PWGL FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
April 17, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


SESSION 1A: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (Room 345)
Chair: Jiyoon Lee, Educational Linguistics (GSE)


SESSION 1B: CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC CONTACT (Room 330)
Chair: Carmen del Solar Valdés, Linguistics (SAS)

10:00 am Discourse, Identity and Christian Formation
TAMARA WARHOL, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
Aspects of Loanword Adaptation in Continental French
MICHAEL FRIESNER, Linguistics (SAS)
10:30 am Cyberdiscursive Tug-of-War: Learner Repositioning in a Multimodal CMC Environment
SHANNON SAURO, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
What did the Korean grandmother say to the turkey?’: Joking around in Korean, English, and Konglish
SONYA GWAK, Education, Culture & Society (GSE)
11:00 am Speaking like a therapist: Conversational moves, control and accountability in therapeutic interaction
MARIAELENA BARTESAGHI, Communication (Annenberg)
‘Communicative Lingerings’: An exploratory study of the emergence of ‘foreign’ communicative features in the interactions of American expatriates after re-entry
LAURA SICOLA, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
11:30 am 15-MINUTE BREAK

SESSION 2A: LANGUAGE LEARNING AND ACQUISITION (Room 345)
Chair: Sophia Malamud, Linguistics (SAS)


SESSION 2B: COVERT AND META-DISCOURSE (Room 330)
Chair: James Mesbur, Linguistics (SAS)

11:45 am Teaching and Learning Health Science in English-as-an-Additional-Language Contexts
VERONICA MORRISON, Higher Education (GSE)
Deep Language and Persistent Culture: Learning to Speak the ‘Tongue of the Orichas’ in Cuban Santería
KRISTINA WIRTZ, Anthropology (SAS)
12:15 pm Verb Learning Meets Parsing
SUDHA ARUNACHALAM, Linguistics and Psychology (SAS)
Women’s Speech: An Example of Covert Language Policy in Japan
RIKA SAITO, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (SAS)
12:45 pm LUNCH

SESSION 3A: EMERGENCE & INNOVATION (Room 345)
Chair: John Laury, Linguistics (SAS)


SESSION 3B: MINORITY LANGUAGES (Room 330)
Chair: David Cassels Johnson, Educational Linguistics (GSE)

2:00 pm A Familiarity Effect on Copula Contraction in English
SUZANNE EVANS WAGNER, Linguistics (SAS)
Multilingualism in India’s Census, Constitution, and Educational Policy: The Context for Linguistic Minorities in India
CYNTHIA GROFF, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
2:30 pm Towards an automatic graded-reader filter
SEAN MCGREW Educational Linguistics (GSE)
Swedish Minority Language Rights in Ecolinguistic Perspective
FRANCIS M. HULT, Educational Linguistics (GSE)
3:00 pm Classifier Predicate Representations for an English to American Sign Language Machine Translation System
MATT HUENERFAUTH, Computer and Information Science (SEAS)
The Impact of Phonological Change on Morphology: A Case Study from Maya Languages
SERGIO ROMERO, Linguistics (SAS)
3:30 pm 15-MINUTE BREAK

PLENARY SESSION
Rainey Auditorium

3:45 - 5:00 pm STEPHANIE STRASSEL (LDC), CHRISTOPHER WALKER (LDC), ALEXIS MITCHELL (LDC), MEGHAN GLENN (LDC), SHUDONG HUANG (LDC) & JONATHAN WRIGHT Linguistics (SAS)
Language Resource Creation and Distribution at the Linguistics Data Consortium


5:15 pm


HAPPY HOUR