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Date: 20 Jan 1999
From: Abbas Benmamoun <e-benma at staff.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Symposium announcement
 
The Arabic Linguistics Society together with  Stanford University

announce
 
The Thirteenth Annual Symposium on  Arabic Linguistics
 
In Honor of Charles Ferguson
 

March 5-6, 1999. Stanford University

Building 300, Room 300

Friday, March 5
Morning Session

8:30 - 8:45 Registration

8:45 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks

9:00 - 9:30 Syllables and moras in Arabic
    Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University

9:30 -10:00 Root consonants, gutturals, and hypocoristic patterns in
    Colloquial Arabic
    Stuart Davis and Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh, Indiana University

10:00-10:30 Acoustic evidence for empty nuclei in Arabic speech and
    some  implications for automatic speech recognition
    Fatmah Baothman and Ali Idrissi, King Abdulaziz University, and
    Michael  Ingleby, University of Huddersfield

10:30-11:15 Break

11:00-11:30 Discovering arabic rhythm through a speech cycling task
    Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh, Keiichi Tajima, and Mafuyu Kitahara,
    Indiana University

11:30-12:00 Phonological processes and process repair in modern
    Standard Arabic
    Michael Ingleby, University of Huddersfield, and Fatmah Baothman
    and Ali Idrissi, King Abdulaziz University

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30 Assimilation and allophony within the uvular series
    David Testen, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

2:30 - 3:00 Greek evidence about 10th- and 11th-century Sicilian
    Arabic Maria Mavroudi, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 - 3:30 Acquisition of movement in english by Arabic-speaking
    children
    Naomi Bolotin, University of Kansas

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:30 Politeness formulas revisited
    Russell Arent, St. Cloud State University

4:30 - 5:00 A corpus-based study of collocation in american english
    and  modern standard arabic
    Dalal M. El Gemei, Al-Azhar University

5:15-6:15 Tribute to Charles Ferguson

6:30-7:00 reception

Saturday, March 6
Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 applying myers-scotton's mlf model to diglossic switching
    Keith Walters and Naoma Boussofara-Omar, University of Texas at
    Austin

9:30 -10:00 written arabic of personal letters
    Jamil Daher, New York University

10:00-10:30 colloquialization and standardization in Andalusian and
    Maghrebian musical genres
    Taoufik Ben Amor, Columbia University

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Keynote Address
    Forms of reported speech in Arabic
    Madiha Doss, Cairo University

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30 Remarks on the grammar of Arabic newspaper headlines
    M. A. Mohammad, University of Florida

2:30 - 3:00 Reduced agreement as a specificity effect in rural
    Palestinian Arabic
    Frederick M. Hoyt, Cornell University

3:00 - 3:30 Recoverability, ambiguity and overt pronouns in Egyptian
    Arabic Martha Schulte-Nafez, University of Texas at El Paso

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00-4:30 Reciprocals and Plurals in Arabic
    Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

4:30-5:00 The mental representation of Arabic words
    Jean-Francois Prunet, Universite du Quebec a  Montreal, Renee Beland,
    Universit de Montreal, and Ali Idrissi, King Abdulaziz University


Alternates
An interdisciplinary approach to literary discourse analysis with
special reference to naguib mahfouzs construction of gender
Kamel A. Elsaadany, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Comparative and acquisition syntax of moroccan sign language and
signed Arabic
Mostafa Rechad, University of Paris


Registration Form

Name

Address

City/State Zip Country

Affiliation email address

Amount enclosed:

Preregistration (deadline: Feb. 16, 1999) $25. At the Door $30
Faculty & Students, Stanford University: Free

ALS 1999 Membership Dues:
Students $15, Faculty $25
 
Checks, drawn on US banks, or international money orders should be made
payable to the Arabic Linguistics Society and sent with registration forms to:
Tessa  Hauglid, 759 West 1800 North, West Bountiful, UT 84087, USA (email:
<mailto:tessa.hauglid at m.cc.utah.edu>tessa.hauglid at m.cc.utah.edu).

The symposium will be held at Stanford University, Stanford, California.
The Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto, offers symposium
participants reduced rates: $115 single, $125 double (with 2 people
sharing a room and splitting the cost). Reservations may be made by
contacting the
hotel  directly at (650) 857-0333, or toll-free at (800) 729-0332, fax (650)
857-0343.  Mention group code 23272. The group rate will be honored if
reservations
are made before Feb. 5, 1999. 
 
The Creekside Inn, 3400 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, is also offering a
special rate of $125 single, $135 double for symposium
participants. Reservations may be made by calling (650) 493-2411 or
toll-free at (800) 492-7335. Mention group number BV0000. These rates apply
until Feb. 12, 1999.
 
At both hotels, mention the Arabic Linguistics Society to obtain 
conference rates. Both hotels offer shuttle service to campus.
Participants can take the Super Shuttle from the San Francisco Airport for 
around $20 to either hotel. Similar services are offered from the San Jose 
Airport.

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. An open forum for scholars
interested in the application of current
linguistic theories and analyses to Arabic

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