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8:30-9:30
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Lobby, Second Level
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9:00-9:30
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WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Room FGH, Second Level
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Walter Edwards
Director, WSU Humanities Center
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Ljiljana Progovac
Director, WSU Linguistics Program
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SYNTAX
Room FGH
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SEMANTICS / COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Room J
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ACQUISITION / PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Room I
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9:30-10:00
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Island-(in)sensitivity in Ellipsis in Korean
Bum-Sik Park (Incheon City College)
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Towards an XML Schema for Language Data
Evelyn Richter, Stephanie Morse & Ania Kubisz (Eastern Michigan University)
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Modal Values in US Heritage Spanish and the Subjunctive: A Case of Speaker-Oriented Modality?
Maria Isabel Martinez Mira (University of Mary Washington)
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10:00-10:30
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Radical Pro-Drop: Evidence from Hawaiian
David J. Medeiros (University of Michigan)
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Action Verbs and Culture-Specific Cognitive Sets
Jeff Heath (University of Michigan)
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The Syntactic Priming of Future Forms in L1 and L2 English
Mark Shea (Michigan State University)
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10:30-11:00
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Cross Clausal Accusative Case Licensing in Turkish
Serkan Sener (University of Connecticut)
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Presence vs. Absence in the Determination of Positive Standards
Nicholas Fleisher (Wayne State University)
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Incremental Processing of Empty Categories in Chinese
Yufen Hsieh & Julie Boland (University of Michigan)
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11:00-11:15
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COFFEE BREAK
Lobby, Second Level
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SYNTAX / SEMANTICS
Room FGH |
PHONOLOGY / MORPHOLOGY
Room J |
CHINESE LINGUISTICS
Room I |
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11:15-11:45
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Heritage Russian: Verbal Aspect and the Telicity Parameter
Oksana Laleko (University of Minnesota)
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A Phonetic Examination of Vowel Duration in AAVE
Catherine Adams, Edward Garrett, Beverly Goodman (Eastern Michigan University)
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Presupposition, Quantification, and (In)Definiteness in Chinese Bare Conditionals
Yahui Anita Huang (University of Texas – Austin)
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11:45-12:15
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TP-Internal Focus: The Case of the Focalizing ser (‘to be’) Structure in Colombian Spanish
Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo (Indiana University)
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The Effect of Lexical Frequency on Japanese Vowel Devoicing
Kunkio Nielsen (Oakland University)
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Syntax-Pragmatics Interface, Syntactic Analyticity, and the Point of View Operator
Chao-Ting Chou (University of Michigan)
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12:15-12:45
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Distinctness in Spanish Ditransitive Constructions
Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo (Indiana University)
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Inherent Knowledge about Markedness
Katharina Schuhmann (SUNY Stony Brook)
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Code-Switching between Chinese Characters and Roman Letters in E-Chinese
Yuan Zhang (Illinois State University)
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12:45-2:00
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LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING
Room LM, Basement
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SYNTAX / SEMANTICS
Room FGH |
SOCIOLINGUISTICS / LANGUAGE CONTACT
Room J |
CHINESE LINGUISTICS
Room I |
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2:00-2:30
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Interface Repair Strategies and Reference-Set Computation in VP-Ellipsis
Dan Parker (Eastern Michigan University)
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Movin’ on and Growin’ up: Age, Social Class and Stable Sociolinguistic Variables
Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University)
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Stress Perception in Chinese Hums
Vickie Yu & Jean Andruski (Wayne State University)
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2:30-3:00
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Noun-Incorporation (NI) as Root-v Merger
Mina Sugimura (McGill University)
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What Language is ‘STOP’?
Stephen Chrisomalis (Wayne State University)
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Tone Perception and Production by English-Speaking and Cantonese Speaking L2 Learners of Mandarin
Yen-Chen Hao (Indiana University)
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3:00-3:30
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Deriving Argument-Adjunct Asymmetries from Multiple-Agree
Miki Obata (University of Michigan)
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What Makes Attractiveness Matter?
Carol Myers-Scotton (Michigan State University)
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The Tonal Pattern of ABB Reduplication in Taiwanese
Yufen Chang (Indiana University)
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3:30-4:00
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Constraints on Syllable Inventory: A Comparison between Middle Chinese and Modern Chinese
San Duanmu (University of Michigan)
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4:15-5:30
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Room FGH, Second Level
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Charles Li
University of California, Santa Barbara
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The Origin of Language Reconsidered
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