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
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
1:25-1:50
Stephanie Humphries, Ferrum College
Marietta, Ohio: Speech Island or Sociocultural
"Oasis"?
1:50-2:00 Break
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
4:15-4:40
Eric Raimy, Swathmore College
Reduplication in Arrernte
4:40-4:50 Break
8:00-whenever
PLC party!!
At the home of Bill Labov and Gillian Sankoff
More information/directions/etc. will be provided during the Colloquium.
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
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
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
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
4:25-4:50
Anna Papafragou, Christine Massey, Lila Gleitman, Univeristy of
Pennsylvania
Language and conceptual representation: A
cross-linguistic study of motion