SCHEDULE
8 am - Registration opens, Room 405
8:45 am - Opening remarks by Professor James Yoon, Head, UI Dept. of Linguistics
9-10 am - Plenary talk by Silvina Montrul, Professor of Linguistics, and Spanish & Portuguese, UI
10-10:20 am - coffee break, Room 404
10-10:50 am - Room 407: Patricia McDonough, Indiana University: "Seventy years of Thangal: Language change and preservation in a Northeast Indian tribe"
10:55 – 11:25 - Room 407: Jeonghwa Cho, University of Michigan: "A Corpus Study of Agreement Errors in L2 Writing: The Effect of Language Background"
Room 405: Alicia Brown University of Arizona: "Present Tense variation and grammaticalization in southern Arizona: How far has the progressive progressed?"
11:30 – 12:00 - Room 407: Shannon Yee, Wayne State University: "Does a nouns-bias in children’s vocabulary acquisition exist across languages of the world?"
Room 405: Tetiana Tytko Ohio University: "Suicide Markers in Online Communication: A case Study of Grad Student's Writing"
12:05 – 12:35 - Room 407: Eugenie Mainake, Southern Illinois University: "Non-Native English Speaker's Attitude toward Accent-Shift: A Case Study of Indonesian Students in the U.S."
Room 405: Xiaolong Lu, University of Arizona: "A Study on the Diminutive Word tsa42 in the Xianning Dialect"
--LUNCH BREAK, 12:35-2 p.m.--
2:00 – 2:30 - Room 407: Joshua Linden, Wayne State University: "Contrastive Focus Capitalization: Nonstandard Usages of Capital Letters in Web-based English and their Capital-I Implications"
Room 405: Kelly Bayas, Pennsylvania State University: "The role of L2 learner metalinguistic knowledge on the learning of the English resultative perfect"
2:35 – 3:05 - Room 407: Pouya Vakili and Reda Mohammad, Illinois State University: "Identity between Promotion and Demotion: A corpus-based Analysis of Identity Markers in Research Articles"
Room 405: Elizabeth Lozano, UIUC: "Attachment and Language Use in Donor-Conceived Adults Self-Narratives"
3:05 – 3:25 Coffee break
3:25 – 3:55 - Room 407: Jack Dempsey, Marissa Barlaz, and Kiel Christianson, UIUC: "Using Principal Component Analysis to Simplify Eye-Tracking Models: A Meta-Analysis Proposal"
Room 405: Hizniye Isabella Boga, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen: "What is a Language? What is a Dialect? - Distinguishing between Close and Distant Romance (dialectal) Varieties"
4:00 – 4:30 - Room 407: Robin Turner, UIUC: "Linguistic Constructions of Agency in the Grassroots Political Movement"
4:30 – 4:40 Coffee break
4:40 – 5:40 - Room 407 - Plenary Talk by Norma Mendoza-Denton (UCLA)