Program

MON 31 JULY

2:00-4:00

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING TSH 530

2:00-5:00

REGISTRATION TSH 203

5:30 – 6:30

RECEPTION Celebration Hall

6:30 – 9:00

OPENING SESSION Celebration Hall

Opening Remarks by Anna Moro, Assoc. Dean of Humanities

Introduction by Magda Stroinska John F. Connolly (McMaster University)

Neurolinguistics: Indispensable in the Assessment of Cognitive Function in Brain Injury

TUES 1 AUGUST ROOM TSH 201 TSH 203

Discourse / Corpora (Chair: Jacqueline Nenchin)

Virtual - Mixed Topics (Chair: Douglas W. Coleman)

9:00-9:30 *Soudeh Ghaffari (Lancaster University): Identity, Social Media and religion; Constructing a glocalized identity through the language of prayers

Dimitry Bogushevich (Minsk State Linguistic University), Irina Ivanova-Mitsevich (Minsk State Linguistic University), Victoria Abramenko (Minsk State Linguistic University): Presupposition and implication as semantic operations

9:30-10:00 Helen Hu (California State University, Long Beach): Intentionally and Unintentionally Non-committal Language in Elizabeth Bowen's Prose Characters

*Troy E. Spier (Tulane University): Speculative Linguistics: A Preliminary Phonological Account of IcAushi

Morphology (Chair: Sarah Tsiang)

10:00-10:30

*Mackenzie Salt (McMaster University): People, Persons, and Individuals: Is the DSM Dehumanizing?

Mubashir Iqbal (University of Gujrat), Riaz Ahmed Mangrio, University of Gujrat), Raza-e-Mustafa (University of Gujrat): Broken Plurals in Urdu: An OT AnalysisDmitry

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break TSH 122

11:00-12:00

Location: TSH B106 Moderator: Sheila Embleton

Plenary Speaker: Elisabet Service (McMaster University), Laying the foundations to language: What nonword repetition has taught us about

language acquisition

12:00-1:30 LUNCH

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TUES 1 AUGUST (continued)

ROOM TSH 201 TSH 203

Morphology / Diachrony (Chair: Helen Chau Hu)

Virtual - Mixed Topics (Chair: Daniel Mailman)

1:30-2:00 *Riaz Ahmed Mangrio (Department of English, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan): Reduplication in Urdu: An OT Analysis

OPEN SLOT

2:00-2:30 *Elisabeth Huber (LMU Munich): Entrenchment of Triconstituent Noun-Compounds

Jacqueline Nenchin (Molloy College), Nicholas DiBenedetto (Molloy College), Christopher Nenchin (Molloy College): Word Formation Processes in Gamer Slang

2:30-3:00 Yoshiki Ogawa (Tohoku University), Keiyu Niikuni (Tohoku University), Yuichi Wada (Tohoku University): Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese and Syntactic Clause Shrinking Now in Progress

*Lake Mathison (Rutgers University): A glimpse inside the lexical retrieval process: Verbal fluency repetition errors

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break TSH 122

ROOM TSH 201 TSH 203

Phonology / Phonetics (Chair: Daniel Pape)

Virtual - Mixed Topics (Chair: Connie Eble)

3:30-4:00 Luke van Buuren (University of Amsterdam (retired): / Linguavox.nl): Human rhythmicality: BTDFPM or bostrodac-fypaestmo

Judith Rosenhouse (SWANTECH Ltd.): Dialect Identification in Forensic Linguistics

4:00-4:30 Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University): Acoustic correlates of semantic prosody: The case of the Korean degree adverb nemu

*Charity Anderson (University of Toledo): Don't Hold Your Tongue: Overcoming the Monolingual Bias in American Schools

4:30-5:00 Hui Yin (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University): Comparative Study of Tonal Modification in Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin

OPEN SLOT

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WED 2 AUGUST

TSH 201 TSH 203

Potpourri (Chair: Jacqueline Nenchin)

Writing Systems / Neurolinguistics (Chair: Daniel Mailman)

9:00-9:30 Graciela Fernández-Ruiz (El Colegio de México): On the psychological reality of 'what is said'

*Dimitrios Meletis (University of Graz): Universality and diversity in writing systems: What can a universal model of writing systems achieve?

9:30-10:00 Michael Greencorn (McMaster University): Compound Conceptual Relations in Working Memory: Evidence for Relation Priming?

*Inmaculada Zanoguera (The University of Toledo): Neuroscience in Linguistics: Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

10:00-10:30

*Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh): Gaelic language revitalization: New speaker subjectivities in Scotland and Canada

Elissa Asp (Saint Mary's University), Antoine Tremblay (Dalhousie University): What does it mean to be part of the language network? Reflections on the role of the anterior temporal lobe in picture naming tasks in healthy speakers and in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break TSH 122

Potpourri (Chair: Connie Eble)

11:00-11:30

*Jimoh Braimoh (University of Benin): Analyse Syntaxique des Erreurs Commises sur le Subjonctif Present par les Etudiants de Deuxieme Annee de la University of Benin au Nigeria

OPEN SLOT

11:30-12:00

Dagnachew Sulamo (Addis Ababa University): Content Questions Constructions in Hadiyya

OPEN SLOT

TBA – 9:30 PM

EXCURSION Tour, wine tasting, and dinner at the Skylon Tower plus free time in both

Niagara on the Lake and Niagara Falls. Roundtrip luxury motor coach transportation will be provided.

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THURS 3 AUGUST (continued)

ROOM TSH 201 TSH 203

SLA (Chair: Stephen Straight) Potpourri (Chair: George Thomas)

9:00-9:30 *Wei-Ling Lin (National Taiwan Normal University): L2 Acquisition of the Double-modal constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Fareeha Rana (McMaster University): I don't remember LOL: The effect of Internet and texting shortcuts on Working Memory

9:30-10:00 *Cristopher Kapela (University of Toledo): Problems with cL2 aL2 Research

Gerald Taylor Snow (Brigham Young University), Deryle W. Lonsdale (Brigham Young University): Creole Genesis and Universality: Core Indispensable Features

10:00-10:30

Michael Kliffer (McMaster University): Norms of World Englishes Revisited

Natalie Klein (McGill University), Clara Misirliyan (Université de Montréal): Language Convergence in Montreal

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break TSH 122

11:00-12:00

Location: TSH B106 Moderator: William J. Sullivan

Plenary Speaker: Victor Kuperman (McMaster University), Studying Reading with Eye-Tracking

12:00-1:30 LUNCH Past Presidents Lunchtime Meeting

ROOM

SLA (Chair: Douglas W. Coleman) Discourse / Corpora (Chair: Elissa Asp)

1:30-2:00 Douglas Sweetlove (Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya Japan), Tanja McCandie (Meijo University, Nagoya Japan): Support for Bilingualism in Bicultural Families in Japan

Robert Orr (self): Transposition: Ruritania for Czech readers

2:00-2:30 Wendy D'Angelo (McMaster University): Semantic Scaffolding of Italian Regular Verb Morphology for L2 Learners

Kate Szymanski (Adelphi University), Magda Stroinska (McMaster University), Alex Theodorou (Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto): Deliberate versus non-deliberate metaphors in trauma narratives: On the road to recovery

2:30-3:00 OPEN SLOT Michael Cummings (English Department, York University, Toronto): An appraisal theory approach to a medieval text

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break TSH 122

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THURS 3 AUGUST (continued) ROOM TSH 201 TSH B 203

SLA / Language Teaching (Chair: Michael Kliffer)

Lexicon (Chair: Orr)

3:30-4:00 Aaron Albin (Kobe University), Junko Tanaka (Kobe University), Shinobu Mizuguchi (Kobe University), Takeshi Nishida (Kobe University): Relative leniency of experienced raters in rating accentedness: A re-examination in the Japanese context

Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University): Lexis as most local context: Smack dab in the middle of it all

4:00-4:30 Nikolai Penner (McMaster University): Creating an Affective Classroom in Large-Size Foreign Language Classes: Challenges and Strategies

Renison Gonsalves (Brooklyn College): The Semantics of English Prepositions: Two Approaches

4:30-5:00 Edalat Shekari (McMaster University), Elisabet Service (McMaster University): Working memory capacity as the predictor of L2 processing and task performance in bilinguals

OPEN SLOT

7:00-9:00 PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET Presidential Address by Douglas W. Coleman (University of Toledo): Physical-Domain Linguistic Analogues of Complementary Distribution

and Contrast Location: Celebration Hall

(1) Les Prince, (2) Togo Salmon Hall, (3) Celebration Hall

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FRIDAY 4 AUGUST

TSH 201 TSH 203

Morphosyntax (Chair: Sheila Embleton)

9:00-9:30 OPEN SLOT Yuhuan Wang (Mount Royal University): There is a reason to be different

9:30-10:00 OPEN SLOT Dan Mailman (Studio MindStride): Sneaking up on Vastness

10:00-10:30

OPEN SLOT John Peter Maher (independent): Re-Analysis of Parts of Speech: On the Cheap

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break TSH 122

Discourse / Corpora (Chair: Orr)

11:00-11:30

OPEN SLOT María José Serrano (Universidad de La Laguna): Variation of deictic and non-deictic stances of second- and third-person te and se in Spanish media advertising

11:30-12:00

OPEN SLOT Manfred Krifka (Leibniz Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Fereshteh Modarresi (Leibniz Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft): Anaphoric potential of incorporated nominals

2:00-4:00

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING TSH 530

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