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Subject: 7.472, Confs: Northwest Linguistics Conference
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:55:26 PST
From:  mgalvao at u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao)
Subject:  Final Program for NWLC 1996
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:55:26 PST
From:  mgalvao at u.washington.edu (Maria Galvao)
Subject:  Final Program for NWLC 1996
 
 
 
                       Northwest Linguistics Conference
 
	                   University of Washington
 
			     Saturday, March 30th
 
8:30		BREAKFAST
 
9:00-9:30	Eliminating Overt Verb-Movement in Korean and Checking Theory
		Tai-Soo Kim, University of Washington
 
9:30-10:00	Historical Syntax of the English Indefinite Article
		Nancy Ackles, University of Washington
 
10:00-10:30	German Attributive Adjectives and Case Matching
		Enrique Mallen, Texas A&M University
 
10:30-10:45	BREAK
 
10:45-11:15 	Syntactic Analysis of Focus Sentences in Japanese and its
		Implication
		Yuki Matsuda, University of Southern California
 
11:15-11:45	Right Dislocation as IP-ellipsis
		Yael Sharvit, Rutgers University
 
11:45-12:15	Emergence of the Unmarked:  Korean Partial Reduplication
		Soohee Kim, University of Washington
 
12:15-12:45	Metalinguistic Use of "Any" and the Distribution of Free-Choice
		Items in Polarity Contexts
		Subhadra Ramachandran, University of Ottawa, Canada
 
12:45		LUNCH
 
2:15-3:15	*Invited Speaker:  Heles Contreras
		'Deconstructing Weak Crossover'
 
3:15-3:45	Optimality and the Hand Number Feature in ASL and SVK
		Lorna Rozelle, University of Washington
 
3:45-4:15	Mora Conservation in Optimality Theory:  evidence from
		Spanish diminutives
		Gorka Elordieta, University of Southern California
		Maria M. Carreira, California State University at Long Beach
 
4:15-4:30	BREAK
 
4:30-5:00	Suprasegmental Changes in Progress:  Parallelism Between
		Japanese and English
		Noriko Hattori, Mie University, Japan
 
5:00-5:30	Phonological Difficulties for Cantonese ESL Speakers
		Bowen Hui, University of British Columbia, Canada
 
5:30-6:00	Categorial and Phi-Features in Language Disorders
		Monica Eszter Sanchez, Brock University, Canada
 
6:00		DINNER
 
			     Sunday, March 31st
 
8:30		BREAKFAST
 
9:00-9:30	The Acquisition of Determiner Phrases in Early Child Language
		Ute Bohnacker, University of Durham, England
 
9:30-10:00	Morpheme Acquisition and the Count/Mass Distinction of Nouns
		Keiko Okada and Yoichi Miyamoto, Ohio University
 
10:00-10:30	Assimilation, Weakening and Geminate Inalterability
		Chang-Kook Suh, University of Arizona
 
10:30-10:45	BREAK
 
10:45-11:15	Nasal Harmony is Strictly Local
		Rachel Walker, University of California, Santa Cruz
 
11:15-11:45	An Analogical Approach to German Plural Formation
		Douglas J Wulf, University of Washington
 
11:45-12:15	Propositional Anaphora and Presupposition Denial
		Orin Percus, MIT
 
12:15-12:45	Contrastive and Exhaustive Focus Readings in Korean
		Mean-Young Song, Georgetown University
 
12:45		LUNCH
 
2:15-3:15	*Invited Speaker:  Siri Tuttle
		'How to Lose Tone:  Prominence and Pitch in Tanana Athabaskan'
 
3:15-3:45	Syntax and Discourse Function of "Wa" Marking in Japanese
		Akihiko Uechi, University of British Columbia, Canada
 
3:45-4:15	SNACK
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