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Proceedings of the 2Nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL -2) Volume 2 Edited by 7-9 October 2016 Dr. Öner Özçelik and Bloomington, Indiana Amber Kennedy Kent ii (C) ConCALL-2 Proceedings copyrighted by Indiana University, CeLCAR (C) All papers copyrighted by the authors 2016 Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-2) Volume 2/edited by Dr. Öner Özçelik and Amber Kennedy Kent ISBN: 978-0-9961762-1-7 1. Central Asian Languages - Congresses For information on ConCALL-2 (held on 7-9 October 2016, Bloomington, Indiana), visit our website at http://www.iub.edu/~ConCALL/ Published by Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region Eigenmann Hall 702 1900 E. Tenth Street Bloomington, IN 47406-7512 USA http://www.iub.edu/~celcar/ iii History of ConCALL The Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL) was founded in 2014 at Indiana University under the leadership of Dr. Öner Özçelik, the residing director of the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), with grants and contributions from the U.S. Department of Education and several units at Indiana University, including the Ostrom Grant Programs, College of Arts and Humanities Center (CAHI), Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Global and International Studies (SGIS), Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (SRIFIAS), Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS), and Department of Linguistics. As the nation’s sole U.S. Department of Education funded Language Resource Center focusing on the languages of the Central Asian Region, CeLCAR’s main mission is to strengthen and improve the nation’s capacity for teaching and learning Central Asian languages through teacher training, research, materials development projects, and dissemination. As part of this mission, CeLCAR has an ultimate goal to unify and fortify the Central Asian language community by facilitating networking between linguists and language educators working on Central Asian languages, encouraging research projects that will inform language instruction, and provide opportunities for professionals in the field to both showcase their work and receive feedback from their peers. Thus, ConCALL was established to be the first international academic conference to bring together linguists and language educators working on the languages of the Central Asian region, focusing primarily on Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and Eastern Indo-European languages, among others, with the aim of encouraging research into how these specific languages are (i) represented formally, (ii) acquired by second/ foreign language learners, and (iii) best taught given research driven teaching methods. ConCALL represents all languages spoken in Central Asia and the surrounding areas, as well as languages that are genetically related to Central Asian languages. Languages represented in ConCALL-2 included, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Dagur, Dari, Farsi, Georgian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Tajiki, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Conference Proceedings Conference presenters were selected via an anonymous peer-review process. All conference invited speakers and accepted presenters were invited to publish their papers as part of the conference proceedings. iv v CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2 History of ConCALL iii Contents v Editor’s Introduction vii Acknowledgements viii PART 1. PLENARY SPEAKERS I KAHNEMUYIPOUR, Arsalan, University of Toronto Mississauga 3 The Ezafe Construction: Persian and Beyond II MONTRUL, Silvina, University of Illinois 23 The acquisition of “other” “different” “less common” “distant” languages:A critical need III KABAK, Barış, University of Wurzburg, Germany 25 Refining Turkish stress as a multifaceted phenomenon IV ERDAL, Marcel, 27 How did the Turkic languages come to differ as they do? V KARA, György, Indiana University 39 Lessons Learned from the Study of Mongol Languages PART 2. FORMAL LINGUISTICS AND RESEARCH 1 BOKHARI, Hassan and DURMAZ, Mustafa, Indiana University 43 and WASHINGTON, Jonathan, Swathmore College An acoustic analysis of vowel insertion at syllable edges in Turkish 2 CHRISTOPHER, Nadežda, SOAS University of London 55 Kazakh multi-functional particle ğoj: the first description 3 HIDAKA, Shinsuke, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 69 Is the -ar/-mas participle a participle in Uzbek? 4 KAKZHANOVA, Fazira, Karaganda State University 75 Verbal Aspect Problems and the Aspect of the Kazakh Language 5 MACAK, Martin, University of Georgia 85 The (non)realization of Armenian word-final palatal glide 6 YOHEI, Yamada, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 95 A verb aa in Dagur vi PART 3. PEDAGOGY AND TEACHING 1 ANDABAYEVA, Dina and AVAKOVA, Raushangul, al-Farabi Kazakh National University 105 Language Factor In the Formation of National and Cultural Identity of Kazakhstan 2 ARMAN, Rahmna, KENT, Amber Kennedy and ÖZÇELIK, Öner, Indiana University 113 Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Instruction in an Online Language Learning Environment: A case study in Pashto 3 CHEN, Yunchuan and JIANG, Li, University of Hawaii at Manoa 119 The nominal expressions in Lhasa Tibetan 4 PUTHUVAL, Sarala, University of Washington 131 A language vitality assessment for Mongolian in China 5 SULEYMANOVA, Gulnara, Michigan State University 149 The acquisition of Azerbaijani idioms by second language learners vii Editor’s Introduction On October 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2016, the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) hosted the Second Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-2) at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana as the second occurrence of this biannual academic conference. ConCALL was established in May 2014 to bring together linguists and language educators specializing in the languages of the Central Asian region, including Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, Tungusic and Tibetan languages spoken in the region, among others. The theme of this conference, “Continuing the Journey: Strengthening the Central Asian Language Community,” was selected to build upon the theme of the inaugural conference which was “Building a bond: Strengthening the Central Asian Language Community” and is consistent with our goals to create a stronger network of Central Asian language experts and to provide a unique opportunity for researchers, pedagogists, linguists, and educators in the field to present their work to an audience of their peers in the same language field. Once again, we were pleased at the overall success of the conference. We had 68 registered attendees that came from all over the globe, including not only the Central Eurasian region, including Afghanistan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, but also attendees from Canada, China, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom! Additionally, we had attendees from various American universities and institutions including Indiana University, Michigan State University, San Diego State University, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Georgia, University of Hawaii, University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. And of course our illustrious guest speakers Marcel Erdal, Baris Kabak, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, György Kara, and Silvina Montrul represented Goethe University, University of Würzburg, University of Toronto, Indiana University, and University of Illinois, respectively. We were impressed and inspired by the high level of quality abstract submissions, and out of the 65 abstracts submitted, 19 were selected for oral presentations (an acceptance rate of 29.23%) and 7 were selected for poster presentations (an acceptance rate of 10.76%), with an overall acceptance rate of 40% total for both oral and poster presentations. The selected presentations and posters covered an assortment of research topics, including syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, and pedagogy, related to an assortment of language families, including Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, Tibetan, and even Kartvelian. We cannot express enough our gratitude to all of those who continue to support this unique conference, which we genuinely believe is making a difference to strengthen and unite our greater CentralAsian language learning community, as well as increase both the quantity and quality of teaching these less commonly taught languages across the world. And finally, we would like to once again thank the conference’s founding organization, Indiana University’s Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), as well as our other 2016 conference sponsors: IU’s Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC) and Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME). Additionally, special thanks to the IU’s School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Central Eurasian Studies Department, and Department of Linguistics for their continued support and contributions. We look forward to seeing everyone again in Spring 2018, and hopefully some new faces as well. Sincerely, Dr. Öner Özçelik, Director Amber Kennedy Kent, Language Instructional Specialist Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana October 2016 viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Second Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics held at Indiana University on 7-9 October 2016 was made possible through the generosity of our sponsors as well as the help from the CeLCAR staff and several IU faculty and student volunteers whose diligence
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