Program & Abstracts

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

9:30 - 9:40 am: Opening remarks and territorial acknowledgment

9:40 - 11:00 am: Session 1

Chair: Nikki Ferguson

9:40 - 10:00 am: A preliminary study on the tonal system and the tone sandhi in Huangpi dialect

Kang Xu

University of Calgary

10:00 - 10:20 am: Let Me Demónstrate: A diachronic look at stress placement with English derivational suffixes

Charys B. Russell

University of Calgary

10:20 - 10:40 am: Voice assimilation in Colloquial Hebrew: An analysis of theoretical frameworks

Ya'ara Gurel

University of Calgary

10:40 - 11:00 am: A preliminary analysis of acoustic predictors of mean opinion scores

Tyler Schnoor, Aarya Menon, and Benjamin Tucker

University of Alberta

11:00-11:15: Coffee/tea break

11:15 - 12:35 pm: Session 2

Chair: Cheryl Iwanchuk

11:15 - 11:35 am: Why did you say it like THAT? The perception of focus prosody across contexts

Anika Rogalski, Dimitrios Skordos, and Angeliki Athanasopoulou

University of Calgary

11:35 - 11:55 am: Personality, stereotypes, and social connection: Investigating individual differences in verbal irony processing and construal

Megan N. Bohach, Herbert L. Colston, and Juhani Järvikivi

University of Alberta

11:55 - 12:15 pm: Context and affective prosody in perceiving emotion

Madeline MacLean, Dimitrios Skordos, and Angeliki Athanasopoulou

University of Calgary

12:15 - 12:35 pm: The influence of (post-)colonial language policies on local languages in Cameroon: An acquisition planning perspective

Alain Takam

University of Lethbridge

12:35 - 1:35 pm: Lunch break

1:35 - 2:55 pm: Session 3

Chair: Shayne Shapkin

1:35 - 1:55 pm: Processing singular "they/their": Investigating how pesronality traits affect reading times and acceptability ratings

Hannah Lam and Juhani Järvikivi

University of Alberta

1:55 - 2:15 pm: An analogy-based alternative to 'counter-intuitive' grammatical animacy in Plains Cree/Nêhiyawêwin

Daniel Benedict Dacanay and Katherine Schmirler

University of Alberta

2:15 - 2:35 pm: Syntactic characterization of llevar + time in Spanish

Francisco Ongay González

University of Calgary

2:35 - 2:55 pm: Comparative analysis of the syntactic functions of plural markers in classifier languages

Peng Qiu

University of Calgary

2:55-3:10 pm: Tea/coffee break

3:10 - 4:30 pm: Session 4

Chair: BrettC Nelson

3:10 - 3:30 pm: Testing the functional load principle in segmental contrasts of German

Lisa Süssenbach

University of Calgary

3:30 - 3:50 pm: Rating gender stereotype violations: The effects of personality and politics in language processing

Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher and Juhani Järvikivi

University of Alberta

3:50 - 4:10 pm: Native speaker danger: How COVID-19 impacts intergroup accent perception

Kasandra Calkins, Jiseung Kim, and Juhani Järvikivi

University of Alberta

4:10 - 4:30 pm: Acquisition of Arabic word stress

Summer Abdalla and Angeliki Athanasopoulou

University of Calgary

4:30 - 4:40 pm: Closing remarks