Day 1
9 March (Saturday)
Sidney Smith Hall, SS 1069
9:15 Breakfast and Registration
9:50 Opening Remarks and Land Acknowledgement
10:00 Opening Keynote: Jessica Denniss, University of Toronto
The mutual value of linguistic work with Indigenous communities: A perspective from Ngarinyman (Australia)
11:00 Break
11:10 Anissa Baird and Rachel Keir, University of Toronto (St George)
Word-Final Vowel Deletion: Italian’s Influence on Faetar?
11:35 Nadia Takhtaganova, York University
Me/My Variation in Tyneside English
12:00 Catered Lunch (Linguistics Lounge)
13:15 Aileen Song and Grace Ryu, University of Toronto (St George)
Exploring the universality of prodrop patterns: an analysis of Korean heritage and homeland speakers
13:40 Sarah Hoffman, University of Manitoba
Inflectional Morphemes inside Derivation: An Investigation of Oji-Cree
14:05 Breanna Brigitte Pratley, University of Toronto (St George)
The Importance of Methodological Choices in the Typology of Uncommon Phenomena: A Gilaki Case Study
14:30 Break
15:00 Poster Session (Linguistics Lounge)
Hiroto Kumakura and Yuji Shuhama, Keiwa College (Japan)
Voice Mismatch between English and Japanese in SLA
Kai Ian Leung and Dr. Monika Molnar, University of Toronto (St George)
The role of voice familiarity during bilingual spoken language processing
Yu Cai, York University
Tones in Nanchang Dialect
Shailynn Athmer, University of Saskatchewan
Detecting Mispronunciations in Ongoing Speech: A Replication Study
Day 2
10 March (Sunday)
Sidney Smith Hall, SS 1069
9:30 Breakfast
10:30 Sarah Welton-Lair and Evan Platzer, Gordon College
Topic-valued Null-Subjects and Noun Class Agreement in Kinyarwanda
10:55 Ariadna Díaz Lopez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Why are calqued idioms more acceptable than “genuine” expressions? A pragmatic case study of Catalan.
11:20 Mark Smith, University of Toronto (St George)
Choosing between VVPE and OG in Brazilian Portuguese
12:00 Catered Lunch (Linguistics Lounge)
13:00 Rosemary Webb, University of Toronto (St George)
Modifier Reduplication in Gilaki
13:25 Nazia Mosin, Lisa Sullivan & Dr. Yoonjung Kang, University of Toronto (Scarborough)
Gender Phonology of Urdu First Names
13:50 Break
14:00 Closing Keynote: Suzi Lima, University of Toronto
Language maintenance and revitalization in Brazil: a case study
15:00 Closing Remarks
