FRIDAY 14, 2003

10:00 onward            Registration Materials and Information (Dwinelle 370)

12:30               Opening Remarks  (Dwinelle 370)

PARASESSION I  (Dwinelle 370)

1-2                   CHARLES REISS (Concordia University)

                                    TBA

2-2:30              “Self-Organization and the Origin of Higher-Order

Phonological Patterns”

                        Andrew Wedel (UC Santa Cruz)

2:30-3              “Correlating Consonant Confusability

and Neural Responses: An MEG Study”

                        MaryAnn Walter and Valentine Hacquard (MIT)

3-3:30              “The Diachronic Influence of Perception:

Experimental Evidence from Turkish”

                        Jeff Mielke (Ohio State University)

 

3:45-4:45         ROYAL SKOUSEN (Brigham Young University) (Dwinelle 370)

                                    “Analogical Modeling:

Exemplars, Rules and Quantum Computing”

            MORPHOLOGY  (Dwinelle 370)

5-5:30              “Morphologically Motivated Prosodic and Metrical Structures”

                                    Eun-Sook Kim (University of British Columbia)

5:30-6              “Doubling and Denominal Verb Constructions:

The Salish Evidence”

                                    Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University) and

                                    Thomas E. Hukari (University of Victoria)

6-6:30              “How Morphological Case Relates to Word Order Freedom”

                                    Thomas McFadden (University of Pennsylvania)

6:30-7              “Georgian Verb Morphology: A Language Learner's Perspective”

                                    Olya Gurevich (UC Berkeley)

            PRAGMATICS and DISCOURSE  (Wheeler 213)

5-5:30              “I bet you think this paper is about you: Participant roles and you”                                

Randall Eggert (University of Utah)

5:30-6              "Preemptive usage of N1 to yuu N2 in Japanese conversation:

Psychological strategy to increase the distance between the hearer

and the entity"

                        Michiko Todokoro Buchanan (University of Minnesota)

6-6:30              “Most: Frequency, semanticization

and generalized conversational implicature”

                                    Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University)

6:30-7              “Patterns of Semantic Harmonization in English: The Case of May Well”

                                    Reijirou Shibasaki (UC Santa Barbara)

 

SATURDAY 15, 2003

9-10                 MARK HALE (Concordia University) (Dwinelle 370)

TBA

HISTORICAL  (Dwinelle 370)

10-10:30          “Another Look at Australia as a Linguistic Area”

                                    Claire Bowern (Harvard University)

10:30-11          “The Causatives in Sun Hongkai’s Anong:

                        language death and rapid restructuring”

                                    Graham Thurgood (California State University, Chico)

11-11:30          “Beyond Alienability: genitive constructions and ‘nominal applicatives’

in Maco-Je and Tupi

                                    Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro (University of Chicago/

Federal University of Goias)

11:30-12          “A Bipartite Verb Stem Outlier in Eurasia: Nakh-Daghestanian”

                                    Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley)

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS and LANGUAGE PROCESSING (Wheeler 213)

10-10:30          “Issues in Modeling Language Processing Analogically”

                                    David Eddington (University of New Mexico)

10:30-11          “Tone Processing and Left Hemisphere Specialization:

Evidence from Yalalag Zapotec”

                        Heriberto Avelino (UCLA)

11-11:30          “The Meanings of Consonants”

Barbara Kelly (UC Santa Barbara and Lexicon Branding, Inc.),

William Leben (Stanford University and Lexicon Branding, Inc.) and

Robert Cohen (Lexicon Branding, Inc.)

11:30-12          “Lexical Representation in Korean:

Evidence from the Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon”

                                                            Sunyoung Hong (University of Buffalo/

The State University of New York)

            PARASESSION II  (Dwinelle 370)

1:30-2:30         DONCA STERIADE (MIT)

                                    “Knowledge of perceptual similarity and narrow lexical override”

2:30-3              “Phonetics and Phonology

of Transparent Vowels in Hungarian”

                                    Stefan Benus (New York University)

3-3:30              “The Phonetics-Phonology Mapping:

Evidence from Hungarian Voicing Assimilation”

Sylvia Blaho (Pazmany Peter Catholic University/

Eotvos Lorand University/University of Leiden)

3:30-4              “Some Methodological Issues in Doing Phonetic Typology:

Cantonese contour tone revisited”

                        Alan C. L. Yu (UC Berkeley/McGill University)

            SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Wheeler 213)

4:15-4:45         “Linguistic Harmonization:

The indexical use of honorifics and sentence-final particles in Japanese”

                        Makiko Takekuro (UC Berkeley)

4:45-5:15         “Establishing a Community of Practice on the Internet:

Linguistic Behavior of Online Japanese Communication”

                                    Yukiko Nishimura (UC Santa Barbara/

                                                                        Toyo Gakuen University)

5:15-5:45         “A Study of the Speaking Fundamental Frequency Characteristics

and Perceived Pitch Characteristics of Black and White Women”

                        Nicole Gaskins (UCLA)

            SYNTAX I  (Dwinelle 370)

4:15-4:45         “Quantity, Causality and Temporality

in Non-Causal Change Constructions in Italian and English”

                                    Cristiano Broccias (University of Genoa)

4:45-5:15         “Basque Multiple Questions”

                                    Youngmi Jeong (University of Maryland)

5:15-5:45         “English Locative Inversion: Grammatical Interfaces and Constructions”

                                    Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)

 

6-7                   JUDITH AISSEN (UC Santa Cruz)

                                    “Interpretive preferences and optimality in morphosyntax”

 

SUNDAY 16, 2003

9-10                 ARNOLD ZWICKY (Stanford University) (Dwinelle 370)

                                    TBA

PHONOLOGY (Wheeler 213)

10-10:30          “Contrast and Phonological Activity in the Nez Perce Vowel System”

                                    Sara Mackenzie and B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)

10:30-11          “Junctural and Parasitic Voicing in Burmese”

                                    Kenneth VanBik (UC Berkeley)

11-11:30          “Definition of the Base”

                                    Anya Hogoboom (UC Santa Cruz)

11:30-12          “Subsumption in Speech Recognition and Feature Theory”

                                    Moritz Neugebauer (University College Dublin)

SYNTAX II  (Dwinelle 370)

10-10:30          “Syntactic and Semantic Valence:

Morphosyntactic Evidence from Minangkabau”

                        Catherine Fortin (University of Michigan)

10:30-11          “Condition C Effects and the Position of Adjuncts”

                                    Kayono Shiobara (University of British Columbia)

11-11:30          “On the Syntactic Status of Left-Peripheral Adverbials in English”

Benjamin Shaer (Zentrum fuer Allgemeine

Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)

11:30-12          “On the Role of Argument Structure in Basque Morphosyntax”

                                    Cathryn Donohue (Stanford University)

            PARASESSION III  (Dwinelle 370)

1:30-2:30         JULIETTE BLEVINS (UC Berkeley)

“A Natural History of Antigemination”

2:30-3              “The Non-Neutralizing Nature

of Hungarian Voicing Assimilation”

                        Zoe Toft (SOAS) and

Wouter Jansen (University of Groningen)

3-3:30              “Positional Markedness as a By-Product

of the Learning Situation: a simulation”

                        Alexei Kochetov (Simon Fraser University/Haskins Laboratories)

3:30-4              “Children's Unnatural Phonology”

                                    Eugene Buckley (University of Pennsylvania)

                        SEMANTICS (Wheeler 213)

4:15-4:45         “WANT TO/WANNA: verbal polysemy

versus constructional compositionality”

Guillaume Desagulier (Universite Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux)

4:45-5:15         “Conceptualizing the Salish World:

Evidence from the Halkomelem Numeral Classifier System”

Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University) and

Mercedes Q. Hinkson (Northwest Indian College)

5:15-5:45         “Rethinking ‘Thinking For Speaking’”

                                    Stephanie Pourcel (University of Durham)

5:45-6:15         “Constraints on Synaesthesia”

                                    Yoshikata Shibuya (University of Manchester) and

                                     Hajime Nozawa (Kyoto University)

            PHONETICS and PHONOLOGY  (Dwinelle 370)

4:15-4:45         “Lexical Confusability and Degree of Coarticulation”

                                    Rebecca Scarborough (UCLA)

4:45-5:15         “Syllabically Conditioned Perceptual Epenthesis”

                                    Baris Kabak and William Idsardi (University of Delaware)

5:15-5:45         “Variability and Constancy

in the Articulation and Acoustics of Pima Coronals”

                        Heriberto Avelino and Sahyang Kim (UCLA)

5:45-6:15         “Shoshoni Verb Classes and the Perception of Aspiration”

                                    Dirk Elzinga (Brigham Young University)

 

MONDAY 17, 2003

            SPECIAL SESSION I  (Dwinelle 370)

9-10                 J. CLANCY CLEMENTS (Indiana University)

                                    “Portuguese-based non-standard language varieties

in Africa and Asia”

10-10:30          "Rapid Case Loss as an Indicator

of Dialect Death in Texas German”

Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

10:30-11          "The Superstrate Role of English and the Substrate Role

of Fongbe and Portugese in Property Depictions

in Saramaccan Creole"

                        Marvin Kramer (Mendocino College)

11-11:30          "Papiamentu: a creole with a dual lexifier"

Jeffrey DesVerney (UC Berkeley)

11:30-12          "Reduplication in Romance: An example from Cuban Spanish"

                        Jenny Lederer (UC Berkeley)

SPECIAL SESSION II  (Dwinelle 370)

1:30-2:30         JULIE AUGER (Indiana University)

                        “Issues of authenticity, purity, and autonomy

in minority languages:  

What is "real" Picard and who is an ‘authentic’ speaker?”

2:30-3              "Spatial Reference in an Endangered Romance Language:

The Case of Romansch"

                        Raphael Berthele (Universitat Freibourg)

3-3:30              "H-type Segments in Standard and Dialectal Hungarian"

                        Sylvia Blaho and Szilard Szentgyorgyi (Pazmany Peter Catholic

                                        University/Eotvos Lorand University/

                                        University of Leiden)

3:30-4              "Nominal and Adjectival Roots in North Saami Verbs"

                        Marit Julien (University of Tromso)

SPECIAL SESSION III  (Dwinelle 370)

4:15-4:45         “Immigrant Russian: Factors in the restructuring

of the aspectual system under attrition”

                                    Asya Pereltsvaig (California State University, Long Beach)

4:45-5:15         "The Carpatho-Rusyn Language Question and the Culture

                        of Slavic Linguistics"

                                    Brian D. McHugh (Temple University)

5:15-5:45         “Linguistic Attitudes and Emerging Hyperdialectism

in a Diglossic Setting: young Cypriot Greeks on their language

                        Stavroula Tsiplakou (University of Cyprus)

5:45-6:45         JOSHUA FISHMAN (Yeshiva University)

                                    "DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LANGUAGE ALONE!

The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning for Modernization”