The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at UT Arlington

(For the 2012 DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, go here.)

The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington is hosting this one-day linguistics conference in cooperation with the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and the Department of Linguistics & Technical Communication at the University of North Texas.

Faculty and students from all three institutions will be giving talks.

Details

Date: 07 November 2009
Location: UT Arlington campus, room 200 in Trimble Hall (campus map)

Schedule & Abstracts

Below is the tentative schedule for the conference. Each paper title links to the abstract supplied by the author.

8:15-8:55		Coffee & Pastries
8:55	Colleen Fitzgerald, UT Arlington	Welcome
Phonology Session Chair: Zdravka Radkova (Brookhaven College)
9:00-9:30	Steve Parker, GIAL	The transparency and density of phonological rule interactions
9:30-10:00	Cindy Kilpatrick, UT Arlington	Transfer and acquisition in L2 phonology: The perception of hiatus in Spanish
10:00-10:30	Nancy Caplow, UNT	Characterizing F0 as a correlate of stress in Rebkong Amdo Tibetan: a work in progress
10:30-11:00	Joshua Jensen, UT Arlington	Jarai Formulaic Sayings: Where Three Lines Make Two Couplets
11:00-11:15		Break
Second Language Acquisition Session Chair: Dr. Laurel Smith Stvan (UT Arlington)
11:15-11:45	Yu Jeung Kim, UNT	Effectiveness of on-line corpus research in L2 writing: Investigation of proficiency in English writing through independent error correction
11:45-12:15	Stefanie Wulff, UNT	Constructions in learner language: corpus-linguistic and experimental evidence
12:15-1:30		Lunch (pre-register for lunch by emailing ling.advisor@uta.edu - we will provide if you have notified us by November 3)
Syntax Session Chair: Stephen George (UT Arlington)
1:30-2:00	Paul Kroeger, GIAL	Cleft sentences in Indonesian and Kimaragang
2:00-2:30	Joey Sabbagh, UT Arlington	How to Evade a Universal Or Two in Tagalog
2:30-3:00	Brendon Yoder, GIAL	Syntactic underspecification in Riau Indonesian
3:00-3:30	Rachel Shain, GIAL	Koine Greek Aktionsart and the Preverb Eis-
3:30-3:45		Break
Language Use Session Chair: Dr. Brenda Boerger (GIAL)
3:45-4:15	Ken Zuercher, UT Arlington	Code-Switching in Azerbaijan: Constructing Identity in the Former Soviet Space
4:15-4:45	Kalaivahni Muthiah, UNT	R. K. Narayan's The World of Nagaraj: A Case-Study on Fictionalized Indian English Speech
4:45-5:15	Mekoulnodji Ndjerareou, Christina Melick, and Sarah Moeller, GIAL	Essential functions of tone in Ngambay
5:15-5:45	Yujeong Choi, UT Arlington	Evidentials in Tohono O’odham: A Preliminary study
Approx. 6:00		Pay your own way at a group dinner at an as-yet undetermined (underdetermined?) location – please confirm to ling.advisor@uta.edu that you'll be attending so we can make reservations