Program
Friday, May 2
8:30 Breakfast and Registration (Jennings 40)
8:45 Welcome (Jennings 155)
Pronunciation Variation
9:00 Invited talk: ‘The acquisition of gendered speech production in children aged three
to thirteen years’ Abstract
10:00 ‘6-month olds are more sensitive to vowel variation in F1 than F2’ Abstract
Suzanne Curtin, University of Calgary, Lori L. Holt, Carnegie Mellon University,
Dan Hufnagle, University of Calgary, & Scott F. Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh
10:30 ‘What mechanisms can account for the benefits of acoustic variability during second
language vocabulary learning?’ Abstract
Mitchell S. Sommers & Joe Barcroft, Washington University
11:00 Discussion
Mark A. Pitt, The Ohio State University
11:30 Lunch (Jennings 40)
Generations I
12:30 ‘Three generations three stories’ Abstract
Mehmet Özcan, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
1:00 ‘Quotatives in Washington D.C.’ Abstract
Jermay Jamsu, Georgetown University
1:30 ‘(Re)assessing age as a sociolinguistic variable (and the Northern Cities Shift in
Northwest Indiana)’ Abstract
Brian José, Indiana University
2:00 ‘Language-specific vs. language-common perceptual cues for age identification’
Kyoko Nagao, Nemours – Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
2:30 Coffee Break (Jennings 40)
Change within an Individual
3:00 Invited talk: 'Inter-individual variation and change in adolescence and beyond' Abstract
Gillian Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 ‘Buonʒiorno Prinʃipessa?: Tuscan affricate lenition in Roberto Benigni films’ Abstract
Jennifer Behney, Michigan State University
4:30 ‘The extent of adult dialect shift: A case study of Mel Gibson’ Abstract
Keelan Evanini, University of Pennsylvania
5:00 Discussion
Mary Rose, The Ohio State University
6:30 Symposium Dinner (The Happy Greek, Campus Gateway)
Saturday, May 3
8:30 Breakfast (Jennings 40)
Language Acquisition
9:00 Invited talk: ‘Learning (and changing) unpredictable linguistic variation: Who learns
what, when, and why’ Abstract
Carla Hudson Kam, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 ‘Variation and facilitation paths in language acquisition’ Abstract
Bruno Estigarribia, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10:30 ‘Towards mastering the discourses of reasoning: Use of grammatical metaphor at
various levels of foreign language acquisition’ Abstract
Marianna Ryshina-Pankova, George Mason University
11:00 Discussion
Laura Wagner, The Ohio State University
11:30 Lunch (Jennings 40)
Generations II
1:00 ‘Infant dialect discrimination’ Abstract
Jennifer Phan & Derek M. Houston, Indiana University School of Medicine
1:30 ‘From adolescence to adulthood: A panel study of “Clara”’ Abstract
Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto
2:00 ‘The use of referring expressions across the lifespan’ Abstract
Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen
2:30 Coffee Break (Jennings 40)
Language in Youth
3:00 Invited talk: ‘Coming into their own: Variation in the passage from childhood
to adolescence’ Abstract
Penelope Eckert, Standford University
4:00 ‘Age-grading of (ing) and (dh) in an adolescent panel study’ Abstract
Suzanne Evans Wagner, Michigan State University
4:30 ‘What's your style? A study of stylistic variation in Latina/o college students’ Abstract
Ana Sánchez Muñoz, California State University, Northridge
5:00 Discussion
Cynthia G. Clopper, Ohio State University