| Salena Sampson (The Ohio State University): Genitive word order and animacy in Old English verse |
| Christopher Straughn (University of Chicago): Grammaticalization without grammaticalization: The case of Uzbek complementation |
| 50 |
Posters: Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics |
| Room: |
South Foyer |
| Time: |
3:30 - 5:00 PM |
| Elizabeth Brunner (Rice University): Imitation, stereotypes and salience |
| Heather Carroll (University of Wisconsin-Madison): An acoustic analysis of reported and imagined speech |
| Anupam Das (Indiana University, Bloomington): Politeness practice and social distance: The bulge found in Bangla social media |
| Ralph Fasold (Georgetown University): What is inherent variability in syntax? |
| Rebecca Greene (Stanford University): Solving the mystery of Southern /Ʌ/ |
| Kirk Hazen (West Virginia University): Unassuming yet influential: Was contraction's effect on leveling |
| Linda Humnick (University of Minnesota): Kumyk demonstratives and scalar implicatures in the Givenness Hierarchy Model |
| Steve Johnson (Michigan State University): The effect of personality on NCS vowel production among men |
| Jennifer Mack (Yale University): Subject selection, information structure, and genre |
| Jennifer Renn (University of North Carolina): Patterns of style during elementary and middle school: A longitudinal study of AAE |
| Amelia Tseng (Georgetown University): Code-switching and style in bilingual radio speech |
| Yuan-chen Yang (Yale University): Competing constructions in Mandarin Chinese |
Saturday 9 January, Evening
| Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony |
| Room: |
Holiday 1-5 |
| Time: |
5:30 - 7:00 PM |
| 5:30 |
Presentation of Awards: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award; Linguistics, Language and the Public Award; Linguistic Service Award; Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award |
| 6:00 |
Presidential Address: Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan): Safe and Unsafe Language Contact |
| Presidential Reception |
| Room: |
Holiday 6 |
| Time: |
7:00 - 9:00 PM |
Sunday 10 January, Morning
| 51 |
Symposium: Findings from Targeted Work on Endangered Languages: 13 Years of the Endangered Language Fund's Projects |
| Room: |
Key 5 |
| Organizers: |
Doug Whalen (Endangered Language Fund)
Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)
|
| 9:00: |
D.H. Whalen (Haskins Laboratories/Endangered Language Fund), Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago): Leveraging small grants for maximum linguistic discovery: The Endangered Language Fund experience |
| 9:20: |
Christine Beier (University of Texas at Austin), Cynthia Hansen (University of Texas at Austin), I-wen Lai (University of Texas at Austin), Lev Michael (University of California, Berkeley): Reality status in Iquito (Zaparoan): An unattested mechanism for marking an inflectional category |
| 9:40: |
Sarah Murray (Rutgers University): Cheyenne evidentials as not-at-issue assertion |
| 10:00: |
Angela M. Nonaka (University of Texas at Austin): Insights into sign language typologies and speech/sign communities: Findings from Ban Khor, Thailand |
| 10:20: |
John P. Boyle (Northeastern Illinois University), Alex Gwin (Mandaree Language Program): Hidatsa inquiry: Some recent answers and progress |
| 10:40: |
Wilson Silva (University of Utah): The unusual traits of Desano, an endangered Eastern Tukanoan language of Northwest Amazonia |
| 11:00: |
Joyce Twins (Cheyenne-Arapago Tribes of Oklahoma), Marcia Haag (University of Oklahoma): Long-term use from short-term funding: The Cheyenne Language CD Project |
| 11:20: |
Claire Bowern (Yale University): Archival language documentation and the role of small grants |
| 11:40: |
Doug Whalen (Endangered Language Fund), Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago): Discussants |
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L2 Phonology |
| Room: |
Key 1 |
| Chair: |
Mary Beckman (The Ohio State University) |
| 9:00: |
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo (New York University): Perceptual assimilation of non-native obstruent voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners |
| 9:30: |
Charles Chang (University of California, Berkeley): Tracking second language learning effects on native language production |
| 10:00: |
Erin Haynes (University of California, Berkeley): Phonetic transfer and intensification in L2 Northern Paiute |
| 10:30: |
Lisa Davidson (New York University), Jason Shaw (New York University): Perceptual illusions in non-native clusters are context-dependent |
| 11:00: |
Rachel Baker (Northwestern University): The perception of English prosodic prominence by non-native speakers |
| 11:30: |
Eman Saadah (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): The production of Arabic vowels by L2 learners and heritage speakers of Arabic |
| 12:00: |
Jiwon Hwang (Stony Brook University): The nature of inserted vowels in L2 learners' production |
| 53 |
Semantics: Modality, Tense, and Aspect |
| Room: |
Key 4 |
| Chair: |
Paul Portner (Georgetown University) |
| 9:00: |
Maria Biezma (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Inverted antecedents and covert modality in Spanish |
| 9:30: |
Annahita Farudi (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Dividing deontics in Farsi: Morphosyntactic evidence for the split |
| 10:00: |
Dave Kush (University of Maryland): The future of Hindi modality |
| 10:30: |
Zhiguo Xie (Cornell University): A temporal shifting analysis of an ambiguous modal construction in English |
| 11:00: |
Rebecca Cover (University of California, Berkeley): Modal orientation and aspect |
| 11:30: |
EunHee Lee (State University of New York at Buffalo): Discourse properties of now |
| 12:00: |
Peter Klecha (University of Chicago): Context dependence in English futures |
| 54 |
Syntax/Semantics: Argument Structure |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 9:00: |
Lilia Rissman (Johns Hopkins University): Instrumental with locatum with and the argument/adjunct distinction |
| 9:30: |
Stephen Marlett (SIL International): Relational preverbs in Seri: A case of non-incorporation |
| 10:00: |
Daniel Brassil (H5): A middle voice in Appalachian English |
| 10:30: |
Charles Jones (George Mason University): How to read easily |
| 55 |
Semantics/Pragmatics: Discourse Markers |
| Room: |
Key 2 |
| Chair: |
Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo) |
| 11:00: |
Jungmee Lee (Ohio State University): A compositional analysis of the evidential meaning of -te in Korean |
| 11:30: |
Iksoo Kwon (University of California, Berkeley): I guess Korean has some more mirative markers: -napo- and -nmoyang- |
| 12:00: |
Osamu Sawada (University of Chicago): The multidimensionality of the Japanese minimizers sukoshi/chotto 'a little' |
| 56 |
Syntax: Determiners and Classifiers |
| Room: |
Key 3 |
| Chair: |
Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia) |
| 9:00: |
Francesca Del Gobbo (University of California, Irvine): On secondary predication and specificity in Mandarin Chinese |
| 9:30: |
Carlos de Cuba (Pomona College), Barbara Űrőgdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Referential features and CP |
| 10:00: |
Graham Thurgood (California State University, Chico): Hainan Cham and the Chamic noun classifiers: New data on an old system. |
| 10:30: |
Elena Mihas (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Nominal classification in Asheninka (Arawak) |
| 11:00: |
Hsu-Te Cheng (University of Connecticut): On the non-co-occurrence of DP and CLP: A minimalist approach |
| 11:30: |
Katherine McKinney-Bock (University of Southern California): Adjective classes and syntactic ordering restrictions |
| 12:00: |
Hiroki Nomoto (University of Minnesota): Reference to subkinds and the role of classifiers |
| 57 |
Morphology: Exponence |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Farrell Ackerman (University of California, San Diego) |
| 9:00: |
David Mortensen (University of Pittsburgh): Morphological doubling: Evidence from Jingpho echo-reduplication and coordinate compounding |
| 9:30: |
Alice Harris (Stony Brook University), Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University): Multiple exponence in Archi pronouns |
| 10:00: |
Ariel Diertani (University of Pennsylvania), Aviad Eilam (University of Pennsylvania): How Amharic deals with multiple exponence |
| 10:30: |
Robert Henderson (University of California, Santa Cruz), Matthew Tucker (University of California, Santa Cruz): Latest insertion in K'ichee' |
| 58 |
Syntax: Questions and Clefts |
| Room: |
Key 10 |
| Chair: |
Elaine Francis (Purdue University) |
| 11:00: |
Paul Kroeger (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics): Cleft sentences in Indonesian and Kimaragang |
| 11:30: |
Natasha Abner (University of California, Los Angeles): Rightward wh-movement as clefting in American Sign Language |
| 12:00: |
Martina Gracanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University), Barbara Citko (University of Washington at Seattle): Multiple guises of multiple coordinated wh-questions |
| 59 |
Sociolinguistics: Language, Gender & Identity |
| Room: |
Key 9 |
| Chair: |
Ralph Fasold (Georgetown University, Emeritus) |
| 9:00: |
James Stanford (Dartmouth College), Allyson Ettinger (Brandeis Univeristy), Mai Youa Moua (Macalester College): Linguistic construction of gender and generations in Hmong American communities |
| 9:30: |
Andrea Hoa Pham (University of Florida): Negotiating Vietnamese address terms in relation to gender and sexuality |
| 10:00: |
Giancarla Unser-Schutz (Hitotsubashi University): Personal pronouns and gendered speech in popular manga (Japanese comics) |
| 10:30: |
Janneke Van Hofwegen (North Carolina State University) Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University): Longitudinal trajectories of change in childhood and adolescent African American English |
| 11:00: |
Cara Shousterman (New York University), Renee Blake (New York University): Ethnic and linguistic diversity within AAE: The case of black New Yorkers and postvocalic /r/ |
| 11:30: |
Anna Babel (University of Michigan): Why don't all contact features act alike? An argument from Valley Spanish |
| 12:00: |
Elizabeth Spreng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Semiotic Contradictions of bilingual mish-mash: Identity, temporality and Standard Sorb |
