Program


Day One, Saturday, March 3

8:30
Registration begins


Session I: Syntax I (Session Chair: Dave Embick)

9:00-9:25
Susie Wurmbrand, McGill University
Agree--The other VP-internal subject hypothesis

9:25-9:50
Misha Becker, University of Pennsylvania
Is Isn't Be

9:50-10:15
Mariana Lambova, University of Connecticut
Multiple Topicalization and Wh-Fronting in Bulgarian and the Fine Structure of the Left Periphery

10:15-10:30 Break


Session II: Syntax-Semantics/Pragmatics (Session Chair: Maribel Romero)

10:30-10:55
Yaping Tsai, University of Delaware
The semantic difference between Chinese CHUAN and DOU

10:55-11:20
Susan Converse, University of Pennsylvania
Centering in Mandarin - A Preliminary Study

11:20-11:55
Reiko Makino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A pragmatic analysis of Japanese koto and no: with and without a complement clause

11:55-1:00 Lunch


Session III: Sociolinguistics I (Session Chair: Sherry Ash)

1:00-1:25
Dominika Baran, Harvard University
English Loanwords in Polish and the Question of Gender Assignment

1:25-1:50
Stephanie Humphries, Ferrum College
Marietta, Ohio: Speech Island or Sociocultural "Oasis"?

1:50-2:00 Break


Session IV: Special Session I (Session Chair: Bill Labov)

2:00-2:25
Stephanie Strassel, Christopher Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium/University of Pennsylvania
Data and Annotations for Sociolinguistics: A Corpus-Based Approach to Sociolinguistic Research

2:25-2:50
Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung, University of Texas, Arlington
Tone Change in Taiwanese: Age and Geographic Factors

2:50-3:15
Paola Escudero, University of Reading
Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam
Attested correlations between the perceptual development of L2 phonological contrasts and target-language production confirm the Gradual Learning Algorithm

3:15-3:40
Meghan Sumner, SUNY Stony Brook
A psycholinguistic approach to opacity: Report of a preliminary study in Hebrew

3:40-3:50 Break


Session V: Phonetics/Phonology (Session Chair: Gene Buckley)

3:50-4:15
Brian McHugh, Temple University
Sonority Sequencing and Optimal Syllable Structure in One Philadelphian's Polysyllabic /ae/-Tensing Pattern

4:15-4:40
Eric Raimy, Swathmore College
Reduplication in Arrernte

4:40-4:50 Break


Invited Speaker (Speaker Introduction: Rolf Noyer)

4:50-5:50
Morris Halle
, Massachussetts Institute of Techonology
Features and Articulations


8:00-whenever
PLC party!!
At the home of Bill Labov and Gillian Sankoff
More information/directions/etc. will be provided during the Colloquium.



Day Two, Sunday, March 4th


Session VI: Sociolinguistics II (Session Chair: Gillian Sankoff)

9:00-9:25
Tara Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
Linguistic and Social Variation in the -NDO Affix in Papiamentu

9:25-9:50
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Temple University
The loss of agglutinative morphology in Saotomense Umbundu: Data from Portuguese-Umbundu Bilinguals

9:50-10:15
Fallou Ngom, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lexical Borrowing as Sociolinguistic Variables in Senegal

10:15-10:30 Break


Session VII: Dialectology/Historical Linguistics (Session Chair: George Cardona)

10:30-10:55
Bill Labov, University of Pennsylvania
An Unexpected Geographic Reversal in Coarticulation Effects on the Raising of Short-A in North America

10:55-11:20
Sabrina Bendjaballah, University of Vienna
Martin Haiden, Aston University
Templatic Inflection in German

11:20-11:55
Joo-Phil Kim, Yeungnam University/University of Pennsylvania
t-Palatalization and Hypercorrection in the Korean central dialect

11:55-1:00 Lunch


Session VIII: Syntax II (Session Chair: Tony Kroch)

1:00-1:25
Norbert Hornstein and Hirohisa Kiguchi, University of Maryland
PRO Gate and Movement

1:25-1:50
Alexander Williams, University of Pennsylvania
Verb-Verb Compounds and Causativity in Mandarin

1:50-2:15
Gianluca Storto, University of California, Los Angeles
Agreement patterns in Maasai and the syntax of possessive DPs

2:15-2:30 Break


Session IX: Special Session II (Session Chair: Tonia Bleam)

2:30-2:55
George Smith, University of Potsdam
On the Distribution of the Genitive Attribute and its Prepositional Counterpart in Modern Standard German

2:55-3:20
Anne Abeillé, Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon, Université Paris VII
The TALANA annotated corpus for French : some experimental results

3:20-3:45
Julie Anne Legate, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Charles Yang, Yale University
Empirical Re-assessement of Stimulus Poverty Arguments

3:45-4:00 Break


Session X: Special Session III (Session Chair: Misha Becker)

4:00-4:25
Gail McKoon, Talke Macfarland, Northwestern University
Event Structure: Empirical Data and Linguistic Theory

4:25-4:50
Anna Papafragou, Christine Massey, Lila Gleitman, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
Language and conceptual representation: A cross-linguistic study of motion


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