Friday, May 2, 2008

12pm – 1:15pm Registration (Nolte 125)

Session 1: "Sorry, I didn't hear that [ l ]" Chair: Paula Chesley (Nolte 140)
1:15 - 1:30 Welcome
1:30 – 2:00 Anna Marco-Cortiel A Sociolinguistic Study of Bulgarian L-Vocalization
2:00-2:20 Giusy Clemente An Intercultural Pragmatics Study:Americans and Italians Apologizing in English
2:20 – 2:40 Mark McKay Discontinuous Negation in Guaraní
2:40 - 3:00 Brian Gordon Informational constraints on syntax in Ponca and Omaha

3:00 – 3:30 Break

Session 2: Field Methods Chair: Nancy Stenson (Nolte 140)
3:30 – 5:00 Class presentations on Berber “Can I buy a vowel? A sketch of Kabyle Berber"

5:00 Happy hour in Dinkytown (Location T.B.A.)

Saturday, May 3, 2008

8:30 -9:00 Registration--light breakfast provided (Nolte 140)

Session 3: Phonology and Morphology Chair: Suzanne van Duym (Nolte 125)
9:15 – 9:45 Paula Chesley Roots, Stems, and Kabyle Plurals: An Economy-Motivated Model
9:45 – 10:15 Kossi Ngolo The Formation of a New Urban Dialect: The Case of Ewe in Southern Togo
10:15-10:45 Rosa-Maria Castaneda Crossing National Borders: Palatalization in Uruguayan Portuguese
10:45-11:15 Zoltan Boka Using f0 Ranges to Measure the Effectiveness of Fluency Drills on Non-native Speakers

11:15-12:30 Lunch on your own

Session 4: ESL and Pragmatics Chair: Jackie Listemaa (Nolte 125)
12:30-1:00 Liza C. Salainti The Effectiveness of Teachers’ Gestures in ESL Writing Classes
1:00-1:30 Tor Lindbloom “If You’re Gonna…, Then I’m Gonna: Be going to Conditionals in a Spoken Academic English Corpus
1:30-2:00 Adeline Koh A Bourdieuvian analysis of Singapore Colloquial English (Singlish)

2:00-2:15 Break

Session 5: Multilingualism Chair: Amel Khalfaoui (Nolte 125)
2:15-2:45 Kate Kent Russian-Ukrainian Bilingualism in Post-Soviet Ukraine
2:45-3:15 Michael Coggins A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Embedded Ideologies in Indian News Media
3:15-3:45 Muhammad Farrukh Ashraf Syed Code-Switching in Pakistan: (A Survey of Hybridization in Proper Names in Commercial Signs)

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-5:00 Ettien Koffi A Game Theoretic Solution to the Plight of Not Commonly Taught Languages (Nolte 125)

5:30 Dinner* (Loring Pasta Bar)




*Dinner on Saturday will be held at Loring Pasta Bar at the corner of 4th St. and 14th Ave. in Dinkytown. $15 advance payment required. Contact Eden (kaise113@umn.edu) with questions.

Presenters, please take note that MNSWOL will not be publishing a proceedings, but Georgetown University Working Papers in Linguistics is soliciting papers for their upcoming issue: “Theoretical Investigations into Lesser Studied Languages�. Contact with questions: guwptl@gmail.com

MNSWOL 2008 sponsored by:
Graduate Linguistics Association of Minnesota (GLAM)
Institute of Linguistics, and English as a Second Language, Slavic Languages and
Literatures (ILES)
Council of Graduate Students
Bruegger’s Bagels
GAPSA