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Friday, March 1 | ||||
Session 1: Phonology I
Session Chair: John Bell |
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3:30 - 3:55 pm | Long Peng | State University of New York, Oswego | longpeng@twcny.rr.com | Local Constraint Conjunction and Kikuyu Consonant Mutation (doc), (htm) |
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Elizabeth J. Pyatt | Penn State University | ejp10@psu.edu | Relativized Mutation Domains (pdf) |
4:20 - 4:45 pm | Olga Vaysman | MIT | olga@mit.edu | Alignment of the Change: Prosodically Sensitive Consonant Gradation (pdf) |
4:45 - 5:00 pm | Break | |||
Session 2: Syntax I
Session Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi |
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5:00 - 5:25 pm | Rose Letsholo | University of Michigan | letsholo@umich.edu | Subjects and Agreement in Ikalanga (doc) , (htm) |
5:25 - 5:50 pm | Adolfo Ausin | Michigan State University | adolfo.ausin@eudoramail.com | Pronoun binding and the A/A-bar distinction (doc) , (htm) |
5:50 - 6:15 pm | Masashi Nomura | University of Connecticut | masashi.nomura@uconn.edu | The True Nature of Nominative Objects in Japanese (pdf) |
Saturday, March 2 | ||||
Session 1: Syntax/Semantics
Session Chair: Kieran Snyder |
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9:30 - 9:55 am | Karlos Arregi | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | karlos@mit.edu | Clitic Left Dislocation is Contrastive Topicalization (ps) |
9:55 - 10:20 am | Bridget Copley | MIT | copley@mit.edu | Aspect and ability (ps) |
10:20 - 10:45 am | Ken Hiraiwa | MIT | hiraiwa@mit.edu | Eliminating PBC: Multiple Spell-Out, Long-distance Scrambling and the 'Edge Operation' (pdf) |
10:45 - 11:00 am | Break | |||
Session 2: Language Change and Creole Studies
Session Chair: Tara Sanchez |
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11:00 - 11:25 am | Ronald Kim William Labov | University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania | rkim2@ling.upenn.edu wlabov@central.cis.upenn.edu | The Diffusion of West Germanic diphtongization in Eastern and Central Europe (doc) , (htm) |
11:25 - 11:50 am | Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino | Temple University | galorenz@astro.temple.edu | Word formation and lexico-semantic developments in Portuguese Creoles (doc) , (htm) |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Gillian Sankoff | University of Pennsylvania | gillian@central.cis.upenn.edu | Apparent time, real time and the critical period: longitudinal evidence in Montreal French (doc) , (htm) | 12:15 - 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
Session 3: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis
Session Chair: Cassandre Creswell |
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1:30 - 1:55 pm | Sook-Hee Chae | Seoul National University/Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania | chaesh@linc.cis.upenn.edu | Possessives in Naturally Occurring Discourse: A Centering Approach (doc) , (htm) |
1:55 - 2:20 pm | Elsi Kaiser | University of Pennsylvania | ekaiser@ling.upenn.edu | Case marking and disjunction type alternations (doc) , (htm) |
2:20 - 2:45 pm | Svetlana McCoy | Rutgers University | svetgmcc@yahoo.com | Unifying the Meaning of Multifunctional Particles: Case of the Russian E (pdf) |
2:45 - 3:10 pm | Anna Papafragou | University of Pennsylvania | anna4@linc.cis.upenn.edu | Quantity Implicatures in Child Language (doc) , (htm) |
3:10 - 3:30 pm | Break | |||
Special Session
Session Chair: Na-Rae Han |
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3:30 - 3:55 pm | Shuki Cohen | New York University | shukic@yahoo.com | A computerized scale for monitoring levels of agreement during a conversation (doc) , (htm) |
3:55 - 4:20 pm | Matthias Trautner Kromann | Dept of Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School | mtkromann@ieee.org | Robustness and discontinuity in local optimality parsing (ps) |
4:20 - 4:30 pm | Break | |||
Invited Talk | ||||
4:30 - 5:30 pm | Ivan A. Sag | Stanford University | sag@csli.stanford.edu | Constraints on Core Clauses (html) |
8pm | PARTY! | |||
Sunday, March 3 | ||||
Session 1: Psycholinguistics
Session Chair: Alan Lee |
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10:00 - 10:25 am | Misha Becker | Institute for Research in Cognitive Science/University of Pennsylvania | mkbecker@linc.cis.upenn.edu | Seem and Other Hazards of the Lexicon (ps) |
10:25 - 10:50 am | Stephen Crain Andrea Gualmini Simona Maciukaite | University of Maryland at College Park Georgetown University University of Maryland at College Park | sc180@umail.umd.edu agualmin@wam.umd.edu maciukas@gusun.georgetown.edu | Not Only Children Ignore Contrastive Stress in Sentences with Only (pdf) |
10:50 - 11:15 am | Elsi Kaiser John Trueswell | University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania | ekaiser@ling.upenn.edu | The role of discourse status in referential processing (doc) , (htm) |
11:15 - 11:40 | Eleni Miltsakaki | University of Pennsylvania | elenimi@unagi.cis.upenn.edu | Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Anaphora Resolution (txt) |
11:40 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch break | |||
Session 2: Syntax II
Session Chair: Alexander Williams |
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1:00 - 1:25 pm | Klaus Abels | University of Connecticut | klaus.abels@uconn.edu | Auxiliary-Adverb Word Order Revisited (pdf) |
1:25 - 1:50 pm | Thomas McFadden | University of Pennsylvania | tmcfadde@ling.upenn.edu | Adventures in resolving redundancy: Case vs. the EPP (ps) |
1:50 - 2:10 pm | Break | |||
Session 3: Phonology II
Session Chair: Tsan-Kuang Lee |
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2:10 - 2:35 pm | Philipp Angermeyer | New York University | psa208@nyu.edu | Copying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication (rtf) , (htm) |
2:35 - 3:00 pm | Michael Becker | Tel Aviv University | kuzum99@yahoo.com | Hebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? (doc) , (htm) |
3:00 - 3:25 pm | Ronald Kim | University of Pennsylvania | rkim2@ling.upenn.edu | New Light on an Old Hypothesis: Hirt's Law and the Origin of the Slavic Accentual Classes (doc) , (htm) |