BLS 27

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