Third International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics - Philadelpha (USA) - abril de 2006

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Third International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics 
Date: 06-Apr-2006 - 07-Apr-2006 
Location: Philadelpha, PA, USA 
Contact: Jonathan Holmquist 
Meeting URL: http://www.temple.edu/spanpor/WSS3 

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Meeting Description:
Workshop focusing on presentations of original sociolinguistic research
analyzing Spanish data or data from contact situations between Spanish
and other languages. Keynote speaker: William Labov. Plenary speakers:
Richard Cameron, Carol Klee, and Ricardo Otheguy. 


Program 

Thursday, April 6 

08:00 - 08:40	Registration 
9th Floor Gladfelter Hall 

08:40 - 09:00	Welcome 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

09:00 - 11:00	Session 1: Morpho-syntactic Variation / Nominals 
GH 914 

Moderator: Pedro Guijarro 

Nydia Flores. Mexicans in New Jersey: A preliminary study of subject
pronoun expression in discourse. 

Michol Hoffman. Así hablamos / nosotros hablamos así: Subject pronoun
expression in the Spanish of Salvadorean youth in Toronto. 

Dora Beatriz Ramírez. Subject personal pronouns and impersonal sentences
in adult Colombian immigrants' Spanish. 

Assela Reig Alamillo and Scott Schwenter. Null objects and neuter lo: A
cross-dialectal variationist analysis. 

11:00 - 11:15	COFFEE BREAK 

11:15 - 12:15	Plenary 1 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

Ricardo Otheguy 

Initial stages and leveling raises in subject pronouns in Spanish in New
York: Occurrence rates and constraint hierarchies as evidence for
language and dialect contact 

12:15 - 01:15	LUNCH 

01:15 - 03:15	Session 2: Phonological Variation I 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

Moderator: Amalia Schweizer 

Gabriela Alfaraz. Liquid assimilation in Cuban Spanish. 

Marisol Garrido. Diphthongization of mid/low vowel sequences in
Colombian Spanish. 

Julia Oliver. Mobility and its effects on vowel raising in the coffee
zone of Puerto Rico. 

Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez. El debilitamiento de /-s/ y la construcción
lingüística de identidades en Puerto Rico. 

03:15 - 03:40	COFFEE BREAK 

03:40 - 04:40	Keynote Address 
Gladfelter Hall 21 (Entry Level) 

William Labov 

Spanish sociolinguistics as a strategic research site for general
linguistic theory 

04:40 - 05:00	BREAK 

05:00 - 06:30	Session 3: Attitude and Discourse 
Gladfelter Hall 21 

Moderator: Robert Vann 

Norma Corrales. Aproximación interdisciplinaria al análisis de un texto
real. 

Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza. The talk of the town: Spanish language
attitudes in Philadelphia. 

Cecilia Montes-Alcalá. Blogging in two languages: Code-switching in
bilingual bloggs. 

07:00 - 08:30	Dinner 
(Diamond [Faculty] Club), Mitten Hall 


Friday, April 7 

09:00 - 11:00	Session 4: Phonological Variation II 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

Moderator: Maríadelaluz Matus-Mendoza 

Scott Alvord. Spanish intonation in contact: Miami-Cuban interrogatives. 

Maryellen García. Variable verb pronunciations in Chicano Spanish:
Phonology or morphology? 

Emily Hinch. Word order in bilingual Spanish: Convergence and intonation
strategy. 

Michelle Ramos-Pellicia. Loraine Puerto Rican Spanish and 'r' in three
generations. 

11:00 - 11:15	COFFEE BREAK 

11:15 - 12:15	Plenary 2 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

Richard Cameron 

Three approaches to finding the social in the linguistic 

12:15 - 01:15	LUNCH 

01:15 - 03:15	Session 5: Contact, Creoles and Natural SLA 
GH 914 

Moderator: Augusto Lorenzino 

Hsiao Hu. Natural second language acquisition or pidginization?: Present
tense verb usage by adult Chinese speakers of Spanish in Guayaquil,
Ecuador. 

Luis Ortiz and Pedro Guijarro. El contacto créole/español la adquisición
de clíticos en la frontera domínico-haitiana. 

Thomas Morton. Intevocalic V/D/V variation and change in Palenquero
Spanish. 

Tara Sanchez. Nativization pathways of Spanish progressive -ndo in
Papiamentu. 

03:15 - 03:30	COFFEE BREAK 

03:30 - 04:30	Plenary 3 
Gladfelter Hall 914 

Carol Klee 

Dialect contact in Peru: Variation and change in contemporary Limeño
Spanish 

04:30 - 04:45	BREAK 

04:45 - 06:15	Session 6: Amerindian Contact 

Moderator: William Calvano 

Ivonne Balcazar. Identity, modernity and language shift in Kaqchikel
Maya adolescents. 

Marilyn Feke. The role of language instruction in determining the extent
of cross-linguistic influence: The case of Cuzco Quechua and Andean
Spanish. 

Jim Michnowicz. El habla de Yucatám: final nasal variants in a dialect
zone. 

07:00 - 08:30	Dinner 
(Anderson Hall, 4th Floor Lounge) 


Saturday, April 9	Anderson Lobby 7 

08:30 - 10:30	Session 7: Variation and Discourse in Spain 

Moderator: Lotfi Sayahi 

Enrique Pato and David Heap. Lexical and sociogeographic variation
across Asturias and the 'dominio Astur.' 

Steve Marshall. New Latino diaspora and new zones of language contact:
the case of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia. 

Juan Antonio Thomas Testa. El uso de la gheada en tres generaciones de
mujeres de Carballo, A Coruña. 

Robert Vann. Doing Catalan Spanish: Pragmatic resources and discourse
strategies in ways of speaking Spanish in Barcelona. 

10:30-11:00	COFFEE BREAK 

11:00-01:30	Session 8: Morpho-syntactic Variation / Verbals 
AL 7 

Moderator: Thomas Morton 

Donna Brown and Lisa Barboun. Aspects of cigar city Spanish: Preterite
and imperfect verb morphology in the Spanish of three generations of
Cubans in Tampa. 

Carolina Castillo-Trelles. Pluralización de haber impersonal en el
español yucateco: ¿Un cambio desde arriba? 

Pedro Guijarro and Kimberly Geeslin. Explaining copula change in
Spanish: Gender. 

Rafael Orozco. Social constraints on the expression of futurity in
Spanish-speaking urban communities. 

Tonya Wolford. Variation in Spanish hypothetical discourse in the
Southwest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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