Alberta Conference on Linguistics
November 6, 2021
All presentations are 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions.
You may view and download the abstract booklet here.
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Herb Colston: Chair, Department of Linguistics) |
| Session 1 8:40 – 10:00 Chair: Veranika Puhacheuskaya |
Does that sound round to you? Generalized posteriorization of English alveolars before approximants Brett C Nelson University of Calgary “Who you are” decides “what the smile means”: Emoji-based Ironic interpretation between younger and older adults Jing Cui University of Alberta, Xiamen University Compounding in Úwù Olanrewaju Charles Boyede University of Calgary Perception and timing of acoustic distance Matthew C. Kelley & Benjamin V. Tucker University of Alberta |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | BREAK |
| Session 2 10:20 – 11:40 Chair: Andrea Levinstein Rodriguez |
An acoustic investigation of the markers uh [ə] and um [əm] Gabrielle Morin & Benjamin V. Tucker University of Alberta You and Me in Blackfoot’s Obviation System Quinn Goddard University of Calgary Effects of subjecthood and focus marking in German L1 and L2 Regina Hert, Juhani Järvikivi, and Anja Arnhold University of Alberta Yeísmo and conservation of the ʎ/ʝ distinction in Peru Andrés Giudice University of Calgary |
| 11:40 – 12:20 | LUNCH BREAK |
| Session 3 12:20 – 13:20 Chair: Rodrigo Becerra |
The roles of language dominance and input: Article and classifier acquisition patterns in Cantonese-English bilingual children Hannah Bou-Lai Lam University of Alberta Labels speak volumes: the role of intergroup membership in accent perception Kasandra Calkins, Jiseung Kim, Veranika Puhacheuskaya, and Juhani Järvikivi University of Alberta The processing of consonants and vowels by L2 English/L1 Mandarin listeners Gabriela Holko, Scott James Perry, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker University of Alberta |
| 13:20 – 14:00 | BREAK |
| Session 4 14:00 – 15:20 Chair: Dusan Nikolic |
Lip Rounding and the Enhancement of Fricative Distinctions in Canadian English Tanna Butlin & Stephen Winters University of Calgary An unresolved puzzle in Persian: The inconclusive data of ‘-esh’ Mahyar Nakhaei University of Calgary The effect of word frequency on Spanish tap reduction in spontaneous speech Scott James Perry, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker University of Alberta Prosody of anaphora and cataphora in casual speech Cat Crandell University of Alberta |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | BREAK |
| Session 5 15:40 – 17:00 Chair: Lindsay Hracs |
Do mothers speak differently when a word is new? Investigating prosodic features of infant-directed speech across English dialects Jiaxing Li, Rachel Tu, Taryn Yaceko, Hester Duffy, Sotaro Kita, and Stephanie L. Archer University of Alberta, University of Warwick Co-occurring Sentence-Final Particles in Mandarin Chinese Kang Xu University of Calgary Culture-Specific Conceptualizations of Corruption: A Semantic Analysis of English Spoken in Ghana Emma Kusuoba Pedavoah University of Alberta, University of Ghana Remote Collection of a Malagasy Speech Corpus Tyler T. Schnoor & Benjamin V. Tucker University of Alberta |
| 17:00 – 17:10 | Closing Remarks |