RLS Meeting 2009 – Theoretical Contributions
from Lesser-Studied Languages and Language Varieties
S A T U
R D A Y: FEBRUARY 21, 2009
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8:45-9:20 |
Registration
& Breakfast |
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9:20-9:30 |
Opening
Remarks |
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9:30-10:00 |
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Mixed
to the Core: Sheng's Lexicon |
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10:00-10:30 |
Linda
Lanz |
Complete
phonetic merger in Iñupiaq |
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
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10:45-12:15 |
Dr.
James Stanford - Dr.
Claire Bowern - Yale Dr.
Robert Englebretson - Rice Dr.
Laura Robinson - Rice |
Panel
Discussion on The Role of Theory in Language Description |
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12:15-2:00 |
Lunch
(on your own) |
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2:00-2:30 |
Dr Ala Hyun-Oak
Kim Southern
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The
relevance principle revisited: How are Korean/Japanese honorific markers
distributed in verbal categories? |
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2:30-3:00 |
Dr.
Shishir Bhattacharja |
On
the multiplication of word formation rules in Bengali |
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3:00-3:30 |
Katie
Nelson |
Acquisition
of Tense/Lax Vowels in a Second Language |
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3:30-3:45 |
Coffee
Break |
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3:45-4:15 |
Yanhong
Pan |
The
Semantics and Syntax of Aeu in Qinzhou Zhuang |
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4:15-4:45 |
Alexander
Ratte |
A
Dialectal and Phonological Analysis of |
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4:45-5:00 |
Coffee
Break |
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5:00-6:00 |
Dr.
Claire Bowern |
"Same, but different": variation in socially
‘unstructured’ societies |
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6:00 |
BBQ
in the Grad Lounge |
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S U N D
A Y: FEBRUARY 22, 2009
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8:45-9:15 |
Breakfast |
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9:15-9:45 |
Ann
Olivo |
Splendid
Bases: Speech Errors in a Conceptual Blending Framework |
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9:45-10:15 |
Piotr
Nowak |
Representing
Motion in Comics |
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10:15-10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
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10:30-11:00 |
Erik
Larsen & Neal Fox |
A
Comparative Optimality Theoretic Outlook on Loanword Phonology in Huave
Dialects of |
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11:00-11:30 |
Chelsea
McCracken |
Relative
clauses that they are unusual: The case of |
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11:30-12:00 |
Closing
Remarks |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch
(provided) |
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