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 The comparative method and phylogenetic analysis in the study of language history: a comparison of some examples
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 Yingshing Li National Chung Cheng U Investigating the status of the prenuclear glide in Mandarin Chinese using a maximum entropy model of phonotactic learning [unable to attend]
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  
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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)