Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2017
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Manchester Forum in Linguistics A conference for early career researchers in linguistics University of Manchester 28-29 April 2017 www.mfilconf.co.uk [email protected] The 2017 Manchester Forum in Linguistics is supported by the University of Manchester’s Department of Linguistics and English Language, artsmethods@manchester and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. i Contents General information ......................................... 1 Programme ............................................. 2 Plenary speakers ........................................... 4 Origin stories: Evaluating theories for the origins of Canadian raising, Amanda Cardoso . 5 Using quantitative syntactic data to assign dates of composition to Old English texts, Aaron Ecay ............................................ 6 Social media and the new frontiers of forensic authorship profiling, Andrea Nini . 7 Language structure from social practice, Péter Rácz ...................... 8 Talks ................................................. 9 Velar nasal plus in the north of (ing)land, George Bailey ................... 10 Expletives in Icelandic: A diachronic study, Hannah Booth . 11 Minimal effort and the relative order of double topics in Mandarin Chinese, Sherry Yong Chen 12 Implementing reproducibility in phonetic research: A computational workflow, Stefano Coretta 13 The syntax-pragmatics interface: Unifying contrastiveness: Evidence from North-Eastern Italian dialects (NEIDs)?, Simone De Cia ........................ 14 How many or how much? – Counting and measuring in Chinese, Christopher Hicks . 15 English influence of verb-noun collocations in Quebec French, Sarah-Kay Hurst . 16 Agree manifestations in Arabic, Marwan Jarrah ........................ 17 Verb third in Kiezdeutsch: The development of an (optional) subject position?, Benjamin Lowell Sluckin ...................................... 18 Voice onset time as an index of sexuality, Bradley Mackay ................... 19 Labelling in ECM and its implications for phase theory, Manabu Mizuguchi . 20 Linguo-cognitive aspect of lexico-semantic group of nouns denoting “lodging” in English in comparison with the Spanish and Armenian languages, Lilit Movsesyan . 22 What does a suspicious review look like? Developing linguistic heuristics for detecting fake online reviews, Olumide Popoola ............................. 23 Differential recipient marking and the typology of argument marking: New evidence from Romance languages, Hagay Schurr ............................ 24 German psych verbs and the stage-level/individual-level distinction, Livia Sommer . 25 On first conjunct agreement in Spanish, Bo-Fan Syue ..................... 26 Experimental insights on the Romanian ethical dative, Alina Tigau . 27 Fronting in the T[0:]n: Evidence of /u/-fronting in North East England, Jasmine Warburton . 28 In the /i/ of the beholder: Looking at vowels with ultrasound tongue imaging, Fabienne Westerberg ......................................... 29 ii Posters ................................................ 30 Surprises on the hunt for causes, Bernat Castro López ..................... 31 Proficiency and working memory in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movement data, Zhe Gao, Yanhui Zhang & Meng Jiang ....................... 32 A proposal for a shared classification of code-switching and code-blending, Eleonora Marocchini ........................................ 33 Camfranglais as a transnational practice – being Cameroonian in a ‘superdiverse’ context, Constance Mbassi Manga ................................. 34 Intuitive and reflective inference in the interpretation of metaphor, Ramona Pistol . 35 Constructional change in the lifetime: it-cleft foci as a case study for change in individuals, William Standing ..................................... 36 iii General information This booklet contains both the conference programme and the abstracts for all oral and poster presentations to be given at the 2017 edition of the Manchester Forum in Linguistics (mFiL 2017). Abstracts are divided into sections according to whether they are plenaries, talks or posters and arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the lead author. Other information about registration, accommodation and finding one’s way around Manchester and to the conference venue can be found on the conference website: www.mfilconf.co.uk. Any updates regarding the conference should also be communicated by the organisers on social media: www.twitter.com/mfilconf and www.facebook.com/mfilconf. Should the need arise, more crucial information will also be circulated by e-mail. All members of the organising committee will be wearing purple name badges. If you have any questions or problems, feel free to speak to one of them. Talks will take place in either the Conference Room (C1.18) or Seminar Room 2 (CG58) in the Ellen Wilkinson Building’s Graduate Centre at the University of Manchester on Oxford Road. The poster session as well as lunch and coffee breaks will be held in the atrium of the same building. With the exception of plenary speakers, who have each been allocated a one hour slot, speakers will have a total of 30 minutes: 20 or 25 minutes for the talk itself and 10 or 5 minutes for questions, this being the speaker’s choice. If you require Wi-Fi, eduroam is available in the Graduate Centre; however, for those coming from institutions that are not part of the eduroam network, if you ask a member of the organising committee, they will be able to provide you with a visitor username and password that will enable you to use a the university Wi-Fi. Organising committee: • Stephen Nichols (lead organiser) • George Bailey • Fernanda Barrientos • Hannah Booth • Stefano Coretta • Simone De Cia • Deepthi Gopal • Christopher Hicks • Henri Kauhanen • Donald Morrison • Sascha Stollhans Last update: 26 April 2017 1 Programme Friday 28 April 09:00-10:30 Registration & coffee (Atrium) 10:30-11:30 Plenary I: Dr Andrea Nini, Social media and the new frontiers of forensic authorship profiling (Conference Room) Syntax I (Conference Room) Semantics (Seminar Room) Chair: Dr Tine Breban Chair: Zoltan Zato 11:30-12:00 Simone De Cia, The syntax-pragmatics Lilit Movsesyan, Linguo-cognitive interface: Unifying contrastiveness: aspect of lexico-semantic group of Evidence from North-Eastern Italian nouns denoting “lodging” in English dialects (NEIDs)? in comparison with the Spanish and Armenian languages 12:00-12:30 Sherry Yong Chen, Minimal effort and Livia Sommer, German psych verbs the relative order of double topics in and the stage-level/individual-level Mandarin Chinese distinction 12:30-13:00 Bo-Fan Syue, On first conjunct agreement – in Spanish 13:00-14:00 Lunch & coffee (Atrium) Phonology I (Conference Room) Morphosyntax (Seminar Room) Chair: Dr Patrycja Strycharczuk Chair: Dr Delia Bentley 14:00-14:30 Stefano Coretta, Implementing Hagay Schurr, Differential recipient reproducibility in phonetic research: marking and the typology of argument A computational workflow marking: New evidence from Romance languages 14:30-15:00 Fabienne Westerberg, In the /i/ of Alina Tigau, Experimental insights on the the beholder: Looking at vowels with Romanian ethical dative ultrasound tongue imaging 15:00-15:30 George Bailey, Velar nasal plus in the Marwan Jarrah, Agree manifestations in north of (ing)land Arabic 15:30-17:00 Posters & coffee (Atrium) Bernat Castro López, Surprises on the hunt for causes • Zhe Gao, Yanhui Zhang & Meng Jiang, Proficiency and working memory in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from eye-movement data • Eleonora Marocchini, A proposal for a shared classification of code-switching and code-blending • Constance Mbassi Manga, Camfranglais as a transnational practice – being Cameroonian in a ‘superdiverse’ context • Ramona Pistol, Intuitive and reflective inference in the interpretation of metaphor • William Standing, Constructional change in the lifetime: it-cleft foci as a case study for change in individuals. 17:00-18:00 Plenary II: Dr Péter Rácz, Language structure from social practice (Conference Room) 19:00-late Dinner: Zouk, Unit 5, The Quadrangle, Chester Street, Manchester. M1 5QS. 2 Saturday 29 April 10:00-11:00 Plenary III: Dr Aaron Ecay, Using quantitative syntactic data to assign dates of composition to Old English texts (Conference Room) General linguistics (Conference Room) Syntax II (Seminar Room) Chair: Stephen Nichols Chair: Christopher Hicks 11:00-11:30 Olumide Popoola, What does a suspicious Hannah Booth, Expletives in Icelandic: A review look like? Developing linguistic diachronic study heuristics for detecting fake online reviews 11:30-12:00 Sarah-Kay Hurst, English influence of Manabu Mizuguchi, Labelling in ECM verb-noun collocations in Quebec French and its implications for phase theory 12:00-13:30 Lunch & coffee (Atrium) Syntax III (Conference Room) Phonology II (Seminar Room) Chair: Simone De Cia Chair: George Bailey 13:30-14:00 Benjamin Lowell Sluckin, Verb third Jasmine Warburton, Fronting in the in Kiezdeutsch: The development of an T[0:]n: Evidence of /u/-fronting in North (optional) subject position? East England 14:00-14:30 Christopher Hicks, How many or how Bradley Mackay, Voice onset time as an much? – Counting and measuring in index of sexuality Chinese 14:30-15:30 Careers panel (Conference Room) 15:30-16:00 Coffee (Atrium) 16:00-17:00 Plenary IV: Dr Amanda Cardoso, Origin stories: Evaluating theories for the origins of Canadian raising (Conference Room) 17:00-17:30 Closing remarks (Conference Room) 3 Plenary speakers Origin stories: