The 15th annual uta student conference in linguistics and tesol
Thursday and Friday, November 1-2, 2007
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THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 1, 2007 |
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Chemistry and Physics Building 303 |
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8:00-8:30 am |
Registration |
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8:30-8:40 am |
Opening Remarks |
Dr. Beth Wright, Dean of Liberal Arts, UTA |
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8:45-9:15 am |
Antonio Grau-Sempere |
U. of Evansville |
(In)sensibility to Syllable Weight in Valencian Stress and Nickname Formation |
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9:20-9:50 am |
Matt Benton/ Liz Dockendorf |
UT Arlington |
I'd Like to Buy ə Schwa: A Corpus Approach to Vowel Reduction in American English |
pg. 3 | slides |
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9:55-10:25 am |
Lana Marji |
UT Arlington |
Strategies of Invitation Making in Jordanian Society |
pg. 31 | slides |
| 10:25-10:40 am |
Break |
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10:45-11:15 am |
Ricard Vinas de Puig |
Purdue University |
The Possession of Catalan Unaccusativity FIRST PLACE |
pg. 6 | slides handout |
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11:20-11:50 am |
Naomi Lan |
UT Arlington |
Linguistic analysis of humor and character building in Friends |
pg. 9 | |
| 12:00-2:00 pm |
Pizza Lunch |
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2:00-2:30 pm |
Dr. Laurel Stvan |
Faculty Presentation |
Plain and Compounded Literacy: Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Meaning Change |
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2:35-3:05 pm |
Jihye Moon |
U. of Maryland, College Park |
What Plays a Crucial Role in the Maintenance of Heritage Language by Korean Immigrants in the United States? |
pg. 10 | slides |
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3:10-3:40 pm |
Ashley Lober |
UT Arlington |
Variation within the Fur Verbal Paradigm: An Optimality Theory Approach |
pg. 12 | slides |
| 4:00-5:30 pm |
Hor d'Oeuvres |
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Nedderman Hall 100 |
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6:00-7:30 pm |
Dr. John Baugh |
Washington University in St. Louis |
"Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination in the US and South Africa" |
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Friday — November 2, 2007 |
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Chemistry and Physics Building 303 |
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8:30-8:40am |
Registration |
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8:40-8:50 am |
Opening Remarks |
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8:55-9:25 am |
May George |
U. of Arizona |
Language Maintenance Factors: A Case study of the Neo-Aramaic Language as an Endangered Language in Iraq |
pg. 16 | slides |
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9:30-10:00 am |
Debbie King |
UT Arlington |
Nous and On in Spoken French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing |
pg. 19 | slides |
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10:00-10:15 am |
Break |
Poster Setup |
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| 10:15-12:00 pm |
Poster Presentations |
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Brett Benham |
UT Arlington |
Mathematical Approaches for Analyzing Continuous Dynamic Vowel Tracts THIRD PLACE |
pg. 21 | Poster / handout | |
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Fatma Haidari |
UT Arlington |
The Language of Fur: An Explanatory Study on Fur Negation |
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Katie Welch |
UT Arlington |
Personality in Society: Should Personality Typology Be Considered a Sociolinguistic Variable? |
pg. 24 | Poster | |
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Soyeon Yoon |
Rice University |
The Semantics of Visual Perception Verbs in English |
pg. 25 | ||
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00-1:30 pm |
Dr. Winnie Or |
Faculty Presentation |
Talking Power: Gauging Control in Conversation |
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1:35-2:05 pm |
Amanda Linerode |
UT Arlington |
Direct Object Marking in Classical Hebrew |
pg. 27 | slides |
| 2:05-2:20 pm |
Break |
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2:25-2:55 pm |
Jennifer Cramer |
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
English in the Expanding European Union: Revisiting Berns' Evaluation of "The Twelve." SECOND PLACE |
pg. 29 | slides |
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3:00 -3:30pm |
Linda Lanz |
Rice University |
Re-evaluating ergativity in Eskimo-Aleut: evidence from Iñupiaq |
pg. 14 | |
| 3:30-4:00 pm |
Break/Judging |
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| 4:00-4:30 pm |
Awards |
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5:30 pm |
Dinner Out |
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