Conference Program

 

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Wednesday, July 1


Welcome: Barbara E. Bullock, Cinzia Russi, & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

 

Keynote A: David BirdsongConceptualizing ultimate attainment in bilingualism and second language acquisition”
Session Chair: Richard Meier
Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST

 

Data Science Workshop: Jacqueline SerigosWrangling linguistic data with Python”  [Instructions]

Links to Dr. Serigos’s slides and code at her GitHub page: https://github.com/jserigos/Wrangling-Linguistic-Data-with-Python

Assistants: Kelsey Ball & Jesús Adolfo Hermosillo

Session Chair: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Zoom Host: Luis Avilés González
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York: 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

 

Thursday, July 2


Keynote B:
Thamar SolorioEnabling Technology for Code-Switching Data”

Session Chair: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST

 

Parallel Sessions
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

Session A, Historical phonology: segmental and prosodic patterns
Session Chair:
Randall Gess

Zoom Host: Anna Lawrence

Session B, Revisiting syntactic and semantic change through the lens of corpus data
Session Chair: Bruno Estigarribia

Zoom Host: Tracey Adams

Session C, Expressions and events: constituents and compositionality
Session Chair: Karen Zagona

Zoom Host: Joshua Frank

1. Asymmetries and generalizations in the repair of early French minimally-rising syllable-contact clusters (Montano, slides)

h:00

1. Modern Romance split DP systems in their historical context (Bernstein, Ordóñez, & Roca, handout)

h:00

1. A syntactically-driven approach to indefiniteness, (anti-)specificity and partitivity in Romance (Espinal & Cyrino)

h:00

2. A unified account for morphologically-governed stress systems in Romance (Burroni & De Lemos)

h:20

2. Clause structure and illocutionary force in Medieval Gallo-Romance: Clitic position in Old Occitan and early Old French verb-initial conjuncts (Donaldson, handout)

h:20

2. The first phase syntax of the stative-locative alternation in Spanish: the fine line between source paths, the ablative case, and partitives (Gómez Vázquez, handout)

h:20

3. Latin Iambic and Cretic Shortening Revisited (Jacobs)

h:40

3. The Antipassive as a Romance Phenomenon: a Case Study of Italian (High)

h:40

3. The syntax and semantics of Spanish comparatives: a uniform account (Toquero Pérez, handout)

h:40

4. Incomplete Resyllabification and Bidirectional Coupling in Spanish (Bradley, handout)

h:00

4. The ontology of abstract entities: an Ibero-Romance perspective (Amaral & Delicado Cantero)

h:00

4. A superlative argument in favor of a semantic account of connectivity sentences (Loccioni)

h:00

Friday, July 3


Special Poster Session: Pitches and breakouts

Session Chair: Barbara E. Bullock

Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST

1. On the weak vs. strong island distinction: experimental evidence from Spanish (Stigliano & Xiang) [poster]

2. On the universality of wh-islands: Experimental evidence from Spanish (Rodríguez & Goodall) [poster]

3. Focus and information structure in Cibaeño Dominican Spanish (Gupton) [poster]

4. The role of input in learning Spanish variation by native Spanish speakers (Rodrigo, Connell, Harrington, Miller, Pelella, Kroff, & Dussias) [poster]

5. Language experience affects comprehension of Spanish relative clauses: a study of heritage speakers and second language learners (Montrul & Sánchez-Walker) [poster]

6. The Role of Linguistic Experience in the Production of Spanish ‘Short” Adverbs: Evidence from L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers (Martín Gómez) [poster]

7. Variability and Gradience of Object Clitics in Young Spanish Heritage Language Learners (Satterfield) [poster]

8. Enclitics in Gascon (Repetti & Ordóñez) [poster]

9. Studying Colloquial French subject clitics using corpus data: A morpho-phonological perspective (Shlesinger) [poster]

10. A new look at neoclassical compounding in Italian and French (Montermini) [poster]

 

Parallel Sessions
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

Session D, The syntax of silent/understood phenomena
Session Chair: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Zoom Host: Joshua Frank

Session E, Lexical and structural frequency in contact varieties
Session Chair: Silvina Montrul
Zoom Host: Tracey Adams

Session F, Properties of null and overt subjects
Session Chair: Adrián Riccelli Zoom Host: Anna Lawrence

1. On silent PLACE in a variety of Spanish (Depiante)

h:00

 

1. Gender Agreement and Assignment in Spanish Heritage Speakers: Does Frequency Matter? (Hur, López, & Sánchez)

h:00

1. The (Null) subjects of infinitival adjunct clauses in Colombian Spanish (Gómez, handout)

h:00

2. Modal Ellipsis in Spanish is surface anaphora (Fernández-Sánchez)

h:20

2. Intensification in diachrony: A corpus analysis of muito and bem in Portuguese (Howe & Lívio)

h:20

2. On impersonal se and null subject in Romance (MacDonald & Maddox, handout)

h:20

3. Ellipses and stranding verbs: A case for head movement (Lopes)

h:40

3. Non-embedded infinitives in heritage speakers of Spanish (Camacho)

h:40

3. Adjunct control by object clitics in Spanish: an argument against control as movement (VanDyne, handout)

h:40

Monday, July 6


Keynote C:
Zsuzsanna FagyalFor an integrative approach to variation and change in French nasal vowel systems”
Session Chair: Barbara E. Bullock
Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST

 

Parallel Sessions
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

Session G, Phonetic accommodation across individuals and communities Session Chair: Michael Newman
Zoom Host: Anna Lawrence

Session H, Agreement and subject phenomena: Corpus-based analyses of variation and change
Session Chair: Teresa Satterfield
Zoom Host: Tracey Adams

Session I, Features, silent elements, and movement in syntactic analyses
Session Chair: Jon MacDonald
Zoom Host: Joshua Frank

1. The effect of short-term study abroad on the phonetic production of Spanish allophonic /d/ variation by L2 Spanish and Spanish Heritage speakers (Regan)

h:00

1. Assessing change in a Gallo-Romance regional minority language: 1pl verbal morphology and semantic reference in Picard (Auger & Villeneuve, handout)

h:00

1. On (Dis)agreement in French Pseudo-Relatives (Authier & Reed, handout)

h:00

2. Sociophonetic variability in the production of Spanish /e/ by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals in Barcelona (Helms)

h:20

2. The interaction of person and perseveration in a variationist analysis of Caribbean Spanish heritage speaker subject pronoun expression (de Prada Pérez, slides)
h:20

2. Deriving Locative and Coordinate Nouns in Romance (Di Sciullo)

h:20

3. Phonetic convergence in Mexican Spanish: combining acoustic and perceptual assessments (MacLeod)

h:40

3. The partial loss of referential null subjects and free inversion in Brazilian Portuguese (Kato & Duarte, slides)

h:40

3. ‘Psych’ effects with location verbs: Evidence from Romance (García-Pardo, handout)

h:40

4. Does social identity influence the acquisition of L2 French pronunciation? (Walton)

h:00

4. Variable nominative anaphora resolution in Cabo-Verdean Creole (Rodríguez Riccelli, slides)

h:00

4. DOM and the PCC: how many types? (Irimia, handout)

h:00

Tuesday, July 7


Keynote D: Patience Epps
Multiple multilingualisms: Indigenous and Romance languages in Amazonia”

Session Chair: Cinzia Russi
Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST

 

Parallel Sessions
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

Session J, Linguistic variation: Confronting constructs with new data
Session Chair: José Camacho
Zoom Host: Tracey Adams

Session K, Prosodic and pragmatic determinants of structure and meaning
Session Chair: Laura Colantoni
Zoom Host: Anna Lawrence

Session L, Surprise, conspiracy and order in morphosyntax
Session Chair: Tim Gupton
Zoom Host: Joshua Frank

1. The many faces of siempre in Spanish (Escalante)

h:00

1. Catalan stress is not quantity-sensitive: evidence from wordlikeness judgements (Perry & Arnhold)

h:00

1. Fake wh-interrogatives: A syntax-discourse interface analysis (Jiménez-Fernández & Tubino-Blanco)

h:00

2. Los adjetivos relacionales cercanos: Corpus evidence for adjective ordering restrictions in Spanish (Pérez-Leroux, Tough, Pettibone, & Chen)

h:20

2. The role of intonation in idiomatic disambiguation (Lares)

h:20

2. Prosodic Correlates of Mirative and New Information Focus in Spanish Wh-in-situ Questions (González & Reglero)

h:20

3. Frequency and efficiency in Spanish fixed expressions (Gutiérrez Topete)

h:40

3. IQQs at the syntax/semantics interface (García-Pardo & Fernández-Sánchez, handout)

h:40

3. A Conspiracy Theory of Constituent Negation (with Data from Spanish Varieties) (Etxepare & Uribe-Etxebarria, handout)

h:40

4. The metalinguistic abilities of Spanish-Catalan bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals: Non-typically developing speakers in the spotlight (García-Alcaraz & Liceras)

h:00

4. The grammaticalization of the construction with andar plus gerund in spoken Rioplatense Spanish: A case of pragmatic exploitation of the auxiliary’s cognitive topology (Ocampo & Ocampo)

h:00

4. Differential object marking and interface legibility (Gravely, handout)

h:00

Wednesday, July 8


LaTeX Tutorial: Luis Avilés González
[instructions]

Assistant: Kelsey Ball

Session Chair: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Zoom Host: Aris Clemons
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST


Business Meeting
POSTPONED

Session Chair: Barbara E. Bullock

Zoom Host: Cinzia Russi
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST
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Parallel Sessions
Los Angeles 9:00am PDT; Austin 11:00am CST; New York 12:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 1:00pm BRT; Dublin 5:00pm IST; Madrid 6:00pm CEST; Paris 6:00pm CEST

Session M, Allophonic and allomorphic variation in multilingual production Session Chair: Beth MacLeod
Zoom Host: Tracey Adams

Session N, Heritage language morphosyntax at the core and the interfaces Session

Chair: Julie Auger

Zoom Host: Anna Lawrence

Session O, Theoretical and experimental approaches to agreement

Session Chair: Bradley Hoot
Zoom Host: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

1. Gender marking under disguise: phonetics and grammar in Spanish-English bilinguals (Colantoni, Martínez, Mazzaro, Pérez-Leroux, & Rinaldi)

h:00

1. A receptive-expressive gap for Spanish-English HL and L2 bilingual children? (Fernández-Dobao & Herschensohn)

h:00

1. A Linear Approach to Mass Agreement in Central Asturian (Burner, handout)

h:00

2. Dynamic phonetic interactions in Spanish heritage bilingual and trilingual speech production (Amengual)

h:20

2. Bilingual data informs recomplementation theory (Frank)

h:20

2. The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis and Gender Agreement: Evidence from Bilingual Acquisition in a Contact situation (Sánchez, Mayer, Camacho, & Rodríguez Alzza)

h:20

3. Revisiting sociophonetic competence: Variable spectral moments in phrase-final fricative epithesis for L1 & L2 speakers of French (Dalola & Bridwell)

h:40

3. Comprehension of Spanish passive clauses by heritage speakers and second language learners of Spanish (Sánchez-Walker & Montrul)

h:40

3. Spanish grammatical gender in codeswitching: evidence from eye-movements (Gómez Carrero & Fernández Fuertes)

h:40

4. How do adult bilingual heritage speakers deal with subject placement in unaccusative sentences? (Nishida, Isabelli, & Rodríguez Riccelli)

h:00

4. The role of Spanish se in Spanish agreement variation (Fernández Serrano)

h:00

***30 minute recess***

Virtual Social Hour and Trivia Contest

Bring your own beverage and wear your party attire!
Session Chairs:
Barbara, Cinzia, & Jacqueline

Zoom Host: Aris Clemons

Los Angeles 11:00am PDT; Austin 1:00pm CST; New York 2:00pm EDT; Rio de Janeiro 3:00pm BRT; Dublin 7:00pm IST; Madrid 8:00pm CEST; Paris 8:00pm CEST

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***Post Conference ***

Friday,  July 10

Business Meeting

Session Chair: Barbara E. Bullock

Zoom Host: Barbara E. Bullock
Los Angeles 8:00am PDT; Austin 10:00am CST; New York 11:00am EDT; Rio de Janeiro 12:00pm BRT; Dublin 4:00pm IST; Madrid 5:00pm CEST; Paris 5:00pm CEST,