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OSU Center for Cognitive Science
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OSU Department of French & Italian
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Program

Thursday, July 10
11:30-1:00
Registration in McPherson Hall 1021


12:00-1:00
Presenters set up posters in McPherson Hall 1040 & adjoining hallway for Poster session 1.


1:00-2:30
Parallel workshops: (McPherson Hall 1035)
Applying for graduate school in linguistics and other fields: Jeri Jaeger (UBuffalo, Linguistics), Leslie Moore (Ohio State, College of Education & Human Ecology), Laura Wagner (Ohio State, Psychology)

Applying for jobs in linguistics and related areas: (McPherson Hall 1021)
Mary Paster (Pomona College, Linguistics), Chris Brew (Ohio State, Computer Science & Linguistics), Susan Hura (SpeechUsability)


2:45-3:30
Workshop. Applying for funding: Chris Brew (Ohio State, Computer Science & Linguistics), Mark Pitt (Ohio State, Psychology), Robert Fox (Ohio State, Speech & Hearing Sciences)


3:30-4:15
Workshop. Publishing your research: Don Winford (Editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages), David Odden (Editor, Studies in African Linguistics)k


4:15-4:30
Break


4:30-6:00
Poster session 1. Chair: Lark Hovey
(See below for list of presenters.)
McPherson Hall 1040


6:15-8:15
Cookout at the Faculty Club
Registration


Friday, July 11
9:00-10:30
Chair: Beth Hume. McPherson Hall 1000
Panel on Professional ethics: Mary Beckman (Ohio State) & Susan Hura (SpeechUsability)


10:30-10:45
Break


10:45-12:15
Paper presentations: Session 1. McPherson Hall 1000
Chair: Emily Dorrian
Re-Again: A semantic investigation restitutive again and re- in English
Edward Holsinger, University of Southern California

The Semantics of Vagueness: Supertruth, Subtruth and the Cooperative Principle
Sam Al Khatib; Jeff Pelletier
Simon Fraser University; University of Alberta

Tough Nuts to Crack
Kathleen O'Flynn, UC Santa Cruz


12:15-1:45
Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. (McPherson Hall 1021)
Presenters in Poster session 2 set up posters in McPherson Hall 1035 and adjoining hallway.


1:45-3:15
Paper presentations: Session 2. McPherson Hall 1000
Chair: Teresa Pratt
Attention to Prosody in Infancy Correlates with Learning of Predicates
Alejandrina Cristia; Amanda Seidl, Purdue University

Communicative efficiency: native and non-native speakers in dialogue
Kristin Van Engen; Rachel Baker; Midam Kim; Ann Rosalie Bradlow
Northwestern University

Is Internal Argumenthood Relevant for Pitch Accenting of Intransitive Verbs in English?
Laura Whitton, Stanford University


3:15-3:30
Break


3:30-5:00
Poster session 2. Session Chair: Lark Hovey & Chanelle Mays
(See below for list of presenters.)
McPherson Hall 1035 and adjoining hallway.
Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters.


5:15-6:15
Chair: David Odden
Plenary Speaker: Mary Paster (BA, The Ohio State University; PhD, UC Berkeley; Faculty, Pomona College).
The Journey from Linguistics Major to Professor.
McPherson Hall 1000


7:00
Party (Beth Hume's home)


Saturday, July 12
9:00-10:00
Chair: Mary Beckman
Plenary Speaker: Ilse Lehiste (Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University), Interrelationship between Language and Music
McPherson Hall 1000


10:00-10:15
Break. (McPherson Hall 1021)


10:15-11:45
Paper presentations: Session 3. McPherson Hall 1000
Chair: Emily Dorrian
Perfectivity, Telicity and Attrition of Aspect: Heritage Russian
Oksana Laleko, University of Minnesota

A Variationist Study of English Modality in Rural Ontario
Derek Denis, University of Toronto

Lexical Frequency Effects in the Psychological Manifestation of Morpheme Structure Constraints
Robin Melnick, San Jose State University


11:45-1:00
Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. (McPherson Hall 1021)


1:00-3:00
Paper presentations: Session 4. McPherson Hall 1000
Chair: Anouschka Bergmann
French schwa and prosodic structure.
Brian Smith, Wayne State University

Nasal assimilation in the speech of Detroit working class AAVE speakers
Neisha Niccolini, Wayne State University

Visual Cues to Language Identification
Rebecca Ronquest; Susannah Levi; David B Pisoni
Indiana University; University of Michigan; Indiana University

In- or ex-situ: a diagnosis of right node raising
Bradley Larson, University of Washington


3:00-4:00
Break and advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. (McPherson Hall 1021)


4:00-5:00
Chair: Kathleen Currie Hall
Plenary Speaker: Elizabeth Strand (Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary)
The Road to Industry.
McPherson Hall 1000


5:30
Dinner: Kuhn Honors and Scholars House


7:30
Undergraduate social


Sunday, July 13
9:00-10:30
Chair: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Plenary speakers: John Rickford (Stanford), Tom Wasow (Stanford)
Collaborations: As far as different subfields, we're all, "Ain't no reason we shouldn't work together"
McPherson Hall 1000


10:30-10:45
Break


10:45 – 12:15
Paper presentations: Session 5. McPherson Hall 1000
Chair: Dahee Kim
Voice Quality and Perceived Sexual Desirability
Kaitlin Johnson;Sara Schmelzer, University of Minnesota

"A radical point of view": The linguistic construction of student activists' political identity
Sylvia Sierra, Mary Washington

"From Dialect to Substandard: The Future of Occitan Dialectality"
Judith Bridges, University of Mississippi


12:15 – 1:30
Lunch & Advising session: Mentors advise participants on their talks/posters. McPherson Hall 1021



Poster Session 1: Thursday 4:30-6:00


An embarassment of riches: The proliferation of Tlingit writing systems
James Crippen, University of Hawaii

Syntactic change and the emergence of prepositional finite clauses in Spanish and Portuguese
Manuel Delicado-Cantero, The Ohio State University

The production of acoustic correlates of lexical stress by Spanish ESL speakers
Paul Edmunds, University of New Mexico

Emergent unmarkedness in L2: What L2 Modern Greek reveals about L1 English
James Gruber, Georgetown University

L1 interference in the production of English lexical stress by French learners of English
Jasmine Heschuk, University of Victoria

The Differential Effects of Corrective Feedback on two target structures in L2 Korean
Sun Hee Hwang, Georgetown University

Loanword Adaptation as Perceptual Approximation
Eunah Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Vowel Length Degradation in Latvian-English Bilinguals
Edward King, University of Chicago

A Cross-Dialectal Perceptual Study of Eastern Andalusian Coda-Neutralization
Jaymie Lao; Jason Bishop, Universiy of California, Los Angeles

L2 Acquisition of Phrasal Prominence and Rhythm in English
Emily Nava, University of Southern California

Contrastive Stress and Anaphora Resolution in Subordinate VP-Ellipsis
Dan Parker, Eastern Michigan University

Informed models of human sentence comprehension
David Lutz, Michigan State University

Effects of dialect and talker variability on lexical recognition memory
Terrin Tamati, The Ohio State University

Missing surface inflection in L2 speech: a performance interface account
Darren Tanner, University of Washington

Poster Session 2: Friday 3:30-5:00


The role of exposure to non-target material during foreign-accent adaptation
Melissa Michaud Baese; Ann Rosalie Bradlow, Northwestern University

Addressing Challenges Posed by Speech Corpora Including Non-Native Speakers
Rachel Baker; Kristin Van Engen, Northwestern University

Split DPs in German ~ a different view
Solveig Bosse, University of Delaware

PP shells and absolute constructions
Colin Gorrie, University of Toronto

Discourse Markers in Conversations between Native and Nonnative Speakers
Midam Kim, Northwestern University

/ay/ Monophthongization in the Pre-Tap Environment
Elizabeth Gentry; Andrew Pantos, Rice University

Phrasal Prominence in the English of Native Spanish Speakers
Gregory Madan; Emily Nava; Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California

The Effects of L1 orthography on L2 perception
Marc Matthews, University of Florida

Moving new words into the neighborhood
Tim Poepsel, Northwestern University

MultiTree - A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Susan Smith; Bethany Townsend
Wayne State University; Eastern Michigan University

A Phonological Analysis of the Dative Alternation in Spoken English
Michael Speriosu, Stanford University

A study of vowel duration as a cue for the underlying voicing of intervocalic alveolar flaps
Nancy Ward
University of California, Berkeley

English Middles Process Linguistically
Jim Wood; Inna Livitz, New York University

So-inversion as Polarity Focus
Jim Wood, New York University

Frequency and learnability of harmony directionalities
Aleksandra Zaba, University of Utah