10th Annual Purdue Linguistics Association Student Symposium, 2015

April 10-11 (Fri - Sat)

Venue: Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall (map)

Keynote speaker: Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou

Keynote title: Scalar and Non-scalar Negative Polarity Items: Prosody, Syntax and Semantics (abstract)

The 10th PLA Student Symposium endeavors to provide undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctorate researchers from various linguistic fields an opportunity to interact with those both inside and outside their respective disciplines.

The Symposium General Session, which will be held on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, spotlights original research by students in various fields informed by linguistic theory. In addition to the General Session, on Saturday we will also host a Special Session, the theme of which will be Linguistic Interfaces. The Special Session will begin with a Keynote Address by our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou of University of Chicago.

Program and Schedule:

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April 10, Friday

Time	Paper Title	Author(s)
3:15 - 3:30 PM	Opening Remarks
	Session 1: Underrepresented Languages
3:30 - 4:00 PM	An Analysis of Motion Events in Chaoshan and Mandarin	Chun Carol Zheng (Purdue University)
4:00 - 4:30 PM	The Interaction of Palatal Coarticulation and Palatal Harmony in Kazan Tatar	Jenna Conklin (Purdue University)
4:30 - 4:45 PM	Break
	Session 2: Popular Media and Discourse
4:45 - 5:15 PM	The American Media's Construction of "Participants" in Cases of Police Brutality	Morgan Johnson (IUPUI)
5:15 - 5:45 PM	Use of Someone: Beyond Simple Person Reference	Yu-Han Lin (Teachers College, Columbia University)
6:00 - 7:30 PM	Break
7:30 - 9:30 PM	Symposium Banquet

April 11, Saturday

Time	Paper Title	Author(s)
	Session 3: Bilingualism and SLA
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Dialect Influence on California Chicano English	Laura Kompara (Ball State University)
9:30 - 10:00 AM	Constructing a response: An Identity Perspective on Chinese Students' Reactions to Compliments from Native English Speakers	Hao Wang and Yan Zhao (The University of Alabama)
10:00 - 10:30 AM	Recalling Arabic and English Prefixed and Suffixed Verbs among Arabic-English Bilingual Speakers: An Experimental Study in relation to Working Memory	Rashad Ali Qaed Ahmed, Jiyar Othman Hamadamin and Muhammad Ahmad Alasmari (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
10:30 - 10:45 AM	Break
	Session 4: Syntax and Semantics
10:45 - 11:15 AM	The Syntax of Clausal Complements of Emotive Factive Predicates	Eric Follett (Purdue University)
11:15 - 11:45 AM	Is Much Enough of a Quantifier?: A Corpus-based Perspective	Okgi Kim and Jong-Bok Kim, (Kyung Hee University)
11:45 - 12:15 PM	A Study on Motion Events Using the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC)	Chun Carol Zheng (Purdue University)
12:30 - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 PM	Keynote Speech	Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
2:30 - 2:45 PM	Break
	Session 5: Phonetics and Language Acquisition
2:45 - 3:15 PM	When do children develop ability for alignment of tonal targets in intonation?	Afua Blay (University of North Dakota)
3:15 - 3:45 PM	Quantifying Bilingualism: Relating phonetic Production to Language Proficiency and Attitudes	Wai Ling Law (Purdue University)
3:45 - 4:15 PM	An Optimality Theoretic Approach to Child Language Acquisition	Colette Feehan (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
4:15 - 4:30 PM	Break
	Session 6: Historical Linguistics and Language Change
4:30 - 5:00 PM	The "Concealed Passive" Construction Needs Investigating Diachronically	Jungsoo Kim (The University of Texas at Austin)
5:00 - 5:30 PM	The Rich-Get-Richer Phenomenon and Language Evolution: The Case of the German Present Perfect	Valentina Concu (Purdue University)
5:30 - 6:00 PM	The Role of Antonymy on Semantic Change	Ashley Kentner (Purdue University)
7:00 - 9:00 PM	Symposium Social

Social Events

Symposium Banquet

• Venue: Ichiban Restaurant, Lafayette (map / menu)
• Time: Friday (April 10) 7:30 -9:30pm
• $10 (members and non-members)
• RSVP here
• Directions from Stanley Coulter Hall

Please sign up by April 5 (Sunday). If you have any questions, please contact Josh Perry.

Symposium Social

• Venue: Scotty's Brewhouse, West Lafayette (map / menu)
• Time: Saturday (April 11) 7:00 -9:00pm
• No RSVP required
• Directions from Stanley Coulter Hall

Directions

Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall