Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium

on Language Research

 

Program

Location: University College 224a

Friday, February 26, 2010

10:00-10:30    Coffee

Session 1

Session Chair : Sheryl Sawyer

10:20-10:40

 

 

Marina Kalashnikova
(Lancaster University)

Reanalysis of the Restriction & Rejection Effects of Mutual Exclusivity & Their Operation in Monolingual & Bilingual Children

10:40-11:00

 

Kaja Jasinska & Marissa Malkowski
(University of Toronto)

Neural Correlates of Bilingual Language Processing & Reading Development

11:00-11:20

 

Monica Nicte-ha Codina
(University of Western Ontario)

The Cognitive Consequences of Being Bilingual: Examining the Case of Spanish Prepositional Verbs

11:20-11:40

 

Simona Sunara
(University of Toronto)

Phonological Transfer from L2 to L3: The Acquisition of French Stress by Native Speakers of Czech

  11:40-1:00    Lunch

Session 2

Session Chair : Caelan Bowers

1:00-1:20

 

Ailis Cournane
(University of Toronto)

The Argument Status of Personal Datives in Southern American English

1:20-1:40

 

Raphael Vargas Benavente
(Université de Montréal)

Positive Politeness as a Discursive Strategy in Contemporary Peruvian Politics

1:40-2:00

 

Jessica Spieker
(York University)

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

2:00-2:20

 

Rick Grimm
(York University)

The Decline of the Inflected Future: Real-Time Evidence from Spoken French in Hawkesbury, Ontario

    2:20-2:40    Coffee

Session 3

Session Chair : Kristen Izaryk

2:40-3:00

 

Alena Barysevich
(University of Western Ontario)

Language Contact & Lexical Borrowing: Ottawa-Hull French

3:00-3:20

Mackenzie Salt
(University of Western Ontario)

Pragmatic Communication in Autism Spectrum Disorder

3:20-3:40

 

C. Petrie, M. Wong & M. Yang
(York University)

Do Apes Demonstrate Linguistic Ability? An Investigation of Field in Bonobo Human Discourse

3:40-4:00

 

D. Byrnes & L. Guecha
(York University)

Do Apes Demonstrate Linguistic Ability? An Investigation of Tenor Relations in Bonobo Human Discourse

 

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

    8:30-9:10    Breakfast

Session 4

Session Chair : Elijah Deer

9:00-9:20

Eda Ata & Perihan Coban (Hacettepe University)

The Nature of Women in Frankenstein

9:20-9:40

Sheryl Sawyer (University of Western Ontario)

How 'Common Sense' Stances Are Created In Interactive Media Discourse

9:40-10:00

Sarah Shulist (University of Western Ontario)

Globalizing Language Loss: How Transnational NGOs Take on Language Revitalization

10:00-10:20

Barbara Chettle (McMaster University)

Language Maintenance or Shift in Immigrant Groups

10:20-10:50    Coffee

Session 5

Session Chair : Craig Gullons

10:50-11:10

Ahmad Kamal (University of Western Ontario)

Comparative Evaluation of Automatic Text Summarization

11:10-11:30

Danica MacDonald (University of Calgary)

Plural Marking in Korean: A Closer Look At -tul

11:30-11:50

Dae Young Kim (University of Western Ontario)

Consonant & Vowel Epenthesis in English-to-Korean Loanwords

11:50-12:10

Amanda Lynn (University of Western Ontario)

Singing Like They Talk? A Comparison of Appalachian Dialect Features as Sung and Spoken

   12:10-1:30   Lunch

1:30-2:30

 

Keynote Speaker:

Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario)

Noun-Noun Compounds in Malagasy

2:30-2:50

Discussion

    2:50-3:20    Coffee

Session 6

Session Chair : Nerissa Taylor

3:20-3:40

Nicholas Williams (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Computing Potential Feeding & Bleeding Relations

3:40-4:00

Martina Di Gioacchino (University of Western Ontario)

Uptalk: Towards a Quantitative Analysis

4:00-4:20

Elijah Deer (University of Western Ontario)

The Status of /r/ in Cayuga
 

Location: University College 224a

 

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