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10:00-10:30am

Registration – AHB 2R07

10:30-11:30am

Workshop - AHB 2R23 

Coding intonation patterns in Praat

Jeff Tennant | University of Western Ontario

11:30-11:40am

Break

11:40-12:20pm

Session 1 - AHB 2R23 

11:40am

Effects of multitalker noise on the acoustics of voiceless-stop consonants in Parkinson’s disease
Daryn Cushnie-Sparrow | University of Western Ontario

12:00pm

Identifying language computationally: Vowel-uable nuance in discrete features
Lyndon Rey | University of Western Ontario

12:20pm

Syntactic Interruption vs. Violation: L1 & L2 Sentence Processing
Chelsea Whitwell | McMaster University

12:40-1:20pm

Lunch CHU (IGAB 2N05)

1:20-2:20pm

Keynote - AHB 2R23 

Deception and lie spotting with text analysis

Victoria Rubin | University of Western Ontario

2:20-2:50pm

Break

2:50-4:10pm

Session 2 - AHB 2R23 

2 :50pm

Le français met à la disposition de ses locuteurs deux procédés de création lexicale en ce qui concerne le domaine verbal
Alma Bulut | Concordia University

3:10pm

Can emotional words affect syntax? Eye-movement evidence from globally-ambiguous, relative-clause constructions
Alexander Theodorou | McMaster University

3:30pm

Argument omission in Portuguese as a second language
Elizabeth Parkin & Madeline Walker | University of Western Ontario

3:50pm

Deriving superiority effects in multiple Wh-fronting without determiners
Matthew Schuurman | Concordia University

7:30pm

Grad Club Dinner

10:00-10:30am

Breakfast CHU (IGAB 2N05)

10:30-11:30am

Workshop
Data analysis in Rbrul
Michael Iannozzi | University of Western Ontario

11:35-11:50pm

Morning Break

11:50-4:20pm

Session 3 - AHB 2R23 

11:50am

Sometimes Ngo Zau start to Gong Chinese: The role of pragmatics and information structure in the syntax of codemixing
Andrew Peters | York University

12:10pm

Representation of spoken French in four Quebec drama books written between 1940 and 1990
King George Acquah | Carlton University

12:30pm

Language policy and the construction of national and ethnic identities in Indonesia
Syahrir Idris | University of Texas at San Antonio

12:50pm

Vague predicates: Towards a rigorous definition of vagueness in semantics
Phillipe Gauthier | University of Western Ontario

1:10-2:10pm

Lunch CHU (IGAB 2N05)

2:10pm

Room for difference: gender-neutral language use in English, French, German, and Swedish
Levi C.R. Hord | University of Western Ontario

2:30pm

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?: A diachronic study of gendered adjectives in fairy tales
Tara Cress | University of Western Ontario

2:50pm

Constructing womanhood: an analysis of transwomen in the media
Naciza Masikini | University of Western Ontario

3:10-3:20pm

Afternoon Break

3:20pm

Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences in skilled bilinguals, an on-line study
Edalat Shekari | McMaster University

3:40pm

Spontaneous language abilities in French-English bilingual children born prematurely
Valerie Caza | Laurentian University

4:00pm

A longitudinal study of the early-language development of non-identical triplets
Alissa Varlamova | University of Toronto

4:20pm

Lexical processing and cognate effect
Meredith McGregor | University of Western Ontario

End of Conference