SECOL Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 83rd meeting “Linguistic Gumbo: Challenges in Multilanguage Contact” March 28-30, 2016 New Orleans, Louisiana Sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Thank you to our University of Louisiana at Lafayette sponsors, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the Departments of English and Modern Languages, and the McIlhenny Company. 1 Contents SECOL Schedule ............................................................................................................................................... 3-7 Panel Abstracts Alphabetical by Author................................................................................................ 8-15 Paper Abstracts Alphabetical by Author............................................................................................. 15-78 Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 79-80 PLENARY Tuesday, March 29, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Astor Ballroom Who Owns “Who Dat”: Linguistic Innovation, Cultural Property Rights, Copyright, and the NFL Dr. Shana Walton, Nicholls State University In 2007, a New Orleans corporation claimed ownership of the chant "Who Day Say They Gonna Beat Dem Saints" and a consortium of businesses, including the National Football League, turned to linguists and anthropologists to determine who owned "Who Dat." In this talk, we will look at the chant's claims of authorship by three groups—two high schools and universities in the Southwestern Athletic Conference—as well as its older underlying "Who Dat" form. We trace its origins from the 1700s from racial pejorative to in-group affiliation to symbol of a resilient city, noting its semantic elasticity and commodification, from "Poo Dat" onesies to "Dat Dog" restaurants. The journey of the phrase offers a window onto race relations in New Orleans, and the end result—a marketable language nugget—compels linguists and anthropologists to look more closely at the intersections and power relations among communities (often black and brown) creating coveted language, the adopting communities (like the Who Dat nation), and merchandisers. Who owns “Who Dat”? The questions is not whether or not someone should be making money. People are. For linguistics, is this discoverable research or community action? In what ways is this a language rights or social justice issue? Shana Walton earned her PhD in linguistic anthropology from Tulane University in 1994. Since then she has published on Cajun English and Cajun identity and on stance and identity in new media. She has also collaborated on grant projects studying links between subsistence farming and cultural networks and also New Orleans’ Jazzfest. 2 Monday, March 28 - Iberville - - Bourbon - - Bienville - 1:00-1:30 A method for acoustic Language ideologies of Power relations & ideology measurement of voiced internet Esperantists: A in multilingualism: implosives: Evidence of diachronic study Analyzing the linguistic implosives in a U.S. dialect Seth Wilson landscape of Morocco Razia Husain Mohammed Albakry Taha Husain 1:30-2:00 Situating Montana within New Orleans and music: LINGUISTIC Ландскеип: the West: A preliminary Identity and perceptions of Vidin, Bulgaria & Sofia, acoustic study francophone/francophile Bulgaria Lisa Sprowls musicians post-Katrina Kaitlyn Lee J. Natalie Schmitz 2:00-2:30 “The only reason I travel”: Shared conceptualizations, Identity and ideology in what language? Emergent folk linguistics on YouTube multilingual units in Cat Flynn Malaysian languages Sarah Lee 2:30-3:00 BREAK 3:00-3:30 How immersed are they Attitudes toward Spanish A grammatical sketch of really?: An analysis of the in Cartagena, Colombia Soqotri: With special journal writings of study Rafael Orozco consideration of negative abroad students polarity William Morgan Amani Aloufi 3:30-4:00 An ethnographic study of Metalinguistic A Minimalist Approach to preschool classroom commentary in ideological the internal structure of instruction in a Montessori context: Language, Small Clauses school immigration, and Nasser Alhorais Arwa Altwaim generation in talk about talk among Miami-born Latinos Lydda Lopez Philip M. Carter 4:00-4:30 Student attitudes toward Discourse analytical study An experimental approach “foreign-accented” speech in a counseling session to the syntax of “have yet in South Florida university Enas Albasiri to” constructions science classrooms Greg Johnson Malgorzata Durygin Kali Morris 3 Tuesday, March 29 - Iberville - - Bourbon - - Bienville - 8:00-8:30 Linguatude: What is the Diversity within Out of the fire, into the gumbo of our perceptions homogeneity: How fireplace: Investigating the made of? individual pre-service distribution of aggregate Paulina Bounds teachers respond differently linguistic data to Critical Language Allison Burkette Pedagogies Jessica Hatcher Jeffrey Reaser Amanda J. Godley 8:30-9:00 ‘Mostly Spanglish’ to ‘Really Linguistic activism on Do you want to be called redneck’: Miamians’ campus: Using digital “woman” or “lady”? perceptions of linguistic technologies to promote Dot-Eum Kim variation in the state of student research and Florida outreach Phillip M. Carter Christine Mallinson Danny Garzon Deanna Cerquetti May F. Chung Kim Feldman 9:00-9:30 Variations in local dialect Linguistic landscape of recognition tasks Florida International Clai Rice University Wilbur Bennett Gina Ailanjian 9:30-10:00 BREAK 10:00-10:30 PANEL: Methodological The African American Esperanto: A study of Advancements in linguistic Brown Derby: language word order Perceptual Dialectology Community soup, its salad, Seth Wilson its side Chad Davis Mary B. Ziegler 10:30-11:00 PANEL: Methodological African American Old habits: Past habituals, Advancements in perceptions of language change, and input varieties Perceptual Dialectology and identity Gerard Van Herk Sonja Lanehart Kirk Hazen Ayesha Malik Tyler Kendall 11:00-11:30 PANEL: Methodological ‘What’chu say he say!’: On the syntax of free Advancements in spoken word as social relatives in Appalachian Perceptual Dialectology (inter)action and English: They are not performed Black feminism standard (relatives) Tiffany Marquise Jones Greg Johnson 11:30-12:00 PANEL: Methodological Head and dependent Advancements in marking in the South Perceptual Dialectology Lebanese Arabic Noun Phrase 11:45-1:00 Wassim Bekai 12:00-1:00 SECOL Executive Meeting LUNCH ON YOUR OWN 4 Tuesday, March 29 - Iberville - - Bourbon - - Bienville - 1:00-1:30 Extending the Linguistic PANEL: A preliminary look Subject pronoun Atlas web site at English in expression in Spanish: Do Bill Kretzschmar Independence, Louisiana we really know how verbs condition pronouns? Rafael Orozco Caroline Hachem 1:30-2:00 Intradialectal phonetic PANEL: A preliminary look Unexpected dialect variation in Southeast at English in divergence in a situation of Georgia: Evidence from Independence, Louisiana language contact: Expletive LAGS negation in Spanish in Rachel Olsen contact with Catalan Margaret Renwick Ricard Vinas de Puig 2:00-2:30 Monophthongization of PANEL: A preliminary look /ay/ as a local identity at English in marker Independence, Louisiana Paul E. Reed 2:30-3:00 BREAK 3:00-3:30 The semiotic capital of Dialects and linguistic sub- Evidence for the paradigm- mobility: ‘Classic’ code- regions of North Louisiana linkage theory in Creek switching and ‘radical’ Lisa Abney verb inflection code-mixing Derek Legg Agnes Bolonyai Kelsey Campolong 3:30-4:00 Discursive co-construction The Englishes of New York Notes on mirativity in of Chinese returnee City and New Orleans: Why Hupa (California Dene) applicants’ identities in a are they similar? Ramon Escamilla job-hunting reality TV Connie Eble show Yuqiu Liu 4:00-4:30 Indexing place and race in Functional dissociations SECOL New Orleans jazz: A between production and Planning Meeting sociophonetic analysis of comprehension New Orleans jazz Doug Merchant musicians Lauren Colomb 4:30-4:50 BREAK 4:50-5:10 General Business Meeting 5:15-6:45 PLENARY : Astor Ballroom Who Owns “Who Dat”: Linguistic Innovation, Cultural Property Rights, Copyright, and the NFL Shana Walton, Nicholls State University 5 Wednesday, March 30 - Iberville - - Bourbon - - Bienville - 8:00-8:30 Cognitive linguistics and The functions of code- A lowkey example of literature switching in bilingual language change: “Lowkey Ralf Thiede Spanish-English songs you might find this Giovani Lopez interesting” Stacey Stanfield Kristen Thomas 8:30-9:00 Literary dialect In Flannery Functions of English to Gameday revisited O’Connor’s “Good Country Spanish code-switching in Robin Sabino People” and “The Lame young adult Facebook Sarah Pitts Shall Enter First” statuses Katie Ireland Kuiper Alejandra Torres Irina Shport 9:00-9:30 Dialectal depictions of ¿Canté o he cantado? On Sociolect much?: Africans and African the relationship of Spanish Buffy the Vampire Slayer, diasporans in French varieties of textbooks and sociolects, & student comics the Spanish variety of engagement Michael D. Picone instructors. Ashley Akenson Sandra Martinez-Franco 9:30-10:00 BREAK 10:00-10:30 “He a white boy?”: A The mysteriously absent SLA for PCs and MICs into phonological analysis of French in Old Mines, MCSs: The presence of style shifting in the rap Missouri Thomason’s and Baker’s performance of Rob Sonic Mike Olsen theories in current studies Mariah Parker Joshua Hummel 10:30-11:00 Hip Hop’s (un)official PANEL: French