Arabic-L:LING;Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic Preliminary Program

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1) Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken  
Arabic Preliminary Program

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Date: 29 Mar 2006
From:jowens at casl.umd.edu
Subject:Conf on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken  
Arabic Preliminary Program


Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

June 8-10, 2006


University of Maryland, Stamp Student Union, Benjamin Banneker Room

AGENDA


Thursday, June 8th

9:00 Welcome

Phonetics and Phonology
9:15 Dina ElZarka, Graz University, Austria
“The Prosody of Focus in Egyptian Arabic”
9:45 Judith Rosenhouse, Swantech Ltd., Haifa, Israel
       “A Comparison of Intonation Patterns in Eastern and Western  
Arabic Dialects”
10:15 Break
10:30 Soha Abboud, University of Madrid
“Accent and Syllabical Structure in Arabic Dialects: The case of  
Cairene Linguistic Variety as a Model”
11:00 Sam Hellmuth, SOAS/University of Potsdam
“The (Absence of) Prosodic Reflexes of the Given/New Distinction in  
Egyptian Arabic”

Syntax, Word Order
11:30 Break
11:45 Clive Holes, Oxford University
“Word Order, Information Structure and Rhetorical Function in Gulf  
Arabic”

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Steve Hewitt, UNESCO, Paris
“Arabic: verb-subject-object or verb-given-new?”
2:30 Malcolm Edwards, University of London
“Word Order and Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic: Formal and  
Functional Considerations”

3:00 Break
3:15 George Grigore, University of Bucharest
“Conditional Structures in Mardini Arabic”
3:45 Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
“Topicalization in Egyptian Arabic”
4:15 Adjourn


Friday, June 9th
Codeswitching and Psycholinguistics,

9:00 Karima Ziamari, ENS Meknes
“Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching and Information Structure”
9:45 Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan CASL and University of  
Maiduguri, Nigeria
“Conversation Particles in Arabic-Hausa Codeswitching: Saliency and  
Language Hierarchies”
10:15 Uri Horesh, University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University
Variable Code-Switching and atypical sentence structure in  
Palestinian Arabic
10:45 Break
11:15 Najat Benchiba, SOAS, London University
“Structural and Social Considerations in Moroccan Arabic and English  
Codeswitching”
11:45 Sami Boudelaa, Cambridge University
“The structure of information in standard and dialectal Arabic: A  
cognitive perspective”

12:30 Lunch

Pragmatics and Semantics
2:00 Mohammed Farghal, Yarmouk University
“Pragmatics and Information Structure in Arabic”
2:45 Daniela Firanescu, Dalhousie University
“The Meanings of Becoming in Syrian Arabic: Approach of the Modal Saar”
3:15 Break
3:30 David Wilmsen, American University, Cairo, Egypt
“Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic:  
Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling”
4:00 Mahmoud Alkhatib, University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
“The Pragmatics of Invitation Making and Acceptance in Jordanian Arabic”
4:30 Adjourn

Saturday, June 10th

Discourse Particles
9:00 Bruce Ingham, SOAS, London University
“Information Structure in Najdi Arabic”
9:45 Marie Aimee Germanos, Université de Paris III
“The Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of enno in Lebanese Spoken  
Arabic”
10:15 Maher Bahloul, University of Utah
“The Pragmatics of the Particle Tab'an in Conversational Arabic”
10:45 Break

Corpus Analysis
11:00 Alan Kaye, University of California, Fullerton
“On the Use of Aspects, Independent Personal Pronouns, Fillers, and  
Attention Grabbers in an Algerian Arabic Oral Narrative”
11:45 Jonathan Owens, David Mehall, Tent Rockwood, Bill Young, Robin  
Dodsworth, CASL
“Verbal Subjects in Arabian Peninsular Dialects: A Polyphonic  
Description”
12:30 Otakar Smrz, Petr Zemanek, Jakub Bracmar, Viktor Bielicky,  
Charles University, Prague
“Information Structure with the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank”

1:00 Lunch

Sociolinguistics
2:00 Enam Al-Wer, Essex University
“The Making of the Amman Dialect: From Chaos to Order”
2:45 Salma Arraf, Middle East School III, Defense Language Institute
“The Palestinian Dialect in Contact with Hebrew: Overcoming Ethnical  
Obstacles and Group Boundaries”
3:15 Break
3:30 Raggia Effat, Cairo University
“A Descriptive Analysis of Educated Spoken Standard Arabic in Cairo”
4:00 Rania Habib, University of Florida
“An OT Account of a Sociolinguistic inter-personal Variation in the  
Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic”
4:30 Closing Remarks
4:45 Adjourn

45 minute sessions will consist of a 30 minute talk and 15 minute  
discussion
30 minute sessions will consist of a 20 minute talk and 10 minute  
discussion




Jonathan Owens
Senior Researcher
University of Maryland CASL
301-226-8830
jowens at casl.umd.edu

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