PLC 26: Preliminary Schedule.


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Friday, March 1
Session 1: Phonology I
Session Chair: John Bell
3:30 - 3:55 pmLong PengState University of New York, Oswegolongpeng@twcny.rr.com Local Constraint Conjunction and Kikuyu Consonant Mutation (doc), (htm)
3:55 - 4:20 pmElizabeth J. PyattPenn State Universityejp10@psu.eduRelativized Mutation Domains (pdf)
4:20 - 4:45 pmOlga VaysmanMITolga@mit.eduAlignment of the Change: Prosodically Sensitive Consonant Gradation (pdf)
4:45 - 5:00 pmBreak
Session 2: Syntax I
Session Chair: Kimiko Nakanishi
5:00 - 5:25 pm Rose LetsholoUniversity of Michiganletsholo@umich.eduSubjects and Agreement in Ikalanga (doc) , (htm)
5:25 - 5:50 pmAdolfo AusinMichigan State Universityadolfo.ausin@eudoramail.comPronoun binding and the A/A-bar distinction (doc) , (htm)
5:50 - 6:15 pmMasashi NomuraUniversity of Connecticutmasashi.nomura@uconn.eduThe True Nature of Nominative Objects in Japanese (pdf)
Saturday, March 2
Session 1: Syntax/Semantics
Session Chair: Kieran Snyder
9:30 - 9:55 amKarlos ArregiMassachusetts Institute of Technologykarlos@mit.eduClitic Left Dislocation is Contrastive Topicalization (ps)
9:55 - 10:20 amBridget CopleyMITcopley@mit.eduAspect and ability (ps)
10:20 - 10:45 amKen HiraiwaMIThiraiwa@mit.eduEliminating PBC: Multiple Spell-Out, Long-distance Scrambling and the 'Edge Operation' (pdf)
10:45 - 11:00 amBreak
Session 2: Language Change and Creole Studies
Session Chair: Tara Sanchez
11:00 - 11:25 amRonald 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 amGerardo Augusto LorenzinoTemple Universitygalorenz@astro.temple.eduWord formation and lexico-semantic developments in Portuguese Creoles (doc) , (htm)
11:50 am - 12:15 pmGillian SankoffUniversity of Pennsylvaniagillian@central.cis.upenn.eduApparent time, real time and the critical period: longitudinal evidence in Montreal French (doc) , (htm)
12:15 - 1:30 pmLunch break
Session 3: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis
Session Chair: Cassandre Creswell
1:30 - 1:55 pmSook-Hee ChaeSeoul National University/Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvaniachaesh@linc.cis.upenn.eduPossessives in Naturally Occurring Discourse: A Centering Approach (doc) , (htm)
1:55 - 2:20 pmElsi KaiserUniversity of Pennsylvaniaekaiser@ling.upenn.eduCase marking and disjunction type alternations (doc) , (htm)
2:20 - 2:45 pmSvetlana McCoyRutgers Universitysvetgmcc@yahoo.comUnifying the Meaning of Multifunctional Particles: Case of the Russian E (pdf)
2:45 - 3:10 pmAnna PapafragouUniversity of Pennsylvaniaanna4@linc.cis.upenn.eduQuantity Implicatures in Child Language (doc) , (htm)
3:10 - 3:30 pmBreak
Special Session
Session Chair: Na-Rae Han
3:30 - 3:55 pmShuki CohenNew York Universityshukic@yahoo.comA computerized scale for monitoring levels of agreement during a conversation (doc) , (htm)
3:55 - 4:20 pmMatthias Trautner KromannDept of Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business Schoolmtkromann@ieee.orgRobustness and discontinuity in local optimality parsing (ps)
4:20 - 4:30 pmBreak
Invited Talk
4:30 - 5:30 pmIvan A. SagStanford Universitysag@csli.stanford.edu Constraints on Core Clauses (html)
8pm PARTY!
Sunday, March 3
Session 1: Psycholinguistics
Session Chair: Alan Lee
10:00 - 10:25 amMisha BeckerInstitute for Research in Cognitive Science/University of Pennsylvaniamkbecker@linc.cis.upenn.edu Seem and Other Hazards of the Lexicon (ps)
10:25 - 10:50 amStephen 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 amElsi 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 - 11:40Eleni MiltsakakiUniversity of Pennsylvaniaelenimi@unagi.cis.upenn.eduEffects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Anaphora Resolution (txt)
11:40 am - 1:00 pmLunch break
Session 2: Syntax II
Session Chair: Alexander Williams
1:00 - 1:25 pmKlaus AbelsUniversity of Connecticutklaus.abels@uconn.eduAuxiliary-Adverb Word Order Revisited (pdf)
1:25 - 1:50 pm Thomas McFaddenUniversity of Pennsylvania tmcfadde@ling.upenn.eduAdventures in resolving redundancy: Case vs. the EPP (ps)
1:50 - 2:10 pmBreak
Session 3: Phonology II
Session Chair: Tsan-Kuang Lee
2:10 - 2:35 pmPhilipp AngermeyerNew York Universitypsa208@nyu.eduCopying Contiguous Gestures: An Articulatory Account of Bella Coola Reduplication (rtf) , (htm)
2:35 - 3:00 pmMichael BeckerTel Aviv Universitykuzum99@yahoo.comHebrew Stress: Can't you hear those trochees? (doc) , (htm)
3:00 - 3:25 pmRonald KimUniversity of Pennsylvaniarkim2@ling.upenn.eduNew Light on an Old Hypothesis: Hirt's Law and the Origin of the Slavic Accentual Classes (doc) , (htm)