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The 34Th Annual Northwest Linguistics Conference Abstract Booklet April The 34th Annual Northwest Linguistics Conference Abstract Booklet April 28-29, 2018 Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Campus Vancouver, BC Located on the traditional ancestral territories of Tsleil-Waututh, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam) peoples 1 Northwest Linguistics Conference 34 Program Saturday, April 28, 2018 HC 2270 HC 1510 8:30-9:30 Registration 9:30-10:00 Welcome Aaron Williams Sḵwxwú7mesẖ (Squamish) Nation 10:00-11:00 Plenary Talk I Phonetics and the Public Good Dr. Murray Munro (Professor, Simon Fraser University) Chair: Noortje de Weers 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break Session I: Phonetics Session I: Syntax I Chair: Yue Chen Chair: Quince Sholberg 11:15-11:45 Filipinos in Toronto are speak[ɪng] like this, Might should we consider this?: Double modal not talk[ɪn] like that inversion in Southern United States English Pocholo Umbal, Jean-Francois Juneau, Clara Sara Williamson Dubber, and Anthony Cheung (Simon Fraser University) (University of Toronto) 11:45-12:15 The entrainment of creaky voice in a Constructional Constraints in English Syntactic conversation corpus Amalgams: A Corpus-based Perspective Courtney Mansfield Rok Sim and Jong-Bok Kim (University of Washington) (Kyung Hee University) 12:15-1:45 Lunch (not provided) 1:45-2:45 Plenary Talk II Investigating the use of articulatory information in auditory speech perception: How listening is shaped by talking Dr. Henny Yeung (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University) Chair: Quince Sholberg 2:45-3:00 Coffee Break Session II: Language Acquisition I Session II: First Nations Languages Chair: Olga Vasileva Chair: Kelli Finney 3:00-3:30 The perception and production of intervocalic Pragmatics meets Prosodics: Nominal Lists in [θ] by Mandarin ESL learners Hul'q'umi'num' Salish Junyu Wu and Hua Lin Zachary Gilkison (University of Victoria) (Simon Fraser University) 3:30-4:00 Korean Learners' Individual Networks of Plain velars in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh language Practice Ethan Pincott Kellianne Bennett (Simon Fraser University) (University of Washington) 4:00-4:30 Fluency in the EFL Chilean Classroom The (Predictable) Effect of Environment on Astrid Morrison Vowel Quality in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Universidad Autonoma de Chile) Gloria Mellesmoen and Marianne Huijsmans (University of British Columbia) 5:00-7:00 Social (drinks and appetizers at Malone’s) Sunday, April 29, 2018 HC 2270 HC 1510 9:30-10:00 Registration 10:00-11:00 Plenary Talk III Internally Headed Relatives: From Japanese to the Dene Languages Dr. Keir Moulton (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University) Chair: Anisa Dhanji 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break Session III: Syntax II Session III: Sociolinguistics Chair: Sara Williamson Chair: Zack Gilkison 11:15-11:45 Gender Identity and the Naturalness of First Nations Language Revitalization in Referential Singular They British Columbia: The case of the Tŝilhqot’in Trevor Block language in Yuneŝit’in (Simon Fraser University) Paula Laita Pallares (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) 11:45-12:15 Reflector: another potential interpretation of Language Contact in Amdo and Kham the Mandarin reflexive ziji Nathan Loggins Peng Han (University of Washington) (University of Calgary) 12:15-1:45 Lunch (not provided) Session IV: Language Acquisition II Chair: Dasha Gluhareva 1:45-2:15 Investigating Language Asymmetry and Handedness in Participants with Diverse Language Background Olga Vasileva (Simon Fraser University) 2:15-2:45 Instructed SLA of English articles and noun types by L1 Chinese international students Dakota Thomas-Wilhelm (University of Iowa/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 2:45-3:15 Investigating Acquisition of L2 Articles: Evidence from Japanese-speaking and English-speaking learners of Standard Arabic Albandary Aldossari (Western University) Plenary Talks *All plenary talks will be in HC 2270* Saturday, April 28 Plenary #1: 10:00-11:00 am Phonetics and the Public Good Dr. Murray Munro (Professor, Simon Fraser University) In its strict sense “Applied Linguistics” refers to a field of study that places value on the practical uses of linguistic research. Of course, one application of such work is in language teaching, which benefitted both in the early 20th century and again more recently from a close engagement with phonetics. In addition, the influence of the speech sciences in the public sphere has expanded in the past few decades, with consequences for accessibility, the arts, business, and even criminal prosecution. Using examples drawn from my own empirical work and that of other researchers I will discuss the ways in which phonetics can shed light on several current issues relating to education, public policy, and dishonest practices. Plenary #2: 1:45-2:45pm Investigating the use of articulatory information in auditory speech perception: How listening is shaped by talking Dr. Henny Yeung (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University) Phonetics and phonology assume similar representations in production and perception, yet we still understand relatively little about how cognitive and neural systems for speech perception and production are linked. Here I examine the role that sensorimotor information about production has in speech perception, and how this sensorimotor information is formatted. The first part of this talk will focus on production information as supplementary source of information that is useful for the resolution of ambiguous auditory speech, just like seeing a visual face aids with understanding speech. However, I will also show that visual and sensorimotor information tap into different cognitive representations of speech. The second part of this talk will explore the format of sensorimotor information, and results will indicate that low level articulatory cues are incorporated into auditory perception. Together, these findings have several implications for theories of gestural phonetics and phonology. Sunday, April 29 Plenary #3: 10:00-11:00 am Internally Headed Relatives: From Japanese to the Dene Languages Dr. Keir Moulton (Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University) Relativization strategies in the world’s languages vary in a number of ways. One prominent source of variation is the location of the head noun of the relative. Languages like English place the head externally to the relative clause (EHRCs). In contrast, a range of (unrelated) languages place the head internal to the relative clause—so called internally headed relatives (IHRCs). A major question in the study of IHRCs is whether they have an underlying or abstract syntactic structure that is similar to EHRCs. Erlewine and Gould (2014) have recently argued for a unification of Japanese EHRCs and IHRCs; Platero 1974 and Grosu 2012 have claimed that IHRCs in the Dene language Navajo are also, at an abstract syntactic level, externally headed. In this talk I report joint work with Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten that argues against Grosu’s claim about Navajo based on novel fieldwork elicitation; I then report joint work with Junko Shimoyama refuting Erlewine and Gould's analysis. I present an account of the variation in IHRCs that does not cast them as derivationally related to externally headed relatives. Filipinos in Toronto are speak[ɪng] like this, not talk[ɪn] like that Pocholo Umbal, Jean-Francois Juneau, Clara Dubber, and Anthony Cheung University of Toronto The variable realization of the English ending –ing (walk[ɪn] vs. walk[ɪng]), known also as the variable (ING), has been studied extensively within the variationist framework (e.g., Fisher 1958, Houston 1985, Labov 1966, Trudgill 1972, 1974). However, studies on the ethnic patterns of (ING) remain underwhelming (e.g., Drummond 2012, Walker 2012, 2015). Walker (2012), for instance, showed that Chinese speakers of Canadian English in Toronto show low rates of [ɪn] use. In addition, Drummond (2012) found that for Polish immigrants in Manchester, identity played a role in their choice of (ING), such that those aligned with Polish identities favour [ɪŋk]. It is in this intersection of ethnicity and identity that this study is situated. This study explores the patterns of (ING) among Filipinos in Toronto, an important but understudied speech community. Focusing on the use of [ɪn], we examine the role of linguistic and social factors in the patterning of (ING), and also investigate the possible influence of ethnic orientation (perceived degree of ethnic group affiliation; Hoffman & Walker 2010:46) on the pattern of variability. Spontaneous speech data from 8 second-generation and 1 first-generation Filipino immigrants (stratified by sex and age) were taken from Hoffman and Walker’s (2010) corpus of Toronto English. In ELAN (2017), 728 tokens of (ING) in word-final unstressed positions were extracted and coded impressionistically as either [ɪn] or [ɪng]. Previous studies have demonstrated that more verbal categories and two-syllable words favour the use of [ɪn] (Tagliamonte 2004); the same applies to males, members of the lower classes, and in casual speech (Fisher 1958, Trudgill 1972). (ING) may also be sensitive to age (Horvath 1985). As such, we also coded for the following factors: PART OF SPEECH, SYLLABLE, SEX and AGE. To operationalize ETHNIC ORIENTATION (EO), each speaker response to the Ethnic Orientation Questionnaire (Hoffman & Walker 2010) was assigned a score: 1 corresponded to low degree of ethnic affiliation; a 3 indicated high degree of participation; and 2 was in-between. Apart from computing each speaker’s overall mean EO score (EO_ALL), mean scores for questions relating only to social network
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