2008 LSA SUMMER MEETING
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM
| Thursday, July 10 | |||
| 1:00-2:30 | Parallel workshops: Applying for graduate school in linguistics and other fields: Jeri Jaeger (UBuffalo), Beth Hume (Ohio State) Applying for jobs in linguistics and related areas: Mary Paster (Pomona College), Chris Brew (Ohio State), Susan Hura (SpeechUsability) |
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| 2:45-3:30 | Workshop. Applying for funding: Chris Brew (Ohio State) | ||
| 3:30-4:15 | Workshop. Publishing your research: Brian Joseph (Editor of Language), Don Winford (Editor of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages) | ||
| 4:30-6:00 | Poster session (see end of program for the list of posters) | ||
| 6:00 | Welcome reception | ||
| Friday, July 11 | |||
| 9:00-10:30 | Panel on Professional ethics: Mary Beckman (Ohio State) & Susan Hura (SpeechUsability) | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 1 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. | ||
| 1:45-3:15 | Session 2 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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| 3:30-5:00 | Poster session (see end of program for the list of posters) Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. |
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| 5:15-6:15 | The Journey from Linguistics Major to Professor. Mary Paster (BA, The Ohio State University; PhD, UC Berkeley; Faculty, Pomona College). | ||
| 7:00 | Party | ||
| Saturday, July 12 | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary Speaker: Ilse Lehiste (Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University) Interrelationship between Language and Music | ||
| 10:15-11:15 | Session 3 A Variationist Study of English Modality in Rural Ontario |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Break | ||
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 4 Participial Gapping: Evidence for Post-Syntactic Morphological Agreement |
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| 12:30-2:30 | Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. | ||
| 2:30-4:00 | Session 5 Nasal assimilation in the speech of Detroit working class AAVE speakers Visual Cues to Language Identification |
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| 4:00-4:30 | Break and advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. | ||
| 4:30-5:30 | The Road to Industry. Elizabeth Strand (Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary) | ||
| 8:00 | Undergraduate social | ||
| Sunday, July 13 | |||
| 9:00-10:30 | Plenary speakers: John Rickford (Stanford), Tom Wasow (Stanford) | ||
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 6 "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. | ||
POSTER SESSION 1: Thursday 4:30-6:00
The acoustics of retroflex harmony in Arrernte
Miriam Bennett, La Trobe University
Title tba, 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
In- or ex-situ: a diagnosis of right node raising
Badley Larson, University of Washington
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 Search in Models of Human Sentence Comprehension
Jeffrey L Shaw, 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
Phrasal Prominence in L2 Speech
Greg Madan, University of Southern California
/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
Title tba, 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
