Final Final Schedule

FRIDAY- Arts Building, room 160, McGill University

6:00 p.m.

Wine and Cheese

Keynote Speaker: Professor Morgan Sonderegger, McGill University

Phonetic and Phonological Dynamics on Reality Television

SATURDAY- Carrefour Sherbrooke Ballroom, 475 Sherbrooke W

10:15- 10:30 a.m. Arrival, Breakfast, and Late Registration

10:45- 11:15 Marybeth Seitz-Brown, Columbia University

Virtual Code-Switching: A Study of the Use of Kiswahili and English in Texting

11:15- 11:45  Ruth Martinez, McGill University

The Use of Lunfardo in the Provinces of Buenos Aires and Quebec

11:45- 12:15  Sara Lakhdar, Concordia University

Listening with an Accent: Perception of Accented French

COFFEE BREAK

1:00- 1:30  Stephanie Lund, Northeastern University

Solving Noun-Verb Four-Term Analogies Using Structure Mapping

SUNDAY- Carrefour Sherbrooke Ballroom, 475 Sherbrooke W

10:00- 10:15 a.m. Arrival and Breakfast

10:30- 10:45  Christine Meagher, University of Vermont

The Role of Working Memory in Explicit-Inductive SLA.

10:45- 11:15  Thomas Kettig, McGill University

Investigating the Canadian Shift

11:15- 11:45 Lenore Cohen, University of Vermont

Media and the Macabre: Euphemistic Discourse in Relation to Public Perceptions of Death 

11:45- 12:45  Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael Wagner, McGill University

Contextual Effects on Prosody

12:45- 1:00  Closing Remarks