Check out the titles and topics for our plenary speakers.
All NWLC33 presentations will be held in the Totem Field Studios seminar room. See our page on transportation for details about getting to NWLC.
Please take note that coffee breaks as well as lunch and dinner on Saturday are provided by the conference. Attendees are responsible for dinner on Friday and lunch on Sunday.
Friday, May 5, 2017
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Registration |
| Chair: Carla Hudson Kam | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Plenary Grammatically-Constrained Variation at the Syntax-Prosody Interface: The View from Irish Emily Elfner (University of British Columbia) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Agreeing in Number: Suppletive Verbal Plurals Abigail Thornton (University of Connecticut) |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | On the Syntax of Aspectual Adverbs of Persian Zahra Labafankhosh (University of Tehran) |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Where are the adjectives in Yueqing? Michelle Lu (University of Calgary) |
| 5:00 – … | Social activity Not provided by the conference |
Saturday, May 6, 2017
| Chair: Henry Davis | ||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Only in Ktunaxa: ȼin and association with focus Elise McClay (University of British Columbia) and Violet Birdstone (ʔaq̓am First Nation) |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Bare nouns in Ktunaxa Marianne Huijsmans (University of British Columbia) |
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | An Analysis of the Acoustic Properties of Similar Voices Danica Reid (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 11:15 – 11:45 | Does digitally-manipulated avatar ethnicity affect speech perception? Noortje de Weers (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 11:45 – 12:15 | Zezuru coalescence and deletion: How to define gradualness in Harmonic Serialism Andrew McKishnie (University of Ottawa) |
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| 12:15 – 12:45 | Lunch Provided by the conference |
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| 12:45 – 2:00 | Poster session
Social Identity and Punctuation Variation in the #BlueLivesMatter and #BlackLivesMatter Twitter Communities, Rachael Tatman & Amandalynne Paullada (University of Washington) Coordinating conjunctions in Uralic, Brent Woo (University of Washington) 10 Confirmationals in 3 Languages, A Comparative Analysis of Heritage and Non-Heritage Speakers’ Use of Cantonese, Hindi and Mandarin Confirmationals, Cynthia Li, Cari Ma, Chandini Patnaik & Isabel Sobotkiewicz (University of British Columbia) Literacy and Language Revitalization: Leaving a Visible Trace, Emily Comeau (University of Victoria) Irrealis Marking In Tlingit, Heather Burge (University of British Columbia) Participation of second generation immigrants in Canadian Shift and Raising in Vancouver, Irina Presnyakova (Simon Fraser University) Negation patterns in the Kwa language group, Lauren Schneider (Trinity Western University) On the Perception and Production of German rounded front vowels by a Naïve Native Speaker Listener of English, Lisa Suessenbach (University of Victoria) Language Discrimination and Transfer in Sign Languages, Shane Blau (Gallaudet University) Responding to Thanks: An Empirical Study of Thanks Minimizers in Germany and Canada, Yifang Yuan & Kirsten Toren (University of British Columbia) |
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| Sociology and linguistics | 2:00 – 3:00 | Plenary I didn’t learn like grammar: Discourse, society and language change Alexandra D’Arcy (University of Victoria) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Massett Haida Discourse: A Case Study of Ihldiinii Kelli Finney (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 3:45 – 4:15 | Names Before Pronouns: Variation in Pronominal Reference and Gender Kirby Conrod (University of Washington) |
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| 4:15 – 4:45 | STRUT-Raising in British Columbia English: Evidence for a Parallel Canadian Shift Gloria Mellesmoen (University of British Columbia) |
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| 4:45 – 5:45 | Break | |
| 5:45 | BBQ at Totem Field Studios Provided by the conference |
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
| Chair: TBD | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Double modals in Southern United States English: A Tree Adjoining Grammar approach Sara Williamson (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 | A modal analysis of the Tłı̨ chǫ future Adar Anisman (University of Victoria) |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Modal qad in Standard Arabic: Evidence for Context-independent Modality Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Chair: Rose-Marie Déchaine | ||
| 10:45 – 11:15 | The Syntactic Category of 把 (ba) Luca Cavasso (Simon Fraser University) |
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| 11:15 – 11:45 | On the Derivation of Mandarin A-not-A and Alternative Questions Roger Lo (University of British Columbia) |
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| 11:45 – 12:15 | Chinese SFP ma: An I-element not a C-element Junjun Ma (University of British Columbia) |
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| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Not provided by the conference |
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| Chair: Bryan Gick | ||
| Cognition and linguistics | 1:30 – 2:00 | An Intersection of Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development. A Novel Framework Olga Vasileva (Simon Fraser University) |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Heritage vs. Second Language Learners’ Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Korean Kellianne Bennett (University of Washington) |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 | An exemplar-based learning model of English sentence intonation Una Chow and Stephen Winters (University of Calgary) |
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| 3:45 – 4:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Plenary Language acquisition through the lens of general learning mechanisms Alexis Black (University of British Columbia) |
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