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Linguistics Conference
The Department of Liguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington is hosting this one-day linguistics conference in cooperation with the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and the Department of Linguistics & Technical Communication at the University of North Texas.
Faculty and students from all three institutions will be giving talks.
Details
Date: 07 November 2009
Location: UT Arlington campus, room 200 in Trimble Hall (campus map)
Sechedule & Abstracts
Below is the tentative schedule for the conference. Each paper title links to the abstract supplied by the author.
| 8:15-8:55 | Coffee & Pastries | |
| 8:55 | Colleen Fitzgerald, UT Arlington | Welcome |
| Phonology Session Chair: Zdravka Radkova (Brookhaven College) |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Steve Parker, GIAL | The transparency and density of phonological rule interactions |
| 9:30-10:00 | Cindy Kilpatrick, UT Arlington | Transfer and acquisition in L2 phonology: The perception of hiatus in Spanish |
| 10:00-10:30 | Nancy Caplow, UNT | Characterizing F0 as a correlate of stress in Rebkong Amdo Tibetan: a work in progress |
| 10:30-11:00 | Joshua Jensen, UT Arlington | Jarai Formulaic Sayings: Where Three Lines Make Two Couplets |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break | |
| Second Language Acquisition Session Chair: Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan (UT Arlington) |
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| 11:15-11:45 | Yu Jeung Kim, UNT | Effectiveness of on-line corpus research in L2 writing: Investigation of proficiency in English writing through independent error correction |
| 11:45-12:15 | Stefanie Wulff, UNT | Constructions in learner language: corpus-linguistic and experimental evidence |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch (pre-register for lunch by emailing ling.advisor@uta.edu - we will provide if you have notified us by November 3) | |
| Syntax Session Chair: Stephen George (UT Arlington) |
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| 1:30-2:00 | Paul Kroeger, GIAL | Cleft sentences in Indonesian and Kimaragang |
| 2:00-2:30 | Joey Sabbagh, UT Arlington | How to Evade a Universal Or Two in Tagalog |
| 2:30-3:00 | Brendon Yoder, GIAL | Syntactic underspecification in Riau Indonesian |
| 3:00-3:30 | Rachel Shain, GIAL | Koine Greek Aktionsart and the Preverb Eis- |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break | |
| Language Use Session Chair: Dr. Brenda Boerger (GIAL) |
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| 3:45-4:15 | Ken Zuercher, UT Arlington | Code-Switching in Azerbaijan: Constructing Identity in the Former Soviet Space |
| 4:15-4:45 | Kalaivahni Muthiah, UNT | R. K. Narayan's The World of Nagaraj: A Case-Study on Fictionalized Indian English Speech |
| 4:45-5:15 | Mekoulnodji Ndjerareou, Christina Melick, and Sarah Moeller, GIAL | Essential functions of tone in Ngambay |
| 5:15-5:45 | Yujeong Choi, UT Arlington | Evidentials in Tohono O’odham: A Preliminary study |
| Approx. 6:00 | Pay your own way at a group dinner at an as-yet undetermined (underdetermined?) location – please confirm to ling.advisor@uta.edu that you'll be attending so we can make reservations | |