TULCON14 has concluded on March 7th, 2021. This site will remain accessible for everyone who wish to view the abstracts and presentation slides.
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Please notice that all the times below are in EST of North America (UTC -5), the local time of Toronto.
Day 1 / March 6
9:15 am – Virtual conference room opens on Gather
We advise our guests to join us during this time to get familiar with the platform and resolve any potential technical difficulties.
10:00 – Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement
10:25 – Opening Keynote: Professor Dejan Ivkovic (York University)
Virtual linguistic landscape: Language and multilingualism in cyberspace
11:20 – Break
11:25 – Haley Hsu, Elsi Kaiser – University of Southern California
A linguistic analysis of humor types and text complexity in TV sitcoms and cartoons
11:55 – Shankhalika Srikanth – University of Toronto
Heritage Tamil: A case study in conducting linguistic research that is grounded in community
12:20 – Lunch
1:00 pm – Back on Gather
1:10 – Anastasia Koutlemanis (University of Toronto)
Generational usage of ‘Greeklish’
1:35 – Gülsüm Aydin (Boğaziçi University)
A Comparative Analysis of Romeyka and Turkish Personal Experience Narratives
2:00 – Haili Su (University of Toronto)
2:25 Break
2:30 Poster Session
Anna Taylor (Ohio State University)
Seneca Language Revitalization Through Indigenous Bilingual Road Signs
Day 2 / March 7
9:15 am – Virtual conference room opens on Gather
We advise our guests to join us during this time to get familiar with the platform and resolve any potential technical difficulties.
10:10 – Xinbing Luo – Beijing Foreign Studies University
10:35 – Nathan Leung – University of Toronto
Tonal Assignment of Loanwords in Medan Hokkien
11:00 – Break
11:10 – Anna Pyrtchenkov, Maya Blumenthal, and Lee Jiang – University of Toronto
Truth be Told: A Corpus-Based Study of Adjectives of Truth and Reality across Languages
11:35 – Kyle Maycock – Ohio State University
The Albanian Noun Phrase and the Morphosyntactic Interface
12:00 – Diana Gil Hamel – University of Toronto
An-game nó an-ghame: Irish Consonant Mutations in English Loanwords
12:25 Lunch
13:15 – Gather
13:25 – Cass Michael Kramer – Stanford University
Contextual bounds and adjective dimensionality predict the resultative construction
13:50 – Eloisa Cervantes – University of Toronto
14:15 Break
14:20 Closing Keynote: Professor Pilar C. Blitvich, University of North Carolina
Using linguistics to understand and analyze Cancel Culture
15:20 Closing remarks