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Date: 22 Jan 2001
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: ALS Program

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY,
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, AND BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

announce the

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON
ARABIC LINGUISTICS

March 2-3, 2001

FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Morning Session
Chair: Dilworth Parkinson, BYU

7:45 - 8:00 	Registration
8:00 - 8:15 	Opening Remarks

8:15 - 8:45	EVOLUTION OF MSA, THE CASE OF SOME COMPLEMENTARY PARTICLES
	Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven

8:45 - 9:15	TWO DISTINCTIVE SENTENCE FUNCTIONS IN DESCRIPTIVE ARABIC
LINGUISTICS
Everhard Ditters, Nijmegen University

9:15 - 9:45	AUTOMATIC PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING OF AN ARABIC CORPUS USING APT
Shereen Khoja and Roger Garside, Lancaster University

9:45 -10:15	THE NP-STRUCTURE TYPES IN WRITTEN AND SPOKEN MSA CORPORA: A
FORMAL-BASED APPROACH
	Sameh Al-Ansary, Nijmegen University

10:15-10:30	Coffee

10:30-11:00	ROLE OF L1 TRANSFER IN L2 ACQUISITION OF INFLECTIONAL
MORPHOLOGY
	Mohammad T. Alhawary, American University, Washington D.C.
11:00-11:30	MEASURING MORPHOLOGY FEATURES IN ARABIC VERBS
Stephen Taylor, College of the Holy Cross

11:30-12:00	REDUPLICATION IN JORDANIAN ARABIC
Mohammad Anani, University of Jordan

12:00-12:30	ARE WORD PATTERNS PARSED INTO VOCALIC AND SKELETAL
MORPHEMES DURING THE PROCESSING OF MSA?
Sami Boudelaa and William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences
Unit, Cambridge

Afternoon Session
Chair: Dirk Elzinga, University of Utah

2:00 - 2:30	RISING BITONAL PITCH ACCENTS IN ARABIC INTONATION
Dana Chahal, University of Melbourne

2:30 - 3:00	CONSONANT PRODUCTION IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH BILINGUAL AND
MONOLINGUAL SPEECH
Ghada Khattab, University of Leeds

3:00 - 3:30	GENERALIZED CHAIN SHIFTS: BASED ON CYRENAICAN BEDOUIN ARABIC
Mina Lee, University of Southern California

3:30 - 4:00	FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF ARABIC VOWELS IN CLASSICAL ORTHOEPY:
THE PHONETICS OF ARABIC CARDINAL VOWELS
Daniel L. Newman, Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes

4:00 - 4:15	Coffee

4:15 - 5:15	KEYNOTE ADDRESS
THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE GRAMMATICAL STATUS OF ROOT CONSONANTS IN ARABIC
Stuart Davis, Indiana University at Bloomington

5:30-9:00		RECEPTION

SATURDAY, MARCH 3
Morning Session
Chair: Laurel Stvan, University of Utah

8:15 - 8:45	THE PARTICLES OF POWER
Mustafa Mughazy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:45 - 9:15 	THE USE OF VERNACULAR PARTICLES AND MSA VERB MORPHOLOGY IN
UNSCRIPTED ORAL MEDIA ARABIC
	David J. Mehall, Georgetown University

9:15 - 9:45	CHILD DIRECTED SPEECH IN HIJAZI ARABIC
	Fatima Basaffar, King Abdul Aziz University

9:45 -10:15	WHAT IS A SECRET LANGUAGE?
A CASE FROM SAUDI ARABIAN DIALECTS
	Muhammad Bakalla, King Saud University

10:15-10:30	Coffee

10:30-11:00	LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF FOLKSINGING IN ARABIC:
AL-ATAABA
	Jamil Daher

11:00-11:30	THEORIES OF CODE SWITCHING IN LIGHT OF EMPIRICAL DATA FROM
EGYPT
Reem Bassiouney, Oxford University

11:30-12:00	INTRODUCTIONS IN ARABIC ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Ahmed Fakhri, West Virginia University

12:00-12:30	TRANSLATING ARABIC SPEECH ACTION EXPRESSIONS
Rudolf Reinelt, Universitaet Ehime

Afternoon Session
Chair: Randall Guess, University of Utah

2:00 - 2:30	RELATIVE CLAUSES IN SYRIAN ARABIC: TWO RE-CONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS
James Darrow, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:30 - 3:00	HEBREW SPEAKERS' ACQUISITION OF ARABIC SYNTAX
	Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas

3:00 - 3:30	INTERPRETABILITY, FEATURE STRENGTH, AND IMPOVERISHED AGREEMENT
Mark LeTourneau, Weber State University

3:30 - 3:45 	Coffee

3:45 - 4:15	CASE AND (IN)DEFINITENESS IN THE CONSTRUCT STATE IN ARABIC
Khaled Elghamry, Indiana University, Bloomington

4:15 - 4:45	THE ARABIC LEXICON DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS UNITY OR DIVERSITY?
	Fatima Badry, American University of Sharjah

4:45 - 5:15	RULE ECONOMY: THE CASE OF KAANA IN THE EMERGENCY EXIT
	Michael McOmber, University of Utah

5:15 - 6:00	ALS Business Meeting

For registration information contact:
Tessa Hauglid, 1346 South 2950 East, Spanish Fork, UT 84660, USA (email:
tmh1 at mstar2.net).

The symposium will be held at the Fort Douglas Guesthouse in Salt Lake
City, located at 110 South Fort Douglas Boulevard on the University of Utah
campus. The Guesthouse offers a rate for symposium participants of $69 for
single or double rooms and includes a continental breakfast. Please make
reservations by calling the hotel directly at 1-888-416-4075. International
visitors please call 801-587-1000. Mention the Arabic Linguistics Symposium
when making reservations; a block of rooms will be held for conference
participants until February 15, after which rooms may be reserved at the
same rate subject to availability. For more information on the Guesthouse
go to: http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu.

sponsored by

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

and

College of Humanities, Department of Linguistics, Middle East Center,
Depart-ment of Languages and Literature, THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and
Department of Near Eastern and Asian Languages, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

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