Congrès de l’ACL 2015 | 2015 CLA meeting Samedi 30 mai | Saturday, May 30 Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe | Syntax Le français acadien | Acquisition président | chair: Daniel Currie Hall président | chair: Walter Cichocki présidente | chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu 9:00–9:30 Amani Makkawi (Manitoba) Carmen L. LeBlanc & Laura Briggs (Carleton) Johannes Knaus & Mary Grantham O'Brien Participles as nonverbal predicates «Là les Madelinots étiont tout après boire pis ça (Calgary) chantait» ou L’étude des désinences à la 3e Word stress processing and the influence of personne du pluriel cognate suffixes in second language English: An EEG study 9:30–10:00 Annick Morin (Toronto) Emilie LeBlanc & Selena Phillips-Boyle (York) Laura Colantoni, Gabrielle Klassen, Matthew Où en est tu? A cross-linguistic approach to Discourse markers well and ben in Chiac J. Patience, Malina Radu & Olga Tararova polar interrogatives (Toronto) Production of redundant and primary prosodic cues to sentence type by L1 Spanish and Mandarin learners of English 10:00–10:30 Éric Mathieu & Gita Zareikar (Ottawa) Basile Roussel (Ottawa) Lilliana Montoya & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito Bottles of milk and cups of sugar: A cross- Le français acadien, une variété conservatrice? (Western) linguistic perspective on measure constructions L’exemple de l’usage du subjonctif dans le Information structure and nominal ellipsis in Nord-Est du Nouveau Brunswick L2 Spanish 10:30–11:00 Michèle Burkholder (Ottawa) Les faux-amis: Investigating lexico-semantic ambiguity across two languages

11:00–11:15 PAUSE | BREAK Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Déterminants | Determiners Variation grammaticale | Grammatical Sémantique | Semantics président | chair: Richard Compton variation présidente | chair: Joyce Bruhn de Garavito présidente | chair: Shana Poplack 11:15–11:45 Brett Reynolds (Edinburgh) Maksym Shkvorets (Toronto) Bronwyn Bjorkman & Elizabeth Cowper Said, the overlooked English determiner The loss of reflexive possessive pronouns in (Toronto) heritage Ukrainian Where there is, and why 11:45–12:15 Nicole Rosen (Manitoba) & Carrie Gillon Laura Kastronic (Ottawa) Diane Doran (McMaster) (Arizona State) A comparative variationist analysis of The semantics of English copy raising Reanalyzing “determiners” subjunctive use in Hexagonal French and constructions Quebec French

12:15–1:30 DÉJEUNER | LUNCH Session des affiches | Poster session Fauteux 371 1:30–3:00 Ross Bilous (York) Kara Hawthorne, Anja Arnhold, Emily Sullivan & Juhani New perspectives on the study of language change Järvikivi (Alberta/Ottawa) Bethany MacLeod (Carleton) Visual cues to discourse reference: Narrator gaze affects Quantifying the perceptual salience of the differences between pronoun resolution two dialects of Spanish Junko Shimoyama, Alex Drummond, Bernhard Schwarz & Marc Brunelle (Ottawa) Michael Wagner (McGill) A corpus-based study of prominence and stress in Vietnamese A No-Source Puzzle for Clausal Ellipsis in Right Dislocation, Félix Desmeules-Trudel (Ottawa) Sluicing and Fragments Propriétés aérodynamiques et comparaison des voyelles Mary Aksim (Carleton) nasales et potentiellement nasalisées en français québécois The effect of length of residence on the phonetic Matthew Patience (Toronto) accommodation to three English dialects Articulatory complexity in Spanish: Developing a hierarchy of Wladyslaw Cichocki (UNB) & Yves Perreault () difficulty Differences between read and spontaneous speech: an Abdulrahman Alamri & Tania Zamuner (Ottawa) application of rhythm metrics to a variety of Phonological, Semantic, and Root Activation in Spoken Word Acadian French Recognition in Lanlan Li (Manitoba) Santa Vīnerte & Laura Sabourin (Ottawa) Coronal stop deletion in Blackfoot English Bilingualism and Cognitive Control: The ANT in a Canadian Rosanna Pierson (MUN) Context A sociolinguistic analysis of the current state of /l/ allophony Anastasia Lazenkas & Victor Kuperman (McMaster) in St. John's English What Can the Perceived Word Frequency Ratings of Older Angélica Hernández (Western) Adults Tell Us About Lexical Representation? Use of the impersonal pluralized verb haber in Caribbean Kathleen Currie Hall, Veronica Letawsky, Alannah Turner, varieties of Spanish Claire Allen & Kevin McMullin (UBC) Ladan Jebheh (Manitoba) Effects of Predictability of Distribution on Within-Language A Syntactic Analysis of Persian Multi-verb Constructions Perception

3:00–3:15 PAUSE | BREAK Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Morphologie | Morphology Contraste en phonologie | Contrast in Pragmatique | Pragmatics présidente | chair: Amanda Pounder phonology président | chair: James Walker présidente | chair: Kathleen Currie Hall 3:15–3:45 Adriana Soto-Corominas & David Heap Thomas Leu (UQAM) (Western) Is there No homophony? Fission and impoverishment in nonstandard Catalan clitic clusters 3:45–4:15 Robert Mooney (Western) Michael Dow (Montréal) Fiona K.P. Siu (CityU HK) La géométrie hiéararchique de traits et l’ordre High vowel nasalization and contrast Exploring cross-cultural pragmatic judgement linéaire des suites de pronoms clitiques en preservation in French of two groups of EFL teachers on formal dialectes occitans dans le Département des written requests Alpes-Maritimes

4:15–4:45 Keffyalew Gebregziabher (Toronto) Jessamyn Schertz (Scarborough), Yoonjung Sean Meades (York) A split analysis of Tigrinya nominal possessive Kang (Toronto) & Sungwhoo Han (Inha) Multi-modal discourse-historical approach to constructions The role of acoustic evidence in resolving analyzing negative political advertising phonological ambiguity 5:30–7:30 Assemblée générale | Annual general meeting Fauteux 302 7:30– Fête | Party Royal Oak Pub (sous-sol | basement), 161 Laurier E. Dimanche 31 mai | Sunday, May 31 Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Nominaux | Nominals Phonologie | Phonology Modalité | Modality président | chair: Éric Mathieu présidente | chair: Sara Mackenzie présidente | chair: Marina Sherkina-Lieber 9:00–9:30 Diane Massam, Kazuya Bamba & Patrick Heather Newell (UQAM) Vesela Simeonova (Ottawa) Murphy (Toronto) Phonology without strata Evidentials with attitude! The universal null pronoun in instructional contexts and beyond 9:30–10:00 Hermann Keupdjio (UBC) Maida Percival (Toronto) Ileana Paul (Western), Baholisoa Simone Asymmetries on wh-extraction in Medumba Shifting GEN in harmonic serialism: Evidence Ralalaoherivony (Antananarivo) & Henriëtte from de Swart (Utrecht) Aspect and modality in Malagasy maha 10:00–10:30 Kyumin Kim & Paul B. Melchin (Ottawa) Cassandra Chapman, Diane Doran & Daniel Pluralizer as a nP modifier: Evidence from Schmidtke (McMaster) Korean -tul The locus of evidentiality in English

10:30–10:45 PAUSE | BREAK Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe | Syntax Variation phonologique | Phonological Psycholinguistique | Psycholinguistics présidente | chair: Bronwyn Bjorkman variation présidente | chair: Laura Sabourin président | chair: David Heap 10:45–11:15 Kazuya Bamba (Toronto) Hanadi Azhari (Manitoba) Lauren Fromont, Emmanuel Biau & Salvador D feature and impersonal SE: A new perspective Is the diglossic situation in Arabic making its Soto-Faraco (Montréal) on Romance impersonal constructions way into texting? A sociolinguistic study of Effects of prosodic cues on relative clause phonological variation in Makkan Arabic attachment preferences in Spanish 11:15–11:45 Patrick Murphy (Toronto) Paul De Decker, Sara Mackenzie & Rosanna Helen Goodluck (York), Kofi Saah (Ghana) & Non-ergative case splits: A view from Finnish Pierson (MUN) Frank Tsiwah (Groningen) Losing light /l/: An acoustic and articulatory In Akan, violation of island constraints cannot investigation of Newfoundland English be reduced to sentence processing 11:45–12:15 Julianne Doner (Toronto) Jeffrey Lamontagne (McGill) Danica MacDonald (Calgary) Not [uD]: Redefining the EPP requirement A variationist analysis of vowel fronting in The changing status of Korean plural-marking: Laurentian French Evidence from an acceptability judgement task

12:15–1:30 DÉJEUNER | LUNCH

Wikipedia editathon Fauteux 302 Session des affiches | Poster session Fauteux 371 1:30–3:00 Luc Therriault (UQAM) Kara Hawthorne, Juhani Järvikivi & Ben Tucker (Alberta) Étude comparative diachronique et synchronique des suffixes The impact of accented prosody on parsing speech –man Sranan et –mà Saramaccan Kyeong-min Kim (SFU) François Poiré (Western) Syntax of the Korean VP anaphor: An experimental study Étude exploratoire du phonétisme du français du doublage au Adriana Soto-Corominas & Itziri Moreno Villamar Québec (Western) Malina Radu (Toronto) L1 vs. L2 in L3 acquisition of gender: Does typology matter? Weakening of intervocalic stops in Colombian Spanish M.J. Antiqua-Parlee (MUN) Esperanza Ruiz-Peña, Diego Sevilla & Yasaman Rafat Local identity, accommodation of the outsider and language (Western) use in a coastal Maine community Equivalence classification in second dialect imitation: the case Meghan Hayes (Western) of assibilated rhotics Borrowed adverbs in a variety of Acadian French Yoonjung Kang, Yaruna Cooblal, Sneha George, Rachel Soo Stéphanie Luna (UQAM) & Jestine Abella (Toronto) Variation syntaxique de la langue des signes québécoise chez The effect of lexical stress on the phonetic realization of les aînés sourds voicing contrast in Tagalog: Native and Heritage comparison Angélica Hernández, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada, Jeff Elena Valenzuela, Kristina Borg, Rachel Klassen, & Tania Tennant & David Heap (Western) Zamuner (Ottawa) Variation sociale et linguistique dans l’espagnol cubain Code-switched relative clause constructions and bilingual d’Holguín: aspiration et effacement sentence processing: An eye-tracking study James G. Smith (Toronto) Sophie Godbout-Beaulieu & Christopher Fennell (Ottawa) Sociophonetic variation of Northern Ontario English vowels: The influence of lexical-stress in word acquisition: Emerging Canadian Shift in two non-urban communities evidence for cross-linguistic differences in a developmental Nova Starr (Ottawa) framework Voice and general number in Tagalog Saleh AlQahtani & Laura Sabourin (Ottawa) Syntactic processing of subjects in different word orders in Arabic: Do Arabic heritage speakers differ from native speakers when processing SVO/VSO order?

3:00–3:15 PAUSE | BREAK Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe | Syntax Variation grammaticale | Grammatical Acquisition présidente | chair: Helen Goodluck variation présidente | chair: Elena Valenzuela présidente | chair: Nicole Rosen

3:15–3:45 Julie Goncharov (Toronto) Shana Poplack, Rosane de Andrade Berlinck, Elena Kulinich, Phaedra Royle & Daniel Please, trim your replies! A hybrid fragment Salvatore Digesto & Nathalie Dion (Ottawa) Valois (Montréal/UQAM) answer in Russian A pan-Romance perspective on subjunctive Acquisition du paradigme verbal en russe: variability surgénéralisation en yod /j/ 3:45–4:15 Vesela Simeonova & Gita Zareikar (Ottawa) Gerard Van Herk (MUN) & Jennifer Thorburn Louisette Emirkanian (UQAM), Adel Jebali The syntax of evidentials in Azeri, Bulgarian (Newcastle) (Concordia) & Leslie Redmond (UQAM) and Persian Foundering: Reconsidering adjectival Acquisition des clitiques datifs en français L2: intensification influence de la structure argumentale et du sens du verbe de la L1 4:15–4:45 Nazila Shafiei (Calgary) Mélanie Elliott & Mihaela Pirvulescu Ellipsis in Persian complex predicates: VVPE or (Toronto) something else? The acquisition of direct object clitics in the Spanish of bilingual Spanish-French children 4:45–5:00 Ouverture de l’exposition «Le Cri : La langue du peuple» | Opening of the exhibit “Cree: The People’s Language” Musée canadien des langues | Canadian Language Museum 5:00–7:00 Réception du recteur | President’s reception Chapiteau des réceptions (à côté de 90U) | Reception Tent (next to 90U) Lundi 1 juin | Monday, June 1 Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe du japonais et du chinois | Syntax Prosodie et perception | Prosody and Morphologie | Morphology of Japanese and Chinese perception présidente | chair: Leslie Saxon président | chair: Johannes Knaus président | chair: Marc Brunelle 9:00–9:30 Jianxun Liu (Victoria) Daiho Kitaoka (Ottawa) & Sara Mackenzie Richard Compton (UQAM) A restructuring approach to two structures for (MUN) Distinguishing Inuit verb-like adjectives from Chinese purposives Evidence for the mora: Analysis of a Japanese genuine stative intransitive verbs reversing game 9:30–10:00 Paul B. Melchin (Ottawa) Avery Ozburn (UBC) Marina Sherkina-Lieber & Kumiko Murasugi Diagnosing pronominal category in Japanese Perceptual motivations of sibilant harmony (Carleton) and Mandarin Noun incorporation and case in heritage 10:00–10:30 Daiho Kitaoka (Ottawa) Iryna Osadcha (Toronto) Brandon Fry (Ottawa) Non-floating collective numeral quantifiers in The lexical stress in East Slavic The derivation of theme-signs in Algonquin Japanese Ojibwe: A multiple agree approach 10:30–11:00 Meï-Lan Mamode (Toronto) Variation prosodique dialectale en français mauricien: Étude de l’accentuation des syllables proéminentes

11:00–11:15 PAUSE | BREAK 11:15–12:15 Communication plénière | Plenary talk Yves Roberge (Toronto) Récipiendaire du Prix national d'excellence | Recipient of the National Achievement Award Triangulation et convergence de preuves sur la représentation des objets directs Fauteux 147

12:15–1:30 DÉJEUNER | LUNCH Fauteux 302 Session spéciale: Logiciels pour linguistique | Special Session: Software for Linguistics 1:30–2:00 John Esling (Victoria) iPA Phonetics: A multimedia resource for phonetics 2:00–2:30 Kathleen Currie Hall, Blake Allen, Michael Fry, Scott Mackie & Michael McAuliffe (UBC) Phonological corpus tools 2:30–3:00 Yvan Rose & Gregory Hedlund (Memorial) The Phon software program for phonetic and phonological analysis

3:00–3:15 PAUSE | BREAK 3:15–3:45 Joel Dunham (Concordia), Jessica Coon (McGill) & Hisako Noguchi (Concordia) LingSync 3:45–4:15 Kevin Russell (Manitoba) A wiki system for collaborative field research and documentation

4:15–4:30 PAUSE | BREAK Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe | Syntax Langues en contact | Languages in contact Copules | Copulas président | chair: Keffyalew Gebregziabher président | chair: Basile Roussel président | chair: Paul Melchin 4:30–5:00 Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, Shana Poplack, Lotfi Sayahi, Nahed Mourad Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (Western) Bronwyn Bjorkman, Neil Banerjee & Rebecca & Nathalie Dion (Ottawa/SUNY Albany) Copula grammaticalization in Proto-Sáliban Tollan (Toronto) Mixing typologically different languages: The There’s no future in Old English behaviour of French nouns in Tunisian Arabic 5:00–5:30 Yining Nie (Toronto) Philip Comeau (UQAM) Nicholas Welch (Toronto) Tense and modality in French verbal Emprunts de mots fonctionnels en français Light verbs as copulas with additional morphology acadien arguments 5:30–6:00 María Luisa Rivero, Ana Arregui & Nikolay Yasaman Rafat (Western) & Mercedeh Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Slavkov (Ottawa) Mohaghegh (Toronto) Jessica Mathie & Tomohiro Yokoyama Grammaticalizing ‘big’ situations in Bulgarian Geminate consonant production across three (Toronto) generations of Farsi-Engish-speaking Iranian- Number matching in small clauses: Can we Canadian bilinguals agree on Concord?