Illinois Language And Linguistics Society (ILLS) Conference: "Language Across the Lifespan"

Event Type

Conference/Workshop

Sponsor

Sponsored by the European Union Center through support from the US Department of Education’s Title VI NRC Program. Co-sponsors: The Beckman Institute; The Center for Advanced Study; The Office of the Dean of LAS; The Russian, East European, & Eurasian Center; The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics The Student Sustainability Committee. The Departments of: Anthropology; Communication; East Asian Languages & Cultures; English; French & Italian; Germanic Languages & Literatures; Linguistics; Psychology; Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education; Spanish & Portuguese

Location

4th Floor, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

Date

Feb 29, 2020   All Day

Cost

The conference is open to the public but attendees must register. This is no registration fee for UIUC affiliates but non-UIUC attendees must pay a registration fee. People can register beforehand online (link below) or in person during the conference in Illini Union Room 405. Early registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Costs: Registration for 1-Day Pass: $20 Early Registration for Non-UIUC Students: $40 Registration for Non-Students: $60

Registration

Registration

Contact

Chelsey Norman

E-Mail

crnorma2@illinois.edu

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Originating Calendar

School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar

SCHEDULE

8:00 - Room 405        Registration Opens

9:00 – 10:00 - Room 407 - Plenary talk by Michele Diaz (Pennsylvania State University): "Neural and behavioral age-related differences in language production"

10:00 – 10:20   Coffee break

10:20 – 10:50 - Room 407: Delaney Wilson, Alison Gabriele, and Robert Fiorentino, Kansas University: "The role of morphology and individual differences in the processing of regular and irregular verbs by native English speakers"

10:55 – 11:25 - Room 407: Tricia Thrasher, UIUC: "‘I felt more at ease’: How social virtual reality impacts L2 French learners’ anxiety and oral production"

Room 404: Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sad and Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue University: "Comparing the syntax of spoken and signed language: Declaratives, interrogatives and negation in Arabic and an Iranian homesign"

11:30 – 12:30 - Room 406: POSTER SESSION

1.       David Abugaber-Bowman, University of Illinois at Chicago: "Thinking (about grammar), fast and slow: Exploring per-learner variability via analysis methods from cognitive psychology"

2.      Mashael Algana, Michigan State University: "The intersection between Identity, Investment, and Socialization: A Case Study of an ESL Female Saudi Learner"

3.      Maaly Al Omary, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Mechanism of Verbal Morphology among Heritage Arabic Children in the US"

4.      Tomoko Oyama, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Effects of Discourse-Level Instruction on the Use of L2 English Present Perfect in Research Reports"

5.      Susanne Pawlikowski, Northeastern Illinois University: "A Female President, now!: A multimodal discourse analysis of Kamala Harris’s presidential announcement"

6.      Daniel Puthawala, The Ohio State University: "Controlling for Incremental Parsing Effects with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation"

7.   Anna Romaniuk, University of Kentucky: "Droga Pani Ministro: Feminine Professional Titles at Opposite Poles of the Formality Register"

8.      Patrick Skeels, University of California, Davis: "The Dynamics of Disagreement"

12:30 – 2:00    Lunch (on your own)

2:00 – 2:30 - Room 407: Rachel Kimnach, UIUC: "Is German Sign Language (DGS) linguistically related to American Sign Language? (ASL): Evidence from YouTube Video Data using phonological analysis of sign production"

Room 404: Minhee Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "On the Role of Topic and Methodology: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Linguistic Variation in Research Articles"

2:35 – 3:05 - Room 407: Charlotte Vanhecke, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Stylistic and real-time dimensions of glottalization in Wisconsin English"

Room 404: Difei (Lynn) Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Flipping Those Pages, Swiping That Screen: A corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register"

4:00 – 4:30 - Room 407: Maria Heath, University of Minnesota: "No Need to Yell: A prosodic analysis of writing in all caps"

Room 404: Hamideh Sadat Bagherzadeh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "The Acquisition of Persian Heritage Language as an Independent Variety in the US"

4:30 – 4:40       Coffee break

4:40 – 5:40 - Room 407 - Plenary talk by Laura Colantoni (University of Toronto): "Acquisition of intonation: are children similar to adults?"

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