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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 28, 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
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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)

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