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Date: 18 Jan 2013
From:Mushira Eid <mushira.eid at utah.edu>
Subject:ALS 27 Program

THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY and INDIANA UNIVERSITY’s DEPARTMENT OF
LINGUISTICS and CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Announce

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS

Indiana University Memorial Union
The Georgian Room
Bloomington, Indiana

February 28 – March 2, 2013

“An open forum for scholars interested in the application of current
linguistic theories and analysis to Arabic”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Registration:  7:30-8:15
Welcome/Opening Remarks: 8:15-8:30

Session 1:  Phonology I
8:30-9:00 Vocalic Length in One Semitic Language: The case of Egyptian
Arabic vowel system
Radwa Fathi, Université Paris 7 /LLF- CNRS

9:00-9:30 An Acoustic Study of Epenthetic Vowels in Lebanese Arabic
Nancy Hall, California State University, Long Beach

9:30-10:00 The Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Geminates in Jordanian Arabic
Mohammad Al-Masri, University of Oklahoma

10:00-10:30 Acoustic Correlates and Perception Cues of Primary Emphatics in
Beiruti Arabic
Emilie Durand-Zuniga, University of Texas at Austin

Break: 10:30-10:45

Session 2:  Phonology II (10:45-11:45)
10:45-11:15 The Status of Daad in a Southwest Arabian dialect (Tihami
Qahtani)
Khairia Al-Qahtani, University of Essex, UK

11:15-11:45 To Metathesize or Not to Metathesize: Sonority Constraints in
Tunisian Arabic Nouns
Suyeon Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45-12:45 Keynote Speaker:
Explorations at the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic
Sam Hellmuth, University of York, UK

Lunch 12:45-1:45

Session 3:  Syntax I
1:45-2:15 On the Featural Properties of Complementizers in Arabic
Hamid Ouali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2:15-2:45 On the Syntax of Spatial 'Prepositions' in Lebanese Arabic
Lina Choueiri, American University in Beirut
2:45-3:15 On the Syntax of ʔillaa in Egyptian Arabic
Usama Soltan, Middlebury College

Break: 3:15-3:30

Session 4:  Semantics
3:30-4:00 The Semantic Complexity of Kuwaiti Arabic: The case of dašš
Yousuf AlBader, University of Sheffield

4:00-4:30 Identifying Semantic Relations in Arabic
Sameh Alansary, Bibliothecha Alexandria

Break: 4:30-4:45

4:45-5:45 Keynote Speaker
Arabic Verbal And Nominal Plurals And The Syntax Morphology Interface
Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Reception:  6:00-7:30
Indiana University Art Museum

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013

Session 5:  Syntax II
8:30-9:00 On the Clausal Anchoring of Parenthetical Verb Phrases in
Moroccan Arabic
Noureddine Elouazizi, Simon Fraser University

9:00-9:30 Attitude Datives in Lebanese Arabic: Pronouns that merge too high
to be bound
Youssef Haddad, University of Florida

9:30-10:00 A Minimalist Approach to Restrictive and Free Relatives in MSA
Abdulrahman Alqurashi, University of Essex

Break: 10:00-10:15

Session 7: Discourse/Corpus Analysis
10:15-10:45 A Salience-based Analysis of the Tunisian Arabic Demonstrative
hāk as Used in Oral Narratives
Amel Khalfaoui, Florida Atlantic University

10:45-11:15 Converging Linguistic Evidence: The synonymy of Arabic COME
verbs
Dana Abdulrahim and Antti Arppe, University of Alberta

11:15-12:15 Keynote Speaker
Modeling Sociopragmatic Language Use in Social Media in Arabic and English:
A Comparative Computational Perspective
Mona Diab, George Washington University

Lunch: 12:15-1:30
Arabic Linguistics Society Business Meeting

Session 7:  Sociolinguistics & Variation
1:30-2:00 Computational Measures of Linguistic Variation
Mahmoud Abunasser and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at
Urabana-Champaign

2:00-2:30 Glottal-initial Verbs ’axaḏ/’akal in Contact Situations: Data
from Amman Arabic
Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, and Hanadi Ismail

2:30-3:00 Urbanization and Linguistic Change in Jeddah
Aziza Al-Essa, King Abdulaziz University

3:00-3:30 French Nouns in CS with Two Arabic dialects: A comparison of
community norms
Rebekah Post, University of Texas at Austin

Break: 3:30-3:45

3:45-4:45 Keynote Speaker:
The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology and the politics of identity in a
globalized Arab world
 Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Break: 4:45-5:00

Session 8: Historical Linguistics
5:00-5:30 The Antecedents of Arabic Dialects: A speech communities approach
Alexander Magidow, University of Texas at Austin

5:30-6:00 Grammaticalization of the Motion Verb 'rah' as a Prospective
Aspect Marker in Syria Arabic
Najib Jarad, University of Sharjah

6:00-6:30 Jiim and the Class of Sun Letters: A Historical and
Dialectological Perspective
Aaron Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

6:30-7:00 The Evolution of Dād
Salman Al-Ani and Anthony Woodhams, Indiana University

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013

Session 9: Acquisition
8:30-9:00 Compensatory Lengthening: Evidence from Child Arabic
Eman Abdoh, King Abdulaziz University

9:00-9:30 Linguistic Transfer in Learning English as a Second Language in
Typically Developing Arabic Heritage School-Age Speakers
Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Delphi University, and Elabbas Benmamoun, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

9:30-10:00 Can L2 Primes Trigger L1 Translation Targets in Mased Priming?:
New Evidence from a highly proficient English–Arabic Bilingual
Mahmoud Azaz and Kenneth Forster, University of Arizona

10:00-10:30 Gender and Plausibility in the Disambiguation of Relative
Clauses in L2 Arabic
Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Rebecca Foote, and Mahmoud Abu Nasser, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Break: 10:30-10:45

Session 10:  Experimental and Interlanguage Studies
10:45-11:15 Verb Inflections in Adolescents with Down Syndrome:
Experimental approach
Khawla Aljenaie, Kuwait University

11:15-11:45 Agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic-Speaking Subjects
Samir Diouny, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco

11:45-12:15 An Exploration of the Formation of Canonical Agreement
Morphosyntactic Features in English-Arabic Interlanguage
Boshra El-Ghazoly, Indiana University

Special Session:  Arabic in Computer-Mediated Communication
12:45-1:15 Social Media Arabic
Muhammad Abdul Mageed, Indiana University

1:15-1:45 Variation in the Representation of Arabic Consonants in Facebook
Duaa Abu Elhija Mahajna, Indiana University

1:45-2:15 Arabic Chat Alphabet: A data-oriented analysis of variation in
Latinized Arabic
Paul Rodrigues, C. Anton Rytting, and Timothy Buckwalter, University of
Maryland

FOR REGISTRATION, TRAVEL, and OTHER INFORMATION: Go to the symposium
webpage at http://www.indiana.edu/~csme/als2013.shtml

For questions regarding logistics and local arrangements, contact Ms.
Myriem Benzouina, Program Assistant, Center for the Study of the Middle
East, at CSME at indiana.edu.

Questions regarding the program can be addressed to Dr. Mushira Eid, ALS
Executive Director, at mushira.eid at utah.edu.

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