LASSO
XXXVIII
September
25-26
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Thursday, Sept. 24
Board Meeting 8:30 pm 4068 Joseph F. Smith Bldg, BYU
Friday Sept. 25
Plenary Address, 8:30am, Library Auditorium, BYU.
Sali Tagliamonte
“Talking about be like: Innovation and change in contemporary English”
Shuttles leave to Aspen Grove, 10:00
11:00-12:20, Four concurrent sessions
Session A: English semantics (Timpanogos A)
Session Chair: Janis Nuckolls, Brigham Young University
Using Peirce's Referential Categories to Determine Degrees of Acceptable Indirectness in Bad-news Messages
Alan Manning
Brigham Young University
Nicole Amare
University of South Alabama
The Use of Grammatical Paradigms In Identifying Humor Potentials in English
Dallin D.Oaks
Brigham Young University
‘Sweet as!’: the intensifier as in New Zealand and Australian English
Joseph Sowa
Brigham Young University
Early Use of Deictic Shifters to Facilitate the Imagination
Donna West
SUNY-Cortland
Session B: Spanish in the Southwest (Timpanogos B)
Session chair: Daniel Villa, New Mexico State University
An analysis of the frequent verbs of Southwest Spanish as compared to monolingual Spanish
Jens Clegg
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Spanish in the non-border Southwest
Devin Jenkins
University of Colorado Denver
Metaphor, individual discourse and linguistic ideology in El Paso, Texas
Maria Isabel Velasquez
University of Nebraska
New Mexican Spanish: 150 years of contact with English and counting
Daniel Villa
New Mexico State University
Session C: Español en Estados Unidos (Timpanogos C)
Session Chair: Tyler Anderson, Mesa State College
La influencia del tiempo de residencia en la alternancia de códigos
Glaucia Cedroni
University of Massachusetts
La presencia y ausencia del pronombre de la primera persona del español hablado en el oeste de Massachusetts
Judy de Oliveira
University of Massachusetts
La pasiva con se en español y la presencia del agente explícito en California
Patricia Gubitosi
University of Massachusetts
¿Lo puedo subir o puedo subirlo?: La posición del clítico en el español del oeste de Massachusetts
Meghann M.Peace
University of Massachusetts
Session D: Mesoamerican languages (Fir/Aspen)
Session chair: Dirk Elzinga, Brigham Young University
Categorical perception of K’iche’ (Mayan) interrogatives: The interplay of syntactically marked questions and phonological boundary tones
Brandon Baird
University of Texas at Austin
The Kiche morpheme täq as a non-phrase final pluralizer
Heather Willson
Brigham Young University
Acoustic Correlates of Fortis/Lenis in San Francisco Ozolotepec Zapotec
Anita Leander Flores
SIL
Zapotec Reciprocals
Pam Munro
UCLA
Lunch, 12:20-1:30 Aspen Grove
1:30-2:30, Four concurrent sessions
Session E: Spanish L2 Acquisition (Timpanogos A)
Session chair: José Esteban Hernández, University of Texas-Pan American
English-Spanish bilinguals’ attitudes toward L2 pronunciation
Tyler Anderson
Mesa State University
Benji Souza
Appalachian State University
Accuracy rates for the use of ser and estar in student compositions across different levels of instruction
Jeff Gabbitas
Pima Community College
Jens Clegg
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Martin L. Gibbs
Lewis-Clark State College
Session F: Final /s/ in Spanish (Timpanogos B)
Session Chair: Esther Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder
Towards an acoustic account of /s/-weakening in the Spanish of Cali, Colombia
Earl Brown
California State University, Monterey Bay
Richard File-Muriel
University of North Caroline at Charlotte
A look at /s/ and its allophones in coda position in Island Puerto Rican Spanish and in two different geographical US Puerto Rican communities
Michelle Ramos-Pellicia
George Mason University
Morphophonological Conditioning of Syllable and Word-final /s/ Reduction in Border Uruguayan Spanish
Mark Waltermire
New Mexico State University
Session G: Syntax (Timpanogos C)
Session chair: Alan Manning, Brigham Young University
The Development of Double Negatives in Chamic Languages
Hannah Pritchett
University of California, Berkeley
Verb-Particle Errors
Ellen Thompson
Florida International University
Change in Agreement and Case: third factor effects
Elly Van Gelderen
Arizona State University
Session H: Southwest Journal of Linguistics (Fir/Aspen)
Southwest
Journal of Linguistics
Pamela
Anderson-Mejías
Hugo Mejías
University of Texas-Pan American
Co-editors of SWJL
2:00-3:00 Refreshments will be available, but no break is scheduled
2:30-3:30, Four concurrent sessions
Session I: Latin American Dialectology (Timpanogos A)
Session Chair: Jens Clegg, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Micro-dialectology in Latin American Spanish: Tracing the history of yeísmo in colonial New Mexico
Israel Sanz Sánchez
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
To Aspirate or Not to Aspirate: The Case of Lexicalized Word-initial h in Traditional New Mexico Spanish of Taos
Donny Vigil
University of North Texas
Pasado y presente de dos minorías lingüísticas en Baja California
José
Esteban Hernández
University of Texas-Pan American
Session J: Spanish Heritage Speakers (Timpanogos B)
Session Chair: Susana Rivera-Mills, Oregon State University
Non-linguists' perceptions of felicitous and infelicitous code-switches: The role of proficiency and grammaticality
Tyler Anderson
Mesa State College
Interpretación de palabras compuestas por hablantes de español de herencia
Patricia Gonzalez
Texas A&M International University
Child acquisition and compound productivity
María Irene Moyna
Texas A&M University
Session K: Slavic Syntax (Timpanogos C)
Session chair: Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University
Psych Verbs, Functional Heads, and Experiencer arguments
Leila Lomashvili
University of Arizona
Genitive of Negation in Slavic Languages
Olena Tsurska
Arizona State University
Pro Drop in Slovene
Petra Jakulin Baruca
Yong
Lang
University of Texas-Pan American
Session L: L2 Acquisition and Attitudes (Fir/Aspen)
Session chair: Pamela Anderson-Mejías, University of Texas-Pan American
The effect of language aptitude and strategy use on ESL and EFL learners’ pronunciation accuracy
Naomi Haslam
Wendy Baker
Brigham Young University
Factors affecting native speaker judgments of pronunciation
Laura Catharine Smith
Derek Stegelmeier
Brigham Young University
Language intensive versus culturally-oriented short term study abroad programs: Implications for the second language pronunciation of German:
Laura Catharine Smith
Hillary Aten
Brigham Young University
Buses leave for Provo/BYU at 3:30
Dinner 6:00, Wilkinson Center, Skyroom, BYU
Saturday,
Sept. 26
All activities on BYU
campus
9:00-10:20, Four concurrent sessions
Session M: Spanish Pronouns (Library 3710)
Session Chair: María Irene Moyna, Texas A&M University
Consigo vs. con+STRESSED PRONOUN in written Spanish
Matt Alba
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Voseo to Tuteo Shift among Two Salvadoran Communities in the United States
Travis D.Sorenson
University of Central Arkansas
Sintagmas con doble determinantes pospuestos en el español salvadoreño
Alejandro Tovar
University of Texas-Pan American
El tú como un "mask": El voseo y la identidad salvadoreña y hondureña en los EE.UU
Miguel R.Woods
Oregon State University
Session N: Second Language Acquisition (Library 3712)
Session chair: Jiyoung Yoon, University of North Texas
Does Familiarity Influence Language Learner Conversations?
Manjula Shinge
Emporia State University
Differences in Pronunciation Preferences between Learners and Instructors of Second Languages
Scott Sterling
Jiang Song Gong
University of Montana
Improving automated oral testing: identifying features and enhancing speech recognition
The PSST Research Group
Brigham Young University
L2 Morpheme Acquisition Order Across L1 Language Families
Malena Weitze
Jeremiah McGhee
Dan P. Dewey
Brigham Young University
Session O: U.S. Indigenous Languages (Library 3714)
Session chair: Pam Munro, UCLA
Hopi Suppletion: A Phase-Theoretic Account”
Tatyana Slobodchikoff
University of Arizona
Shoshoni echo vowels: The acoustic evidence
Katherine Matsumoto-Gray
University of Utah
Community Created Materials for Endangered Language Learning
Karen Marsh
Katherine Matsumoto-Gray
Bryan Hudson
University of Utah
Session P: Special Session: Frequency Dictionaries (Library 3716)
Mark
Davies, Spanish,
Portuguese, American English
Dee
Gardner, American
English
Deryle
Lonsdale, French
Dil
Parkinson, Arabic
Brigham
Young University
Break 10:20-10:40
10:40-12:00, Four concurrent sessions
Session Q: Spanish Morphosyntax (Library 3710)
Session Chair: Earl Brown, California State University, Monterey Bay
To Add or to Subtract: Resumptive Pronouns and Prepositional Phrase chopping in Spanish Relative Clauses
Alvaro Cerron-Palomino
Arizona State University
Muy bueno y bien bonito: Spanish Intensifier Use in Predicative Constructions
Mary T. Copple
Kansas State University
Perfect constructions in 17th century Colonial Spanish
Anna María Escobar
University of Illinois
Entre tiempo y modo: morfema y perífrasis de futuro en el español
Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani
Universidad de Sonora
Session R: Spanish Linguistic Identity (Library 3712)
Session Chair: Joke Mondada, University of New Orleans
Language Attitudes and Written Literacy Practices of Mexican American Students in First-Year Composition
Kristina Gutierrez
University of Texas at San Antonio
Linguistic Ideology of Mexican-American Bilinguals in the United States
Adrianne Montoya Fillerup
University of Colorado, Boulder
Identity Ascription in Recreated Spanish Dialogue
Alan McCown
University of Texas at Austin
‘Us’ v. ‘Them’: Intersubjectivity, cultural negotiation and the making of race in undergraduate Spanish language classrooms
Adam Schwartz
University of Texas-Pan American
Session S: Loanwords (Library 3714)
Session chair: Mark Waltermire, New Mexico State University
On Spanish Loanwords in Hawai’i Creole English
Rob Smead
Brigham Young University
Spanish loanword phonology in Mocho’
Naomi Fox
University of Utah
Spanish Language Blogs and Discussion Boards: Phonological and Morphological Adaptation of Computer-Related Loanwords
Regina Morin
The College of New Jersey
The adaptation of coda /l/ in English loanwords in Thai
Paksiri Tongsen
Newcastle University
Session T: Phonology and Syntax (Library 3716)
Session chair: Heather Willson, Brigham Young University
Phonological Change in Bilingualism: Interface of Phonology and Syntax
Hui-Ling Yang
Arizona State University
The preaspirated stop: a perceptually suboptimal phonological structure?
Ian Clayton
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Short with the ‘Old’, Long with the ‘New’?: Word Duration in a Partnered Performance Task
Susan Metheny
University of New Mexico
English Sentence Adverbs: The Result of Lexicalization
James Berry
Arizona State University
Lunch 12:00-1:10, Wilkinson Center, Skyroom, BYU
1:10-2:40, Four concurrent sessions
Session U: Spanish Mood (Library 3710)
Session Chair: Rob Smead, Brigham Young University
Mood Selection in the Evaluative Complement in New Hampshire and Maine: Impersonal Constructions and Pseudo-Clefts Compared
John Chaston
University of New Hampshire
The Spanish (Present) Subjunctive: A Finite Tenseless Form
Gustavo Guajardo
University of Montana
Subjunctive Usage in Noun Clauses in the Speech of Spanish Speakers in Northern and Central Utah
Marie C. Lund
Canyon Elementary School
John Chaston
University of New Hampshire
Third Generation Speakers and the Subjunctive Mood
Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch
Texas State University, San Marcos
Session V: American English (Library 3712)
Session chair: Devin Jenkins, University of Colorado Denver
Fronting of /ow/ in Urban Utah Speech
Doug Adamson
University of Arizona
American English has goʔ a loʔ of glottal stops
Caitlin Seegmiller
David Eddington
Brigham Young University
Accuracy and predictor variables of listeners’ identification of male speaker body size, age, and ethnicity
Parker Heiner
Wendy Baker
Brigham Young University
A whole different animal: Identifying and charting the use of natural metaphors over time
Janis B. Nuckolls
Alisha Walbrecht
Brigham Young University
Session W: Chinese and Arabic (Library 3714)
Session chair: Dil Parkinson, Brigham Young University
Authentic Video for Americans learning Chinese: Making it more accessible
Alan K. Melby
Amber Chen
Brigham Young University
Language Learning Strategy Use in the First-Year Chinese Language Classrooms
Ko-Yin Sung
Utah State University
Structure and Processing in Tunisian Arabic: Speech Errors Data
Nadia Hamrouni
University of Arizona
Session X: Spanish Syntax and Discourse Analysis (Library 3716)
Session chair: Mark Davies, Brigham Young University
Indirect Language Contact in Mexican Spanish: Evidence from Split-Intransitivity
Aaron Roggia
The Pennsylvania State University
The independent NP + relative clause format in Spanish conversation
Ivo Sanchez
University of Oklahoma
Javier Rivas
University of Colorado, Boulder
On the semantic nature of Spanish infinitival complements
Jiyoung Yoon
University of North Texas
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”: Yunot Diaz’s presentation of characters in the orientation of his novel
Joke Mondada
University of New Orleans
Break 2:40-3:00
3:00-4:00, Four concurrent sessions
Session Y: Spanish phonetics (Library 3710)
Session Chair: Regina Morin, The College of New Jersey
A quantitative analysis of word-initial stop/fricative variation in Spanish
Esther Brown
University of Colorado, Boulder
Diphthongs and hiatuses across word boundaries: An examination of individual variation within the Zacatecan variety of Mexican Spanish
Janet M. Smith
Indiana University
The Basque-o-meter: measuring Basque identity through Basque Spanish
María
Ciriza
University of Wisconsin-EauClaire
Session Z: Minority Language Syntax (Library 3712)
Session chair: Heather Willson, Brigham Young University
Syntactic Reconstruction and the Comparative Method
Chris Rogers
University of Utah
Revisiting Záparo: A comprehensive collection and reanalysis of previous language documentation
Brad Miller
Brigham Young University
Syntax in Tocharian-A: A Comparative Approach
Greg Richter
Truman State University
Session Zy: Pedagogy and Acquisition (Library 3714)
Session chair: Laura Smith, Brigham Young University
African American Vernacular English in the Classroom: Introducing Standard English
Erica Berrett
Brigham Young University
Foreign Language Houses: A examination of their use and their effectiveness in promoting second language (L2) learning
Jennifer Bown
Dan Dewey
Rob Martinsen
Wendy Baker
Brigham Young University
Register and Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study between Heritage and Second Language Speakers
Ana Sánchez Muñoz
California State University, Northridge
Presidential address, 4:15-5:15, Wilkinson Center, Little Theater
Susana
Rivera-Mills, Oregon State University
"Latinos or Hispanics?
Changing demographics, implications, and continued diversity"
Dinner, 6:00, Wilkinson Center, Skyroom, BYU
Business Meeting 8:30pm, 4068 Joseph F. Smith Bldg, BYU