Main Sessions Program

Thursday, Apr 26, 2018:
LSRL 48 Main Session, VARI HALL (VH)

8:30-9 Registration (VH 1018) & Coffee (VH 1158)
9-9:30 Opening LSRL 48 remarks (VH A)  
9:30-10:30
(VH A)
Chair: Ruth King

Plenary Talk:
Julie Auger (Indiana University):
Morphosyntax, Phonology and Prosody in Picard

10:30-11 Registration (VH 1018) & Coffee break (VH 1158)
11-12:30 Phonetics (VH D)
Chair: Emily Elfner
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Andrew Peters
Sociolinguistics (VH C)
Chair: Philipp Angermeyer
Effects of Dialect-Specific Production on Phoneme Perception,

Mary E. Beaton (Denison University)

How prosody explains a superficial givenness constraint on French wh-in-situ questions,

Ramona Wallner (University of Konstanz)

Clitic position in Old Occitan affirmative verb-first declaratives coordinated by e: A variationist analysis,

Bryan Donaldson (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Velar R in Puerto Rican Spanish: Uses and Attitudes,

Juliana Ivette Cruz Martínez (Pennsylvania State University)

Contrastive Topic-Focus Association in the sentential middle field of Brazilian Portuguese,

Renato Lacerda (University of Connecticut)

Inherent variability in grammar and speech,

Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa) & Nathalie Dion (University of Ottawa)

The phonetics of consonantal length and contrast in Campidanese Sardinian,

Jonah Katz (West Virginia University) & Gianmarco Pitzanti (Università di Cagliari)

Vagueness in the interpretation of Spanish nosotros: A Speech act phrase analysis,

Ángel Luis Jiménez-Fernández    (Universidad de Sevilla) & Mercedes Tubino-Blanco (Western Michigan University)

The future between past and present: A longitudinal analysis of future temporal reference in Acadian French,

Mélissa Chiasson (University of Ottawa) & Basile Roussel (University of Ottawa)

12:30-2 Lunch break
2-3:30 Prosody (VH D)
Chair: Laura Colantoni
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Julianne Doner
L2 Acquisition (VH C)
Chair: Kendall Vogh
Acoustic Cues of Prominence and Prosodic Bootstrapping of Word Order: French, Portuguese and Spanish,

Irene Vogel (University of Delaware) & Angeliki Athanasopoulou (University of Calgary)

A unified syntactic analysis of Spanish and Basque information focus via exhaustivity

Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay)

Representing inverse semantic scope in L2-Spanish,

Jun Lyu (Stony Brook University) & Lijun Zhang (Shanghai International Studies University)

Variability and the Alignment of Pitch Accents in Brazilian Portuguese,

Angeliki Athanasopoulou (University of Calgary), Irene Vogel (University of Delaware) & Natália Brambatti Guzzo (McGill University)

Who, or where are ‘you’ to me? Formality as distance in Romance and beond,

Gavin Antonio Bembridge (York University) & Andrew Peters (University of Toronto)

Gender as a cue in the production of number agreement in Spanish bilinguals,

Rebecca Foote (University of Arkansas)

Stress preservation in Spanish proper compounds,

Dongmei Lin (University of Auckland) & Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros (University of Auckland)

Attributive Adjectives and Predicate Structures in Spanish,

Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

L3 Phonological Acquisition: Spanish and English in Brazilian Portuguese,

Jennifer Zhang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

3:30-5 Poster session (VH 1016 ) with coffee (VH 1158)
5-6
(VH A)
Chair: Gabriela Alboiu
Plenary Talk:
Daniela Isac (Concordia University):
The Typology of Determiners in Romance: The Role of Modification
6:30-8:30 Student Mixer (DLLL Lounge - 5th floor South Ross)

 

Friday, Apr 27, 2018:
LSRL 48 Main Session, VARI HALL (VH)

8:45-9:30 Registration (VH 1018) & Coffee (VH 1158)
9:30-10:30
(VH A)
Chair: Maria Cristina Cuervo
Plenary Talk:
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (The University of Toronto):
A Child’s View of Romance Modification
10:30-11 Registration (VH 1018) & Coffee break (VH 1158)
11-12:30 L1 Acquisition (VH D)
Chair: Ana-Teresa Perez Leroux
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Maria Cristina Cuervo
Mixed (VH C)
Chair: Ana-Maria Jerca
Rethinking the Role of Age of Onset of Acquisition in 2L1 Acquisition: Evidence from Catalan and Spanish Morphosyntax,

Adriana Soto-Corominas (The University of Western Ontario)

On Inalienable Possession and Middle Constructions in Spanish,

Imanol Suarez-Palma (University of Arizona)

Value and quantity in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese,

Suzi Lima (University of Toronto/UFRJ) & Cristiane Oliveira (UFRJ)

Does null mean something to you? Children’s missing objects and what it all means,

Sophia Bello (University of Toronto)

A Labeling Theory approach to subject positions for causative structures,

M. Pilar Colomina (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) & Lorena Castillo (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Romance Evidence for Linguistic Universals in Pronominal Address,

Terrell Morgan (The Ohio State University) & Scott Schwenter (The Ohio State University)

Language acquisition and variable verbal agreement in Brazilian Portuguese,

Daniele Molina, Marcilese Mercedes & Cristina Name (all, Federal University of Juiz de Fora)

On the Silent Component of French (ne) ... que exceptives,

Marc Authier (The Pennsylvania State University) & Lisa Reed (The Pennsylvania State University)

The production and interpretation of Spanish clitic SE with anticausatives and Reflexive psychological verbs,

Aída García-Tejada (Purdue University),  Eduardo Lustres (Purdue University) & Alejandro Cuza (Purdue University)

12:30-2:30 Lunch break; LSRL Business Meeting (Ross S 538)
2:30-4 L2 Acquisition (VH D)
Chair: Michelle Troberg
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu
Sociolinguistics (VH C)
Chair: Emilie LeBlanc
Inalienable Possession in Heritage Speakers: Evidence for the Activation Hypothesis,

David Giancaspro (University of Richmond) & Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University)

Patterns of number agreement in Pyrenean dialects,

Rosa Bono (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) & Ángel J. Gallego (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Rhythmic Convergence in French Contact,

Svetlana Kaminskaïa (University of Waterloo)

Investigating the sources of nuclear intonation in Argentinian-Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish: Evidence of parental and English influences,

Jacob Aziz (University of Western Ontario), Vanina Machado (University of Toronto), Yasaman Rafat (University of Western Ontario), Rajiv Rao (University of Wisconsin, Madison) & Ryan Stevenson (University of Western Ontario)

Basque-Spanish null objects in relation to leísmo and the PCC,

Almike Vázquez-Lozares (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in Francophone Maine: Meanings-in-use of yeah/yes and ouais/oui in French-English bilingual conversation,

Kendall Vogh (York University)

Protracted and Partial Acquisition of the Catalan Partitive Clitic in Child and Adult Bilingualism,

Silvia Perpiñán (The University of Western Ontario) & Adriana Soto-Corominas (The University of Western Ontario)

An Agree-based approach to clitic splitting,

M. Pilar Colomina (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

Measuring the effects of dialect contact: First person plural reference in Nova Scotia Acadian French,

Philip Comeau (UQAM), Carolanne Paquin-Drouin (UQAM), & Monelle Guertin (UQAM)

4-5:30 Poster session (VH 1016) with coffee (VH 1158)
5:30-6:30
(VH A)
Chair: Michol Hoffman

Plenary Talk:
Angelica Hernandez (The University of Western Ontario):
Pluralizing Existential haber in the Caribbean and Latin America: Is a subject-like complement to blame?

7-10 Conference Dinner (The Underground)

 

Saturday, Apr 28, 2018:
LSRL 48 Main Session, VARI HALL (VH)

8:45-9:30 Registration (VH 1018) & Coffee (VH 1158)
9:30-11

 

Phonology (VH D)
Chair: Peter Avery
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Daniela Isac
L2 Acquisition/Psycholinguistics

(VH C)
Chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu

Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress: A Stratal OT approach,

Katerina Tetzloff (The University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

DOM in Catalan: A Syntactic-pragmatic approach

Marta Khouja (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

 

 Sentence processing: coordinate structures with ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese, Andressa Christine da Silva (Federal University of Juiz de Fora) & Aline Fonseca (Federal University of Juiz de Fora)
Remarks on the syllabic parsing of Spanish onglides,

Fernando Martinez-Gil (The Ohio State University)

Differential object marking: what type of licensing?

Monica Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Julie Goncharov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

The role of birth order in the language use patterns, practices, and ideologies among second-generation Latino children in the U.S.,

Benjamin Kinsella (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)

On the relevance of the uneven moraic trochee foot in OT,

Haike Jacobs (Radbound University)

11-11:30 Coffee break (VH 1158)
11:30-1 Morphophonology (VH D)
Chair: Gavin Antonio Bembridge
Syntax (VH B)
Chair: Maria Cristina Cuervo
Semantics (VH C)
Chair: Monica Irimia
Allomorphic Paradigms in Creole Inflection,

Ana Luís (University of Coimbra)

Same Extended Projection Principle, Different Null Subject Language,

Juliane Doner (University of Toronto) & Çağrı Bilgin (University of Toronto)

Predicting the end: Epistemic change and perspective-dependence in Romance,

Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University) & Fabio Del Prete (CNRS, Toulouse)

Gender marking and morphological awareness in Brazilian Portuguese,

Paula Armelin, Marcilese Mercedes & Cristina Name (all, Federal University of Juiz de Fora)

On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish,

Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) & Almike Vázquez–Lozares (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Hortatives and optatives in Romance languages: A Syntactic account,

Genoveva Puskas (University of Geneva)

Epenthesis and Morphology in Romance,

Lori Repetti, Sedigheh Moradi & Mark Aronoff (all, Stony Brook University)

A case of if-clauses on their own,

María Biezma (University of Konstanz)

1-2:30 Lunch break 
2:30-3:30
(VH A)
Chair: Gabriela Alboiu
Plenary Talk:
Giuseppe Longobardi (The University of York):
Syntax, Genetics, and Geography in Southern Italy

 

LSRL 48 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
 Approx poster size: 3ft x 4ft or 90cm x 120cm  (i.e. one poster per board)
 Thursday, April 26:
 José Camacho (Rutgers University)  Adjectival placement and interpretation in heritage Spanish
 Abril Jimenez (Rutgers University)  The expression of numeric uncertainty in L2 Spanish: An examination of spontaneous and controlled production data
 Vanessa López (Universidade de Lisboa)  The temporal values of the compound gerund in Romance languages
 Antonio Martín Gómez (Purdue University)  The Syntax and Lexicon of Clitic Climbing Constructions in L2 Spanish
 Raíssa Santana (University of São Paulo) & Elaine Grolla (University of São Paulo)  Subject bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese: data from an experimental study
 Michelle Troberg (UTM), Meena Ahmad (UTM) & Maya Krol (UTM)  The diachrony of the particle fors/hors in the history of French
Hilary Walton (University of Toronto) The influence of the presence of orthography on the production of a novel vowel contrast by Anglophone learners of French
 

Friday, Apr 27:

 Gavin Antonio Bembridge (York University)  The Ghost of the Future Subjunctive’s Past
Greg Feliu (no affiliation) Allophonic Shift in Neapolitan: Lenition of voiceless stops
 Eduardo Lustres (Purdue University), Aída García-Tejada (Purdue University), & Alejandro Cuza (Purdue University)  The acquisition of subjunctive mood selection in temporal and concessive clauses in heritage and L2 Spanish: Evidence from production and interpretation
 Laura M. Merino Hernández (Indiana University) & Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University)  Beyond grammaticalization clines: The case of noun-based conditional markers
 Scott James Perry (The University of Western Ontario) & David Heap (The University of Western Ontario) We see me presenting an OT account of partially co-referential clitics
 Adriana Osa (University of British Columbia)
 Insubordination to infelicity: the syntax and pragmatics of Spanish discourse si

LSRL48 Main Schedule_Apr 18 version