Friday, March 6, 2009

Session 1

Session Chair : Trevor Plug

10:30-10:50

10:50-11:10

11:10-11:30

11:30-11:50

Kristan Nelson (St. Mary's University)

The Syntax of Fragments and Children’s Spontaneous Speech

Session 2

Session Chair : Caelan Bowers

1:30-1:50

Margot Stothers (University of Western Ontario)

Language Strengths and Weaknesses in Nonverbal Learning Disability: Implications for Reading Comprehension in Typical Adults

1:50-2:10

Beth MacLeod (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Perception on Production of English /w/ by Costa Rican Spanish Speakers

2:10-2:30

Xiuhua Ke (University of Western Ontario)

Grammatically Correct vs. Meaningful Chinese: A Study of English-Speaking Students’ Learning of CFL

2:30-2:50

Mike Stuart (York University)

Charity as a Bridge from Use to Meaning

Session 3

Session Chair : Sheryl Sawyer

3:20-3:40

Aaron Barth (University of Western Ontario)

Frege's Context Principle

3:40-4:00

Julian Brooke (Simon Fraser)

The Quantification of Sentiment

4:00-4:20

Khadija Belfarhi (University of Annaba)

Language Instrumentalism and Philosophy of Language: a Look at the Limits of Linguistics

4:20-4:40

Lorna Huiskamp (University of Western Ontario)

An Alternative Scheme for Farradane’s Relational Indexing

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Session 4

Session Chair : Mehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh

9:00-9:20

Keffyalew Gebregziabher (University of Calgary)

Word Order Anomaly in Tigrinya Serial Verb Constructions and Its Implications to Anti-symmetric Syntax

9:20-9:40

Mehrnoush Ahmadi Joobaneh (University of Western Ontario)

The location of vowel epenthesis in loan words initial ʃC clusters in Persian

9:40-10:00

Daniel Trinh (University of Western Ontario)

Effect of Orthographic Cues in Activating Phonological Syllables During Reading

10:00-10:20

Vikar Qureshi (University of Western Ontario)

Reading the Students: Reading Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms

Session 5

10:50-11:10

Caelan Bowers (University of Western Ontario)

Age and Orthographic Effects on the Lexico-semantic Organization of Japanese-English Bilinguals

11:10-11:30

Deanna Friesen (University of Western Ontario)

Bilingual Semantic Activation During Sentence Processing

11:30-11:50

Kaja Jasinska (University of Western Ontario)

Early and Late Bilingualism Effects on the Syntactic Constraints of Code-Switching

11:50-12:10

Emanuela Yeung and Pierina Cheung (University of Toronto)

Mental Abacus as a Tool to Track Exact Quantities in the Absence of Language

1:30-2:30

Keynote Speaker:

Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario)

2:30-2:50

Discussion

Session 6

Session Chair : Kaja Jasinska

3:20-3:40

Jessica Spieker (University of Western Ontario)

Constructions of Local and Non-Local Identity in Canadian Hip Hop Lyrics

3:40-4:00

Maria Eugenia de Luna Villalón (University of Western Ontario)

Mexican Temporary Migrants in Canada: a Sociolinguistic Approach

4:00-4:20

Sheryl Sawyer (University of Western Ontario)

Oppositional Ideology Uses of Linguistic Devices in the Battle for Public Opinion

4:20-4:40

Trevor Plug (University of Western Ontario)

The Pragmatics of “until”

4:40-5:00

Mackenzie Salt (York University)

Instant Internet Messaging as a Linguistic Register