SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2007

2:00-7:00 pm

REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH Forum)

 


Special Session: Integrating Models of Language Change
(JMHH Room 250)


3:00 pm Opening remarks
3:15pm Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change [abstract]
Celina Troutman, Brady Clark & Matthew Goldrick, Northwestern University
3:40 pm Addressing the actuation problem with quantitative models of sound change [abstract]
Adam Baker, University of Arizona
4:05 pm The Real Effect of Word Frequency on Phonetic Variation [abstract]
Aaron Dinkin, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 pm BREAK
4:55 pm On the importance of population structure in computational models of language change [abstract]
Jean-Philippe Magué University of Chicago
5:20 pm Integrating the Family Tree and Wave Models of Linguistic Change [abstract]
William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

5:45 - 6:30pm


PANEL DISCUSSION
Anthony Kroch, William Labov, Don Ringe & Charles Yang
University of Pennsylvania
(JMHH Room
250)


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007

9 am-4:15pm

REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Lounge)

 


SESSION 1A: Syntax
Chair: Joan Chen-Main (JMHH Room 250)



SESSION 1B: Phonology/Phonetics
Chair: Chandan Narayan (JMHH Room 255)


9:15 am

Modeling Diachronic Change in the Thai Tonal Space [abstract]
Lisa Zsiga, Georgetown University

9:40 am

An evolutionary account of loanword-induced sound change in Japanese loanwords [abstract]
Clifford Crawford, Cornell University

10:05 am

Focus in Hebrew: Capitalizing on the Canonical [abstract]
Rachel Eitan & Lisa Rochman,
Ben Gurion University

Phonetic, phonological, and social forces as filters: evidence from Gorgia Toscana [abstract]
Christina Villafana Dalcher, City University, London

10:30 am

Word Order and Agreement Asymmetries in Lebanese Arabic and English [abstract]
Heidi Lorimor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discovering manner and place features - What can be learned from acoustic and articulatory data? [abstract]
Ying Lin & Jeff Mielke, University of Arizona & University of Ottawa

10:55 am

BREAK

 


SESSION 2A: Acquisition
Chair: Tamara Nicol Medina (JMHH Room 250)



SESSION 2B: Syntax/Semantics
Chair: Vita Markman ( JMHH Room 255)


11:10 am

Why cross-linguistic frequency cannot be equated with ease of acquisition [abstract]
Alejandrina Cristiá & Amanda Seidl, Purdue University

Quantifiers, resumption and generic statements [abstract]
Dora Alexopoulou, Lille III

11:35 am

Thematic Relations as a Cue to Verb Class [abstract]
Ann Bunger & Jeff Lidz, University of Pennsylvania & University of Maryland

An Argument/Adjunct Asymmetry in Wh-questions: a novel argument for LF [abstract]
Suwon Yoon, University of Chicago

noon

Barely There: Hard-to-Detect Auxiliaries Shed Light on Children's Acquisition of French [abstract]
Cristina Dye, Georgetown University

Morpho-syntactic Approach to Pronominal Binding [abstract]
Heeshin Koak, Rutgers University

12:25pm

The acquisition of evidentiality [abstract]
Ozge Ozturk & Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware

DP Hypothesis for Japanese [abstract]
Kaori Furuya, City University of New York

12:50 pm

LUNCH:
For those who wish to stay on campus, there are two Au Bon Pain cafes located in JMHH, and a variety of nearby restaurants and food venues.

 

SESSION 3A: Sociolinguistics/Historical Linguistics
Chair: Keelan Evanini (JMHH Room 250)



SESSION 3B: Syntax
Chair: Beatrice Santorini (JMHH Room 255)


2:45 pm

Indianapolis, Indiana: A prototype of Midland convergence [abstract]
Deena Fogle, Mcgill Univeristy

On Slavic semelfactives and secondary imperfectives: implications for the split 'AspP' [abstract]
Vita Markman, Pomona College

3:10 pm

Using sociolinguistic data to resolve morphosyntactic debate: the case of P/N markers in Polish [abstract]
Lukasz Abramowicz,
University of Pennsylvania

Subject Position and the Marshallese Restructuring Configuration [abstract]
Heather Willson, University of California Los Angeles

3:35 pm

Bridging the Gap: Dialect Boundaries and Regional Allegiance in Upstate New York [abstract]
Aaron Dinkin & William Labov, University of Pennsylvania

Against Restructuring in Modern French [abstract]

Marc Authier & Lisa Reed, Penn State University

4:00 pm

Reconstruction of Proto-Trique Phonemes [abstract]
Kosuke Matsukawa, SUNY at Albany

Wh-in-situ and the Spanish DP: Movement or no movement? [abstract]
Lara Reglero & Emma Ticio, Florida State University

4:25 pm

RECEPTION (JMHH MBA Lounge)

6:00 pm


KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Psycholinguistic studies of grammatical representation: Evidence from acquisition, processing, and disorders [abstract]
Harald Clahsen, University of Essex
(JMHH Room
F85)


9:00 pm

PARTY!
(Information and directions will be included in the final program.) 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2007

9:45 am-3 pm

REGISTRATION and BOOK DISPLAY (JMHH MBA Lounge)

 


SESSION 1A: Semantics
Chair: Tatjana Scheffler (JMHH Room 250)



SESSION 1B: Syntax
Chair: Joel Wallenberg (JMHH 255)


10:15 am

Associative Interpretation of Plural Pronouns [abstract]
Maria Vassilieva, Columbia College

Comparatives and Inversion: A (Necessarily) Diachronic Account [abstract]
Remus Gergel, Universität Tübingen

10:40 am

Processing presupposition: verifying vs. falsifying sentences with 'only' [abstract]
Christina Kim, UCLA

Get it? Got it! [abstract]
Ji Young Shim, City University of New York

11:05 am

Romanian n-words are definitely negative quantifiers [abstract]
Anamaria Falaus, University of Nantes

On the origin and content of English there [abstract]
Amy Rose Deal, University of Massachusetts Amherst

11:30 am

NPI-licensing: the view from strong NPIs [abstract]
Jon Gajewski, University of Connecticut

Subject-Object Asymmetries and the Relation of Internal Merge and Pied-Piping [abstract]
Mayr Clemens, Harvard University

11:55 am

BREAK

 


SESSION 2A: Semantics/Pragmatics
Chair: Lance Nathan (JMHH Room 250)



SESSION 2B: Phonology
Chair: John Bell (JMHH Room 255)


12:10 pm

The role of animacy in the ranking of entities in complex NPs: Evidence from Greek [abstract]
Stella Tsaklidou & Eleni Miltsakaki, University of Pennsylvania & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Positionally Licensed Extended Lapses [abstract]
Paula Houghton, Rutgers University

12:35 pm

Incorporated nominals as antecedents for anaphora, or How to save the thematic arguments theory [abstract]
Igor Yanovich, Moscow State University

Fusional Reduction and the Logic of Ranking Arguments in OT [abstract]
Adrian Brasoveanu & Alan Prince, Rutgers University

1:00pm

Presuppositions as Blockers of Implicature Cancellation [abstract]
Yael Sharvit & Jon Gajewski, University of Connecticut

A simpler view of Danish stød [abstract]
Jonathan Gress-Wright, University of Pennsylvania

1:25 pm

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