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Directory 1. Mircea Sauciuc, Mid America Linguistics Conference Message 1: Mid America Linguistics Conference
Date: 29-Sep-2007 From: Mircea Sauciuc <mcsku.edu> Subject: Mid America Linguistics Conference E-mail this message to a friend Mid America Linguistics Conference Short Title: MALC Date: 26-Oct-2007 - 28-Oct-2007 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Contact: Sara Rosen Contact Email: rosenku.edu Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ku.edu Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference (MALC). The conference will take place on October 26-28 2007 at the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. This conference covers all areas of linguistics, including (but not restricted to) phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Interdisciplinary papers will also be featured. This year's meeting will feature special interest sessions on Psycho/Neurolinguistics, Endangered Languages, and/or African Languages. 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Program Friday October 26, 2007 8:00 Registration opens Syntax and Siouan Languages Sessions 8:30 ''Delta QP: quantifier raising reformulated as covert topic/focus movement'' Toshikazu Ikuta ''Omaha language and culture textbook progress report'' Mark Awakuni-Swetland and Rory Larson 9:00 ''Exploring the focus-morphology: morphosyntactic aspects of non-prosodic focus'' Carmen Parafita and Michael Putnam ''The Otoe-Missouria Flag Song'' Jill Greer 9:30 ''Why unergatives select themselves a fake reflexive'' Kyle Grove ''Compounding and incorporation: an analysis of the Siouan language family'' Gail Adams 10:00 ''Innovation in relativization: the new Spanish possessive relative el cual su N'' Manuel Delicado-Cantero ''Unusual grammaticalization paths in Lakota: from tkhá 'but' to aspect and modality markers'' Regina Pustet 10:30-10:45 Break Neurolinguistics and Phonology Sessions 10:45 ''Effects of prior syntactic information on thematic role processing: an event-related potentials study in Spanish'' Clare Stroud and Colin Phillips ''Emergentism and OT: a compromise'' David Teeple 11:15 ''Dopamine in grammatical processing: an fMRI investigation in Parkinson's disease'' Toshikazu Ikuta, Laura Murray, and Sharlene Newman ''Accounting for 'moving' reduplication patterns in Mangap-mbula'' John Kyle 11:45 ''An MEG study on semantic priming'' Diogo Almeida, Ellen Lau, and David Poeppel ''Consonant cluster alternations in Pawnee: an Optimality Account'' Masanori Deguchi 12:15-1:30 Lunch Neurolinguistics and Less Commonly Studied Languages Sessions 1:30 ''Neuromagnetic evidence for the early computation of formant ratios in vowel normalization'' Philip Monahan and William Idsardi ''On verbs of separation in Emai'' Ronald Schaefer 2:00 ''Effects of native language and training on speaker normalization in lexical tone perception: a behavioral and event-related potential study'' Ratree Wayland, Edith Kaan, Christopher Barkley and Mingzhen Bao ''The Amharic reduplicative verb: a word-based account'' Kevin Schluter 2:30 ''Agreement attraction in comprehension: representations and processes'' Ellen Lau, Matthew Wagers and Colin Phillips ''Ideophones in Temne'' Sullay Kanu 2:30-3:00 Break Phonetics and Semantics Sessions 3:00 ''Perception of English high vowels: duration as a cue by Korean speakers of English'' Ji-Yeon Lee ''Japanese experiential -te iru as an individual-level construction'' Mamori Sugita 3:30 ''An Acoustic Analysis of Lexical Stress Cues in Speakers' First and Second Languages: English and Arabic'' Joan Sereno and Wael Zuraiq ''A Neo-Davidsonian analysis of gradable adjectives'' Scott Fults 4:00 Greetings and Salutations from Joseph Steinmetz, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Invited Speaker: Russell Schuh, UCLA Saturday, October 27, 2007 Syntax and Phonology Sessions 8:30 ''Tough-movement and nominalized infinitives in French'' Marc Authier and Lisa Reed ''A gestural approach to regressive assimilation and nasals in Pali'' Benjamin Schmeiser 9:00 ''Do heads behave like phrases?'' Stroik and Michael Putnam ''Stress in the trigger of Chamorro umlaut'' Aaron Kaplan 9:30 ''Infinitival yet and sentential aspect'' Justin Kelly ''The adaptation of English coda /r/ in Mandarin, Korean and Japanese loanword phonology'' Li-jen Shih 10:00 ''Constituent word order in matrix wh-questions in Cajun Vernacular English: 'What the word order is?' '' Richard Winters ''Mandarin Lexical Tone Recognition: Gating Paradigm'' Yuwen Lai and Jie Zhang 10:30-10:45 Break Syntax and Mayan Languages Sessions 10:45 ''Pair-list vs. Single pair readings in multiple wh free relatives and correlatives'' Catherine Rudin ''Levels of bilingual knowledge in Kaqchikel Maya Children'' Ivonne Heinze Balcazar 11:15 ''Spurious coordination in Vlach multiple wh-fronting'' Jason Merchant ''Placeless consonants and linguistic change in Kaqchikel Mayan'' S.J. McGovern 11:45 ''The Chadianmei + V Structure in Mandarin'' Haiyong Liu ''Identity, Modernity and Language shift in Kaqchikel Maya adolescents'' Ivonne Heinze Balcazar 12:15-2:00 Lunch on the town Phonetics and Semantics Sessions 2:00 ''Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in Urban Jordanian Arabic'' Allard Jongman, Sonja Combest, and Wendy Herd ''Evidence for pragmatic stability in the Portuguese affirmative responsive system'' Meghan Armstrong 2:30 ''Phonetic realizations of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese'' Mingzhen Bao and Ratree Wayland ''A solution toward bettering the validity of the language acceptability assessment elicitation procedure'' Ludovic Kovalik 3:00 ''An acoustic and perceptual analysis of /t/ and /d/ in flaps in American English'' Wendy Herd ''The denotation and morphosyntax of bare nouns in Javanese: Against the nominal mapping parameter'' Yosuke Sato 3:30 ''Can prosodic cues accurately identify constituent boundaries with cross-dialectal homophones? With as a particle in the Upper Midwest English dialect'' John M. Spartz ''The parameterization of plural markings in classifier languages'' Jaeshil Kim 4:00 50th Anniversary tribute Invited Speaker: David Poeppel 6:00 Party at Spring Hill Suites Sunday, October 28, 2007 Phonetics and Phonology and Siouan Languages Sessions 8:30 ''Syllable onsets in Germanic'' Marc Pierce ''An analysis of some Biloxi particles and clitics'' David Kaufman 9:00 ''Variation and change in front rounded vowels of Chinese Korean'' Wenhua Jin and David J. Silva ''Another Look at the Role of the Definite Articles in (Omaha-)Ponca'' Kathleen Shea 9:30 ''Extra harmonic vowel in Chicahuaxtla Trique'' Kosuke Matsukawa ''Word and morpheme-level code-switching in Crow'' Randolph Graczyk 10:00 ''A historical study of the Persian vowel system'' Rohany Rahbar ''The Hidatsa mood markers revisited'' John Boyle 10:30-11:00 Break in Blake 418 Less Commonly Studied Languages and Semantics Sessions 11:00 ''Verb complexes in K'iche' and Q'anjob'al'' Clifton Pye ''Wh-in situ in Bahasa Indonesia and Choice Function'' Yosuke Sato and Dwi Hesti Yuliani 11:30 ''The Acquisition of Verb Complexes in K'iche and Q'anjob'al'' Pedro Mateo ''Grounding, negation and aspect in Russian'' Stephen Dickey and Susan Kresin 12:00 ''Comparative sentences in Hui'an Southern Min'' Weirong Chen ''Talmy's typology and three types of spatial PP in Japanese'' Seiki Ayano 12:30 ''Postposition and information status in a head-final free word order language'' Bryan Gordon ''Information structure in English nominal phrases'' Jim Feist Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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