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WISSLR 2013 Program
FRIDAY MARCH 15, 2013
TIME
PRESENTER(S)
TOPIC
AFFILIATION
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 1:10
Dr. Robert Stainton
Opening Remarks: Welcome to WISSLR
Western University
SESSION ONE
CHAIR: DR. ROBERT STAINTON
1:10 - 1:30
Guillaume Enguehard*
Stress and the loss of the vocalic quantitative opposition from Proto-Germanic to Norwegian
Paris 7-EEF
1:30 - 1:50
Mohammed Damoom*
Syllabification and Vowel Deletion in Tihami Yemeni Arabic
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad- India
1:50 - 2:10
Maria De La Esperanza Ruiz-Pena
Evidence of neutralization l and r in Andalusian Spanish
Western University
2:10–2:30
Coffee
PLENARY SPEAKER
CHAIR: GILLIAN SCHNURR
2:30 - 3:30
Dr. Yasaman Rafat
Contact-Induced Sound Change? The Case of Farsi-English Bilinguals in Canada
Western University
3:30 - 3:50
Discussion
3:50 - 4:10
Coffee
SESSION TWO
CHAIR: SAM ABUHASABO
4:10 - 4:30
Parisa Erfani*
Azeri Relative Clauses with an Influence From Persian
Simon Fraser University
4:30 - 4:50
Olha Buchel
Telling Visual Stories about Document Collections from Machine Readable Languages
Western University
4:50 - 5:10
Tina Louise Beynen
The teaching and learning of metaphors in English as a Second Language (ESL)
Western University
5:10 - 5:30
Xiaoxiao Du and Rie Shirakawa
Bringing up emergent bilingual children in Canada: The case study of two Asian families
Western University
7:30
WISSLR Participant Get-Together
Saturday March 16, 2013
TIME
PRESENTER(S)
TOPIC
AFFILIATION
10:00-10:30
Breakfast
SESSION THREE
CHAIR: DEEMA ALDAJAN
10:30-10:50
Leni Van Goidsenhoven*
Language and Autism: ‘Chaos’ of genres and modes as enrichment of (self-) representation of people with autism
Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
10:50-11:10
Cassandra Chapman
Processing of Parasitic Gaps in Real-Time: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
McMaster University
11:10-11:30
Daniel Schmidtke
Investigating the time-course of semantic access during morphological processing: An eye-tracking study using the gaze contingent paradigm
McMaster University
11:30-1:00
Lunch
SESSION FOUR
CHAIR: GABRIEL OLSEN
1:00 - 1:20
Itziri Moreno-Villamar
Spanish Heritage Speakers: Case Assignment in Spanish Relative Clauses
Western University
1:20 - 1:40
Lareina Milambiling
The Syntax and Semantics of Tagalog Situation Types
Western University
1:40 - 2:00
Brendan Mcdonald
The Compositionality of Expressives
University of Ottawa
2:00 - 2:20
Coffee
SESSION FIVE
CHAIR: FELIKS ROZENBERG
2:20 - 2:40
Philippe Gauthier
A Government-Phonological Sketch of Vowel Laxing in Laurentian French
Western University
2:40 - 3:00
Chantale Cenerini
The Importance of the Other: The relational verb form in the Cree language
University of Regina
3:00 - 3:20
Jeanette Wiens
Code Switching in a Northern Athabaskan Community
First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina
3:20 - 3:40
Coffee
SESSION SIX
CHAIR: VANESSA GIROUARD
3:40 - 4:00
Douglas Guilbeault
Default Acceptance and Social Scripts
University of Waterloo
4:00 - 4:20
Gillian Schnurr
Soph Names and Social Identities
Western University
4:20 - 4:40
Liwei Zhang
Roaring Lion and Calm Girl: Analyzing Gender and Representation in Chinese Olympic Reporting
University of Saskatchewan
* OFFSITE PRESENTERS
Western Linguistics
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