Program

8:30 - 9:00 am: Registration (continues throughout day)

9:00 - 9:10 am: Opening remarks and territorial acknowledgment

9:10 - 10:30 am: Session 1 

Chair: Rowan Sali

9:10 - 9:30 am: Exemplar theoretic modelling of the perception of phrasal prominence

Brooklyn Sheppard, Stephen Winters

University of Calgary

9:30 - 9:50 am: Variability and Vocabulary in L2 Learning: Examining Influences on High- and Low-Variability Training

Charys Russell, Stephen Winters

University of Calgary

9:50 - 10:10 am: Enhancing Chinese Vocabulary Acquisition through the Use of Augmented Reality

Sassi A. Pamphile 

University of Calgary

10:10 - 10:30 am: Learning from students: Flipping the script in a linguistics assignment

Tim Mills

University of Alberta

10:30-10:40: Coffee/tea break

10:40 - 12:20 pm: Session 2 

Chair: Charys Russell

10:40 - 11:00 am: Investigating Seven Idiolectic Profiles: A question of grammatical vs pragmatic reasoning in adults

Rowan Sali, Dimitrios Skordos

University of Calgary

11:00 - 11:20 am: Contrastive Inference Abilities in Children

Cheryl Iwanchuk, Dimitrios Skordos

University of Calgary

11:20 - 11:40 am: Individual differences in accented speech-based prediction

Rayna Hoedl, Juhani Järvikivi 

University of Alberta

11:40 - 12:00 pm: Arousal and its Mediating Role in Iconicity of Persian Pseudowords

Ali Mosanna, Sahar Bahrami-Khorshid, Arash Aryani 

University of Alberta

12:00 - 12:20 pm: Weakness and part-structure in artificial integrative predicates

Mathieu Paillé 

University of Calgary

12:20 - 1:20 pm: Lunch break

1:20 - 2:40 pm: Session 3 

Chair: Brooklyn Sheppard

1:20 - 1:40 pm: Guosa: A Common Language for the Economic Community of West African States

Alex G. Igbineweka & Joseph W. Windsor 

University of Abuja, University of Calgary

1:40 - 2:00 pm: Filipino Language Attitudes and Ideologies on Reddit

Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen 

University of Alberta

2:00 - 2:20 pm: Social Conditioning Factors in the usage and loss of English thou

S. Brooke Maffit

University of Alberta

2:20 - 2:40 pm: You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar: Social functions of figurative proverbs

Vanessa Estephan, Avara Taralson, Herbert L. Colston 

University of Alberta

2:40-2:50 pm: Tea/coffee break

2:50 - 4:10 pm: Session 4 

Chair: Francisco Ongay González

2:50 - 3:10 pm: Francisation and Anglicisation: The Adaptations of Loanwords between French and English

Jocelyn McKnight

University of Lethbridge

3:10 - 3:30 pm: Geminate Distinctions in Bengali: A Cross-Modal Semantic Investigation

Mir Ushmum Alam 

University of Calgary

3:30 - 3:50 pm: Incomplete Neutralization in Dimensional Theory

Darin Flynn

University of Calgary

3:50 - 4:10 pm: The Productivity of the Rhythm Rule in Western Canadian English

Vincent Nwosu

University of Calgary

4:10 - 4:20 pm: Tea/coffee break

4:20 - 4:30 pm: Closing Remarks

4:30 - 6:10 pm: Session 5 

Chair: Cheryl Iwanchuk

4:30 - 4:50 pm: Explicit Instruction for Children of Non-Canonical Word Order in Heritage Polish

Gabriela Holko, Marianne Huijsmans, & Evangelia Daskalaki 

University of Alberta

4:50 - 5:10 pm: Generational Pronoun Puzzle: the role of age in decoding neutrality 

Dayna Kindermann, Juhani Järvikivi 

University of Alberta

5:10 - 5:30 pm: The Bengali DP: NP Movements, Adjective-Classifier Combination, and a (third) Focus Position

Syed Sazzadul Alam 

University of Calgary

5:30 - 5:50 pm: Comparing Processing of Chinese Prenominal and Postnominal Relative Clauses: Evidence for the Distance-based Account

Xinyuan Xia

University of Calgary

5:50 - 6:10 pm: Fictive interactions and interactional structure

Francisco Ongay González 

University of Calgary