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1)<br>Date: 18 Jan 2013<br>From:<span name="Mushira Eid" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Mushira Eid</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:mushira.eid@utah.edu" target="_blank">mushira.eid@utah.edu</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><br>
Subject:ALS 27 Program<br><br><div>THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY and INDIANA UNIVERSITY’s DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS and CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST</div><div><br></div><div>Announce</div>
<div> </div><div>THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS</div><div> </div><div>Indiana University Memorial Union</div><div>The Georgian Room</div><div>Bloomington, Indiana</div><div> </div><div>February 28 – March 2, 2013</div>
<div> </div><div>“An open forum for scholars interested in the application of current linguistic theories and analysis to Arabic”</div><div> </div><div>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013</div><div> </div><div>Registration: 7:30-8:15</div>
<div>Welcome/Opening Remarks: 8:15-8:30</div><div> </div><div>Session 1: Phonology I</div><div>8:30-9:00 Vocalic Length in One Semitic Language: The case of Egyptian Arabic vowel system</div><div>Radwa Fathi, Université Paris 7 /LLF- CNRS</div>
<div> </div><div>9:00-9:30 An Acoustic Study of Epenthetic Vowels in Lebanese Arabic</div><div>Nancy Hall, California State University, Long Beach</div><div> </div><div>9:30-10:00 The Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Geminates in Jordanian Arabic</div>
<div>Mohammad Al-Masri, University of Oklahoma</div><div> </div><div>10:00-10:30 Acoustic Correlates and Perception Cues of Primary Emphatics in Beiruti Arabic</div><div>Emilie Durand-Zuniga, University of Texas at Austin</div>
<div> </div><div>Break: 10:30-10:45</div><div> </div><div>Session 2: Phonology II (10:45-11:45)</div><div>10:45-11:15 The Status of Daad in a Southwest Arabian dialect (Tihami Qahtani)</div><div>Khairia Al-Qahtani, University of Essex, UK</div>
<div> </div><div>11:15-11:45 To Metathesize or Not to Metathesize: Sonority Constraints in Tunisian Arabic Nouns</div><div>Suyeon Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div> </div><div>11:45-12:45 Keynote Speaker:</div>
<div>Explorations at the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic</div><div>Sam Hellmuth, University of York, UK</div><div> </div><div>Lunch 12:45-1:45</div><div> </div><div>Session 3: Syntax I</div><div>1:45-2:15 On the Featural Properties of Complementizers in Arabic</div>
<div>Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee</div><div> </div><div>2:15-2:45 On the Syntax of Spatial 'Prepositions' in Lebanese Arabic</div><div>Lina Choueiri, American University in Beirut</div><div>2:45-3:15 On the Syntax of ʔillaa in Egyptian Arabic</div>
<div>Usama Soltan, Middlebury College</div><div> </div><div>Break: 3:15-3:30</div><div> </div><div>Session 4: Semantics</div><div>3:30-4:00 The Semantic Complexity of Kuwaiti Arabic: The case of dašš</div><div>Yousuf AlBader, University of Sheffield</div>
<div> </div><div>4:00-4:30 Identifying Semantic Relations in Arabic</div><div>Sameh Alansary, Bibliothecha Alexandria</div><div> </div><div>Break: 4:30-4:45</div><div> </div><div>4:45-5:45 Keynote Speaker</div><div>Arabic Verbal And Nominal Plurals And The Syntax Morphology Interface</div>
<div>Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</div><div> </div><div>Reception: 6:00-7:30</div><div>Indiana University Art Museum</div><div> </div><div>FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013</div><div> </div><div>Session 5: Syntax II</div>
<div>8:30-9:00 On the Clausal Anchoring of Parenthetical Verb Phrases in Moroccan Arabic</div><div>Noureddine Elouazizi, Simon Fraser University</div><div> </div><div>9:00-9:30 Attitude Datives in Lebanese Arabic: Pronouns that merge too high to be bound</div>
<div>Youssef Haddad, University of Florida</div><div> </div><div>9:30-10:00 A Minimalist Approach to Restrictive and Free Relatives in MSA</div><div>Abdulrahman Alqurashi, University of Essex</div><div> </div><div>Break: 10:00-10:15</div>
<div> </div><div>Session 7: Discourse/Corpus Analysis</div><div>10:15-10:45 A Salience-based Analysis of the Tunisian Arabic Demonstrative hāk as Used in Oral Narratives</div><div>Amel Khalfaoui, Florida Atlantic University</div>
<div> </div><div>10:45-11:15 Converging Linguistic Evidence: The synonymy of Arabic COME verbs</div><div>Dana Abdulrahim and Antti Arppe, University of Alberta</div><div> </div><div>11:15-12:15 Keynote Speaker</div><div>
Modeling Sociopragmatic Language Use in Social Media in Arabic and English: A Comparative Computational Perspective</div>
<div>Mona Diab, George Washington University</div><div> </div><div>Lunch: 12:15-1:30</div><div>Arabic Linguistics Society Business Meeting</div><div> </div><div>Session 7: Sociolinguistics & Variation</div><div>1:30-2:00 Computational Measures of Linguistic Variation</div>
<div>Mahmoud Abunasser and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urabana-Champaign</div><div> </div><div>2:00-2:30 Glottal-initial Verbs ’axaḏ/’akal in Contact Situations: Data from Amman Arabic</div><div>Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, and Hanadi Ismail</div>
<div> </div><div>2:30-3:00 Urbanization and Linguistic Change in Jeddah</div><div>Aziza Al-Essa, King Abdulaziz University</div><div> </div><div>3:00-3:30 French Nouns in CS with Two Arabic dialects: A comparison of community norms</div>
<div>Rebekah Post, University of Texas at Austin</div><div> </div><div>Break: 3:30-3:45</div><div> </div><div>3:45-4:45 Keynote Speaker:</div><div>The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology and the politics of identity in a globalized Arab world</div>
<div> Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto, Scarborough</div><div> </div><div>Break: 4:45-5:00</div><div> </div><div>Session 8: Historical Linguistics</div><div>5:00-5:30 The Antecedents of Arabic Dialects: A speech communities approach</div>
<div>Alexander Magidow, University of Texas at Austin</div><div> </div><div>5:30-6:00 Grammaticalization of the Motion Verb 'rah' as a Prospective Aspect Marker in Syria Arabic</div><div>Najib Jarad, University of Sharjah</div>
<div> </div><div>6:00-6:30 Jiim and the Class of Sun Letters: A Historical and Dialectological Perspective</div><div>Aaron Freeman, University of Pennsylvania</div><div> </div><div>6:30-7:00 The Evolution of Dād</div><div>
Salman Al-Ani and Anthony Woodhams, Indiana University</div><div> </div><div>SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013</div><div> </div><div>Session 9: Acquisition</div><div>8:30-9:00 Compensatory Lengthening: Evidence from Child Arabic</div>
<div>Eman Abdoh, King Abdulaziz University</div><div> </div><div>9:00-9:30 Linguistic Transfer in Learning English as a Second Language in Typically Developing Arabic Heritage School-Age Speakers</div><div>Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Delphi University, and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div>
<div> </div><div>9:30-10:00 Can L2 Primes Trigger L1 Translation Targets in Mased Priming?: New Evidence from a highly proficient English–Arabic Bilingual</div><div>Mahmoud Azaz and Kenneth Forster, University of Arizona</div>
<div> </div><div>10:00-10:30 Gender and Plausibility in the Disambiguation of Relative Clauses in L2 Arabic</div><div>Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Rebecca Foote, and Mahmoud Abu Nasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div>
<div> </div><div>Break: 10:30-10:45</div><div> </div><div>Session 10: Experimental and Interlanguage Studies</div><div>10:45-11:15 Verb Inflections in Adolescents with Down Syndrome: Experimental approach</div><div>Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University</div>
<div> </div><div>11:15-11:45 Agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic-Speaking Subjects</div><div>Samir Diouny, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco</div><div> </div><div>11:45-12:15 An Exploration of the Formation of Canonical Agreement Morphosyntactic Features in English-Arabic Interlanguage</div>
<div>Boshra El-Ghazoly, Indiana University</div><div> </div><div>Special Session: Arabic in Computer-Mediated Communication</div><div>12:45-1:15 Social Media Arabic</div><div>Muhammad Abdul Mageed, Indiana University</div>
<div> </div><div>1:15-1:45 Variation in the Representation of Arabic Consonants in Facebook</div><div>Duaa Abu Elhija Mahajna, Indiana University</div><div> </div><div>1:45-2:15 Arabic Chat Alphabet: A data-oriented analysis of variation in Latinized Arabic</div>
<div>Paul Rodrigues, C. Anton Rytting, and Timothy Buckwalter, University of Maryland</div><div> </div><div>FOR REGISTRATION, TRAVEL, and OTHER INFORMATION: Go to the symposium webpage at <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~csme/als2013.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.indiana.edu/~csme/als2013.shtml</a></div>
<div> </div><div>For questions regarding logistics and local arrangements, contact Ms. Myriem Benzouina, Program Assistant, Center for the Study of the Middle East, at <a href="mailto:CSME@indiana.edu" target="_blank">CSME@indiana.edu</a>.</div>
<div> </div><div>Questions regarding the program can be addressed to Dr. Mushira Eid, ALS Executive Director, at <a href="mailto:mushira.eid@utah.edu" target="_blank">mushira.eid@utah.edu</a>.</div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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