Program NOTE: All talks will be held in 106 Morrill Hall. Day 1 (Saturday, April 4, 2009) 10:30 – 11:00 Registration begins Morrill Hall lobby 11:00 – 12:00 Brunch (with registration continuing) Morrill Hall lobby 12:00 – 12:30 Jenny Loughran (University of Ottawa) "Semantically Active Head Movement as Adjunction" 12:30 – 1:00 T.J. Trimble (University of Washington) "Conception and Argument Structure" 1:00 – 2:00 Poster session: Morrill Hall lobby Katerina Souliopoulos (NYU) "Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Syllables in Moroccan Arabic" Caroline Smith (Indiana University) "Sociolinguistics: Gender and Profanity" Karolina Brook (Princeton) "Shaping Languages: The Interactions of South African Languages: Case Studies of South African English, Tsotsitaal and Fanagalo" Alessandra West (Cornell) "The Phonetics of Hebrew" Bill Price (Cornell) "Memorizing Chinese Characters: A Case Study in Spaced Repetition Rehearsal" 2:00 – 2:30 Christopher Phillips (Pitzer College) "Second Position in Ancient Greek: Clitics and Particles in the Oratory of Demosthenes" 2:30 – 3:00 Marisa Brook (Cornell) "One of Those Situations Where a Relative Adverb Becomes a Complementizer" 3:00 – 3:30 Andrei Anghelescu (Boston University) "Speech Perception in Noise in Non-Native Speakers of English" 3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break Morrill Hall lobby 3:45 – 4:15 Radha Sadacharan (Boston University) "The Effect of Linguistic Experience on Perception: A Study of the Morphophonological Vowel Alternation Between /o/ and /a/ in Russian" 4:15 - 5:15 Keynote Speech: Prof. Bruce Hayes (UCLA) "Natural and Unnatural Constraints in Hungarian Vowel Harmony" [PDF]. 5:30 – 7:30 Dinner social in Collegetown Rulloff's - 411 College Avenue 8:00 – 9:30 Movie Night: The Linguists (2008) 111 Morrill Hall Day 2 (Sunday, April 5, 2009) 10:00 – 11:00 Brunch Morrill Hall lobby 11:00 – 12:00 Workshop: Life of a Graduate Student in Linguistics 106 Morrill Hall 12:00 – 1:00 Prof. Sally McConnell-Ginet and Prof. Molly Diesing (Cornell) "How to Do Things with Words and Wands: The Pragmatics of Magic" [RTF]. 1:00 – 1:30 Closing remarks and farewell 106 Morrill Hall

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