Abstracts
Talk abstracts are are organized by general session number. Please see the program for more details on specific presentation times.
Plenary Talks
“Variation and change in alien languages” GARETH ROBERTS
"Language, Linguistics, and Race" SONJA LANEHART
"Recognizing Sarcasm and Affective Events in Social Media" ELLEN RILOFF
Session 1
“The FLEECE and GOOSE Vowels in Tyneside English” ANDREAS KRUG
“Frequency effects in Brazilian Portuguese: Three case studies” RAQUEL MÁRCIA FONTES MARTINS & ANA PAULA HUBACK
“The ¿VOS? Puzzle” NICK SOBIN & REGINA ZAVALA
“The Constructionalization of Compound Adverb Chi-zao in Mandarin Chinese” XIAOLONG LU
Session 3
“Identity Formation and Target Language Learning in the Pedagogy of Digital Identity Texts: A Critical Review” HIBA IBRAHIM
"Teaching language with technology: How have instructors and learners been coping with emergency remote instruction?" MICHAŁ B. PARADOWSKI, MAGDALENA JELIŃSKA & ANDRZEJ JARYNOWSKI
“First-Person Singular Pronouns as a Predictor of Humorousness in TED Talks” ADRIAN RAY AVALANI
“The What-Relative Pronoun in Historic AAL through Literature” JOHN POWELL
Session 7
“Oh Dip: Intonation & Identity on The Good Place” EMILY GASSER & RACHEL ELIZABETH WEISSLER
“OCP: Place extended to Finnic Languages” JARED PURCELL
“Language of Trauma: Reliability Test of Pause Frequency as a Predictor of Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms” RICHARD SOUTHEE
“Non-identity and its consequences. The case of multifunctional "so" in German” NICHOLAS CATASSO
“What do negative-raising and sequence of Tense have to do with it?” JOSHUA DEES
“A new category for ideophones in Kiksht” PEARL NELSON-GREENE, PHILIP DUNCAN & EMILY SIMMONS