Program [pdf]Friday :: Saturday :: Sunday

Invited Speakers :: Daniel Büring :: Sharon Inkelas :: Silvia Kouwenberg :: Salikoko Mufwene :: Maria Polinsky :: Craige Roberts

Information Structure Parasession :: 1 :: 2

Pidgins, Creoles, and Mixed Languages Special Session :: 1 :: 2

Cognitive :: Morphology :: Historical :: Phonetics :: Phonology 1 :: Phonology 2 :: Psycholinguistics :: Semantics :: Sociolinguistics :: Syntax 1 :: Syntax 2 :: Syntax 3

Acknowledgments

Friday, February 8

8-9

Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall)
9-11 Phonology I (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Palatalization as overlap of articulatory gestures: Crosslinguistic evidence
Nicoleta Bateman (California State University San Marcos)
r-dissimilation in American English
Nancy Hall (California State University Long Beach)
Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual
Charles B. Chang (University of California, Berkeley)
WITHDRAWN: Sandhi sans derivation: Third tone patterns in Mandarin Chinese
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Jason Kandybowicz (Swarthmore College)
Cognitive Linguistics (3335 Dwinelle Hall)
A semantic analysis of the Wason's Selection Task
Jeanne Aptekman (LaTTICe, CNRS)
The agent-obfuscating function of 'things' (mono) in Japanese discourse
Nina Yoshida (University of California, Los Angeles)
Event integration patterns in Sidaama (Sidamo)
Kazuhiro Kawachi
Relations between the Conative and Out At Constructions: Extended semantic map approach
Yong-Taek Kim (University of Oregon)
11-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 370 Dwinelle Hall
Sharon Inkelas (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: The morphology-phonology connection
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 Syntax I (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Learnability, productivity, ditransitivity, and feet
Elizabeth Coppock (Stanford University)
A niche of left-adjunction productivity: Rethinking parenthetical AS
Russell Lee-Goldman (University of California, Berkeley)
Give verbo-nominal constructions in French from grammar to idioms
Myriam Bouveret (University of Rouen, France & University of California, Berkeley)
Sociolinguistics (3401 Dwinelle Hall)
Using social information in language processing
Laura Staum Casasanto (Stanford University)
Television and the construction of Tulu identity in South India
Malavika Shetty (University of Texas at Austin)
Interactional meanings of repetition in Hindi-English bilingual conversation
Shannon Finch (University of Texas at Austin)
3-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-5:15 Special Session I (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Cultural identity and the linguistic structure of a mixed language: The case of Barranquenho
Clancy Clements (Indiana University), Patricia Amaral (University of Coimbra), and Ana Luis (University of Coimbra)
Non-English orthography in written Jamaican Creole: A variationist approach to spelling choices and social practice
Lars Hinrichs (University of Texas at Austin)
Creole sound change as loanword adaptation: Making the perceptual connection
Eric Russell Webb (University of California, Davis)
Nubi plural formation: How a creole may become more complex than its lexifier and what it implies for creolisation theory
Alain Kihm (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS)
Phonetics (3401 Dwinelle Hall)
Production and perception of lexical accent in Japanese
Yukiko Sugiyama (University at Buffalo - SUNY)
Perceptual similarity in English-to-Korean loanwords
Seung Kyung Kim (Stanford University)
The relative importance of rhythm and intonation for the perception of New Zealand English dialects
Anita Szakay (University of British Columbia)
Acoustic cues of prosodic prominence to naïve listeners of American English
Yoonsook Mo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

5:15-5:30

 Coffee break
5:30-6:30 370 Dwinelle Hall
Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies)
Title: Finding the source: Creole substrate research in the 21st century
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Saturday, February 9

8-9 Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall)
9-11 Special Session II (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Functional equivalence of formal strategies in the development of Nheengatú postpositional case-marking
Luke Fleming (University of Pennsylvania)
A corpus-based investigation of preterite loss in Texas German: Evidence for language death?
Hans C. Boas and Sarah Schuchard (University of Texas at Austin)
Creolization versus borrowing: A clue to L2 proficiency in creole formation
Darlene LaCharité (Laval University)
Effectiveness of grammaticality judgment as a tool for investigating perception grammar in creole languages
Aya Inoue (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Semantics (215 Dwinelle Hall)
A typological approach to the split scope readings of negative indefinites
Michelle St-Amour (University of Toronto)
Focus on embedded adverbials
Rainer Ludwig, Fabienne Salfner, and Mathias Schenner (ZAS Berlin)
Nibbling is not many bitings in French and Italian: A morphosemantic analysis of internal plurality
Lucia Tovena (Université Paris 7) and Alain Kihm (CNRS)
Auxiliary selection is driven by affectedness
Nicholas Gaylord (University of Texas at Austin)
11-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 370 Dwinelle Hall
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago)
Title: From genetic creolistics to genetic linguistics: Lessons we should not miss!
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3 Syntax II (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Case on possessors
Maia Duguine (EHU-University of the Basque Country & University of Nantes)
Flexibility and rigidity: Multiplicatives, frequency and quantification adverbs
Aniko Csirmaz (University of Utah)
Backwards ellipsis is Right Node Raising
Seungwan Ha (Boston University)
Historical Linguistics (215 Dwinelle Hall)
Comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese
Osamu Sawada (University of Chicago)
Reflexives and the shift between first and second person: The case of Japanese
Osamu Ishiyama (University at Buffalo - SUNY & Ball State University)
Did Proto-Germanic exist? New evidence from Thurneysen's Law
Andrew Garrett (University of California, Berkeley)
3-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-5:15 Parasession I (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Encoding information structure via object agreement in Spanish interactions
Valeria Belloro (Columbia University)
The syntax-pragmatic interplay in Yaqui
Lilián Guerrero (Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Prosodic correlates of information structure in Brazilian Portuguese negation
Meghan Armstrong and Scott Schwenter (The Ohio State University)
Sign me a focus: Focus realization in American Sign Language
Emilie Destruel and Lynn Hou (University of Texas at Austin)
Psycholinguistics (215 Dwinelle Hall)
Different representation components in speech production planning in different languages: Evidence from slips of the tongue in Korean and English
Myoyoung Kim (University at Buffalo - SUNY)
Environment prototypicality effects on syntactic alternation
Gabriel Doyle and Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego)
A cognitive approach to the acquisition of passives in Korean: Experimental evidence
Meesook Kim (Sangji University)
Passives are not always harder: On the interaction of syntactic structure and thematic fit
Inbal Arnon (Stanford University)
5:15-5:30 Coffee break
5:30-6:30 370 Dwinelle Hall
Daniel Büring (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: What's new (and what's given) in the theory of focus?
6:30-7 Reception (371 Dwinelle Hall)
7-9 Dinner party (370 Dwinelle Hall)
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Sunday, February 10

8:30-9:30 Registration and coffee (371 Dwinelle Hall)
9:30-11 Syntax III (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Unambiguous conjoined wh-questions in Korean
Sungeun Cho (Sungkyunkwan University)
Wh-questions with coordinated wh-pronouns
Barbara Citko (University of Washington)
Sluicing in Bahasa Indonesia, P-stranding, and interface repair
Yosuke Sato (University of Arizona)
Phonology II (215 Dwinelle Hall)
Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon
Kimi Akita (Kobe University)
Total identity in cooccurrence restrictions
Gillian Gallagher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
On shallow and deep minimality
Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton University)
11-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 370 Dwinelle Hall
Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
Title: Where have all the complement clauses gone?
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Parasession II (370 Dwinelle Hall)
Sentence-internal topic and focus in Chinese
Yu-Yin Hsu (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Presentation: From comment to topic
Stefan Huber, (University of South Florida, Tampa)
From sentence topic to discourse topic: The information structure of amalgam clefts
Christian Koops and Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum (Rice University)
Coherence and congruence in overinformative answers to polar questions
Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkeley)
Morphology (215 Dwinelle Hall)
A tale of two reduplication patterns in Washo
Alan Yu (University of Chicago)
Modification within a noun phrase in Sidaama (Sidamo)
Kazuhiro Kawachi and Abebayehu Aemero Tekleselassie
Markedness and gender
Cynthia Levart Zocca (University of Connecticut)
WITHDRAWN: Learning English irregulars - why irregulars are like regulars
Inbal Arnon and Eve Clark (Stanford University)
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
3:45-4:45 370 Dwinelle Hall
Craige Roberts (The Ohio State University)
Title: Resolving focus
4:45-5 Closing remarks
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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank everyone who has been involved in organizing this year's meeting. We also express our thanks for the gracious support we have received from the following groups and organizations:

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Department of Linguistics
Graduate Assembly
Division of Social Sciences