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MLC
250
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MLC
350
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9:00 – 9:25
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Coffee/breakfast/registration
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9:25 – 9:30
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Welcome
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9:30 – 9:35
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Break
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9:35 – 10:35
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Session 3A
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Session 3B
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9:35 – 10:00
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Joshua
Hummel
How “Black” is Brer Rabbit?: Markers of AAE in Harris’ depiction of African American folktales
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Márcia
Romero and Camili Alvarenga
Reflections on unaccusativity under an enunciative perspective
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10:05 – 10:30
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Heiko Wiggers
Wiki Worlds: The struggle of smaller, endangered, and non-western languages to survive on Wikipedia
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Youssef A. Haddad
Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic differences between internal and external possession in Lebanese Arabic
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10:35 – 10:45
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Break
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10:45 – 12:15
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Session 4A
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Session 4B
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10:45 – 11:10
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Elizabeth
Butler
Sound change: A phonetic and perception-driven process
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KellyNoel
Waldorf
Multilingualism and language diversity in mainstream U.S. television: A case study of Jane the Virgin
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11:15 – 11:40
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Joseph
Stanley and Kyle Vanderniet
Consonantal variation in Utah English: What el[t]se is happening[k]?
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Sadie
Wyant
Determining the nature of negative perceptions of Black English and its speakers
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11:45 – 12:10
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Arianna
Janoff
The California Vowel Shift in Santa Barbara
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Melissa
Gomes
A study of the effectiveness of people-first language
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12:15 – 12:25
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Break
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12:25 – 1:45
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Plenary Talk: Dr. Amanda Dalola +
Provided Lunch (MLC 250) abstract
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1:45 – 2:45
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Session 5A
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Session 5B
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1:45 – 2:10
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William
Kretzschmar
The fractal structure of language: Phonetic measurements from the South
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Saja
Albuarabi
The acquisition of English embedded Wh- questions by Arabic learners
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2:15 – 2:40
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Allison
Burkette
The language of archaeological classification: An emergent and interactive practice
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Laurie A. Massery
The Interface Hypothesis - L1 and L2 perceptions of grammaticality in complex nominal clauses
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2:45 – 2:50
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Break
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2:50 – 3:50
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Session 6A
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Session 6B
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2:50 – 3:15
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Shuo
Feng
Less vs. fewer: A comparative analysis of corpora, style manuals, usage dictionaries and online forums
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Kathryn
Bove
Middle Voice Transfer in Yucatec Spanish Bilinguals
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3:20 – 3:45
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Joshua McNeill
Laughing out loud on Twitter: A social network analysis
approach to language contact and variation
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Yihan
Zhou
From “deviant” to “obedient”: A diachronic study on the semantic change of the auto-antonym guai in Chinese
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3:50 – 4:00
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Break
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4:00 – 5:45
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Plenary Event: Dr. Walt Wolfram/Talking Black in America (MLC 248)
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7:00 – 9:30
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Reception
at Ciné Lab in downtown Athens (for paid attendees)
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