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Association Canadienne De Linguistique Canadian Linguistic Association Association canadienne de linguistique Canadian Linguistic Association Congrès de 2013 | 2013 conference University of Victoria 1–3 juin 2013 | June 1–3, 2013 Programme: http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/prog2013.html Résumés | Abstracts 1 Allen, Blake (UBC): Learning principles of syllabification from word-edge phonotactics 2 Alvarez, Isabel (UW Oshkosh): Children’s interpretation of sentences containing the adverbs almost and casi 3 Anghelescu, Andrei and Michael Schwan (UBC): Nuclear consonants in Gitksan 4 Armoskaite, Solveiga (Oawa) and Carrie Gillon (Arizona State): 50 shades of definiteness 5 Baersby, Tanya (Toronto): Semantic change in the Spanish copula system: Evidential innova- tion with estar in the Buenos Aires variety 6 Béjar, Susana and Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (Toronto): Agreement in copular clauses embedded in modal contexts 7 Belikova, Alyona (McGill): Linguistically misleading instruction: Effective or not? 8 Bello, Sophia (Toronto): L’omission des clitiques objets indirects: Arguments du VP ou tête fonctionnelle? 9 Bigot, Davy (Concordia): /tUt/ en français laurentien 10 Bilous, Ross (York): Are Slavic languages with or without articles? 11 Bird, Sonya (Victoria), Belinda Claxton (Tsawout First Nation), Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Vic- toria), John Ellio (Tsartlip First Nation), Anne Jimmie (Tsawout First Nation), and Janet Leonard (Victoria): e Evolution of a SENĆOŦEN Story Project 12 Bjorkman, Bronwyn, and Elizabeth Cowper (Toronto): Inflectional shells and the syntax of causative have 13 Blainey, Darcie (Tulane): Phonetic vowel nasalization and language loss in Louisiana French 14 Bliss, Heather (UBC): Nominal dependence in Blackfoot clauses 15 Bliss, Heather, Rose-Marie Déchaine, and Tomio Hirose (UBC): Locative PPs in Blackfoot and Plains Cree 16 Boechler, Shay (First Peoples’ Cultural Council): e Endangered Language Project 17 Brook, Marisa (Toronto): Intersecting phonotactic restrictions and their perceptual effects 18 Brown, Colin: Focus in Nata: Denotation vs. discourse-new 19 Brown, Jason and Karsten Koch (Calgary): Focus, Polynesian *ko, and language change 20 Burton, Strang, Rose-Marie Déchaine, and Joash Johannes, with C. 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