Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington

As we find out about presentations by students from our department, we will list them here. There are some significant gaps prior to 2006, and the records available to us only go back to 2000.

2010

Choi, Yujeong. (Paper Accepted). Negotiating interpersonal relationships in Korean telephone conversations: Balancing involvement and independence. American Association for Applied Linguistics 2010 Annual Conference (AAAL 2010), Atlanta, GA. 06-09 March 2010.

George, Stephen. (Paper Accepted). Indian English article omission in online discussion forums. American Association of Applied Linguistics 2010 Annual Conference (AAAL 2010), Atlanta, GA. 06-09 March 2010.

Jensen, Joshua. (Paper Accepted). Hook-rhyme & binarity in Jarai folk verse. 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD. 08 January 2010.

2009

Allman, Tod Jay. 2009. The Typology of Relative Clauses and Natural Language Generation. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009. (Winner of President's Award for Afternoon Graduate Talks)

Ben Duhaish, Fahad. 2009. "Looking into" ESL/EFL Arab Learners' Avoidance of Phrasal Verbs. 43rd Annual TESOL Convention & Exhibit (TESOL 2009), Denver, CO. 28 March 2009.

Brahmin, Yuvraj. 2009. Case system in Jhangar-Kurux. 16th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX. 5 March 2009.

Brahmin, Yuvraj. 2009. Jhangar pronouns: A descriptive and comparative study. South Asian Linguistic Analysis Roundtable xxviii. 9 Oct. 2009.

Choi, Yujeong. 2009. Interpersonal meaning in newspaper editorials: A corpus analysis within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). 16th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX. 5 March 2009.

Choi, Yujeong. 2009. Repair negotiations and politeness strategies in learners of English: A preliminary study. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Choi, Yujeong, and Kyoungrok Ko. 2009. Exploration of written feedback practices of KFL teachers in North America. The 14th conference of American Association of Teachers of Korean. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 26 June 2009.

Choi, Yujeong, and Kyoungrok Ko. 2009. Expression of modality in newspaper editorials: A cross-linguistic study of editorialists' modal choices. The 5th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 13 June 2009.

Choi, Yujeong. (Paper accepted). Evidentials in Tohono O'odham: A prelimary study. 1st DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference. Arlington, TX, 7 November 2009.

Dockendorf, Elizabeth. 2009. "Some" as a plural indefinite article. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Jensen, Joshua. 2009. Nepali double causatives: The grammar giveth, and the grammar taketh away. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Jensen, Joshua. (Paper accepted). Jarai formulaic sayings: Where three lines make two couplets. 1st DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference. Arlington, TX. 7 November 2009.

Kim, Sok-Hun. 2009. A Pragmatic and comparative interpretation of sentential anaphors: English that/it and Korean ku-ken(/s)/ku-len-ken(/s). Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Kim, Sok-Hun. 2009. Pragmatic Understanding of Full Names in English and Korean. The 2nd University of Minnesota Student Workshop On Linguistics (MNSWOL 2009), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 16 May 2009.

Kim, Sok-Hun. 2009. Pragmatic Aspects of Full Name Pattern in Korean and English. The 13th Harvard Biennial International Symposium On Korean Linguistics (Harvard ISOKL-2009), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 9 August 2009.

King, Deborah. 2009. Verb class restrictions on NP referentiality in Falam Chin verbs. 2009 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, Berkeley, CA. 7 August 2009.

Lan, Weiwen. 2009. Perception study of Taiwanese SFP oo. 16th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX. 6 March 2009.

Lober, Ashley A. 2009. 'Go hither' means 'come': The encoding of space in the Santa Cruz Island language of Natqgu. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Lober, Ashley, and Brenda H. Boerger. 2009. Spatial relationships in Natügu: Micro-level directionals. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), Chicago, IL. 18 April 2009.

McFadden, Presley. 2009. ARE WE SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE?: The use students' first language by American teachers in English as-a-foreign-language classrooms in Vietnam. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Rhinier, Lynnelle, and Matt Benton. 2009. The speech timing pattern of Choctaw: A preliminary study. 16th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX. 6 March 2009. (2nd place winner)

Son, Jungsun. 2009. Analysis on Korean Topic-Constructions at the syntax and pragmatics interface. 16th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX. 5 March 2009.

Son, Jung Sun. 2009. The comparative study of the system of theme in Korean and English novels: Systemic Functional linguistics-based approach. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

Welch, Catharine Louisa. 2009. The pragmatics of language learning: Acquiring politeness strategies in a study abroad or immersion context. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 26 March 2009.

2008

Chaney, A., Joshua Kested, and Juliet Wiley. 2008. Techniques for summarization. Tex TESOL State Conference, Richardson, TX, 7 November 2008.

Choi, Yu Jeong. 2008. The multiple functions of apologetic expression mian in Korean: Shifting Perspectives. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX. 28 March 2008.

Choi, Yujeong, and Kyoungrok Ko. 2008. Repair organizations of English L2 learners outside the classroom: A Preliminary study. 2008 Texas TESOL State Conference, Richardson, TX. 7 November 2008.

Henley, Keri. 2008. Language Maintenance through Linguistic Analysis: A Preliminary Study of Choctaw. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX.

Jensen, Joshua. 2008. The connotation of birthmother: Semantic Frames and Compound Nouns. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX.

Kim, Sok-Hun. 2008. Understanding Full Names in English and Korean Discourse. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX.

2007

Benton, Matthew. 2007. It's not always what, but how you say it: a pilot study of duration, pitch, intensity & the letter M. Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES) Symposium, Arlington, TX, 30 March 2007.

Benton, Matthew. 2007. The language used in advertisements: what are we supposed to remember?. Cultural Constructions II: Symposium on Power & Memory, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 4 May 2007.

Benton, Matthew, and Elizabeth Dockendorf. 2007. I'd like to buy ə schwa: a corpus approach to vowel reduction in American English. 15th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 1 Nov 2007.

Henley, Keri. 2007. Austrian language identity: social and cultural memory and language shifting in literature. Cultural Constructions II: Power and Memory, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 4 May 2007.

King, Deborah. 2007. An Overview of Falam Chin Morphology and Syntax. Rice University Student Linguistics Conference.

King, Deborah. 2007. Nous and On in Spoken French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing. 15th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX.

King, Deborah. 2007. Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of Kuki-Chin Verbal Stem Alternations and the Agentive and Nonagentive Voice. 17th Annual Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), College Park, MD.

Lober, Ashley. 2007. Variation within the Fur verbal paradigm: An Optimality Theory approach. 15th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 1 Nov 2007.

Stutler, J.D. 2007. A Close(t) Inspection: The Gay(less)ness of Richard Rodriguez. Cultural Constructions II: Symposium on Power & Memory, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 4 May 2007.

Welch, Katie M. 2007. Conversational implicature created by "Sort Of" constructions. Rice Workshop in Linguistics, Houston, TX.

Welch, Katie M. 2007. Personality in Society: Should Personality Typology Be Considered a Sociolinguistic Variable?. 15th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL, Arlington, TX.

2006

Almubayei, Dalal S. 2006. Language and the shaping of ethnic, cultural, and religious identity of the Arab-American. 14th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 2 Nov 2006. (Winner of the Second Place Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize.)

Anderson, Coleen. 2006. The search for a reliable acoustic measurement of ATR. 14th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 3 Nov 2006.

Benton, Matthew. 2006. Using corpus linguistics as a tool for second language learning: learning Spanish gender by example. Presented at Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES), Arlington, TX, 24 March 2006.

Gee, Kevin, and Milissa Riggs. 2006. Classifying academic writing using POS frequency. 14th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 2 Nov 2006.

Kested, Joshua. 2006. Developing listening skills in student-centered curriculum. Tex TESOL V Regional Conference, Irving, TX, 30 September 2006.

Linerode, Amanda. 2006. The pragmatics of touch tone routing. 14th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 3 Nov 2006.

Padayodi, Cécile M. 2006. Tone Aspects of Kabiye Nouns. 37th Annual Conference in African Linguistics (ACAL 2006), University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 6-9 April 2006.

Sears, Natalie Raun. 2006. A corpus-based study of non-terrorist vs. terrorist threats. 14th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (UTASCILT), Arlington, TX, 2 Nov 2006.

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. 2006. Translating Harry Potter. Presented at Metroplex Interpreters and Translators Association (MITA), Irving, TX, 3 June 2006.

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. 2006. The Influence of Introversion / Extroversion Tendencies of ESL Students' Spoken English. Presented at Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES), Arlington, TX, 24 March 2006. (Prize winner.)

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom, and David Hervás. 2006. Research in Second Language Learning. Presented at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Region III Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, 8 November 2006.

2005

Ashwill, Mark, Darla Deardorff, Janine Santiago, and Tracy Rundstrom Williams. 2005. Intercultural Competency. Presented at NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 1 June 2005.

Padayodi, Cécile M. 2005. Tone Aspects in Kabiye Possessive Constructions. 13th UTA Student Conference in Linguistics (UTASCIL 2005). University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 27-28 October 2005.

2004

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. 2004. The Morphological Magic of Harry Potter. Presented at UTASCIL: University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX, 5 November 2004 (prize winner).

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. 2004 Speaking of Death: Sociolinguistic Strategies for Expressing Condolences. Presented at Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students (ACES), Arlington, TX, 2 April 2004.

2003

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. 2003. Study Abroad Students and Intercultural Communication Skills. Presented at AAPLAC (Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean) National Conference, San Antonio, TX, 21 February 21 2003.

2002

Anderson, Coleen G. 2002. The Chiastic Nature of Ikposo Argument: A Rhetorical Structure Theory Analysis. 9th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

Anderson, Coleen G. 2002. In Search of an Acoustic Correlate to [ATR] in Ikposo. 33rd Annual Conference in African Linguistics (ACAL 33), Athens, OH.

Btoosh, Mousa. 2002. Hedging in Spoken Political Discourse. 9th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

Chiung, Wi-vun Taiffalo. 2002. Language, class, and nationalism: revolution of Vietnamese writing systems. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Im, Myounghee. 2002. Acoustic Correlates to Korean Pronunciations of English /s-C/ Clusters. The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea, Taejon, Korea.

Macaraeg, Ruel A. 2002. Modeling an Engaged Dialogue on Scientific Babelism: Linguistics and the Skeptical Dialectic. University of Texas at Arlington Graduate Research Symposium 6, Arlington, TX. (Winner: Best Oral Presentation in the College of Liberal Arts)

Macaraeg, Ruel A. 2002. Quantifying Script Reform Assessment in Chinese: Three Proposals from Experimental Psychobiology. University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics 9, Arlington, TX.

Miller, Mark. 2002. 'Mystery Particles' as Politeness Devices in West Coast Bajau. University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

Unseth, Peter. 2002. Amharic Laryngeals and Reduplication. 30th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Houston, TX.

Unseth, Peter. 2002. The default consonant t in Amharic. 9th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

2001

Anderson, Coleen G. 2001. ME and kU and Mainline in Akposso Narrative, Procedural and Expository Discourse. 8th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

Dieterman, Julia. 2001. Palatalization and Changes in Vowel Formants in Isthmus Mixe. SSILA Conference, The University of California Santa Barbara.

Macaraeg, Ruel A. 2001. Naturalness and Artifice in Modern English Dialectology: The Case of Renspeak. Potschefstroom University, International Association for World Englishes 8, Northwest Province, South Africa.

Macaraeg, Ruel A. 2001. Renspeak: Archaic Revival in the Language of the Medieval/Renaissance Re-enactment Community. Trinity University, Texas Medieval Association Conference 11, San Antonio, TX.

Unseth, Peter. 2001. Bi-Consonantal Reduplication in Semitic Languages. 8th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.

2000

Dieterman, Julia. 2000. Word Order and Inverse Voice in Isthmus Mixe. Berkeley Linguistics Society 26th Meetings Special Session: Syntax and Semantics of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Berkeley, CA.

Dieterman, Julia. 2000. Isthmus Mixe: A Mesoamerican SOV Language. Sixth Annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics at The University of Texas at Arlington. (Winner of the First Place Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize.)

Unseth, Peter. 2000. Reduplication Marking Diminution: Systematic Inverted-Iconicity. Graduate Research Symposium, The University of Texas at Arlington.

Unseth, Peter. 2000. Amharic reduplicated forms with no extant root, one root, and two possible roots. 28th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, Portland, OR.

Unseth, Peter. 2000. Amharic Verbs with Two Identical Final Consonants: Salvaging a Spreading Analysis. University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics, Arlington, TX.