Welcome to the Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2023!
April 14th-15th, 2023
We are delighted to extend a warm welcome on behalf of the Department of Linguistics at Purdue University and the PLA Symposium Planning Committee to the 2023 Purdue Linguistics Symposium. We appreciate your attendance and participation, and hope you have an enjoyable experience at Purdue University.
About the Symposium
The Purdue Linguistics Symposium is an annual conference collaboratively hosted by the Purdue Linguistics Association and the Department of Linguistics. This year, we have an exciting line-up of 29 presentations, including two plenary speakers, spread across 9 engaging sessions. You can find the program below and abstracts here.
How to Join the Symposium
You can join the symposium by locating the Zoom link provided in the program, which has been sent to you via email. Simply click on the link and input the corresponding meeting IDs and passwords when prompted.
About the Department
Purdue's Department of Linguistics is distinguished by a strong applied focus after thorough theoretical training. Our graduate students apply theory while studying areas like bilingualism, language acquisition, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and sign languages. Our many on-campus linguistic labs provide opportunities for research and collaboration. The Purdue Linguistics Association is our student organization for inquisitive minds interested in probing the depths of language. We create a strong support network for our members' intellectual growth. We foster mentor relationships, inform our members of linguistic research opportunities, host an annual symposium, and more.
About the Symposium Chairs
Yuhyeon Seo, Chair
Yuhyeon is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. He is also President of the Purdue Linguistics Association. He is a member of the Purdue Experimental Phonetics and Phonology Lab and Purdue Bilingualism Lab. His research interests include cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech, heritage language development, and code-switching.
Eunice Opoku, Co-Chair
Eunice is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. She is also Vice President of the Purdue Linguistics Association. Her research interests include the syntax-semantics interface of Akan and bilingualism. Her current project is looking at the formal syntactic analysis of motion predicate in Akan.
Plenary Speakers
April 14th (2:45PM): Dr. Jennifer Cabrelli - University of Illinois, Chicago
Dr. Jennifer Cabrelli is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at University of Illinois, Chicago. She is also the director of the Multilingual Phonology Lab.
Her research interests are adult language acquisition of phonology and morphosyntax, third language acquisition, second language acquisition, first and second language attrition; heritage speaker bilingualism; phonological theory.
April 15th (4:00PM): Dr. Elaine Francis - Purdue University
Dr. Elaine Francis is a Professor of English and Linguistics at Purdue University. She is the director of the Purdue Experimental Linguistics Lab and also the Associate Head in the Department of English.
Her research examines the syntactic, semantic, discourse-pragmatic, and cognitive factors that underlie the grammar and usage of complex sentence structures.Program (in EDT, GMT-4)
Live Presentations: Friday, April 14th
| Time | Event | Session Title | Moderator | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:15-9:30AM | Opening Remarks | Purdue Linguistics Symposium Planning Committee | |||
| 9:30-10:30AM | Session 1 | Phonetics & Phonology | Alexis Zhou | The phonological spell-out of K in Kazakh | Joshua Dees |
| The fifty-word milestone in early vocabulary development of two bilingual children | Jana Vozníková | 10:30-10:45AM | Break | ||
| 10:45-11:45AM | Session 2 | Morphology & Historical Linguistics | Bruno Garcia | Structural mediation between functional-adaptive constraints and morphology | Lukas Denk |
| Another look at Noun-Genitive vs. Genitive-Noun in Early New High German | Christopher Sapp, Elliott Evans,Rex Sprouse | 11:45-1:00PM | Lunch Break & Social Event | Snezhanna Pankratova | |
| 1:00-2:30PM | Session 3 | Syntax I | Chien-Min Kuo | The expression of indefiniteness in Central Sicilian. Evidence from the dialect of Delia | Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro |
| Aspects of the syntax of negation in Khuzestani Arabic | Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d, Ronnie Wilbur | ||||
| The Role of Locatives in Determining Telicity in Akan | Yekatrina Yegorova | 2:30-2:45PM | Break | 2:45-4:15PM | Plenary Speech | Yuhyeon Seo | Attrition and third Language (L3) Acquisition: How L3 Acquisition Research Can Inform the Nature Of A First Language Versus Second Language | Jennifer Cabrelli | 4:15-4:30PM | Break |
| 4:30-6:30PM | Session 4 | Syntax II | Yue Li | The Curious Case of (V1 + V2) Structure in Palestinian Arabic | Aya Halabi |
| Aural processing of syntactic and semantic cues in Mandarin garden-path sentences by L1, L2, and heritage speakers | Vanessa Sheu, Elaine Francis | ||||
| Grammatical Transfer in Arabic-speaking Learners of Hebrew | Tamaya Levy, Tami Yair | ||||
| Coordinated multiple wh-sluicing in English: A corpus-based investigation | Hee-Yeon Kim, Jong-Bok Kim | ||||
Live Presentations: Saturday, April 15th
| Time | Event | Session Title | Moderator | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30AM | Session 5 | Sociolinguistics | Yi-Fang Cheng | Language Contact Situations and Language Endangerment: A Sociolinguistic Study of Obolo | Lynice Inuku, Walter-Amadi |
| Lexical variation for four American sign language signs, all of which mean ‘All’ | Megan Massoels, Mary Lou Vercellotti | 9:30-10:30AM | Speical Panel | Panel on the International Decade of Indigenous Languages | Elena Benedicto, Virak Chan, Eunice Opoku, Rene Zuniga Arguello | 10:30-10:45AM | Break | 10:45-12:15PM | Session 6 | Applied Linguistics | Zachary Call | Embodying Cars: A Conceptual Analysis of Metaphors in Culture | Maisarah Mohammad Almirabi |
| The way home: A community-based experiment that tests the influence of spatial language on cognition | Letizia Cerqueglini | ||||
| Telecollaboration: A 21st century language teaching approach? | Pawel Andrejczuk | Session 7 | Syntax & Pragmatics I | Seyyed Hatam Tamimi | Towards a new model to study the acquisition and use of verb tenses in Spanish | Maura Cruz Enríquez, Anahí Alba de la Fuente |
| Honorificity Change and Loss in Maithili-Bangla Bilinguals | Pritha Chandra | ||||
| The production and interpretation of infinitives in L2 and heritage Spanish | Laura Solano-Escobar, Alejandro Cuza | 12:15-1:00PM | Lunch Break & Social Event | Snezhanna Pankratova | |
| 1:00-2:00PM | Session 8 | Syntax & Pragmatics II | Castillo Santiago | Mechanisms of the Bilingual Advantage: Testing Acquisition of Russian Case Alternations | Hunter Brakovec, Rex Sprouse |
| Keysmashing: Forms and Functions | Noor Hassan Sherazi | 2:00-2:15PM | Break | ||
| 2:15-3:45PM | Session 9 | Syntax III | Vanessa Shue | Processing ditransitive constructions in L3 English: A self-paced reading task | Aikaterina Koufopoulou |
| Split-ergativity in Nuristani languages | Julian Kreidl | ||||
| Syntactic Development in Chinese Adolescent English Learners: A Study on the Subject-object Asymmetry in L2 Acquisition | Yue Li, Yuan Gao | 3:45-4:00PM | Break | 4:00-5:30PM | Plenary Speech | Eunice Opoku | Accesibility Effects in Gramatical Resumption and Intrusive Resumption Languages | Elaine Francis | 5:30-5:45PM | Closing Remarks | Purdue Linguistics Smyposium Planning Committee |
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