19.1396, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 21-Apr-2008
From: Eden Kaiser < kaise113 at umn.edu >
Subject: Minnesota Student Workshop on Linguistics

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Minnesota Student Workshop on Linguistics 
Short Title: MNSWOL 

Date: 02-May-2008 - 04-May-2008 
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA 
Contact: Ellen Lucast 
Contact Email: lucas034 at umn.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

MNSWOL is the first annual conference sponsored by the Graduate Linguistics
Association of Minnesota at the University of Minnesota -Twin Cities. 

MNSWOL 2008
Minnesota Student Workshop on Linguistics
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis

Presentation Schedule

Friday, May 2, 2008

12pm - 1:15pm	
Registration		
Nolte 125

Session 1: 
''Sorry, I didn't hear that [l]''	
Chair: Paula Chesley	

1:15 - 1:30	
Welcome		
Nolte 140

1:30 - 2:00	
Anna Marco-Cortiel	
''A Sociolinguistic Study of Bulgarian L-Vocalization''	
Nolte 140

2:00-2:30	
Giusy Clemente	''An Intercultural Pragmatics Study: Americans and Italians
Apologizing in English
Nolte 140

2:30 - 3:00	
Mark McKay	
''Discontinuous Negation in Guaraní''	
Nolte 140

3:00 - 3:30	
Break		

Session 2:

Field Methods	
Chair: Nancy Stenson		

3:30 - 5:00	
Class presentations on Berber		
Nolte 140

5:00	
Happy hour in Dinkytown		
Location T.B.A.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

8:30 -9:00	
Registration 
(light breakfast provided)		
Nolte 140

Session 3: 
Phonology and Morophology	
Chair: Suzanne van Duym		

9:15 - 9:45 	
Paula Chesley	
''Roots, Stems, and Kabyle Plurals: An Economy-Motivated Model''	
Nolte 125

9:45 - 10:15	
Kossi Ngolo	
''The Formation of a New Urban Dialect: The Case of Ewe in Southern Togo''	Nolte 125

10:15-10:45	
Rosa-Maria Castaneda	
''Crossing National Borders: Palatalization in Uruguayan Portuguese''	
Nolte 125

10:45-11:15	
Zoltan Boka	
''Using f0 Ranges to Measure the Effectiveness of Fluency Drills on Non-native
Speakers''	
Nolte 125

11:15-12:30	
Lunch on your own		

Session 4: 
ESL and Pragmatics	
Chair: Jackie Listemaa		

12:30-1:00	
Liza C. Salainti	
''The Effectiveness of Teachers' Gestures in ESL Reading Classes''	
Nolte 125

1:00-1:30	
Tor Lindbloom	
'''If You're Gonna?, Then I'm Gonna': Be going to Conditionals in a Spoken
Academic English Corpus''	
Nolte 125

1:30-2:00	
Adeline Koh	
''The Construction and Maintenance of Face in Small Talk''	
Nolte 125

2:00-2:15	
Break		

Session 5: 
Multilingualism	
Chair: Amel Khalfaoui	

2:15-2:45	
Kate Kent	
''Russian-Ukrainian Bilingualism in Post-Soviet Ukraine''	
Nolte 125

2:45-3:15	
Michael Coggins	''A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Embedded Ideologies in
Indian News Media''	
Nolte 125

3:15-3:45	
Muhammad Farrukh Ashraf Syed	
''Code-Switching in Pakistan: (A Survey of Hybridization in Proper Names in
Commercial Signs)''	
Nolte 125

3:45-4:00	
Break		

4:00-5:00	
Ettien Koffi	
Plenary address	
Nolte 125

5:30	Dinner*		Loring Pasta Bar

*Dinner on Saturday will be held at Loring Pasta Bar at the corner of 4th St.
and 14th Ave. in Dinkytown. $15 advance payment required.  Contact Eden
(kaise113 at umn.edu) with questions.

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