LACUS 2000 Program
July 25-29, 2000
held at
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Plenary Sessions in 124 Herring Hall
Book Exhibit, 115 Herring Hall
8:50 Radan Martinec (The London Institute)
.........."Gestures used in speaking as a resource and as spontaneous creations"
Session A (9:20 - 10:00, 124 Herring Hall) Syntactic Factors
9:20 David Rojas (Louisiana State University)
.........."Subjectively subjunctive? Factors influencing mood preference in English"
9:40 Stefan Th. Gries (Syddansk Universitet)
.........."Particle placement in English: A multifactorial investigation"
Session B (9:20 - 10:00, 117 Herring Hall) Second Language Acquisition
9:20 Tsuneko Iwai (McMaster University)
.........."Cooperative learning in Japanese as a foreign language: a study of communicative language learning in cooperatively structured groups in a beginners'-level university classroom"
9:40 Rosa Mammoli (Universita di Pisa)
.........."The acquisition of verbal morphology in Italian as L2"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Session A (10:30 - 12:00, 124 Herring Hall) Syntactic Factors
10:30 Michel Achard (Rice University) "Il and Áa impersonals in French"
11:00 Tavs Bjerre (University of Southern Denmark)
.........."Resultatives: complex predicates describing complex situations"
11:20 Andrew S. Allen (University of Puerto Rico)
.........."Spoken dialects use greater varieties of negation"
Session B (10:30 - 12:00, 117 Herring Hall) Non-Verbal Factors in Communication
10:30 Thorsten Foegen (Heidelberg) "Nonverbal communication in antiquity"
11:00 Elizabeth Cummings (University of Houston)
.........."Harsh conversational impact of Russian ESL student: a case study"
11:20 Rachel Channon (University of Maryland)
.........."Limited contrasts in temporal characteristics and a single timing unit representation for sign languages"
11:40 Denis Autesserre & Chantal Paboudjian (Universite de Provence)
.........."Polite voice and gestures"
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 David Bennett (SOAS, London) et al.
.........."Experimental evidence for the process of speech recognition"
Session A (2:00 - 3:00, 124 Herring Hall): Phonological Factors
2:00 Wendy Baker and Pavel Trofimovich (Illinois)
.........."Does perception precede production in a second Language?
..........Evidence from Korean-English bilinguals"
2:20 Caroline Wiltshire (Florida) "Syllabification in parallel in Spanish"
2:40 Liang Tao (Ohio) "Syntactic tone and word recognition: a case study"
Session B (2:00 - 3:00, 117 Herring Hall) Discourse
2:00 Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas (American University) & Donald Weasenforth (George Washington University)
.........."Negotiating effectively in cyberspace: native and non-native university students in virtual office hours"
2:20 Carol Taylor Torsello (Padua)
.........."Linguistic markers of shared and unshared information in English"
2:40 Evelyn G. Pike (SIL International)
.........."The amplification nucleus of the clause in San Miguel Mixtec"
3:00 Break
3:30 Inga Dolinina (McMaster University)
.........."The neurological basis of 'empirical' and 'theoretical' modes of reasoning"
4:00 Andrew Papanicolaou (University of Texas Medical School)
.........."Mapping the Language Cortex with Magnetoencephalography"
Thursday 27 July
Plenary Sessions in 117 Herring Hall
Book Exhibit, 115 Herring Hall
8:30 Bill Sullivan (Florida) "Deriving OT constraints from RN theory"
Session A (9:00 - 10:00, 117 Herring Hall) Theory
9:00 Lilly Lee Chen (Rice University) "Grammaticalization and tone"
9:20 Sebastian Shaumyan (Yale)
.........."The theory of the linguistic sign as a control in linguistic analysis"
9:40 Gary Prideaux (University of Alberta)
.........."Does synchrony recapitulate diachrony? a case study from Japanese"
Session B (9:00 - 10:00, 113 Herring Hall) Lexical Factors
9:00 Aya Katz (Providence University, Taiwan) "Lexicalization and opacity"
9:20 Juhani Rudanko (Tampere, Finland) "Complements of 'fail' over three centuries"
9:40 Yibo Shi "On referential salience of na 'that' and yi 'one' NP's in Chinese"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 Beatrice Warren (Lund, Sweden)
.........."Producing and interpreting metaphor and metonymy: an alternative account of the interpretation of metonomy and metaphor"
Session A (11:00 - 12:00, 117 Herring Hall) Producing and Interpreting Metaphor
11:00 Jennifer Mortimer (McGill University)
.........."Explicit/implicit memory systems subserving right hemisphere pragmatic function"
11:20 Kyong-Sook Song (Dong-eui University, South Korea)
.........."Metaphor and repetition in computer-mediated communication"
11:40 Barbara Bacz (Laval)
.........."What's in the head?: a cognitive analysis of metaphors related to the notion of glowa (head) in Polish"
Session B (11:00 - 12:00, 113 Herring Hall) Lexical Factors
11:00 Rose Mary Babitch (Moncton University) "Grand mer -- one or two lexemes?"
11:20 Deryle Lonsdale (Brigham Young University)
.........."An operator-based integration of comprehension and production"
11:40 Bernard Sypniewski (Rowan University) "Categorizing English superposition"
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Juergen Handke (Marburg)
.........."2000 and beyond: the potential of new technologies in linguistics"
2:00 Connie Eble (University of North Carolina) "Fashionable YOU"
Session A (2:00-3:00, 117 Herring Hall) Cognitive Factors
2:20 Patrick Duffley (Universite Laval)
.........."Verbs of tolerance with the gerund and the infinitive"
2:40 Nataliya Davydova and Iryna Nikitchenko (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine)
.........."Role of metaoperators in scientific text comprehension"
Session B (2:00 - 3:00, 113 Herring Hall) Lexical Factors
2:20 Carolyn G. Hartnett (College of the Mainland)
.........."When do sciences make nouns from verbs, and when don't they?"
2:40 Anton Rytting (Brigham Young)
.........."Word-net and word sense disambiguation in NL-Soar"
3:00 Break
3:30 Saul Levin (SUNY Binghamton) "Poetic license, embellished by music"
4:00 Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "Speaking Suppletively"
Friday 28 July
Book Exhibit, 303 Sewall Hall
9:00 - 12:00 Tutorial Workshop (Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library):
Nancy Niedzielski (Rice University and Panasonic Technologies)
"Automated Production and Recognition of Speech: Problems and Solutions"
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Exploring Hard Science Linguistics 1:30 - 4:00 (301 Sewall Hall)
1:30 Victor Yngve (University of Chicago)
.........."The conduct of hard-science research"
1:50 Carl Mills (University of Cincinnati)
.........."Linguistic change as changes in linkages: fifteenth-century English"
2:10 Douglas W. Coleman (University of Toledo)
.........."Data and science in introductory linguistics textbooks"
2:40 Caroline Rieger (University of Alberta)
.........."Exploring hard science linguistics: fillers in English and German conversation"
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3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 Stephen Straight (SUNY Binghamton)
.........."Speaking and comprehending: two underlying systems"
4:00 Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico)
.........."Gesture, icon, and symbol: what signed languages can tell us about the emergence of grammar"
Saturday 29 July
Plenary Sessions in 301 Sewall Hall
Book Exhibit, 303 Sewall Hall
8:30 David Lockwood (Michigan State University)
.........."Graphemes and phonemes: How parallel can they be?"
Session A (9:00 - 10:00, 301 Sewall Hall) Speaking/Comprehending and Linguistic Change
9:00 David Bowie (Brigham Young University)
.........."Perception and production in a series of related mergers"
9:20 Faeqa Alsadeqi (University of Bahrain)
..........'Bilingualism in the University of Bahrain"
9:40 Mark Kaunisto (University of Tampere, Finland)
.........."Angels, Heroes, and Majesties: The Aspect of Nobility in the History of English Adjectives in -ic and -ical."
Session B (9:00 - 10:00, 309 Sewall Hall) Discourse Factors
9:00 Michael Cummings (York University)
.........."Lexical iteration in a nineteenth-century novel"
9:20 Shaojun Ji (Alberta)
.........."Episode transitions and their linguistic encodings: a cross-linguistic study"
9:40 Bates Hoffer (Trinity) & Kumiko Takahara (Colorado)
.........."Interpreting dual language neologisms: Japanese/English blends"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
Session A (10:30 - 12:00, 301 Sewall Hall) Speaking/Comprehending and Linguistic Change
10:30 Hilke Elsen (Universitaet Muenchen & Universitaet Eichstaett)
.........."A child's role in language change"
11:00 Kawai Chui (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
.........."Ritualization in evolving pragmatic functions: a case study of DUI"
11:20 Patricia M. Lestrade, (Mississippi State), Michael D. Picone, & Yolanda Rivera-Castillo(University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
.........."Phonological and semantic information from Isleno rememberers of St. Bernard parish"
11:40 Julia Peters (University of Alberta)
.........."Given vs. new information influencing constituent ordering in the verb-particle construction"
Session B (10:30 - 11:20, 309 Sewall Hall) Discourse Factors
10:30 Toby D. Griffen (Southern Illinois University)
.........."The grammar of the Pictish symbol stones"
11:00 Anna Feldman (Ohio State University and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
.........."ze: codification of 'hearer-old' information"
Session B (11:20 - 12:00, 309 Sewall Hall) Exploring Hard Science Linguistics
Victor Yngve, Carl Mills, Doug Coleman, Caroline Rieger, and Stephen Straight
..........Panel discussion: "The Borders of the Known and the Unknown and the Search for Synthesis"
6:30 Banquet (Farnsworth Pavillion)
8:00 Presidential Address:
Michel Paradis, McGill University
...................."An integrated neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism (1976-2000)"
[This event is not sponsored by William Marsh Rice University]
