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ISLE Abstracts Contents ISLE2 Conference Schedule 3-13 Schedule Table 15-20 Plenary Abstracts 21-27 Abstracts for Talks 28-91 Poster Abstracts 92-98 Workshop Abstracts 99-146 Transportation 147 Campus Facilities (Internet, Fitness) 147 Restaurants Near BU 148-149 Boston Activities 150-151 Contact Information 152 BU Campus Map 153 Index of Speakers/Authors 154-157 2 ISLE 2011 Conference Schedule Unless otherwise noted below, all events are held at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), located at 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Please visit our exhibitors' room, located in CAS 216, during conference hours Friday-Monday. ISLE volunteers are available to assist you in CAS 220 during conference hours. THURSDAY, JUNE 16 4:00-8:00 REGISTRATION (CAS 116) 8:00-10:00 RECEPTION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY PUB (225 Bay State Road, behind CAS and in the basement of "The Castle") FRIDAY, JUNE 17 8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION (CAS 116) 9:00-9:15 OPENING REMARKS; GREETING FROM DEAN PATRICIA JOHNSON (CAS 224) 9:15–10:15 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224) Christian Mair, “World Non-Standard Englishes: Reflections on the Global Spread of (Some) Vernacular Varieties of English” (Chair: Charles Meyer) 10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) General Session I Section A (CAS 203) Internet idioms (Chair: Daniel Donoghue) 10:50-11:20 Jon Bakos, “QQ More” 11:25-11:55 Daphné Kerremans and Susanne Stegmayr, “Neologisms on the internet” 12:00-12:30 Ursula Kirsten, “Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010″ 12:30-1:55 LUNCH Case (Chair: Bas Aarts) 2:00-2:30 John Payne and Eva Berlage, “The effect of semantic relations on genitive variation” 2:35-3:05 Christoph Wolk, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Dative and genitive variability in late ModE” 3 3:10-3:40 Stefanie Wulff and Stefan Th. Gries, “A multifactorial study of genitive alternation in L2 English” 3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) Perceptual Dialectology (Chair: Bas Aarts) 4:15-4:45 Chris Montgomery, “A new method for dialect recognition and rating in perceptual dialectology Section B (CAS 237) Comparative studies of Modern British and American Constructions (Chair: Dagmar Deuber) 10:50-11:20 Thomas Hoffmann: “The more Data, the better” 11:25-11:55 Gunther Kaltenböck, “Comment clauses on the move” 12:00-12:30 Turo Vartiainen, “Conceptual proximity and the positional variation of directional modifiers in English” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH African and related diasporic Englishes (Chair: Gunther Kaltenböck) 2:00-2:30 Lars Hinrichs, “Gauging variety status in diasporic dialect mixing” 2:30-3:05 Magnus Huber and Sebastian Schmidt, “New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana” 3:10-3:40 Robert Fuchs, “The progressive aspect in Nigerian English” 3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) 4:15-4:45 Glenda-Alicia Leung, “Approaching the Acrolect” Section C (CAS 316) Irish English (Chair: Lauren Hall-Lew) 10:50-11:20 Julia Davydova, “Detecting historical continuity in modern Singapore English: A case study of the present perfect” 11:25-11:55 Marije van Hattum, “A preparation of news to come in Irish immigrant letters” 12:00-12:30 Stephen Lucek, “Invariant tags in Irish English” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH Phonological Topics in American English and New Englishes (Chair: Katie Drager) 2:00-2:30 David Eddington, “Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English” 2:35-3:05 Caroline Wiltshire, “New Englishes and the emergence of the unmarked” 3:10-3:40 Toshihiro Oda, “Phonetically accidental and systematic gaps” 4 3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) Section D (CAS 226) Variationism (Chair: Lynn Clark) 10:50-11:20 Don Chapman, “Why empirical studies of prescriptive rules should be variationist” 11:25-11:55 Kirk Hazen, “Morphological methodology for a rapidly reconfigured variable” 12:00-12:30 Sandra Jansen, “Variation and Change in the north-west of England” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH 2:00-2:30 Presley Ifukor, “Towards the emergence of technolectal Nigerian English” Academic Styles (Chair: Lynn Clark) 2:35-3:05 Ute Römer, “The phraseological profile model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing” 3:10-3:40 Peter Siemund, “Varieties of English in the classroom” 3:45-4:10 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) 4:55-5:55 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224) David Denison, Presidential Address (Chair: Elizabeth Traugott) SATURDAY, JUNE 18 8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224) April Mcmahon, “Comparing [laɪk] with [lʌɪk]: Methods for Collecting and Comparing Data from Varieties of English” (Chair: Stephen Harris) 9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) General Session II Section A (CAS 213) Workshop: Kevin Watson, Lynn Clark ,Warren Maguire: Mergers in English: Perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics 10:10-10:40 Warren Maguire, Lynn Clark, and Kevin Watson, “The meaning of ‘merger’” 10:45-11:15 Maciej Baranowski, “On the role of social factors in vocalic mergers” 11:20-11:50 Lynn Clark and Kevin Watson, “Capturing listeners’ real-time reactions to the NURSE~SQUARE merger” 11:55-12: 25 Katie Drager and Jennifer Hay, “Mergers in production and perception” 5 12:30-1:55 LUNCH 2:00-2:30 Lauren Hall-Lew, “Interpreting ‘flip-flop’ patterns in vowel mergers-in- progress” 2:35-3:05 Jennifer Nycz, “New contrast acquisition: Methodological issues & theoretical implications” 3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS' COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216) 3:40-4:10 Phillip Tipton, “Modelling (socio)linguistic mergers: the role of global context in the processing of social and linguistic information” Section B (CAS 237) Modern English constructions (Chair: Stefan Diemer) 10:10-10:40 Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie, and Sean Wallis, “Typical and atypical change in modal usage over time” 10:45-11:15 Karin Axelsson, “A new functional model for tag questions based on fiction dialogue data” 11:20-11:50 Linnea Micciulla, “Factbors predicting the use of passive voice in newspaper headlines” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH Pragmatics (Chair: Markus Bieswanger) 2:00-2:30 Markus Bieswanger, “Variationist sociolinguistics meets variational pragmatics” 2:35-3:05 Christine Günther, “Pragmatic factors determining variation in the realization of head nouns” 3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS' COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216) 3:40-4:10 Meike Pfaff, “On the pragmatics of obligative want to ” 4:15-4:45 Alexander Bergs, “On how to integrate context into grammar” Section C (CAS 316) Workshop : John Payne and Eva Berlage: Genitive variation in English 10:10-10:40 John Payne and Eva Berlage, “Genitive variation: the role of the oblique genitive” 10:45-11:15 Sali Tagliamonte and Bridget Jankowski, “On the genitive’s trail: data and method from a sociolinguistic perspective” 11:20-11:50 Cathy O’Connor, “Is animacy the most important factor in predicting the English possessive alternation?” 6 11:55:12:25 Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Grzegorz Krajewski, “Poss-s vs. poss- of revisited” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH 2:00-2:30 Katharina Ehret, Christoph Wolk, and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, “Genitive variation in Late Modern English: focus on weight and rhythm” 2:30-3:05 Evelien Keizer, “Pre- and postnominal possessives in English, Dutch and German – an FDG account ” 3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS' COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216) Canadian English (Chair: Daniel Donoghue) 3:40-4:10 Charles Boberg, “Ethnicity and regional variation in Canadian English” 4:15-4:45 Stefan Dollinger: “New Dialect Formation cum Dynamic Model: Language attitudes and the case of Vancouver English Section D (CAS 324) Workshop: Marianne Hundt: English in the Indian Diaspora 10:10-10:40 Dagmar Deuber, Glenda Leung and Véronique Lacoste, “Indo-Trinidadian speech: features and stereotypes” 10:45-11:15 Marianne Hundt, “Zero articles in Indian Englishes: a comparison of primary and secondary diasporasituations” 11:20-11:50 Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, “Singapore’s Indian community: lidnguistic, social,and sociolinguistic aspects” 11:55-12:25 Rajend Mesthrie, “The making of a dialect dictionary 1: where does a New English dictionary stop?” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH 2:00-2:30 Claudia Rathore, “East African Indians in Leicester, UK: phonological variation across generations” 2:35-3:05 Farhana Alam and Jane Stuart-Smith, “Identity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: an acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial /t/ in Glaswegian girls of Pakistani heritage” 3:05-3:35 EXHIBITORS' COFFEE HOUR (CAS 216) 3:40-4:10 Lena Zipp, “Features of IndoFijian English across registers” 4:15-4:45 Capstone Session 4:55-5:55 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224) Christopher Ricks, “The very words, and not only those” (Chair: Daniel Donoghue) 7 SUNDAY, JUNE 19 8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION (CAS 224) Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto: “System and society in the evolution of change: The case of Canada” (Chair: Laurel Brinton) 9:35-10:05 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) GENERAL SESSION III Section A (CAS 213) Corpus Studies (Chair: Magnus Huber) 10:10-10:40 Garrison Bickerstaff, “Flexibility and application of the bounded virtual corpus” 10:45-11:15 Terttu Nevalainen, “Tools for comparing corpora” 11:20-11:50 Matthew O’Donnell, “The adjusted frequency list” Case Studies 11:55-12:25 Lieven Vandelanotte, “ Call so and so and tell him such and such : A corpus-based study of suspensive reference in contemporary English” 12:30-1:55 LUNCH Case Studies (Chair: Heli Paulasto) 2:00-2:30 Gregory Garretson, “A new perspective on antonymy” 2:35-3:05 Stefan Diemer, “Corpus linguistics with Google?” 3:05-3:30 COFFEE BREAK (CAS 2nd floor hall) 3:35-4:05 Michael Erlewine, “The Constituency of Hyperlinks in a Hypertext Corpus” Section B (CAS 237) Workshop : Lars Hinrichs and Stefan Dollinger: Aspects of methodology and pedagogy A.
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