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Confs: Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting

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    Message 1: Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, CA USA

     Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:22:02 +0000
    From: bls <blssocrates.berkeley.edu>
    Subject: Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting, CA USA


    29th Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Meeting

    Location: Berkeley, CA, United States of America Date: 14-FEB-03 - 17-FEB-03

    Web Site: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ Contact Person: Organizing Committee Meeting Email: blssocrates.berkeley.edu Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. Second and Updated Announcement for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

    The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 29th Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-17, 2003, in Dwinelle Hall 370. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession on the Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations and a Special Session on Minority and Diasporic Languages of Europe. Invited speakers include Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz), Mark Hale (Concordia University), Royal Skousen (Brigham Young Universty), Arnold Zwicky (Stanford University), Juliette Blevins (UC Berkeley), Donca Steriade (MIT), Charles Reiss (Concordia University), Julie Auger (Indiana University), J. Clancy Clements (Indiana University) and Joshua Fishman (Stanford University)

    REGISTRATION:

    Attendees should report to Dwinelle Hall 370 to obtain registration materials and other information.

    http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS

    All attendees, including presenters, must register for the meeting. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to Berkeley Linguistics Society.

    Received in our office by February 2, 2003: Students $20 Non-students $40 Received after February 2, 2003: Students $25 Non-students $55

    - SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION-- BLS29 Registration University of California Linguistics Department 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

    Registration can also be paid during the conference, in Dwinelle 370.

    PROGRAM: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/program.html

    ***Friday 14, 2003*** 12:30 Opening Remarks - PARASESSION I-- 1-2 CHARLES REISS (Concordia University) TBA 2-2:30 Self-Organization and the Origin of Higher-Order Phonological Patterns Andrew Wedel (UC Santa Cruz)

    2:30-3 Correlating Consonant Confusability and Neural Responses: An MEG Study MaryAnn Walter and Valentine Hacquard (MIT)

    3-3:30 The Diachronic Influence of Perception: Experimental Evidence from Turkish Jeff Mielke (Ohio State University)

    3:45-4:45 ROYAL SKOUSEN (Brigham Young University) Analogical Modeling: Exemplars, Rules and Quantum Computing

    - MORPHOLOGY-- 5-5:30 Morphologically Motivated Prosodic and Metrical Structures Eun-Sook Kim (University of British Columbia)

    5:30-6 Doubling and Denominal Verb Constructions: The Salish Evidence Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University) and Thomas E. Hukari (University of Victoria)

    6-6:30 How Morphological Case Relates to Word Order Freedom Thomas McFadden (University of Pennsylvania)

    6:30-7 Georgian Verb Morphology: A Language Learner's Perspective Olya Gurevich (UC Berkeley)

    - PRAGMATICS and DISCOURSE--

    5-5:30 I bet you think this paper is about 'you': Participant roles and 'you' Randall Eggert (University of Utah)

    5:30-6 Preemptive usage of N1 to yuu N2 in Japanese conversation: Psychological strategy to increase the distance between the hearer and the entity Michiko Todokoro Buchanan (University of Minnesota)

    6-6:30 *Most*: Frequency, semanticization and generalized conversational implicature Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University)

    6:30-7 Patterns of Semantic Harmonization in English: The Case of *May Well* Reijirou Shibasaki (UC Santa Barbara)

    ***Saturday 15, 2003*** 9-10 MARK HALE (Concordia University) TBA

    - HISTORICAL-- 10-10:30 Another Look at Australia as a Linguistic Area Claire Bowern (Harvard University)

    10:30-11 The causatives in Sun Hongkai's Anong: language death and rapid restructuring Graham Thurgood (California State University, Chico)

    11-11:30 Beyond Alienability: genitive constructions and 'nominal applicatives' in Maco-Je and Tupi Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro (University of Chicago/Federal University of Goias)

    11:30-12 A Bipartite Verb Stem Outlier in Eurasia: Nakh-Daghestanian Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley)

    - PSYCHOLINGUISTICS and LANGUAGE PROCESSING-- 10-10:30 Issues in Modeling Language Processing Analogically David Eddington (University of New Mexico)

    10:30-11 Tone Processing and Left Hemisphere Specialization: Evidence from Yalalag Zapotec Heriberto Avelino (UCLA)

    11-11:30 The Meanings of Consonants Barbara Kelly (UC Santa Barbara and Lexicon Branding, Inc.), William Leben (Stanford University and Lexicon Branding, Inc.) and Robert Cohen (Lexicon Branding, Inc.)

    11:30-12 Lexical Representation in Korean: Evidence from the Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon Sunyoung Hong (University of Buffalo, The State University of New York)

    - PARASESSION II-- 1:30-2:30 DONCA STERIADE (MIT) Knowledge of perceptual similarity and narrow lexical override

    2:30-3 Phonetics and Phonology of Transparent Vowels in Hungarian Stefan Benus (New York University)

    3-3:30 The Phonetics-Phonology Mapping: Evidence from Hungarian Voicing Assimilation Sylvia Blaho (Pazmany Peter Catholic University/Eotvos Lorand University/University of Leiden)

    3:30-4 Some Methodological Issues in Doing Phonetic Typology: Cantonese contour tone revisited Alan C. L. Yu (UC Berkeley/McGill University)

    - SOCIOLINGUISTICS-- 4:15-4:45 Linguistic Harmonization: The indexical use of honorifics and sentence-final particles in Japanese Makiko Takekuro (UC Berkeley)

    4:45-5:15 Establishing a Community of Practice on the Internet: Linguistic Behavior of Online Japanese Communication Yukiko Nishimura (University of California, Santa Barbara and Toyo Gakuen University)

    5:15-5:45 A Study of the Speaking Fundamental Frequency Characteristics and Perceived Pitch Characteristics of Black and White Women Nicole Gaskins (UCLA)

    - SYNTAX I-- 4:15-4:45 Quantity, Causality and Temporality in Non-Causal Change Constructions in Italian and English Cristiano Broccias (University of Genoa)

    4:45-5:15 Basque Multiple Questions Youngmi Jeong (University of Maryland)

    5:15-5:45 English Locative Inversion: Grammatical Interfaces and Constructions Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)

    6-7 JUDITH AISSEN (UC Santa Cruz) Interpretive preferences and optimality in morphosyntax

    ***Sunday 16, 2003*** 9-10 ARNOLD ZWICKY (Stanford University) TBA

    - PHONOLOGY-- 10-10:30 Contrast and Phonological Activity in the Nez Perce Vowel System Sara Mackenzie and B. Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)

    10:30-11 Junctural and Parasitic Voicing in Burmese Kenneth VanBik (UC Berkeley)

    11-11:30 Definition of the Base Anya Hogoboom (UC Santa Cruz)

    11:30-12 Subsumption in Speech Recognition and Feature Theory Moritz Neugebauer (University College Dublin)

    - SYNTAX II-- 10-10:30 Syntactic and Semantic Valence: Morphosyntactic Evidence from Minangkabau Catherine Fortin (University of Michigan)

    10:30-11 Condition C Effects and the Position of Adjuncts Kayono Shiobara (University of British Columbia)

    11-11:30 On the Syntactic Status of Left-Peripheral Adverbials in English Benjamin Shaer (Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)

    11:30-12 On the Role of Argument Structure in Basque Morphosyntax Cathryn Donohue (Stanford University)

    - PARASESSION III-- 1:30-2:30 JULIETTE BLEVINS (UC Berkeley) A Natural History of Antigemination

    2:30-3 The Non-Neutralizing Nature of Hungarian Voicing Assimilation Zoe Toft (SOAS) and Wouter Jansen (University of Groningen)

    3-3:30 Positional Markedness as a By-Product of the Learning Situation: a simulation Alexei Kochetov (Simon Fraser University/Haskins Laboratories)

    3:30-4 Children's Unnatural Phonology Eugene Buckley (University of Pennsylvania)

    - SEMANTICS-- 4:15-4:45 WANT TO/WANNA: verbal polysemy versus constructional compositionality Guillaume Desagulier (Universite Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux)

    4:45-5:15 Conceptualizing the Salish World: Evidence from the Halkomelem Numeral Classifier System Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University) and Mercedes Q. Hinkson (Northwest Indian College)

    5:15-5:45 Rethinking 'Thinking For Speaking' Stephanie Pourcel (University of Durham)

    5:45-6:15 Constraints on Synaesthesia Yoshikata Shibuya (University of Manchester) and Hajime Nozawa (Kyoto University)

    - PHONETICS and PHONOLOGY-- 4:15-4:45 Lexical Confusability and Degree of Coarticulation Rebecca Scarborough (UCLA)

    4:45-5:15 Syllabically Conditioned Perceptual Epenthesis Baris Kabak and William Idsardi (University of Delaware)

    5:15-5:45 Variability and Constancy in the Articulation and Acoustics of Pima Coronals Heriberto Avelino and Sahyang Kim (UCLA)

    5:45-6:15 Shoshoni Verb Classes and the Perception of Aspiration Dirk Elzinga (Brigham Young University)

    ***Monday 17, 2003*** - SPECIAL SESSION I-- 9-10 J. CLANCY CLEMENTS (Indiana University) Portuguese-based non-standard language varieties in Africa and Asia

    10-10:30 Rapid Case Loss as an Indicator of Dialect Death in Texas German Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

    10:30-11 The Superstrate Role of English and the Substrate Role of Fongbe and Portugese in Property Depictions in Saramaccan Creole Marvin Kramer (Mendocino College)

    11-11:30 Papiamentu: a creole with a dual lexifier Jeffrey DesVerney (UC Berkeley)

    11:30-12 Reduplication in Romance: An example from Cuban Spanish Jenny Lederer (UC Berkeley)

    - SPECIAL SESSION II-- 1:30-2:30 JULIE AUGER (Indiana University) Issues of authenticity, purity, and autonomy in minority languages: What is 'real' Picard and who is an 'authentic' speaker?

    2:30-3 Spatial Reference in an Endangered Romance Language: The Case of Romansch Raphael Berthele (Universitat Freibourg)

    3-3:30 H-type Segments in Standard and Dialectal Hungarian Sylvia Blaho and Szilard Szentgyorgyi (Pazmany Peter Catholic University/Eotvos Lorand University/ University of Leiden/University of Veszprem)

    3:30-4 Nominal and Adjectival Roots in North Saami Verbs Marit Julien (University of Tromso)

    - SPECIAL SESSION III-- 4:15-4:45 Immigrant Russian: Factors in the restructuring of the aspectual system under attrition Asya Pereltsvaig (California State University, Long Beach)

    4:45-5:15 The Carpatho-Rusyn Language Question and the Culture of Slavic Linguistics Brian D. McHugh (Temple University)

    5:15-5:45 Linguistic Attitudes and Emerging Hyperdialectism in a Diglossic Setting: young Cypriot Greeks on their language Stavroula Tsiplakou (University of Cyprus)

    5:45-6:45 JOSHUA FISHMAN (Yeshiva University) DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LANGUAGE ALONE! The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning for Modernization