370 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2001
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: GESTURE AND LANGUAGE
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The
Two Faces of Gesture
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10:00 What do speech-gesture mismatches reveal about language
specific event representation?
A comparison of English and Turkish
Asli Ozyurek, Koç University
10:30 The development of gesture, speech, and action,
as communicative strategies
Barbara Kelly, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 Indicating participants in actions: From
prelinguistic gestures to signed languages
Shannon Casey, University of California, San Diego
LUNCH
SESSION II: SEMANTICS
12:30 To build a scene: The order in which concepts appear
in American Sign Language classifier constructions
Samuel H. Hawk, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1:00 The intersubjectivity of "self" and "other"
tokens in communication: Moving between represented subjectivity and conceptual
objectivity
Melinda Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley
1:30 Relexification: a process available to
human cognition
Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Montréal
2:00 A Unified Account of Essentially Contested
Concepts
Jason D. Patent, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 INVITED SPEAKER: LEONARD TALMY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO
The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken vs. Signed Languages
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SESSION III: SYNTAX
3:30 Just Because the Clause is Finite Doesnít
Mean It Has a Subject
Andreas Kathol and Emily Bender, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 Interactions between Constructions and
Constraints in English VP Ellipsis and VP Fronting
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University
4:30 Complementizers as Subjects: A Discourse
Account of that-trace Effect and its Exceptions
Kristin Homer and Laura Michaelis , University of Colorado, Boulder
5:00 Antipassive and Noun Incorporation in
Karajá
Eduardo Ribeiro, University of Chicago
5:30 Object Marking and Agentivity Shift in
Navajo Causatives
Suzanne Gessner, University of British Columbia
6:00 Syntactic Ergativity in Light Verb Complements
Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2001
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: GESTURE AND LANGUAGE
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: SCOTT LIDDELL
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
Grammar
and Gesture in American Sign Language: implications for constructing meaning
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10:00 A Comparison of the Informational
Content of Speech/Gesture and Sign
Sarah F. Taub, Gallaudet University
10:30 Prosodic and Gestural cues for
Navigations around Mental Space
June Luchjenbroers, University of Wales at Bangor
11:00 Gesture, Information Flow and NP
Form
Lorraine E. Kumpf, California State University, Long Beach
LUNCH
SESSION II: MORPHOLOGY
12:30 A Word Based Analysis of Semitic Morphology
Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SESSION III: PHONOLOGY
1:00 Vowel Harmony and Cyclicity in Eastern
Nilotic
Eric Bakovic, UC San Diego
1:30 An Argument for MAX (F)
Ben Hermans, Tilburg University
2:00 A Prosodic Approach to Consonant Harmony:
Evidence from English and French
Yvan Rose, McGill University
2:30 Markedness and Lexical Tone in Standard
Thai: A Conspiracy of Phonetics and Phonology
Bruce Moren and Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University
3:00 INVITED SPEAKER: ELISABETH SELKIRK
UNIVERISTY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
Output
Parallelism in Modular Minimalistic OT: Phonological Constraints on Word
Realization
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SESSION IV: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
4:00 Direct Quotation in Japanese: A site for
Stereotyping
Katsue Akiba Reynolds, University of Hawaii
4:30 Discourse pragmatics v. Stylistics
Olga T. Yokoyama, University of California, Los Angeles
5:00 Direct Speech, Indirect Speech and Cultural
Theories of Mind: Evidence from an Amazonian Society
Lev Michael, University of Texas, Austin
5:30 Courtroom accommodation: Lawyers' use
of foreigner talk
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Colin J. Warner, Stanford University
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2001
8:30 COFFEE
SESSION I: GESTURE AND LANGUAGE
9:00 INVITED SPEAKER: SUSAN DUNCAN
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Perspectives
on the co-expressivity of speech and co-speech gestures in three languages
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10:00 Parallels in discourse style and gestural
behavior: gesture as a link between conceptual and discourse representations
Alissa Melinger and Sotaro Kita, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
10:30 An analysis of shifts of participation
roles in Japanese storytelling in terms of prosody, gaze and body movements
Chisato Koike, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00 Gesture and Speech Dysfluencies
Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Sotaro Kita, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
LUNCH
SESSION II: PHONETICS
12:15 The relationship between the source characteristics
and frequency
Hansang Park, The University of Texas at Austin
12:45 Voiceless Tone Depressors in Nambya and
Botswana Kalang'a
Laura J. Downing and Bryan Gick, University of British Columbia
1:15 Cross-language perception
of syllable affiliation: effects of voicing and language background
Byung-jin Lim, Ken de Jong, Kyoko Nagao, Indiana University
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SESSION IV: HISTORICAL
2:00 The development of Sibilants in Amorite
and Ugaritic
Maria A. Yakubovich, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 Contact, Attrition and Structural Shift:
the Case of Oroqen
Fengxiang Li, California State University,Chico
3:00 INVITED SPEAKER: SARAH THOMASON
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Pronoun
Borrowing