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North American Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
Friday, October 10, 2003
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
PROGRAM
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MICHIGAN LEAGUE, VANDENBURG ROOM:
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| 8:30- 9:00 |
Registration, coffee & pastries |
| 9:00-9:10 |
Opening remarks (by Sandra Gregerman, Director of Michigan's
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) |
| 9:10-9:40 |
Anne Schonhardt & Shannon Clarkin (Truman State University),
'WHO ARE YOU?: Perceptions of pseudo-generic 2nd person
pronoun' |
| 9:40-10:10 |
Andrew Fink (Carleton College),
'Towards a functional explanation of 'ver': a terminal,
directional prefix in German?' |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Alexander Boccio (New York University),
`The process by which Russian L1 learners acquire
the grammatical gender of epicene and hybrid nouns' |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Vera Gribanov (Brandeis University),
'The status of the Russian interrogative marker 'li':
Prosody, syntax, or semantics?' |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Judy Tsang & Aaron Ohlrogge (University of
Michigan),
'"Nobody ever does this'': Hyperbole in academic speech' |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Nassira Nicola (Harvard University),
'The silent creole: Language contact and the origins of American
Sign Language' |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Adrienne E. Muncy (Eastern Michigan University),
'Implications of intralingual diversity in minority language
maintenance: the example of Sorbian' |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Laura Walikainen (Michigan Technological
University),
'You're not from around here, hey?' |
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MODERN LANGUAGES BUILDING, ROOM 2011:
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| 3:00-3:30 |
Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Heather Ryan (Truman State University),
'Age: sociolinguistic or historical variable?' |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Erica Miao (University of Pennsylvania),
' "To be'' or not "to be'': Development of the Jamaican Creole
copula' |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Vanessa Armoogum
(Université de Paris 8),
'The copula in Mauritian Creole' |
| 5:00-5:15 |
Coffee break |
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5:15-6:15 |
INVITED TALK: Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
'How children learn words' |
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6:45- ?? |
Party with dinner for NAULC & MLS attendees |
Registration will be free, and we hope to find free crash space for
students, but speakers and other attendees will need to pay their
own
travel expenses.
Requests for crash space should be sent to undconf@umich.edu
Conference participants are also welcome to attend the
Michigan Linguistic Society
(MLS)
Annual Meeting on the next day, Saturday October 11, at the
University of
Michigan. The invited speaker for MLS is
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis
University), who will speak on 'The conceptual structure and
syntactic
linking of perception verbs'.
Questions? Send email to <undconf@umich.edu> or to Sally Thomason
<thomason@umich.edu>, or call the
Linguistics Department
at
(734)764-0353.
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