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The 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
24-26 April 2008 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
| Thursday, April 24 | ||
| Syntax I (Lounge, Bartlett Hall) | ||
| 10:00 | P-stranding under sluicing and repair at the
PF interface: Why Indonesian is (not)
special Yosuke Sato (University of Arizona) | |
| 10:30 | Untangling the imperative puzzle
Asier Alcazar (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Mario Saltarelli (University of Southern California) | |
| 11:00 | The Possessive Deontic Modal BE as an ECM
Predicate Hakyung Jung (Harvard University) | |
| 11:30 | Beyond Embedding: The Effects of Priming
from Relative Clauses Meredith Larson (Northwestern University) | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| Non Truth-Conditional Facets of
Meaning (Lounge, Bartlett Hall) | Phonology
I (South Lounge, Reynold's Club) | |
| 2:00 | Acquisition of Relevance Implicatures Toward
Isolating the Linguistic Component of Reasoning Anna Verbuk and Thomas Shultz (McGill University) |
Relations between Speech Rhythm and Segmental
Deletion Sam Tilsen (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 2:30 | Honorific Predicates with Light
Verbs in Japanese Yasufumi Iwasaki (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Nothing is better than being unfaithful in multiple
ways Ashley Farris-Trimble (Indiana University) |
| 3:00 | Let alone, informativeness, and the
pragmatics of scale Maziar Toosarvandani (University of California, Berkeley) |
Suffixal reduplication in Paiwan Shih-chi Yeh (National Tsing Hua University) |
| 3:30 | The Function of Float: Quantifiers
et al. Ann Reed (College of William and Mary) |
The interaction of vowel harmony and epenthesis Sara Finley (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 4:00 | An expressive answer Elena Castroviejo (J.W. Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt) |
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| 4:45- 5:45 | Invited Speaker: Gregory Ward, Brave New Would (Lounge, Bartlett Hall) | |
| Friday, April 25 | ||
| Code-Switching (West Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | Syntax II (East Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | |
| 9:00 | Are cases of unconventional
code-switching useless? Myoyoung Kim (SUNY at Buffalo) |
Reinforcers in Italian, Topic Types and the structure of
CP Marco Nicolis (Georgetown University) |
| 9:30 | Code-switching and optimal
grammars Rakesh Bhatt (UIUC) and Agnes Bolonyai (NCSU) |
Cleft and Pseudocleft in Korean and Japanese Sungdai Cho (SUNY at Binghamton), John Whitman (Cornell University), Yuko Yanagida (Tsukuba University) |
| 10:00 | Codeswitching and Code
Integration in Romani Victor Friedman (University of Chicago) |
On the availability of clefts as sources for clausal
ellipsis Luis Vicente (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| 10:30 | Violations of the PF
Disjunction Theorem in Urban Wolof Mary Schindler, Geraldine Legendre, Colin Wilson, Mbaye Abdoulaye (Johns Hopkins University) | Ellipsis Phrase and
MaxElide Seungwan Ha (Ajou University) |
| 11:15 | Invited Speaker: Jeff MacSwan, Codeswitching: A Focus on Adjectives. (West Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| Non-Verbal Communication (West Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | Phonology II (East Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | |
| 2:00 | Experimental evidence of event
structure effects on ASL predicate production and
processing Evguenia Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur, Tom Talavage (Purdue University, Speech) |
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| 2:30 | Quantified Eyebrow Motion: New
Evidence from American Sign Language Questions Traci Weast (The University of Texas at Arlington) |
Morphologically Conditioned Perceptual Bias Miyeon Ahn (University of Michigan) |
| 3:00 | Wh-Words in ASL Clausal
Question-Answer Pairs Kathryn Davidson (University of California, San Diego) |
Training to Ignore vs. Training to Attend While Learning a
Foreign Phonetic Contrast Maria Kondaurova and Alexander Francis (Purdue University) |
| 3:30 | Contrast differences across lexical
substrata: Evidence from ASL handshapes Petra Eccarius and Diane Brentari (Purdue University) |
The Phonetic Space of Phonological Categories in Heritage
Speakers of Mandarin Charles Chang, Erin Haynes, Russell Rhodes, Yao Yao (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 4:15 | Invited Speaker: Carol Padden, Embodied Cognition in an Emerging Language (West Lounge, Ida Noyes Hall) | |
| 5:30 | Banquet | |
| Saturday, April 26 | ||
| Semantics (Room 140, Harper Memorial Library) | ||
| 9:00 | Kiowa Switch-reference and Variable-based Contextual
Restriction Andrew McKenzie (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) | |
| 9:30 | Simultaneous Application of Negative and Positive
Politeness Yoko Hasegawa (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| 10:00 | Measure Phrases and Counting in Basque Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS) | |
| 10:30 | Nominalization, Voice, Derived-level Situations and the
Meaning of Habituality Cheng-Fu Chen (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| 11:00 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 | Invited Speaker: Tecumseh Fitch, Biolinguistics: The Biology and Evolution of Language (Room 140, Harper Memorial Library) | |
| Modeling Language
Evolution (Room 140, Harper Memorial Library) | ||
| 1:45 | Words as alleles: Equivalence
of iterated learning and neutral models from population
genetics Florencia Reali (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 2:15 | Rethinking rule reliability: Why an
exceptionless rule can fail Kapatsinski, Vsevolod (Indiana University) |
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| 2:45 | Lexical change and the paradigm: a
declarative approach Andrew Hippisley (University of Kentucky) |
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| 3:15 | On the emergence of paradigm
structure: Blocking, analogy, and the cyclic nature of
language change Eric Fuss (University of Frankfurt) |
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| 3:45 | Predicting vowel inventories from
a dispersion-focalization model: New results Nathan Sanders (Williams College) and Jaye Padgett (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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| 4:30 | Invited Speaker: Simon Kirby (Room 140, Harper Memorial Library) | |