UTASCILT 16
Schedule for 16th Annual UT Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL (2009)
Abstracts Booklet (PDF)
Links to audio, slides, handouts, and posters can be found next to presentation titles below.
(Only sessions involving faculty were recorded. All visual materials have been converted to PDF.)
| Thursday March
5, 2009 Chemistry and Physics Building
303 | |||
| 8:00-8:30 am | Registration | ||
| 8:30-8:40 am | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:45-9:15 am | Yuvraj Brahmin | UT Arlington | Case system in Jhangar-Kurux |
| 9:20-9:50 am | Bryant Smith | Louisiana State U | Learner Strategies in L2 Spanish Compliment Responses |
| 9:55-10:25 am | Dr. Jerold Edmondson (Linguistics at UTA) Shreyas Krishnan, ABD (Biology at UTA) |
Faculty Presentation | Phylogenetic Methods for Determining Tai-Kadai Subgroupings (audio of talk | slides) |
| 10:25-10:40 am | Break | ||
| 10:45-11:15 am | Maria G. Contente and Walcir Cardoso | Concordia U | A sociolinguistic analysis for variable word-final [u]-deletion in Faialense Portuguese: Perspectives from the Azorean diaspora in Montreal |
| 11:20-11:50 am | |||
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00-2:30 pm | Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald (Keynote speaker) | UT Arlington | Language
Activism and Revitalization in the Tohono O'odham Community (audio of talk | slides) |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | Break | ||
| 2:50-3:20 pm | Jungsun Son | UT Arlington | Analysis on Korean Topic-Constructions at the Syntax and Pragmatics Interface |
| 3:25-3:55 pm | Shawn Warner | UT Austin | Coping laughter: Why who laughs
first is important (slides | handout) |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Yujeong Choi | UT Arlington | Interpersonal meaning in newspaper editorials: A corpus analysis within systemic functional linguistics (SFL) |
| 5:00 pm | Pizza party | ||
| Friday March 6, 2009 Chemistry and Physics Building 303 | |||
| 8:30-8:40am | Registration | ||
| 8:40-8:50 am | Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:55-9:25 am | Yu-Hsien Wu | National Chengchi U | Imitation and Repetition in a Mandarin-Speaking Child's Conversation |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Katharina Schuhmann | SUNY Stony Brook | Gradient Wellformedness in
German I-Truncations :: 1st place: Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize :: |
| 10:00-10:15 am | Break | Poster Setup | |
| 10:15-12:00 pm | Poster Presentations | ||
| Elliott Gougeon and Rose Rittenhouse | U of Wisconsin-Madison | FOCUSing on Gothic Syntax: How Lexical-Functional Grammar Can Explain NP Anomalies in Gothic | |
| Jacob Franco Hernández | U de Sonora | Sonoran O'otam: Some Ethnographic
Views on its Current Sociolinguistic Situation (poster) | |
| Lynnelle Rhinier and Matt Benton | UT Arlington | The Speech Timing Pattern
of Choctaw: A Preliminary Study (poster) :: 2nd place award (tie) :: | |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00-2:30 pm | Panel discussion | So How Many
Languages do You Speak: Finding a Job With a Degree in Linguistics (audio of panel) | |
| 2:30-2:45 pm | Break | ||
| 2:50-3:20 pm | Weiwen Lan | UT Arlington | Perception study of Taiwanese SFP oo |
| 3:25-3:55 pm | Hiram L. Smith | U of New Mexico | Evidence for British and Southern
White Vernacular English influence on Grandmama's speech :: 2nd place award (tie) :: |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Break/Judging | ||
| 4:30-5:00 pm | Awards | ||
| 6:00 pm | Dinner Out | ||
Links to audio, slides, handouts, and posters can be found next to presentation titles above.
(Only sessions involving faculty were recorded. All visual materials have been converted to PDF.)
Abstracts Booklet (PDF)