Schedule

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
16:00 - 18:00- Registration/Inscription

Leacock Building, Room 26, McGIll University
18:00 - 19:30 Keynote Speaker: Professor Heather Goad, McGill University
Prosodic Transfer and the Representation of Interlanguage Articles

Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
20:00 - 21:00 Reception, Wine and Cheese


Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Holiday Inn Express, 155 Rene Levesque Blvd East
10:00-10:30- Breakfast, late registration

Session 1. Chair: Timo Green
10:30 - 11:00 Cassandra Chapman, Ottawa University

Clitic Doubling in Spontaneous French Speech

11:00 - 11:30- Mariah Warren, Northeastern University

Repetition of Grammatical Structures and Second Language Fluency

11:30 - 11:45- Coffee Break

Session 2. Chair: George Starling
11:45 - 12:15- Anthony Brohan, Queen’s University

Sibilant Harmony in Kirwanda

12:15 - 12:45- Zack De, Kate Miller, and Stephanie Pignatiello, Dartmouth College

That's So Gay: The Kinsey Scale and 'Gay-Sounding' Speech Features

12:45 -14:00- Lunch Break

Session 3.Chair- Roseanne Lau
14:00 - 14:30- Zoe Belk, McGill University

Word Order in the Syntax of Adjectives

14:30 - 15:00- Gretchen McCulloch, Queen’s University

Indefinite Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic

15:00 - 15:15- Coffee Break

Session 4. Chair- Ted Graves

15:15 - 15:45- Carol Little, McGill University

Gender and The Usage of the Hedge ‘Like’ in North American Young Adult Speech

15:45 - 16:15- Binoy Zuzarte, McGill University
Examining the Hypocoristic Diminutive Suffix of English within Optimality Theory

L’Académie- 4051 St-Denis, Montréal

19:00- Dinner - Reservations made


Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Holiday Inn Express, 155 Rene Levesque Blvd East
10:00 - 10:15: Breakfast

Session 5: Chair- Jericho Knopp
10:15 - 10:45: Amelia Manolescu, McGill University

That-trace effects in L2 French of L1 Romanians

10:45 - 11:15: Thea Knowles, McGill University

Variation in Lexical Selection between Men and Women

11:15 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30- Keynote Speaker: Professor Meghan Clayards, McGill University
It's All in Your Head: Why Phonetics is More than Physics

12:30 - 13:00- Closing Remarks