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April 8-10, 2009
Tulane
University
‘Language, Politics, & Law’
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Wednesday,
April
8 |
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12:15-1:30 |
Registration |
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1:30-3:00 |
Room 1: Session A
Olanike Ola Orie:
Trinidad
Yourba Phonological Attrition: A Case of Convergence & Language
Acquisition Reversal |
Room 2: Session B
Megan E. Melancon:
Chicken & Egg Grammar |
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Kevin
Redmann:
The Sixth Vowel in Latin: A Case for Variable Schwa |
Amy
Gurvis:
No Child Left Behind, Or Are They? |
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Cynthia
Bernstein & Barb Haertl:
The Cot/Caught Merger: Regional,
Ethnic, & Generational Diffusion |
Robin
Sabino:
Grammar
Writing, Cultural Hegemony, & the African Diaspora |
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Break |
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3:15-4:45 |
Room 1:
Session C
Clai Rice & Wilbur Bennett:
Perceptions of Dialect in Southwest Louisiana |
Room 2: Session D
Joelle Bonamy:
The
Influence of Law & Politics on Language Choice in Gibraltar |
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Tamara
Lindner:
The Role of Cajun French in Cajun Identity: Opinions of South
Louisiana High School Students |
Holly
Durkin:
Language Revitalization in Guatemala: K’iche’ Maya Neologisms |
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Tom
Klingler:
The Paradox of Language Planning in Francophone Louisiana |
Martha
Michieka & George Naholi: The Politics of National & Official Language in
Kenya-The Dichotomy of English & Kiswahili Languages |
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Marc
Maddox:
Prestige Dialect Formation in a Kaqchikel Maya community |
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6:30
Ron Butters "Forensic Linguistics and Linguistic Scholarship" |
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Thursday, April 9 |
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8:30 - 10:00 |
Registration |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Room 1: SAADS Panel - An
Interdisciplinary Look at Dialect & Covering.
Moderator:
Sasha Johnson
Jeanne
Johnson, Doug Mahoney, & Sasha Johnson: Facades of Conformity: Scale
development and empirical testing |
Room 2: Session E
David W. Marlow:
A Cross-Curricular Approach to Dialect Diversity in South
Carolina Middle Schools |
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Helga Wendelberger:
On
Forensic Linguistics |
Viktoria
Driagina-Hasko:
Challenges in Heritage Language Education in Georgia |
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Brandi Newkirk & Janna B.
Oetting:
Subject & Object Relatives by Children with & without Specific
Language Impairment across Different Dialects of English |
Hannah Askin & Ashley Wise: Composition
Instruction at North Carolina State University: An exploratory study |
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Susan Nordstrom:
Confessions of a Language Mutt |
Carol S.
Wildeman:
Can Cues & Mnemonic Devices Be Used Successfully to Promote Code
Switching Among Appalachian Students? |
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Break |
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10:45 -12:15 |
Room 1:
Panel
2-The First 17 Years: New Perspectives on the Development of African
American English in Childhood & Adolescence. Moderator: Walt Wolfram
Walt, Wolfram,
Janneke Van Hofwegen, & Paula Dickerson: Summary of Longitudinal Data |
Room 2: Session F
Theresa McGarry & Martha Michieka:
Task-Induced Involvement & Vocabulary
Acquisition |
Room 3: Session G
Shaligram Shukla:
Reconstructing Semantics |
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Janneke Van Hofwegen &
Jeremy Needle: An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Shift at Grades 1, 7, & 10
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Robert
L. Trammell:
Ambisyllabic Consonants: A Key to Correct Stress, Syllabification & Rhythm
in ESL |
Valentina B. Iepuri & Donald L. Dyer:
Russian in the Post-Soviet World: The
Case of the Republic of Moldova |
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Erin Callahan & Anna
Morgan: Correlation of Mother’s Speech |
Karen W.
Burdette:
Three
Four, Open the Door:
An
Experimental Pilot Program for Teaching L1 Literacy to Facilitate L2
Acquisition |
Seongha Rhee:
Attribution
of Human Qualities to Non-Humans: A Look into Human Construal of Events |
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Tom Wilkinson & Tim Castor:
Relation of Background Social Factors to Language Change |
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Terry
Lynn Irons:
Revisiting Gender-linked Derogatory Terms: A decade of change |
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12:15 - 1:30 |
Registration, Lunch,
Executive Council Meeting
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1:30 -3:00 |
Room 1: Panel 3- Language Choices
& Political Selves. Moderator Allison Burkette
Antonio
Reyes-Rodriguez:
Ethos & Pathos in political discourse: The fight for
credibility |
Room 2: Session H
Stephen J. Nagle & Sara L. Sanders:
Language in the Stories of Women
Religious in South Carolina |
Room 3: Session I
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Allison Burkette:
Palin
Performing Herself: Dialect, Discourse,& Debate |
Ellen
Johnson:
The Dictionary in Bed: Who’s on Top? |
Peter A.
Machonis:
Automatic Retrieval of English Phrasal Verbs |
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Tamara Warhol:
Palin as
perfect for parody? Entextualization & identity of the vice-presidential
candidates (not given) |
Jeanne L. Bohannon:
Unmasking the Mask: Analyzing Coded Subversion in the Lexicon of Charles W.
Chesnutt |
Terrell
A. Morgan:
An Online Catalog of Speech Samples from Across the Hispanic
World |
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Felice Coles:
Representing
Place in Isle–o Oral Performances |
Becky
Childs, Sara Sanders & John Stamey: Modernizing & Innovating Data Accessibility for
Linguistic Research: Introducing the Horry County Oral History Project as a
Resource for Linguists |
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Break |
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3:15 - 4:45 |
Room 1: Session J
Mary Kohn & Melissa Farr: Getting Rhythm: A methodological comparison of
quantitative speech rhythm analyses |
Room 2: Session K
Elizabeth G. Brunner:
Southern
Accent Imitation as Disguise (not given) |
Room 2: Session L
Jill Hallett:
More attention, this issue needs:
Indo-Aryan constituent order transfer in English |
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Katie
Carmichael:
Null Subject Constructions & the Substitution of /h/ for /ʒ/
: Sociolinguistic Patterning of Features in the French of the Pointe-Au-Chien
Indians |
James A.
Kelley:
Doing Questioning/Constructing Identities: Creativity & Convention
in a Broadcast Debate Interview |
Christopher D. Sapp:
Dialect Syntax & Information Structure: A questionnaire study of the Zurich German verbal
complex |
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Darcie
Blainey:
Schwa Behaviour in the Louisiana Regional French of Ville Platte |
A. Abby
Jones:
Shifting Subjects: Deixis and
Collective Identity in Alcoholics Anonymous |
Mark Honegger:
A Syntagmatic Approach to
Lexical Categories |
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Jennifer
Thorburn:
Time & toide: A comparison of /aj/ in two Atlantic
communities |
Elizabeth R Miller:
Constructing the Subject: Agency
& Meaning Making in
Research Interviews among Adult Learners of English |
Blake Lemoine:
Mechanisms for Grammaticalization in the Individual |
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6:30
Clair Dickerson "Transplantation, Translation, and the Language of Law: A
Lawyer's perspective" |
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Friday, April 10 |
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8:30 - 10:00 |
Registration |
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9:00 -10:30 |
Room 1: Panel
4 -
Connecting K-16(+) Educators, Linguists, & Students: Reporting on a Series
of Service-Learning Endeavors. Moderator: Christine Mallinson
Anne H. Charity Hudley: An introductory undergraduate linguistics
course on African-American English with a service-learning component
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Room 2: Session M
Chair - Mike Rodgers
Barb
Haertl:
Noun Gender Assignment in German-English Code-Switching Discourse |
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Christine Mallinson:
A
graduate course on language & race/ethnicity |
Aimee J.
Hosemann: Speaking of Thongs & Identity: Spanish-English Classroom
Code-switching as an Index of Masculinity & Humor |
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Jeffery Reaser:
An
18-month partnership between linguists, education faculty &
in-service, middle grades teachers |
Richard
W. Hallett & Judith Kaplan-Weinger: Banal Bilingualism: Written
Codeswitching in Tourism |
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Adrian J. Wurr:
The
effects of service-learning on linguistically & culturally diverse college
students |
Tara
Sanchez:
The core, the periphery, & prestige: Understanding innovation in
the speech community via contact-induced change in a multilingual community |
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Break |
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10:45 -12:15 |
Room 1:
Panel 9 -Teaching Linguistics & Foreign languages on line.
Moderator: George Dorrill |
Room 2: Session N
Janet M.
Fuller, Alison Romsershausen ,& Cody Shanks:
Punctual ‘whenever’ in South
Midland youth speech |
Room 3: Session O
Hal
Guggolz:
Bi-Lingual Nicknames in South Texas |
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Aileen
Mootoo:
Teaching French On-Line |
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Masako Dorrill:
Developing an Internet Japanese Course for High School Students |
William
A. Kretzschmar, Jr., Paulina Bounds, Stephen Coates, Ilkka Juuso, Lisa Lena
Opas-Hanninen, Tapio Steppanon, & Tony Snodgrass:
The
Digital Archive of Southern Speech |
Hannah
Pick:
Reverse Transfer & Accommodation: Retroflex /r/ in the Use of
Spanish |
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George Dorrill:
Using
Videos & DVDs in Linguistic Classes |
Radosław
Dylewski: On the grammatical traits of the Virginia Civil War soldiers’
correspondence |
Elena
Shabliy:
The Function of English Borrowings in the Russian Press |
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Steve
Johnson:
Leaders & Laggers: Men & the Northern Cities Shift |
Rafael
Orozco:
A sociolinguistic analysis of pronominal use in New York City Spanish |
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12:15 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 - 3:00 |
Room 1: Session P
Chair - Mike Rodgers
Lisa
Abney:
On the Stump: Louisiana’s Political Narratives
& the Linguistic
Legacy of the Long Family |
Room 2: Session Q
Paulina
Bounds:
Handling Stories About Criminal Activities & Illegal Actions in
Audio Recordings |
Room 3: Session R
Jeannine Carpenter:
Three Cities, One Feature, Different Pattern_ : Plural –s Absence in
Southern Urban AAE |
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Catherine E. Davies:
The linguistic mocking of Sarah Palin |
Carmen
L. Comeaux, Michele I. Feist, & Brooke O. Breax: Using Language
Understanding to Interpret the Law |
Laura
Wright:
Some more on the history of third-person zero |
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Laila
Hualpa:
Measuring Aggressiveness in Joint & Solo Presidential Press
Conferences |
Lori
Czerwionka:
Discourse structure mitigation tendencies: Clues to cognitive
certitude |
Ralf
Thiede:
Mixed Systems in English Grammar |
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Jo
Tyler:
Negotiation of Divisive
& Unifying Themes in the Speeches of
Governor Wilder |
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Break |
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3:15 - 4:45 |
Room 1: Session
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Chair - Mike Rodgers
Gerard
Van Herk:
Variation & validation in early African American English corpora |
Room 2: Session
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Xiaozhao
Huang:
Analysis of
Explicit Rejection Statement Used in Academic Written Discourse |
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Elise E. Morse-Gagné, D.
Johnson, Patricks D.Johnson & Jarvis McInnis:
Prolegomena to an Account of Mississippi AAE |
Pilar G. Blitvich:
The
YouTubification of politics: Impoliteness & polarization |
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Michael
D. Picone:
African Town, Alabama, 1927: the English of Cudjo Lewis |
Sage
Lambert Graham:
Constructing
‘Polite’ Identities Online |
Jennifer
Bloomquist:
Southern Styled Hip Hop's Influence on Contemporary African American
English: The importance of place & regional developments in Hip Hip
culture
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