Schedule

SLINKI 2017 Tentative Schedule

All Sessions held in 140 Withers Hall on NC State's Main Campus

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Session 1 9:00-10:30 Language Variation - Chair, Luis González, Wake Forest University

9-9:30 Acoustic characteristics of gay male speech in Spanish. Ashley Pahis, NC State University.

9:30-10 Glottal (/ ʔ/) insertion as an effect of Guaraní contact in Paraguayan Spanish. Sonya Trawick,

NC State University.

10:10-30 Enclisis and interpolation in Old Spanish as evidence of gradient strength of FP in Ibero-Romance.

Lamar Graham, UNC-Chapel Hill.

10:30-10:45 Break

Session 2 10:45-12:15 Heritage speakers - Chair, Lamar Graham, UNC-Chapel Hill.

10:45-11:15 Teaching pronunciation to Spanish heritage speakers: Research-based suggestions for the

classroom. Amanda Boomershine and Rebecca Ronquest. UNC-Wilmington and NC State University.

11:15-11:45 Spanish heritage language learners and their writing: Lexical density and grammatical metaphor as

measures of academic-level proficiency. Ariana Mrak, UNC-Wilmington.

11:45-12:15 A sociolinguistic view of Heritage Spanish: Theory and Practice. Jim Michnowicz and Kelsey

Domínguez, NC State University and Knightdale High School of Collaborative Design.

Lunch 12:15-1:00

Business Meeting 1:00-1:15

Poster session 1:15-2:00

1) La Duración Vocálica Preconsonantal en el Habla Bilingüe Inglés-Español. Lindsey Chandler, NC State University

2) On the Acoustic Realizations of the Graphemes -bv- in Heritage Spanish. Sarah Chetty, NC State University.

3) Intervocalic /d/ production in native and heritage Spanish speakers: comparing centro-northern Spain and Puerto Rico. Niki Howard, Caro Gray Ramos and Juan Núñez, NC State University.

4) Yucatan Spanish: An Analysis of the Changing Accent. Alex Hyler, NC State University.

5) Analysis of bilingual discourse markers in Raleigh, North Carolina Mexican Spanish. Ashley Meehan, NC State University.

6) Intervocalic /d/, preconsonantal /s/, and word-final /n/ production in Lima Spanish. James Shepherd, NC State University.

7) Voicing of the Palatal-alveolar Sibilant Fricatives in the Uruguayan Dialect. Lucía Planchón, NC State University.

8) Cambios semánticos del diminutivo (-ito/a) entre los niveles de educación. Víctor Ubaldo, NC State University.

Session 3 2:00-4:00 Syntax - Chair, Ariana Mrak, UNC-Wilmington

2-2:30 Predicting and Solving Accusative/Dative Ambiguities in Causee Encoding. Katie Dickens and Ben

Scharmann. Wake Forest University.

2:30-3:00 The Pervasiveness of Definiteness: How the Naked Noun Constraint Solves an Important Problem in

Universal Grammar. Luis González and Austin Moore, Wake Forest University.

3:00-3:30 Against the Need for Multiple Types of Dative Sentences. Sarah White and Mary Kathryn Ball, Wake

Forest University.

3:30-4 An Aktionsart Account of ‘Superfluous’ SE in Spanish. Luis González and Rachel Schwam, Wake

Forest University.