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. Brown, A. Entwistle, E. Guntly, R. Fuhrman, N. Francis, H. Keupdjio, W. M. Lam, J. Ma, A. Osa Gomez del Campo, E. Sadlier-Brown, I. Schniske, D. Si, S. Walters, and Y. Yoshino (UBC): Using storyboards to elicit information structure contrasts in Nata 21 Caldeco, Marion (Simon Fraser) and Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Victoria): Tracking Intonation Paerns in Interior Salish 22 Ceong, Hailey Hyekyeong and Leslie Saxon (Victoria): Features of questions and interrogatives 23 Chapman, Cassandra (McMaster): A revised analysis of EPP-feature checking: e case of Mod- ern French 24 Colantoni, Laura, Olivia Marasco, Jeffrey Steele, and Simona Sunara (Toronto): Temporal and spectral parameters in the L2 acquisition of prosodic prominence 25 Compton, Richard (een’s): Incorporation and ellipsis as evidence for phrasal words in Inuit 26 Coon, Jessica (McGill) and Alan Bale (Concordia): Person and number in Mi’gmaq 27 Cowper, Elizabeth (Toronto) and Daniel Currie Hall (Saint Mary’s): English modals: Evidence for a neoparametric theory of phrase structure 28 Cox, Christopher (Alberta): Reclaiming access: Language documentation in Canadian Indige- nous language reclamation 29 Craioveanu, Radu (Toronto): e rise and fall of aspirated fricatives 30 Das, Deboapam, and Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser): Explicit and implicit coherence relations: A corpus study 31 Denis, Derek (Toronto): e social meaning of eh in Canadian English 32 Doner, Julianne (Toronto): e acquisition of first-order CP and DP recursion: A longitudinal case study 33 Dresher, B. Elan (Toronto): Contrastive Vowel Features in West Germanic 34 Dresher, B. Elan, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford (Toronto): Feature hierarchies and phonological change 35 Dufresne, Monique (een’s), Mireille Tremblay (Montréal), and Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC): Les noms sans déterminants en ancien français 36 Dyck, Carrie (Memorial) and Amos Key, Jr. (Woodland Cultural Centre): e ethics of reclaiming indigenous languages: A case study of Cayuga (Gayogoho:nǫˀ) 37 Entwistle, Allie (UBC): High tone placement in Nata verbs 38 Erfani, Parisa (Simon Fraser): Azeri morphosyntactic variation: e effect of Persian on NP structure 39 Filonik, Svitlana (Calgary): Gender assignment to loanwords in Ukrainian 40 Forbes, Clarissa (Toronto): Number in the Gitksan nominal domain: Plural [plural] projections 41 Francis, Naomi (UBC): e marking of future uncertainty in Nata 42 Frolova, Anna (Toronto): Acquisition des structures transitives en russe langue maternelle 43 Fuhrman, Robert (UBC): Agreement as resumption: e case of Nata object marking 44 Fulford, George (Winnipeg): What morphology tells us about effective teaching in Cree 45 Gambarage, Joash Johannes (UBC): Tongue root restriction and nominal morphological domains in Nata 46 Gauthier, Philippe (Western): A government-phonological sketch of vowel laxing in Laurentian French 47 Gessner, Suzanne (First Peoples’ Cultural Council): Creating Adult Fluency rough One-on- One Immersion 48 Ghomeshi, Jila (Manitoba): e syntax of pragmaticalization 49 Gisborne, Nikolas (Edinburgh) and Robert Truswell (Oawa): e origins of clause-medial wh- relatives in Middle English 50 Goad, Heather, and Akiko Shimada (McGill): /s/ is a vocoid in Blackfoot 51 Godfrey, Ross (Toronto): Inner and outer causatives in a type-driven semantics 52 Goncharov, Julie (Toronto): Self -superlatives 53 Guo, Xiaoqian: Features of schwa produced by Chinese EAL speakers: Lexical vs. inserted schwa 54 Hall, Kathleen Currie (UBC): Documenting phonological change: A comparison of two Japanese phonemic splits 55 Hamilton, Michael (McGill): Wh-movement in Mi’gmaq 56 Han, Chung-Hye, Mathieu Dovan, Noureddine Elouazizi, Nancy Hedberg, Meghan Jeffrey, Kyeong- min Kim, and Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser): A self-paced reading study of resumptive relative clauses in English 57 Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur, and Allie Entwistle (UBC): Consonant stricture harmony in Yabem: Manner assimilation at a distance 58 Huang, Yan (Victoria): Les restrictions aspectuelles imposées par les verbes finir, cesser, arrêter et aever sur leurs infinitifs 59 Irimia, Monica (Toronto): Non-canonical, but structural 60 Johns, Alana (Toronto): Ergativity lives: Eastern Canadian Inuktitut and *clitic doubling 61 Kawai, Michiya (Huron College and Western): VP ellipsis and the Identity Condition 62 Kayama, Yuhko (Manitoba) and Yuriko Oshima-Takane (McGill): Parental input paerns and children’s acquisition of verb argument structures in Japanese 63 Keupdjio, Hermann (UBC): Deriving the le edge WH phrase in Nata WH constructions 64 Kiely, Siobhán (Laval): Social aitudes, ethnolinguistic identity, and L2 proficiency: e ebec context 65 Kilbourn-Ceron, Oriana (McGill): Almost does not evaluate propositional alternatives 66 Kim, Kyeong-min (Simon Fraser): Syntax of su: A uniform analysis 67 Kim, Kyumin (Calgary): PERSON all the way in Blackfoot: evidence from psych-predicates 68 Koch, Karsten (Calgary): One focus per clause: consequences of a syntactic focus-marking strategy 69 Koch, Karsten, Aistanskiaki Sandra Manyfeathers, Issapoikoan Brent Prairie Chicken, and Alice Post (Calgary): A Blackfoot children’s book 70 Kunduraci, Aysun (Calgary): Pseudo-3rd person marker and possessive constructions in Turkish 71 Lam, Zoe Wai-man, Sonja oma, and Martina Wiltschko (UBC): e Syntax of Grounding 72 Lee, Sunghwa (Victoria): Korean verb/adjective base vowel shortening as multiple exponence 73 Léger, Catherine (Victoria): Une analyse des trois interprétations de l’adverbe ba en chiac 74 Liell, Patrick (UBC): e relevance of word class to information structure in Kwak’wala 75 Liu, Jianxun (Victoria): Schwa insertion in diminutives of Beijing Chinese: An OT analysis based on an articulatory phonological account 76 Louie, Meagan (UBC): Constraints on licensing if -clauses in Blackfoot 77 Luo, Shan (Victoria): Explain tone sandhi under articulatory phonology (AP) 78 Ma, Jamie (UBC): e disappearance of the final vowel with the Nata passive 79 MacDonald, Danica (Calgary): e historical development of Korean -tul: a corpus study 80 MacDonald, Danica, and Susanne Carroll (Calgary): Who has more? Second-language process- ing of mass-count nouns 81 Marasco, Olivia (Toronto): Intonation paerns of yes-no questions in L2 Spanish speakers 82 Marinescu, Irina (Toronto): e effects of /s/-aspiration on adjacent vowels in Cuban Spanish 83 Markle Lamontagne, Joanne (Toronto): Child heritage language acquisition of the Spanish present perfect in ebec 84 Massam, Diane (Toronto): Double and single ‘be’ constructions in spoken English 85 Mathieu, Éric (Oawa): Plurals versus pluratives 86 McClay, Elise (McGill), Erin Olson (McGill), Carol Lile (McGill), Hisako Noguchi (Concordia), Alan Bale (Concordia), Jessica Coon (McGill), and Gina Cook (iLanguage Lab): Using Technol- ogy to Bridge Gaps between Speakers, Learners, and Linguists 87 McCulloch, Gretchen (McGill): Finals in Mi’gmaq 88 McIvor, Onowa (Victoria), Carmen Rodriguez de France (Victoria), Aliki Marinakis (Victoria), Nick Claxton (Victoria), Sara Child (Kwakiutl Nation), and Kendra Underwood (WSÁNEĆ School Board): Reconciliation through Graduate and Undergraduate Programming in Indigenous Lan- guage Revitalization 89 McMullin, Kevin (UBC): Learning consonant harmony in artificial languages 90 Moghaddam, Safieh (Toronto): Split ergativity: Evidence from Davani 91 Moreno-Villamar, Itziri, and Silvia Perpiñán (Western):