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Berkeley Linguistics Society 36Th Annual Meeting February 6 & 7 Berkeley Linguistics Society 36th Annual Meeting February 6 & 7, 2010 Berkeley, California Berkeley Linguistics Society 36 Contents MARK DINGEMANSE ...................... 17 Acknowledgements ......................... 1 How to do things with ideophones: Schedule ................................... 2 Towards a social interactional approach Conference Venue .......................... 6 YOUNG AH DO ............................ 17 Nearby Restaurants ........................ 7 Satisfying output-output faithfulness with Copy Shops ................................ 8 excessive morphology: Evidence from Korean Bookstores ................................. 8 acquisition ANDREW DOMBROWSKI ................... 18 Invited Speakers When is orthography not just orthography? The case of the Novgorod birchbark letters LYLE CAMPBELL ........................... 9 TERESA ELMS ............................. 18 Language isolates and their history, or, Gesture-to-speech mismatch in the What’s weird, anyway? construction of problem-solving insight PETER T. DANIELS ........................ 10 CALEB EVERETT .......................... 18 Writing in the world and linguistics Semantically-oriented vowel reduction in an JEAN-MARIE HOMBERT ................... 11 Amazonian language Language isolates and linguistic diversity: JOHNNY GEORGE ..........................19 A case for a mosaic approach to language Universals in the visual-kinesthetic modality: emergence Politeness marking features in Japanese Sign JOHN MCCARTHY ......................... 12 Language (JSL) Harmonic Serialism in Optimality Theory YOUSSEF A. HADDAD ..................... 19 RICHARD SPROAT ......................... 13 Expletive control in Telugu Some common misconceptions about NANCY HEDBERG &DAVID POTTER . 20 writing systems and symbol systems Equative and predicational copulas in Thai KATARZYNA JANIC ........................ 20 Papers On the reflexive – antipassive polysemy: Typological convergence from unrelated BRIAN AGBAYANI,CHRIS GOLSTON,&DASHA languages HENDERER ................................ 14 SVERRE STAUSLAND JOHNSEN . 21 Movement of prosodic constituents Neighborhood density in phonological XABIER ARTIAGOITIA ..................... 14 alternations Basque genitive case and multiple checking HIJO KANG ............................... 21 MAX BANE ............................... 15 Position and height asymmetries in hiatus A combinatoric model of variation in the resolution: A case study of Korean VV English dative alternation sequences AMY CAMPBELL .......................... 15 HRAYR KHANJIAN .........................21 A typology of discontinuous exponence Negative concord in Western Armenian HUI-WEN CHENG &CATHERINE CALDWELL- HYUN-JU KIM ............................. 22 HARRIS ................................... 15 Emergent hidden grammar: Stochastic Orthography shapes semantic and patterning in Korean accentuation of novel phonological activation in reading words JIDONG CHEN ............................. 16 IKSOO KWON ............................. 22 Putting and taking events in Mandarin Evidentiality in Korean counterfactual Chinese conditional constructions IOANA CHITORAN &EGIDIO MARSICO . 16 WOJCIECH LEWANDOWSKI . 23 Vowel devoicing: An updated phonetic The source-goal asymmetry in SLA typology Berkeley Linguistics Society 36 CAITLIN LIGHT ........................... 23 GUILLAUME SEGERER ..................... 29 Subject relatives and expletives in Early Some hypotheses about possible isolates New High German within the Atlantic branch of the Niger- JOSITA MAOUENE,NITYA SETHURAMAN, Congo phylum MOUNIR MAOUENE,&LINDA B. SMITH . 24 REIJIROU SHIBASAKI ...................... 30 An embodied account of argument structure From relativization to nominalization and development more: Evidence from the history of Okinawan GRANT L. MCGUIRE ...................... 24 KAZUKO SHINOHARA &SHIGETO Orthographic effects on attention to KAWAHARA ............................... 30 phonetic cues A cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism: LEV MICHAEL ............................ 25 The images of size The Pre-Columbian origin of a ‘diachronic WILSON SILVA &KRISTINE STENZEL . 31 orphan’: The case of Omagua Empowering language speakers to develop CHRISTOPHER MILLER .................... 25 their own orthography: Two case studies Transfer and contact phenomena in the JAMES SLOTTA ............................ 31 genesis of the Philippine-Indonesian Multifunctionality and inalienability: Baybayic scripts Propositional and discourse functions in SATOSHI NAMBU .......................... 25 Yopno possessive constructions A quantitative analysis of the nominative/ MORGAN SONDEREGGER . 32 genitive alternation in Japanese Testing for frequency and structural effects DAVID POTTER ............................ 26 in an English stress shift A sister-precedence approach to the YASUTADA SUDO .......................... 32 linearization of multiple dominance Person restrictions in Uyghur indexical structures shifting HANNAH PRITCHETT &ALICE GABY . 26 EDWARD VAJDA ........................... 32 A dynamic typology of wanting in Metathesis and reanalysis in Ket Australian languages POLINA VASILIEV &PAOLA ESCUDERO . 33 TOM RECHT ............................... 27 A psychoacoustic correlate for phonological Loanword-effected morphological vowel height? Testing Syrdal & Gopal’s restructuring in the Hebrew verb system model with Brazilian Portuguese vowels SHARON MIRIAM ROSS &ILA NAGAR . 27 GREGORY WARD,CHRISTOPHER AHERN,& Jack and Jill: Early emergence of TOM HAYDEN ............................. 33 discrimination between male- and An empirical investigation of typicality and female-directed speech uniqueness effects on article choice ANKELIEN SCHIPPERS ..................... 28 JAMES D. Y. WHANG ...................... 33 Partial wh-movement and wh-copying in Perception of illegal contrasts: Japanese Dutch: Evidence for an indirect dependency adaptations of Korean coda obstruents approach CAO YONGHENG .......................... 34 NATHAN SCHNEIDER ...................... 28 The processing of English spatial and Computational cognitive morphosemantics: temporal relations by advanced Chinese Modeling morphological compositionality EFL learners in Hebrew verbs with Embodied CALA ZUBAIR ............................. 34 Construction Grammar Diglossia versus Register: Discursive TYLER SCHNOEBELEN ..................... 29 classifications of two Sinhala varieties (Un)classifying Shabo: Phylogenetic methods and the Basque of Africa Berkeley Linguistics Society 36 Acknowledgements The Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS) thanks the following organizations for their generous support and sponsorship: • UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics • UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly • UC Berkeley Social Sciences Division • UC Berkeley Student Opportunity Fund • International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) BLS would also like to thank Dieter Stein and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for helping us arrange access to much of the past BLS Proceedings via eLanguage. We look forward to our continued collaboration! The current BLS Executive Committee would also like to thank all the members of recent past Executive Committees who have lent their expertise and given their guidance to us – without their words of wisdom, the meeting would not run nearly as smoothly. BLS also heartily thanks all the student volunteers who have given their time to help make this meeting a success, whether through reviewing abstracts or volunteering at the meeting itself. We also wish to thank all those who submitted abstracts and who have come to present their work to all of us! Finally, BLS thanks all the speakers of the languages presented at this conference who have kindly pro- vided us with words and utterances without which we could do none of the work we love. BLS 36 Executive Committee Jessica Cleary-Kemp, Clara Cohen, Stephanie Farmer, Laura Kassner, John Sylak, and Melinda Woodley. 1 Berkeley Linguistics Society 36 Schedule Saturday, Feb. 6 (Day 1) 7:45 am Registration & Coffee – 371 Dwinelle 8:15 Opening Remarks – 370 Dwinelle 370 DWINELLE 3335 DWINELLE Syntax I Phonetics 8:30 Youssef A. HADDAD : Expletive control in Caleb EVERETT : Semantically-oriented Telugu vowel reduction in an Amazonian language 9:00 Caitlin LIGHT : Subject relatives and ex- Polina VASILIEV & Paola ESCUDERO : A pletives in Early New High German psychoacoustic correlate for phonological vowel height? Testing Syrdal & Gopal’s model with Brazilian Portuguese vowels 9:30 Xabier ARTIAGOITIA : Basque genitive Ioana CHITORAN & Egidio MARSICO : case and multiple checking Vowel devoicing: An updated phonetic ty- pology 10:00 Hrayr KHANJIAN : Negative concord in Hijo KANG : Position and height asymme- Western Armenian tries in hiatus resolution: A case study of Korean VV sequences 10:30 Break – 371 Dwinelle 10:45 RICHARD SPROAT – 370 Dwinelle Some Common Misconceptions about Writing Systems and Symbol Systems 11:45 Lunch (see p. 7 for nearby options) Semantics Psycholinguistics 12:45 pm Yasutada SUDO : Person restrictions in Josita MAOUENE, Nitya SETHURAMAN, Uyghur indexical shifting Mounir MAOUENE, & Linda B. SMITH : An embodied account of argument struc- ture development 1:15 Nancy HEDBERG & David POTTER : Wojciech LEWANDOWSKI : The source- Equative and predicational copulas in Thai goal asymmetry in SLA 1:45 Jidong CHEN : Putting and taking events – Cancelled – Cao YONGHENG : The pro- in Mandarin Chinese cessing of English spatial and temporal re- lations by advanced Chinese EFL learners 2:15
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