WISSLR 2014 Program
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WISSLR 2014
6th Annual Western interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research
Friday March 14th, 2014
| TIME | PRESENTER(S) | TOPIC | AFFILIATION |
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| 9:30-10:30 |
Coffee & Registration
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| 10:30-10:40 |
WISSLR 2014 Committee |
Opening Remarks: Welcome to WISSLR 2014! |
Western University |
| SESSION ONE |
CHAIR: Nataliia Larchenko
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| 10:40-11:00 |
Robert Mooney |
TBA |
Western University |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Jeffrey Lamontagne |
Investigating the Loi de Position in Quebec French: A Corpus Study |
University of Ottawa |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Brendan McDonald |
Expressive Interpretation of Prosodic Cues |
University of Ottawa |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Ruth Maddeaux |
Beyond the Phonological Variable: The Social Value of Articulatory Variation |
UNiversity of Toronto |
| 12:00–1:00 |
Lunch |
| PLENARY SPEAKER |
CHAIR: Chelsea Whitwell
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| 1:00- 1:45 |
Dr. David Heap
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What can dialect atlas data tell us about the structures of pronoun systems, and why?
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Western University |
| 1:45- 2:00 |
Discussion |
2:00 - 2:30
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Coffee |
| SESSION TWO |
CHAIR: Deema Aldajan
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| 2:30 - 2:50 |
Gavin Bembridge |
Predication, Equation, and Information : Clefts in Scottish Gaelic |
York University |
| 2:50 -3:10 |
Claire Childs |
Not-Negation or No-Negation? Syntactic Variations across varieties of Northern British English |
Newcastle Univeristy |
| 3:10 - 3:30 |
Emilia Melara |
A feature Geometry of Russian Infl |
University of Toronto |
Saturday March 15, 2014
| TIME | PRESENTER(S) | TOPIC | AFFILIATION |
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| 9:30-10:30 |
Coffee |
| SESSION THREE |
CHAIR: Meghan Hayes
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| 10:30-10:50 |
Zeyad Al-Daher |
English-Arabic code-switching amongst Arabic Speaking Jordanians in Manitoba |
University of Manitoba |
| 10:50-11:10 |
James Boylan |
Multinominal Process Tree MOdeling Approach to the Analysis of Latent Processes in the Interpretation of Ironic Expression of Criticism |
Western University |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Deema Aldajan |
Arabic Nominal Agreement with Broken Plurals: Evidence from Heritage Speakers |
Western University |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
| SESSION FOUR |
CHAIR: Arielle Vanderschans
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| 1:00 - 1:20 |
Miranda Niittyen |
The Ethnography of Language: Cross-Cultural Translation in Feminist Ethnography |
Western Univeristy |
| 1:30 - 1:50 |
Olga Makinina* |
Collocation Recognition by Adult Speakesrs of English as a First and Second Language |
Carleton University |
| 1:50 - 2:30 |
Coffee |
| SESSION FIVE |
CHAIR: Meagan Puterman
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| 2:30 -2:50 |
Hannah McGregor |
Language Reintroduction: Reframing the Revitatization Process |
Western University |
| 2:50 - 3:10 |
Caleb Brucks |
Directionals in Two Genres of Upper Tanana Athabaskan Narratives |
University of Regina |
| 3:10 - 3:30 |
Monica McMillan |
Because Twitter: Linguistics Strategies for Brevity in Internet Speak |
Western University |
| *OFFSITE PRESENTERS |
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