Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Friday/Saturday Schedule Changes

FRIDAY

6:00 Keynote Speaker, Professor Morgan Sonderegger

This will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.


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

SESSION 1 Chair: Chris Burnett 

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

SESSION 2  Chair: Ryan Kelly 

12:30- 1:00 Lenore Cohen, University of Vermont
Media and the Macabre: Euphemistic Discourse in Relation to Public Perceptions of Death

1:00- 1:30  Stephanie Lund, Northeastern University
Solving Noun-Verb Four-Term Analogies Using Structure Mapping

SATURDAY NIGHT
We have made reservations for 7p.m. at a local restaurant downtown, feel free to join us and your fellow presenters!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/il-focolaio-pizza-resto-montreal-2

Also, make sure to check in with your housing host! We want to make sure that everyone is taken care of and in touch with the right person.

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