Program of Events
All times are in EDT (UTC-4). Talks are 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions. Poster sessions are 30 minutes long.
| Time | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 11:00am-12:45pm | Talk Session 1 | Talk Session 3 |
| 1:00pm-2:40pm | Talk Session 2 | Talk Session 4 |
| 3:10pm-3:40pm | Poster Session 1 | Poster Session 2 |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | Keynote Talk | Keynote Talk |
Friday
| Social | |
|---|---|
| 5:00pm-7:00pm | The Friday evening social will be taking place on gather.town, a virtual environment where people can easily walk around and have conversations. There will also be some games for those who are interested. The link to the gather.town tutorial can be found here. The link to the CULC15 gather.town can be found here. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on the contact page. |
Saturday
| Talk Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| 11:00am | Conference Welcome |
| 11:05am | Morphophonological learning with multiple processes Daniel Akim, Rutgers University |
| 11:30am | Speaker Accommodations and VUI Voices: Does Human-likeness of a Voice Matter? Charissa Purnomo, Nicole Ebbutt, Kristen Eredics, The University of British Columbia |
| 11:55am | Functional tradeoffs between morphology and syntax: an empirical study Marisabel Cabrera, Cornell University |
| 12:20pm | Using Sociolinguistic Factors to Improve Language Technologies in Predicting Mandarin-English Codeswitching Through Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Models Irene Yi, UC Berkeley |
| Talk Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Number-Internal Case Syncretisms in Latvian: Nanosyntax of the Split Accusative Ryan Biks, New York University |
| 1:25pm | Serbian Heritage Speakers' Ability in Aspect as Compared to Native Speakers Natalia Savkovic, McGill University |
| 1:50pm | The Syntax of Reduced Parenthetical Clauses: An Adjunction Analysis Sophia Stremel, UC Berkeley |
| 2:15pm | Decreolization and Gender in Louisiana Creole Lauren Kessler, Cornell University |
| Poster Session 1: Zoom Link | |
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| 3:10pm | Examine I Syntax the Arabic the Modern the Standard: A Look Into Verb Raising, Negation, Definiteness, and Possession Aspen Clark, Western Washington University, Poster PDF |
| Reading Between the Rules: The Acquisition of Opaque Phonological Interactions Larissa Melville, Kira Bondi, Ally Ugalde, Simon Fraser University, Poster PDF |
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| Town Nyanja Relative Clause Structure Sarah Hulbert, SUNY Albany, Poster PDF |
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| Violations of Gricean Maxims During Police Interrogations Malori Hammonds, University of North Texas, Poster PDF |
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| A Concept-Based Approach: Korean Verbal Honorifics for L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers Kaylen Bond, Hye Min Yoon, Emory University, Poster PDF |
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| Phonological Treatment of Affricates in Yiddish and Segmental Analysis Jack Goldberg, Washington University in St. Louis, Poster PDF |
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| Pragmatic Enrichment in Poetry Ivy Braxton Harrington, Cornell University |
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| Semantic Modality and Language Change: Analysis of nado in Kolyma Yukaghir Jonathan WuWong, University of Chicago, Poster PDF |
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| Keynote Presetation | |
|---|---|
| 4:00pm | Morphemes in the Brain Alec Marantz, New York University |
Sunday
| Talk Session 3 | |
|---|---|
| 11:00am | Introduction |
| 11:05am | Quality Legal Interpretation of American Sign Language: A Balancing Act Dana Meskan, Cornell University |
| 11:30am | Pharyngeal Constriction as a Cause for Late Acquisition and Speech Sound Disorders of Rhotic Sounds in English, Spanish, and French Connor Mahon, Cleveland State University |
| 11:55am | Models of Northern Cities Vowel Shift Reversal and Other Vocalic Phenomena in Michigan Patrick Gehringer, Oakland University |
12:20pm | Speech Segmentation, the Iambic Trochaic Law and Tone Sandhi in Mandarin Chinese Sijia Zhang, McGill University |
| Talk Session 4 | |
|---|---|
| 1:00pm | What is the Case: Wh-Movement and Case Licensing in English Copular Constructions Michael Wolfman, University of Georgia |
| 1:25pm | The Typological and Syntactic Status of Inpositions Isaac Murphy, Cornell University |
| 1:50pm | Pragmatic Influences on Argument Word Order in Karuk Narrative Texts Kevin Yu, UC Berkeley |
| 2:15pm | Hawaiian Deixis: A Case Study of nei and ala/lā Gabriel Gilbert, Dartmouth College |
| Poster Session 2: Zoom Link | |
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| 3:10pm | Initial Consonant Mutations in Irish Gaelic: An Optimality Theory Analysis Jack Pruett, Washington University in St. Louis, Poster PDF |
| “Hip Hēunggóng”: A sociolinguistic review of preliminary evidence for the role of English in identity signaling and translocalization of hip-hop in Hong Kong Boey Kwan, Simon Fraser University, Poster PDF |
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| A Minimalist Approach to Causative Structures in Dakota Emma Ismail, Carleton College, Poster PDF |
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| Taking on Loki's Wager: Applying Fuzzy Logic for assessing Semantic Category in Sentiment
Analysis Ben Joseph, Simon Fraser University, Poster PDF |
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| Town Nyanja Double Object Constructions Veronica Burrage, SUNY Albany, Poster PDF |
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| Analysis of Turkish Impersonal Passives Using Voice and Distributed Morphology Aliya Zhaksybek, University of Victoria, Poster PDF |
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| Orthographic Effects on Rhyme Detection and Phoneme Counting in French, English, and Italian Nadia Clement, Dartmouth College, Poster PDF |
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| Gendered Sarcasm in Middle Grade Literature Molly Wilson, Northeastern University, Poster PDF |
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| Keynote Presentation | |
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| 4:00pm | Antilocality and Embedded V2 Molly Diesing, Cornell University |
| 5:00pm | Conference Closing |