27.1642, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Acqu, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 27.1642, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Acqu, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:42:30
From: Bill Haddican [whaddican at qc.cuny.edu]
Subject: Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation 3

Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation 3 
Short Title: FWAV3 

Date: 18-May-2016 - 19-May-2016 
Location: New York, NY, USA 
Contact: Alan Munn 
Contact Email: fwav3 at msu.edu 
Meeting URL: http://fwav3.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation (FWAV) workshop has been a venue for
research which pursues formal analyses of linguistic variation, in all domains
of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). The purpose of FWAV
is to bring researchers together in order to gain a better understanding of
the mechanisms which underlie (and the relationship between) intra-speaker
variability, language acquisition, and language change.

Now in its third year, the Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation (FWAV) workshop
has been a venue for research which pursues formal analyses of linguistic
variation, in all domains of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, and
semantics). The purpose of FWAV is to bring researchers together in order to
gain a better understanding of the mechanisms which underlie (and the
relationship between) intra-speaker variability, language acquisition, and
language change. In contrast with previous years (where FWAV was a one-day
workshop integrated into a larger conference), this year’s FWAV3 will be a
stand-alone, 2-day conference.

Invited Speaker: Cristina Schmitt, Michigan State University

Program:

The conference is to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY, 10016

Wednesday,  18 May 2016

8:00am-9:00am Breakfast (C204/205)

9:00am-9:30am
Gita Martohardjono, Executive Officer of the Program in Linguistics, The
Graduate Center
Opening Remarks

Session 1 (9:30am-10:50am)

9:30-10:10
Gregory Guy
What variation reveals about morphology

10:10-10:50
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Maciej Baranowski, George Bailey & Danielle Turton
A stationary frequency effect in Manchester English

10:50am-11:20am Coffee Break

Session 2 (11:20am-12:40pm)  

11:20-12:00
Daniel Duncan
Syntactic variation as a consequence of Variable Impoverishment in Fula
objects

12:00-12:40
Judy Bernstein, Francisco Ordóñez, & Francesc Roca
A Formal Analysis of Variation in Catalan Personal Articles

12:40pm-2:40pm Lunch Break

Session 3 (2:40pm-4:40pm)

2:40-3:20
Anthony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini
Detecting grammatical properties in usage data

3:20-4:00
Betsy Sneller & Josef Fruehwald
Evaluating the inevitability of phonological change: /ae/ in Philadelphia

4:00-4:40
Federica Cognola & Roland Hinterhoelz
On the encoding of syntactic variation: competing grammars vs. information
structure

4:40pm-5:10pm Coffee Break

Session 4 (5:10pm-6:10pm)

Invited Speaker: Cristina Schmitt (title TBA)

Reception 6:15pm-8:00pm (C198)

Thursday, 19 May 2016

8:00am-9:00am Breakfast (C204/205)

Session 5 (9:30am-10:50am)

9:30-10:10
Theresa Biberauer
Going beyond the input: Three factors and variation, change and stability

10:10-10:50
Isabelle Barriere, Sarah Kresh, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Geraldine Legendre &
Thierry Nazzi
The comprehension of 3rd person subject-verb agreement by low SES NYC
English-speaking preschoolers acquiring different varieties of English: A
multidimensional approach

10:50am-11:20am Coffee Break

Session 6 (11:20am-12:40pm)

11:20-12:00
Akiva Bacovcin & Christopher Ahern
The logistic language learning curve?

12:00-12:40
Andrea Ceolin, Giuseppe Longobardi, Cristina Guardiano, Monica Alexandrina
Irimia, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nina Radkevich, Luca Bortolussi, and Andrea
Sgarro
Mathematical modeling of grammatical diversity supports the historical reality
of formal syntax

12:40pm-2:40pm Lunch Break

Session 7 (2:40pm-4:00pm)

2:40-3:20
Greg Johnson & Kali Morris
An experimental approach to the syntax of 'have yet to' constructions

3:20-4:00
Jim Wood & Matthew Tyler
Micro-variation in the Have Yet To construction

4:00pm-4:30pm Coffee Break

Session 8 (4:30pm-5:50pm)

4:30-5:10
Jim Wood & Raffaella Zanuttini
Microvariation in American English applicative structures

5:10-5:50
Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin
The innovation of an animacy condition: Conditioning environments for dative
shift

5:50pm-6:00pm
Closing Remarks

7:00pm-10:00pm Conference Dinner
Via Emilia, 47 East 21st Street, NY, NY 10010

A link to the conference registration page is available here:
http://fwav3.commons.gc.cuny.edu/registration/

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