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Schedule and Abstracts (TULCON14)

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

Presentation Slides

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

Presentation Slides

2:00 – Haili Su (University of Toronto)

Disyllabic Contraction in Taiwan Mandarin: Modelling the Complexity of Variation with Optimality Theory

Presentation Slides

2:25 Break

2:30 Poster Session

Anna Taylor (Ohio State University)

Seneca Language Revitalization Through Indigenous Bilingual Road Signs

Poster

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

Implicit Learning of Pragmatic Meanings: Chinese Students’ Success in Learning Social Status in a Semi-Artificial Language

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

Presentation Slides

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

Presentation Slides

13:50 – Eloisa Cervantes – University of Toronto

Variation of /ʎ/ in Toronto Heritage Speakers of Calabrian Italian: Support for the Effect of Language Use

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