2019 ALBERTA CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
16th November 2019
Room L1050, LINC Building
University of Lethbridge
8:50 Conference Opening
9:00-10:00
Plenary I:
Blackfoot language and culture
Michael Bruisedhead
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Session 1:
LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & DESCRIPTION
10:10-10:30
Accommodating spelling variation in Blackfoot language web resources
Inge Genee
10:35-10:55
An empirical investigation of the syllabicity of [X] in Blackfoot
Mizuki Miyashita
11:00-11:20
VOT in Plains Cree: The special case of /k/
Merion Rose Hodgson
11:25-11:45
Quasi-inflectional verbal morphology in Zihuateutla Totonac
Michelle Garcia-Vega
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Prefix deletion in Tsuut'ina verbs
Kody Tufts
Relative clauses as a Crow code-switching strategy
David Heath
The semantics of Blackfoot astrophysical terms
Cassandra Koenig
Documenting Totonac language and culture
David Beck, Michelle Garcia-Vega, Rachel McGraw, Devin Moore & Conor Snoek
The impacts of cultural relativism on postsecondary indigenous student success
Tyra Moses
Factors Associated with the use of the Phrase “That’s so Gay” Among Male and Female Students at the University of Lethbridge
Jordie Visser
Standardization of Japanese Honorifics in Japanese University Students
Matthew Somerville
1:30-2:30
Plenary II:
Language as a source of metaphysics
Leroy Little Bear
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Session 2:
LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION
2:40-3:00
Kʷeƛ ep Qe Soxʷèp
Aspen Decker
3:05-3:25
Reconnecting to the spirit of language
Kyle Napier
3:30-3:50
Reaffirming the CoLang Spirit
Jarrett Hopewell, Emily Cahoon, Aspen Decker, Meriah Horseman, Madeleine Shek
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Session 3:
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
4:00-4:20
Processing of Ambiguity Caused by Defining, Non-defining Relative Clauses
Orhan Demir & Metehan Oğuz
4:25-4:45
The effect of individual political ideology on spoken gender stereotype comprehension
Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher, Kaidi Lõo & Juhani Järvikivi
4:50-5:10
An Investigation into the online processing of chufei conditional construction in Mandarin Chinese
Min Zhang & Juhani Järvikivi
5:15-5:35
Syntactic and semantic factors in the resolution of pronouns in spoken Spanish
Dalia Cristerna Román, Evangelia Daskalaki & Juhani Järvikivi
Evening social in Downtown Lethbridge 7:00 pm
Location: TBA
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TEACHING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES WORKSHOP
17th November 2019
Room L1050, University of Lethbridge
9:30-12:00 Teaching Languages Through Stories I
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-3:30 Teaching Languages Through Stories II