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WISSLR 2020
 

WISSLR 2020

Saturday, February 29th, 2020

Location: Conron Hall, University College 3110

9:00am-9:25am

Registration

9:25am-9:30am

Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30

Session 1: Sociolinguistics

9:30am

Gender Agreement in L3 Spanish by English-French Bilinguals: Evidence Against the Cumulative Enhancement Model    

 

Emily Kang | Western University

9:50am

'Pura Vida' and its Contextual Value in Costa Rican Spanish

 

Emily Quesada-Glanz | North Central College

10:10am

Ideology of Hate: A Corpus Discourse Analysis of Sexist Ideology on the Manosphere

Andrew Scicluna, Frank John Li and Matthew Scicluna | Western University

10:30am-10:50am

Break

10:50am-11:50am

Session 2: Language and the Brain

10:50am

Metacognition Matters in Instructed L2 Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Spanish

 

Martha Black | Western University

11:10am

Investigating the Effects of Sign Language Experience on Brain Organization

 

Jessica Lammert & Blake Butler | Western University

11:30am

The Neural Bases of Vocabulary and Grammar Learning

 

Leah Brainin | Western University

11:50pm-12:55pm

Lunch – University College 3105

1:00pm- 2:00pm

Keynote Presentation

The Enregisterment and the Spread of Multicultural Toronto English

Dr. Derek Denis | University of Toronto, Mississauga

2:05pm-2:20pm

Break

2:20pm-3:20pm

Session 3: Phonology

2:20pm

An Emigrated Italian Dialect and its Variable Realization of /v/ as [w]     

 

Michael Iannozzi | Western University

2:40pm

The Complete Deletion of /d/ in Past Participle -ar Verbs: A Comparative Sociophonetic Analysis Between Spanish Native Speakers and English-speaking Learners of Spanish

 

Giulia Cortiana & Olga Tararova | Western University

3:00pm

Poster Session

3:30pm-3:40pm

Break

3:40pm-4:40pm

Session 4: Morpho-Syntax

3:40pm

Acquisition of Pronominal Prefixes in Oneida by Adult Native English Speakers

 

Yanfei Lu| Western University

4:00pm

Expression of Futurity in Spanish of Spain and Colombia

 

Niloufar Ansari Dezfuly & Kenamy Graterol Perdomo | Western University

4:20pm

Clausal Complementation in Malagasy

 

Holly Scott | Western University

4:40pm

Closing and Final Remarks




Past programs:
WISSLR 2019
WISSLR 2018
WISSLR 2017
WISSLR 2016
WISSLR 2015
WISSLR 2014

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