2020 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society Building Bridges 13-15 December 2020, online Organising Committee (in alphabetical order) Gerry Docherty, Griffith University Robert Mailhammer, Western Sydney University Celeste Rodríguez Louro, The University of Western Australia Conference admin by Lucía Fraiese, The University of Western Australia Logo by Sana Bharadwaj, The University of Western Australia We acknowledge the First Nations people of the still unceded lands in which we live and work. We pay our respects to their elders, leaders and communities. This event would not be possible without the financial support provided by the Australian Linguistic Society. We are also grateful for the assistance of the ALS Scientific Committee, our session chairs, and the many others who have helped make this conference a reality. We dedicate this conference to the memory of all those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Page 1 of 14 PROGRAM Sunday 13 December ALL TIMES ARE AEDT (i.e., Sydney time) This icon indicates that the relevant event will be recorded. Only a handful of events will. Conference opening and public talk 17.30 Conference opening (Docherty, Mailhammer, Rodríguez Louro) 17.45 Welcome to Country 18.00 Public Talk ‘What’s good about bad language?’ Presented by 2020 Academy of Social Sciences Fellow Prof. Kate Burridge. Introduced by Robert Mailhammer. Please RSVP on https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/128819369201/ Page 2 of 14 Sydney time Monday 14 December 8.00-8.45 WORKSHOP WORKSHOP AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES DATA AND CORPORA Bi/multilingualism and Harnessing mobile disability technologies for the creation of Chairs: Simpson & Hamilton-Hollaway Chairs: Travis & Hill new speech corpora from Chairs: Eisenchlas & Schalley Tangkic and Pama-Nyungan: Sister or Using the Tromsø remote communities Subgroup? Recommendations to cite Bilingualism and multilingualism Claire Bowern linguistic data Chair: Docherty Lauren Gawne, Helene N. in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Uncovering ergative use in Andreassen, Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Murrinhpatha: evidence from Lauren B. Collister, Philipp Conzett, Down syndrome (DS): Evidence Supervised data collection and implications experimental data Christopher Cox, Koenraad De combining smartphone recordings Rachel Nordlinger and Evan Kidd Smedt and Bradley McDonnell Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird and videoconferencing Adrian Leemann, Péter Jeszenszky Pointed pronouns: Referring to co- The CoEDL corpus project How to disentangle bilingualism and Carina Steiner from Developmental Language participants in Jaru conversation Wolfgang Barth and Nick Disorder (DLD) Josh Dahmen Thieberger Sharon Armon-Lotem Designing mobile technologies for collaborative transcription Variable modality in Pintupi-Luritja Building bridges to develop The suitability of dual language Steven Bird, Mat Bettinson, William purposive clauses endangered language resources: education for students with Lane and Éric Le Ferrand James Gray Adapting the Rapid Word learning challenges Collection method for the digital Fred Genesee Tracing variation and norm The relationship between prosodic age and developing useful orientation in Luxembourgish constituency and clause chains in language learning apps Deaf multilingualism: Traversing through crowdsourcing Pitjantjatjara Dorothea Hoffmann new research terrain Nathalie Entringer, Peter Gilles and Catalina Torres, Rebecca Defina and Louisa Willoughby Christoph Purschke Hywel Stoakes Bridging the gap between linguistics and text mining: An Can cross-linguistic treatment Broad coverage of Mandarin Planning sentences with realized and analysis of COVID-19 discourse on effects inform clinical practise in Chinese dialects using smartphone unrealized arguments in two Twitter multilingual aphasia? technology Australian languages Martin Schweinberger, Michael Maria Kambanaros Liang Zhao, Phil Harrison, Paul Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez, Rachel Haugh and Sam Hames Nordlinger, Evan Kidd and Sasha Foulkes, Eleanor Chodroff Wilmoth The language documentation Bilingualism as a source of quartet cognitive reserve: Impact on Simon Musgrave and Nick Alzheimer's disease Thieberger Ellen Bialystok Page 3 of 14 Persuading birds of a feather to Community led research – a silver flock together – reflections on lining to the COVID cloud managing and measuring diverse Mark Richards, Josie Lardy and speech corpora in SPADE Caroline Jones Jane Stuart-Smith, Jeff Mielke, Rachel Macdonald, James Tanner Building bridges: Multiscalar and Morgan Sonderegger analysis from Saussure to Chomsky, Halliday and Labov Crowdsourcing large-scale corpora Bob Hodge using smartphone apps Petr Kuzmin Sociolinguistics with smartphones in minority language areas: ‘Stimmen’ Nanna Haug Hilton The Crocodile Language Friend: Supporting the alignment of community language revitalisation efforts through the collaborative design of a tangible technology Jennyfer Taylor and Margot Brereton 9.00-9.45 THEMATIC HANG OUTS 10.00-11.00 Keynote: Anne Charity Hudley Introduced by Celeste Rodríguez Louro 12.00-12.45 GENERAL LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL LANGUAGES AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES PHONETICS Chairs: Gawne & Brown Chairs: Round & Miceli Chairs: Nordlinger & Mushin Chairs: Cox & Penney A cross-linguistic study of Consonant gemination in Telugu Variation and change: Modern Acoustic correlates of stop emphatic negative coordination loanword phonology pronoun paradigms in two Australian consonants of Burushaski Iker Salaberri Krishna Pulipaty languages Qandeel Hussain Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway and Processing non-default verb Alexandra Marley Voiced stops and pre-nasalization classes: Cross linguistic in Qaqet Marija Tabain and Birgit Hellwig Page 4 of 14 differences in thematic role When a sign language isn’t a Kinship systems in Indigenous Phonetic characteristics of labial- assignment ‘language’: ‘language’, tok, and languages of Victoria – recent velar stops across word positions Louise Kyriaki, Matthias Sinasina Sign Language progress in research in Nafsan Schlesewsky and Ina Bornkessel- Samantha Rarrick Stephen Morey and Corey Theatre Rosey Billington, Janet Fletcher and Schlesewsky Nick Thieberger Coverbs in Ahamb (Vanuatu): At the Children's use of that anaphoric “Avoiding the consequences of intersection of verbs, adverbs, demonstrative 'nhini' in Tone and vowel interaction in an undesirable situation”: A quantifiers and prepositions Murrinhpatha narratives Northern Lisu typology of precautioning Tihomir Rangelov Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly and Rael Stanley, Marija Tabain, David clauses Gillian Wigglesworth Bradley and Defen Yu Jesus Olguin Between grammar and discourse: Differential subject marking in Negation as a nominal property in Cross-language perception of An initial exploration of Doromu-Koki Pitjantjatjara Japanese consonant length expectedness: From mirativity Robert Bradshaw Sasha Wilmoth contrasts by speakers from and beyond English, Korean and Mongolian Huade Huang On the difference between serial They talk muṯumuṯu: Variable backgrounds verbs, coverbs and complex realisations of tense suffixes in Kimiko Tsukada, Yurong, Joo-Yeon Polish vowel-zero alternations predicates contemporary Pitjantjatjara Kim and Jeong-Im Han are partially predictable Daniel Krausse Rebecca Defina, Sasha Wilmoth and Brian Collins Deborah Loakes Music facilitates New Zealand listeners’ lexical decision to a US Building bridges: Multiscalar voice analysis from Saussure to Andy Gibson Chomsky, Halliday and Labov Bob Hodge 13.00-13.45 LUNCH HANG OUTS 14.00-15.00 NEXT GEN SESSION How.to.get.funded Chair: Celeste Rodríguez Louro (Higher Degree by Research students and Early Career Researchers only) Page 5 of 14 15.30-16.15 SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING SEMANTICS PHONETICS Chairs: Escudero & Vaughan Chairs: Gaby & Ponsonnet Chairs: Fletcher & Billington Transnational sojourners’ investment in Communicative need of smells at the object-level: Accentedness evaluation of Asian and Caucasian non- learning English: A multi-case study of What is described and what is the descriptor? native English speakers by Asian non-native English partners of international students in Thomas Poulton listeners Australia Yao Lu and Ksenia Gnevsheva Lisa Gilanyi Compositional and construction-based semantics Winner of the 2020 Michael Clyne Prize of mood and aspect in Nafsan Northsider or Southsider? A preliminary acoustic- Ana Krajinovic phonetic study of contemporary Dublin English 60 years of second language aptitude Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, Deborah Loakes and Casey research: A systematic quantitative The Language of scent in real and constructed Ford literature review languages James Chalmers, Susana Eisenchlas and Lauren Gawne and Peta M. Freestone The acquisition of word-specific variation: Just in L2 Andrea Schalley speech From ‘actuality entailments’ to avertivity: On Ksenia Gnevsheva, James Grama, Chloé Diskin- “I think I didn’t come to Australia at the some postmodal meanings in French Holdaway, Deborah Loakes and Katie Drager best age” – Age at migration and Patrick Caudal bilingual proficiencies Child speech, community diversity: Baseline data for Yining Wang How meanings help and hinder climate action in pre-nasal TRAP-raising Australia: Three lexical case studies Andy Gibson, Felicity Cox, Joshua Penney and Linda Three languages, one family: Language Helen Bromhead and Cliff Goddard Buckley strategies and practices in trilingual families living in Australia 50 years of change to the realisation of