Conference Program 2007

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GURT 2007 Conference Schedule

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Thursday, March 8, 2007 – GURT 2007 Conference Schedule
12:00- 5:00	Registration
5:00-5:15	Welcoming Remarks, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium – Prof. Alfonso Morales-Front, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5:15-6:15	Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium – Prof. Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “‘If’: The biggest little word ”
6:15-7:30	ICC Galleria – Opening Reception

Friday, March 9, 2007 – GURT 2007 Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00	Continental Breakfast (ICC Galleria)
9:00-10:00	*Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium* – Prof. Thomas D. Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “ Little words: Where they come from and where they go”
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break (ICC Galleria)
10:15-12:15	ICC 103, Session A Chair: Michael Ferreira	ICC 107, Session B Chair: Mark Shea	ICC 108, Session C Chair: Ashley Fidler
10:15-10:45	Maire Noonan McGill University “Little big ‘da’”	Nattama Pongpairoj University of York “Are L2 English article choices UG-regulated?”	Stefan Kaufmann Northwestern University Misa Miyachi University of Chicago “Case marking and the modal dimension of temporal expressions”
10:45-11:15	Ana C. P. Bastos University of Connecticut “Ethical pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese”	Natalie Batmanian Hunter College , CUNY Virginia Valian Hunter College , CUNY Susan Sayehli Lundt University “Inclusion of auxililiaries by beginning learners”	Michael F. Thomas University of Colorado , Boulder “Tense, aspect and adjuncts: An analysis of ‘By’ temporal adjuncts”
11:15-11:45	Adolfo Ausín Michigan State University “Spanish clitics, Binding and UG”	Marta Tecedor Cabrero University of Iowa “Clitics in the initial State of English-Spanish Interlanguage ”
11:45-12:15	Alejandra González-Pérez The Ohio State University “The evolution of the pronoun ‘le’ and the preposition ‘a’ in Spanish: A diachronic analysis”	Joel Walters Bar-llan University Carmit Atman Bar-llan University Zhanna Feldman-Burstein Bar-llan University Olga Gupol Bar-llan University “Frequency, function and appropriateness of discourse markers in second language acquisition”
12:15-2:00	Lunch
1:00-3:00	Poster Session A (ICC Galleria) Mohammad Anani, University of Jordan, “Backchannel signals in Jordanian Arabic” Jessica Cancila and Stefania Giannini, Universita per Stranieri di Perugia, “Acquisition of Italian clitics by English adult learners” Minta Marie Elsman and Eric Holt, University of South Carolina, “An OT analysis of preposition + article contraction (and leveling) in medieval Castile ” Yunkyoung Kang, Georgetown University, “Categorization and cognition: Noun classifiers in Korean” Mehrnoush Larimi and Ahmad Moinzadeh, University of Isfahan, “An investigation of “word-order” parameter similarity across first and third languages: A study on attributive adjectives in Mazandarani L1 and English L3 noun phrases” Yuh-Huey Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University, “Preparatory modals: Cross-linguistic and cross-situational variations in request modification” Ivan Ortega-Santos, University of Maryland at College Park, “On expletives and checking relations” Lisa Rochman, Ben Gurion University, “On floating quantifier placement: A phonological approach” Irene Theodoropoulou, King’s College London, “The use of interjections in comics” Omar Velazquez-Mendoza and Raul Aranovich, University of California Davis, “Personal a and “Antidative” in Spanish”
2:00-4:00	ICC 103, Session D Chair: Francisco Fernández- Rubiera	ICC 107, Session E Chair: Cristina Sanz	ICC 108 – Colloquium: The role of “little words” in agrammatism Organizers: JungMoon Hyun CUNY – Graduate Center Loraine K. Obler CUNY – Graduate Center
2:00-2:30	Hamid Ouali University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee “The syntax of object clitics in Berber”	Jorge Aguilar- Sánchez Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University , Bloomington “A new approach to the study of the acquisition of pragmatic competence: The case of Spanish tú and usted ”	Loraine K. Obler CUNY – Graduate Center Mira Goral Lehman College & CUNY – Graduate Center Erika Levy Columbia University Eyal Cohen Independent Scholar “Little-word problems in a second language” Seija Pekkala University of Helsinki “Little words in Finnish agrammatism” Barbara O’Connor CUNY – Graduate Center “Production of the copula verbs be, ser and estar in Spanish-English bilingual speakers with agrammatic aphasia” Sethu Karthikeyan CUNY – Graduate Center Hia Datta CUNY – Graduate Center “Agrammatism in Kannada” JungMoon Hyun CUNY – Graduate Center “Function words impairment in Chinese” Martin R. Gitterman CUNY – Graduate Center Loraine K. Obler CUNY – Graduate Center “Little words, agrammatism, and the difference/disorder distinction”
2:30-3:00	Andrea Stiasny University of Michigan & Oakland University “Clitic placement in Croatian and Spanish”	Piibi-Kai Kivik Indiana University , Bloomington “Estonian see ‘this/that/it’ in second language acquisition”
3:00-3:30	Luis Saez Universidad Complutense de Madrid “Applicative phrases hosting accusative clitics”	Julieta Saad Alos Heriot Watt University “The explicit use of discourse markers in Arabic”
3:30-4:00
4:00-4:15	Coffee Break (ICC Galleria)
4:15-6:15	ICC 103, Session G Chair: John Beavers	ICC 107, Session H Chair: Tom Walsh	ICC 108, Session I Chair: Christine Varoutsos
4:15-4:45	Hui-Chin Tsai National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan “Additive adverbs and coordinators in Chinese: A case study of Ye ‘also’, Erqie ‘and’ and He ‘and’”	Jesso Elana Aaron University of Florida Esther Brown University of Colorado at Boulder “¡Ojala fuera asina!: Asi-asina variation in sociohistorical perspective”	Kaoru Amino Kyusyu University “The pragmatic usage of contrastive connectives as turn-taking strategies in Japanese conversation”
4:45-5:15	Teresa Lee University of Virginia “The resultative marker -key and a case alternation”	Osamu Ishiyama University at Buffalo – SUNY “Pathways to personal pronouns in Japanese”	Lawrence Williams University of North Texas “Pragmatic variation of French second person pronouns in online advertising”
5:15-5:45	Minjeong Son CASTL & University of Tromso “Event composition of directed motion in Korean and English”	Juhani Rudanko University of Tampere “The little word ‘to’ as a key to recent grammatical change”	Stephanie Pellet Wake Forest University “The pragmatics of French discourse markers donc and alors”
5:45-6:15	Jong Un Park Georgetown University “Distributivity effects of the plural marker –tul in Korean”	Jessica Robles University of San Francisco “Quotative like: Diffusion, grammaticalization and social usefulness”	Lourdes Torres DePaul University Kim Potowski University of Illinois, Chicago “Bilingual discourse markers in Chicago Spanish”
6:15-6:30	Break
6:30-7:30	*Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium* – Prof. Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Montréal , “Saramaccan taa , a small word with several functions”
7:30-9:00	ICC Galleria – Reception

Saturday, March 10, 2007 – GURT 2007 Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00	Continental Breakfast (ICC Galleria)
9:00-10:00	*Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium* – Prof. Katherine Demuth, Brown University , “ Phonology-syntax interactions in acquisition”
10:00-10:15	Coffee Break (ICC Galleria)
10:15-12:15	ICC 103, Session J Chair: Io-Kei Joaquim Kuong	ICC 107, Session K Chair: Dominik Rus	ICC 108, Session L Chair: Alexis Allen
10:15-10:45	Jaeshil Kim University of California, Irivine Mary Louise Kean University of California , Irvine “Little but multi-functional words: Classifiers”	Cristina D. Dye Georgetown University “A continuum in children’s phonetic realizations of auxiliaries: Evidence from a new French corpus”	Kristin J. Van Engen Northwestern University “Coordinated pronoun variation in American English”
10:45-11:15	Kaori Furuya CUNY – Graduate Center “Pro determiner hypothesis”	Mary Louise Kean University of California – Irvine Yi-Min Tien Chung Shan Medical University , Taichung , Taiwan Andrew Chen University of California – Irvine “Classifier mastery in a sparse linguistic environment”	Bin Li City University of Hong Kong “Discourse functions of Mandarin utterance final particle NE in comparison with A”
11:15-11:45	Inma Taboada Georgetown University & University of Illinois at Chicago “[± deictic] demonstratives in Spanish: A difference in meaning and in structure”	Yarden Kedar Cornell University “What do little children know about little words? 12-month-old infants consult determiners in their grammatical processing of sentences”	Galina Bolden Rutgers University “So congratulations!”: The discourse marker “so” in American English conversation”
11:45-12:15	Heather Lee Taylor University of Maryland, College Park “The complementizer “the””	Tanja Kupisch University of Calgary Neal Snape University of Calgary Ute Bohnacker Lund University Merete Anderssen University of Tromsø “Cross-linguistic variation in the acquisition of “Germanic” articles”	Yuh-Huey Lin National Sun Yat-sen University “Variability in speech act intensifications”
12:15-2:00	Lunch
1:00-3:00	Poster Session B (ICC Galleria) Jessica Cancila and Stefania Giannini, Universita per Stranieri di Perugia, “Acquisition of Italian clitics by English adult learners” Alokparna Das, George Mason University, “Adpositions in code switching: Little words rule” Minta Marie Elsman and Eric Holt, University of South Carolina, “ An OT analysis of preposition + article contraction (and leveling) in medieval Castile ” Yunkyoung Kang, Georgetown University, “Categorization and cognition: Noun classifiers in Korean” Mehrnoush Larimi and Ahmad Moinzadeh, University of Isfahan, “An investigation of “word-order” parameter similarity across first and third languages: A study on attributive adjectives in Mazandarani L1 and English L3 noun phrases” Yuh-Huey Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University, “Preparatory modals: Cross-linguistic and cross-situational variations in request modification” Lisa Rochman, Ben Gurion University, “On floating quantifier placement: A phonological approach” Irene Theodoropoulou, King’s College London, “The use of interjections in comics” Omar Velazquez-Mendoza and Raul Aranovich, University of California Davis, “Personal a and “Antidative” in Spanish” Zhiguo Xie, Cornell University, “The semantics of de as a modal in Mandarin”
2:00-4:00	ICC 103, Session M Chair: Raffaella Zanuttini	ICC 107, Session N Chair: Shelly Harris	ICC 108, Session O Chair: Ronald Leow
2:00-2:30	Ji-Young Shim CUNY – Graduate Center “’Get’ it? ‘Got’ it!”	John Beavers Georgetown University “Predicting argument realization from preposition semantics”	Melissa Bowles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Silvina Montrul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Explicit instruction and the L2 acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Spanish”
2:30-3:00	Joanna Nykiel University of Silesia, Poland “A development in the “E” property of auxiliaries: Some observations about the history of Verb Phrase ellipsis”	Russell Lee-Goldman UC Berkeley “The relative proform “as””	Maria J. de la Fuente George Washington University “The role of pedagogical tasks and focus on form on acquisition of discourse markers by advanced learners of Spanish”
3:00-3:30	Christopher Becker University of Michigan “A probe-goal account of case and agreement features in Russian copular structures”	Christopher Davis University of Massachusetts , Amherst “The Japanese particle yo : a lexicalized modifier of sentential strength”	Lauren Ross-Feldman Georgetown University Ana María Nuevo Georgetown University and Carlos Rosario Public Charter School Rebecca Adams Victoria University of Wellington “Learner-learner interaction and the development of locative prepositions”
3:30-4:00	Karine Megerdoomian The MITRE Corporation “The auxiliary clitic and sentential stress in Eastern Armenian”	Nicholas Gaylord University of Texas , Austin “The effects of a result state on auxiliary selection”
4:00-4:15	Coffee Break (ICC Galleria)
4:15-6:15	ICC 103, Session P Chair: Inma Taboada	ICC 107, Session Q Chair: Kassem Wahba	ICC 108, Session R Chair: Natalia Jacobsen
4:15-4:45	Yasuhiro Sasahira University of Wisconsin – Madison “The negative morpheme “Na” as a universal adjective”	Karin Ryding Georgetown University “Arabic prepositions in space and time”	Donna L. Lillian East Carolina University “Token resistance: ‘Ms’. through three decades of feminist struggle”
4:45-5:15	Remus Gergel Universität Tübingen “The little DE of degree constructions”	Heather Littlefield Northeastern University “Figuring out English prepositions, particles, and prepositional adverbs: A fine-grained approach to the prepositional domain”	Laura Alba Juez Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia “’Little words’ in small talk: Some considerations on the use of pragmatic markers ‘man’ in English and ‘macho/tio’ in Peninsular Spanish”
5:15-5:45	Alberto Pastor Southern Methodist University “Spanish “poco” and the split analysis of gradable adjectives”	Ridwan Wahid University of New South Wales “The nativization of ‘the’”	Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas Georgetown University “Little words that could … impact one’s impression on others: Greetings and closings in institutional emails ”
5:45-6:15	Justin Kelly Georgetown University “The non-NPI use of ‘yet’: Effects on aspect and clausal structure”		Leslie Cochrane Georgetown University “Be + like: A pragmatic approach to the quotative”
6:15-6:30	Break
6:30-6:45	Student Awards Ceremony, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium
6:45-7:45	Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium – Prof. Jonathan D. Bobaljik, University of Connecticut , “ Comparative suppletion: ‘Least’ has more”

Sunday, March 11, 2007 – GURT 2007 Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00	Continental Breakfast (ICC Galleria)
9:00-11:00	ICC 103, Session S Chair: Kara Morgan-Short	ICC 107, Session T Chair: Jeff Parrott	ICC 108, Session U Chair: Alfonso Morales-Front
9:00-9:30	John Drury School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University Karsten Steinhauer School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, McGill University Roumyana Pancheva Departments of Linguistics/Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California Paul Portner Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Matthew Walenski Department of Psychology, University of California , San Diego Michael T. Ullman Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University “Function words and logical semantic anomaly in the temporal dynamics of language comprehension: ERP evidence”	Agnieszka Lazorczyk University of Southern California Roumyana Pancheva University of Southern California “The history of Slavic ‘both’”	Natalia Jacobsen Georgetown University “Phonology of hesitation markers across languages”
9:30-10:00	Ljiljana Progovac Wayne State University “What is there when little words are not there: Possible implications for evolutionary studies”	Lisa M. Noetzel Washington College “Latin vadere/ire going, going, gone … to the future”	Glyne Piggott McGill University “Phonological cliticization: Evidence from the phonology and morphology of Ojibwa pronominal prefixes”
10:00-10:30		Takashi Nakajima Toyama Prefectual University “Root derivations on verbal nouns and their argument realization”	Loren A. Billings National Chi Nan University “Clitic pronouns in Central Philippine languages: How and perhaps why prosodic weight should determine their relative order”
10:30-11:00		Hitoshi Horiuchi Brown University “Extended heads and compound-internal phrases in Japanese”	Carol Lord California State University Long Beach Robert Berdan California State University Long Beach Michael Fender California State University Long Beach “Distinguishing function words from content words in children’s oral reading”