Program
Saturday, April 13th - Wells Hall, B-342
10:00AM - 10:30AM: Breakfast
10:30AM - 12:00PM: Oral Presentations - Session 1
- 10:30 - 11:00: Gregory Antono, University of Toronto | Más allá del supermercado: Language Attitudes of Chinese-Argentine Youth
- 11:00 - 11:30: Natasha Chemey, Michigan State University | Have you got “gotten?” The Semantics of “have got”
- 11:30 - 12:00: Allyson Balaz, Carleton University | Proposition removal from the Common Ground via the surprise intonation contour
12:00PM - 12:15PM: 15-minute break
12:15PM - 2:00PM: Lunch & Poster Session
- Lena Donald, University of Toronto | Attitudes on Multilingualism in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
- Abigail Jaroszewicz, Erin Marchert, and Natasha Chemey, Michigan State University | “Who are ‘they’?”: Books, pronouns, and mother-child interactions
- Kerry Berres, Darby Grachek, Jett Hampton, Sarah Jones, Hollie Nusbaum, and Sarah Sirna, Michigan State University | Playing with the Perfect
- Anthony Delsanter, Becky Lubera, and Katelyn Weatherford, Michigan State University | Comparing Lenition Across Latin American Dialects Of Spanish
- Victoria Erdman, Michigan State University | Definite Maximality: The Effect of Context on Definite Interpretation
- Daniel Greeson, Megan Placko, and Becky Lubera Michigan State University | Is Less More For Learning Pronouns?
2:00PM - 3:30PM: Oral Presentations - Session 2
- 2:00 - 2:30: Michael Sullivan, Ohio State University | An Analysis Of Croatian And English Passive Constructions Within The Functional Indexed Phrase Structure Grammar Framework
- 2:30 - 3:00: Suyuan Liu, University of California, Los Angeles | Leveled OCP in Yantai Mandarin Tone Sandhi
- 3:00 - 3:30: Rachel Stacey, Michigan State University | Scalar Implicature Variability in Adults and Children: The Case of Or
3:30PM - 3:45PM: 15-minute break
3:45PM - 5:15PM: Keynote
- Professor Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland | Are meanings in the head? Lessons from the language-vision interface
5:15PM - 5:30PM: Awards
6:00PM: Dinner in Eustace-Cole Hall
Sunday, April 14th
9AM - 1PM: Workshops
- B100, 9AM-11AM: Silvina Bongiovanni, Michigan State University | The Phonetics of Phonological Variation
- B102, 11AM-1PM: Christina Tortora, Graduate Center, City University of New York | The Audio-Aligned and Parsed Corpus of Appalachian English (AAPCAppE): Design and Use
Please make sure to bring a laptop and headphones for Christina Tortora's workshop!