Annual Conference The University of Newcastle, Australia 10 - 12 December 2014 Abstracts Mark Harvey (Chairman) and the ALS2014 Organising Committee wish to thank the publishing firms who have sponsored this year’s Conference: Brill Publishers; Bloomsbury Publishing; Taylor & Francis Group; Edinburgh University Press Bloomsbury Publishing The Committee would also like to thank the University of Newcastle’s Faculty of Education and Arts and School of Humanities and Social Science for their help in preparing for this Conference. In particular, we would like to thank Kristy Atkins, Kristy Rocavert and Kara Waite for their assistance Table of Contents Program p1 Details of presenters p7 Plenary session abstracts p13 General sessions abstracts p19 Romance workshop abstracts p167 Poster session abstracts p185 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Wednesday 10 December - Morning 8-9 Registration – 4th floor 9-9.30 WELCOME – UNH416 9.30-10.30 PLENARY – Dr Pia Lane, University of Oslo - UNH416 10.30-11 MORNING TEA – 4th Floor UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 UNH241 11-11.30 F. Cox et al J. Bednall & R. Sitorus W. Arka E. Mayer Is there evidence for region With many roles come many Categorial multifunctionality in From lo to le: Spanish clitic specific vowel variation in /hVd/ responsibilities: language Flores languages: Descriptive, systems on the move word list data from AusTalk? centres and the implementation typological and theoretical issues of school and community language programs 11.30-12 G. Docherty et al C. Bow J. Moodie A. Diez de Aux Variability in the realization of Shoehorning Yolŋu language Word-classes in Lopit – some Second Language Acquisition of vowels in West Australian names into the ISO 639-3 adjectives can be anything the French clitic system English standard. 12-12.30 S. Kingstone L. Green B. Palmer H. Peters A first look at the perceptual ‘A living archive: celebrating Marked absolutive or topic? ‘Come dine with me’: How do dialectology of Australian English linguistic, biological, and cultural Case and clefts in Mono-Alu. Jamaican learners of French diversity through a botanical express verb of movement garden’ constructions? 12.30-2 LUNCH – 4th Floor 1 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Wednesday 10 December - Afternoon UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 UNH241 2-2.30 D. Osgarby S. Richard B. Kelly et al E. Piñeros The dative and genitive cases in “And the next minute …… ": The use of speech acts in The phonological weight of Ngarnka and Wambaya: Another Some sociolinguistic insights into Murrinhpatha language Spanish syllables case of demonstrative the narrative uses of the Aust. socialisation encliticisation Eng. present perfect 2.30-3 R. Pensalfini & F. Meakins J. Rendle-Short L. Davidson A. Herrero de Haro Gender bender: Disagreement in Dispreferred responses when The interactional significance of Does /e/ split into four vowel Jingulu noun class marking texting: Delaying that ‘no’ repetition in children’s phonemes in Western Almeria? response Murrinhpatha Effects of /s/, /r/, and /θ/ deletion in this variety of Eastern Andalusian Spanish 3-3.30 C. Bonnin W. Chor J. Vaughan & G. Wigglesworth M. Delicado Cantero Intonation, prosody and the clitic Epistemic modulations and Codes and classrooms: The The derivation of Spanish in Yukulta (Tangkic)' speakers stance in Cantonese interaction of home and school preposition-complementizer conversations language(s) in four Aboriginal ‘conglomerates’ communities 3.30-4 AFTERNOON TEA – 4th Floor UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 UNH241 4-4.30 M. Carroll S. Beer M. Ellison & N. Fay C. Travis Markedness vs. defaults: A note Marriage of methods: Using Morphological complexity What do post-verbal subject on an organising principle of Corpus Linguistics to inform responds to multilingualism not pronouns do in discourse? morphology. The case of stem Discourse Analysis age-of-acquisition selection in Ngkolmpu. 4.30-5 B. Collins S. Alzahrani M. Mathew et al J. Hajek Squib on Polish Yers: An Zahrani Spoken Arabic: Tense or The use of prosodic gestures To ISC or not to ISC – that is the overview of what we know, and Aspect during parent-child discourse question. On allomorphy in so- how we got there interactions called –IRE verbs in Italian 2 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Thursday 11 December - Morning 9-10 PLENARY – Professor Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University - UNH416 10-10.30 MORNING TEA – 4th Floor UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 10.30-11 L. Stirling et al. T. Ennever R. Hendery The preposition at from a spatial “We can't stop and we won't stop": A closer Simulation of creole genesis: do we need the language, cognition, and information look at the phonetic variation of Gurindji concept of ‘prestige’? systems perspective obstruents 11-11.30 E. Bowen C. Jones et al D. Schokkin Now and then in Australian languages: Variation in fricative production by young adult Contact-induced change in an Oceanic A semantic typology Kriol speakers from Barunga NT language: the Tok Pisin-Paluai case 11.30-12 L. Vo R. Robinson et al H. Koch An NSM approach to QUAN HỆ Perception of intervocalic consonants in first Reconstruction of kin terms in the Victorian ('Relationships') and THỨ BẬC language by speakers of an Australian languages (‘footings’) as cultural schemata in Aboriginal language and speakers of Standard Vietnamese interactions Australian English 12-12.30 C. Goddard F. Low et al The lexical and grammatical semantics Comparing the Acoustic Space of English and of words for "surprise" and "interest" Australian Languages using the Long-term in English Average Speech Spectrum 12.30-1.30 LUNCH – 4th Floor 1.30-2 Poster Session 3 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Thursday 11 December - Afternoon UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 UNH240 2-2.30 C. Travis & A. Lindstrom S. Mandal et al S. Greenhill & N. Evans Subject expression in spoken English: Perceiving markedness: Dichotic Pronoun paradigms, syncretism and NSM WORKSHOP Testing hypothesized genre differences listening and hemispheric language phylogeny. integration in perceptual processing 2.30-3 W. Marron M. Wu R. Mailhammer & M. Harvey Online dating profiles of gay Asian men Perception of Cantonese tones Towards Proto-Australian: NSM WORKSHOP and gay white men: Linguistic by native Mandarin Speakers: Gunwinyguan–Iwaidjan sound expressions of identity, ethnicity, social the Influences of Native correspondences and sexual health. Properties 3-3.30 S. Sherwood T. Boyd S. Kalyan The social distribution of potential Literate adults and real word Intersecting subgroups in Indo- NSM WORKSHOP suffix allomorphs in Japanese verbs lexical stress identification European outside minimal pairs 3.30-4 AFTERNOON TEA – 4th Floor UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 UNH240 4-4.30 B. Palmer et al L. Clark C. Chambers Towards a typology of linguistic Recency effects on word-medial Mixing middle men: The language NSM WORKSHOP expressions of spatial Frame of /t/ in New Zealand English mixing practices and the expression of Reference possession in the medieval account books of London trade guilds 4.30-5 J. Lum & J. Schlossberg N. Kwon A. Severin Computer-based elicitation games in The frequency code hypothesis When good linguistics goes bad: NSM WORKSHOP the field: The Virtual Atoll Task in counter-universal magnitude Radical descriptivism on the internet symbolism 5-5.30 Book Launch – 4th floor 5.30-7 ALS AGM - UNH416 7 onwards Conference Reception – Conservatorium of Music 4 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Friday 12 December - Morning 9-10 PLENARY – Professor Isabelle Bril, Lacito-CNRS - UNH416 10-10.30 MORNING TEA – 4th Floor UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 10.30-11 Q. Hussein et al N. Fay & T.M. Ellison I. Mushin Do temporal and spectral measures Human communication systems evolve via Clause-initial or turn-initial?: Grammar, differentiate the contrast between Punjabi cumulative cultural adaptation: an empirical conversation and the Garrwa particle ngala. reʈroflex and dental? demonstration 11-11.30 A. German et al E. Round & J. Macklin-Cordes B. Collins Perceptual analysis of epenthetic ‘r’ in Next-generation typological variables: from Aspectual variation in Ngandi narratives linking and intrusive contexts in Australian theory to practice, and back again English 11.30-12 J. Clothier A. Schembri et al K. Horrack Heading south: a comparison of the Directionality in British Sign Language is not Benefactives and external possession in phonetic realisation of word final -er obligatory: The importance of corpus data Wubuy: Marking the affectedness of between Anglo-Celtic and Lebanese heritage when considering “agreement” alienable possessors groups in Melbourne 12-12.30 B. Volchok S. Ishihara R. Nordlinger Intergenerational vowel change in several A Comparative Study of Likelihood Ratio Incorporation and polysynthesis in the Daly Russian-English speakers Based Forensic Text Comparison in Procedures: 12.30-2 LUNCH – 4th Floor 5 ALS 2014 PROGRAM Friday 12 December - Afternoon UNH419 UNH421 UNH416 2-2.30 C. Patterson & W. Steed A. Azkarai & M. del Pilar Garcia Mayo I. Giblin Cans from Cairns: Australia's latest L1 use/functions by child EFL learners during Prosodic disambiguation of in-situ wh- phonological development task-based interaction phrases 2.30-3 J. Mansfield N. Yoshimura et al G. Windschuttel The integration of English phonology into Binding in L2 English infinitives revisited Switch-reference and the subject in Yagaria Murrinhpatha 3-3.30 E. Round et al S. Alqahtani A. Naess Yidiny final deletion is not conditioned by The effect of motivational strategy training Topic, focus and theme: Two levels of morpheme boundaries on Saudi EFL teachers’ motivational pragmatic prominence in Äiwoo word order behaviours