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Date: 30 Jan 2009
From:ouali at uwm.edu
Subject:ALS 23 Program

Travel and local arrangement information for this conference is  
available on the conference website at:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/arabic_symposium/index.html

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Twenty Third Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

An Open Forum for schoars interested in the application of current  
linguistic theories and analysis to Arabic
April 3-5, 2009

Sponsored by:

College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin –
Milwaukee
Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin –
Milwaukee
And
The Arabic Linguistics Society

Conference Program

FRIDAY 4/3/09
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks

Acquisition

9:00-9:30 Probability Matching and Arabic Morphology
    Mary Ann Walter
    Northwestern University

9:30-10:00 The Early Lexicon of Hijazi Speaking Infants
and Toddlers
    Sabah Safi (King Abdulaziz University)

10:00-10:30 Agreement and Plural features in Heritage
Arabic Speakers
Abbas Benmamoun, Abdulkafi Albirini,
Eman Saadah & Silvina Montrul
    University of Urbana-Champaign

10:30-10:45 Break

Sociolinguistics

10:45-11:15 Performing the Peasant:  ‘Sa‘d’ as the
linguistic styling
    Benjamin Koerber
    University of Texas at Austin

11:15-11:45 Inter- and intra-language variation among
Palestinians in Israel
    Uri Horesh
    Franklin & Marshall College

11:45-12:15 The Grammatical Constraints of
Integrated Hebrew Lexemes
Martin Isleem
University of Texas at Austin

       12:15-2:30 Lunch Break

       Speech Processing and Speech Production

        2:30-3:00  Speech Errors in Tunisian Arabic
    Nadia Hamrouni
    University of Arizona

        3:00-3:30            Empirical Evidence: Stress as a
                                    perceptual unit in Cairene spoken  
Arabic
    Rajaa Aqil
    Georgia Institute of Technology

3:30-4:00 Sex differences in VOT production of
A/E bilingual Children
Eman Saadah
University of Illinois

          4:00-4:15 Break

         Phonology

          4:15-4:45 A Unified Account of Intensive Verbs
    Samira Farwaneh
    University of Arizona

          4:45-5:15          The Phonology of Classical Arabic Meter
    Gregory Key
    University of Arizona
5:15-5:30 Break

5:30-6:30 KEYNOTE ADRESS
What can different theories of language tell us
about Arabic dialect phonology? And what can
Arabic phonology tell us about theory?
Ellen Broselow
Stony Brook University –SUNY-


SATURDAY 4/4/2009

Discourse

9:00-9:30 Avoidance of Colloquial Arabic in Writing
Formal Fusha
Alexander Magidow
    University of Texas at Austin

9:30-10:00 Analyzing the Use of Shifters in Morocco
Brahim Chakrani
    University of Illinois

10:00-10:30 Registers of Arabic, Prestige and Performance
    kristen Brustad
    University of Texas at Austin

  10:30-11:00 Break

Computational

11:00-11:30 Improving the Automatic Diacritization of
Arabic
Khaled Elghamry & Christian Hettick
    University of Florida

11:30-12:00 An Arabic to English Machine translation
system
Yasser Salem and Brian Nolan
    Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown

12:00-2:00  Lunch Break

Syntax

2:00-2:30 The Syntax of Negation in Kuwaiti
Arabic and Moroccan Arabic
Abbas Benmamoun & Khawla Aljenai
   University of Illinois & Kuwait University

2:30-3:00 Mood Feature as Case Licensor in
Modern Standard Arabic
    Tommi Leung
    United Arab Emirates University

3:00-3:30 On the syntax of wh-questions in
Egyptian Arabic
    Usama Soltan
    Middlebury College

3:30-3:45 Break

4:00-4:30 Revisiting the Theory of 9aamel
Mohammad Mohammad
    University of Texas at Austin

4:30-5:00 Agreement Asymmetries and Word Order
in Iraqi Arabic
    Murtadha Bakir
    University of Qatar

5:00-5:15 Break

5:15-6:15 KEYNOTE ADRESS:
Arabic pronoun varieties, agreement, and binding
Abdelkader Fassi-Fehri
Mohammed V University, Rabat


SUNDAY 4/5/09

Syntax

9:00-9:30 On the Extraction of Attributive Adjectives
   Yaron McNabb
   University of Chicago

9:30-10:00 The verb kan “be” in Moroccan Arabic
Nizha Chatar-Moumni
   Universite Paris Descartes

  10:00-10:15 Break

Variation

10:30-11:00 Linguistic Variation in the City of Zgharta,
Northern Lebanon
    Charles Joukhadar
    University of Texas at Austin

11:00-11:30 Speaker variation in the speech of rural migrants
to Hims
     Rania Habib
   Syracuse University



Historical

11:30-12:00 The Morpheme /-in-/ in Central Asian
  Arabic
   Kerith Miller
   University of Arizona

Alternates:
1. A cognitive explanation for communicators’ avoidance
of ambiguous forms
2. The Formation of Arabic Passive Verbs


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