RLS Meeting 2009 – Theoretical Contributions from Lesser-Studied Languages and Language Varieties

 

S A T U R D A Y: FEBRUARY 21, 2009

8:45-9:20

Registration & Breakfast

 

9:20-9:30

Opening Remarks

 

9:30-10:00

Philip W. Rudd

Pittsburg State University

Mixed to the Core: Sheng's Lexicon

10:00-10:30

Linda Lanz

Rice University

Complete phonetic merger in Iñupiaq

 

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:15

Dr. James Stanford - Dartmouth

Dr. Claire Bowern - Yale

Dr. Robert Englebretson - Rice

Dr. Laura Robinson - Rice

Panel Discussion on The Role of Theory in Language Description

12:15-2:00

Lunch (on your own)

 

2:00-2:30

Dr Ala Hyun-Oak Kim

Southern Illinois University

The relevance principle revisited: How are Korean/Japanese honorific markers distributed in verbal categories? 

2:30-3:00

Dr. Shishir Bhattacharja

Kwansei Gakuin University and University of Dhaka

On the multiplication of word formation rules in Bengali

 

3:00-3:30

Katie Nelson

Rice University

Acquisition of Tense/Lax Vowels in a Second Language

3:30-3:45

Coffee Break

 

3:45-4:15

Yanhong Pan

University of Hong Kong

The Semantics and Syntax of Aeu in Qinzhou Zhuang

4:15-4:45

Alexander Ratte                  Williams College

A Dialectal and Phonological Analysis of Penghu Taiwanese

4:45-5:00

Coffee Break

 

5:00-6:00

Dr. Claire Bowern

Yale University

"Same, but different": variation in socially ‘unstructured’ societies

6:00

BBQ in the Grad Lounge

 

 

S U N D A Y: FEBRUARY 22, 2009

8:45-9:15

Breakfast

 

9:15-9:45

Ann Olivo

Rice University

Splendid Bases: Speech Errors in a Conceptual Blending Framework

9:45-10:15

Piotr Nowak

Rice University

Representing Motion in Comics

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

 

10:30-11:00

Erik Larsen & Neal Fox

University of Virginia

A Comparative Optimality Theoretic Outlook on Loanword Phonology in Huave Dialects of Mexico

11:00-11:30

Chelsea McCracken

Rice University

Relative clauses that they are unusual: The case of Asante Twi

11:30-12:00

Closing Remarks

 

12:00-1:00

Lunch (provided)

 

 

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