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

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!
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Conference Schedule

FRIDAY

7:30 p.m. Wine and Cheese

Arts Building, room 160

McGill University

Keynote Speaker: Professor Morgan Sonderegger, McGill University

SATURDAY

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

SESSION 1

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

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

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2 

12:00- 12:30  Deborah Schram

12:30- 1:00  Claudia Abbiati, University of Vermont

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 3 

2:30- 3:00  Sara Lakhdar, Concordia University

3:00- 3:30 Lenore Cohen, University of Vermont

3:30- 4:00  Stephanie Lund, Northeastern University

SUNDAY

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

SESSION 1

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

10:45- 11:15  Presenter 10

11:15- 11:30  Keynote Speaker, Professor Michael Wagner, McGill University

11:15- 11:45  Closing Remarks

Please note: Both Saturday and Sunday sessions will be held at the following location

Carrefour Sherbrooke Ballroom

475 Sherbrooke West

Montréal, QC H3A 2L9

As always, email us with any questions- looking forward to seeing you all next weekend!

Abstract reviewing is underway!

Thank you all for submitting your abstracts!

They are all currently under review.

If your abstract has been selected, we will contact you by Monday, February 18th.

Please check your e-mail for any updates.

As always, any questions can be directed to mccclu2013@gmail.com

Abstract Submission EXTENDED

Just letting all of you know that abstracts may be submitted online to linguistlist up until January 30th 2013!

You can submit them online here: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/mccclu2013

If you had a problem uploading your abstract in the past, we've resolved the issue so feel free to try again.

McCCLU Date Change/ Extended Call for Papers

Attention students!

The date of the conference has been moved! It will now be held from March 15th to March 17th, 2013.

The date for abstract submissions has been extended to January 25th, 2013.

We understand that there has been some confusion with uploading the abstracts but this will be resolved as soon as possible.

McCCLU is looking forward to a great conference this year!

If you have any questions, e-mail us: mccclu2013@gmail.com