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UIC Talks in Lingustics (UIC TiL)
About UIC TiL | Talks for the Current Semester | Previous Talks | Contact Information |
About UIC TiL
UIC TiL offers students, faculty, and invited-guests the opportunity to
present ongoing work and get comments and ideas as well as the
chance for critical and constructive discussion of their work.
Talks for the Current Semester (Fall 2009)
Date, Time and Location* |
Speaker |
Title(Area) |
Abstract |
September 18 |
Marisol Garrido (Western Illinois University) |
Diphthongization of Non-High Vowel Sequences in Latin American |
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September 23 |
Rafael Núñez-Cedeño (UIC) and Junice Acosta (UIC) |
En Torno Al Contexto Real De La Vocalización Cibaeña: Un Nuevo Replanteamiento Prosódico |
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October 2 |
Chris Kennedy (U of C) |
Aspectual composition and scalar change |
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October 14 (3 - 4 PM) |
John Drury (McGill University) |
Electrophysiological investigations at the semantics/pragmatics interface |
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October 16 |
Susan Goldman (UIC) |
Inquiry Using Multiple Sources of Information |
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October 30 |
Xuehua Xiang (UIC) |
Linguistic Representation of “Self” and Narrative Co-Construction: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Celebrity Interviews in American English and Mandarin Chinese. |
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November 13 |
Brad Hoot (UIC) and Álvaro Recio (University of Salamanca) |
(Focus in Heritage Spanish) and Las propiedades argumentales de los complementos del nombre en español |
*All talks take place from 3 PM to 5 PM in room 1750 (south elevators) in University Hall (map or directions) unless otherwise noted.
Previous Talks
Spring 2009
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
February 20 |
Jason Merchant (U of C) |
There's less to words than meets the eye |
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March 6 (2 - 3 PM) |
Kara Morgan-Short and Mandy Faretta (UIC) |
Awareness and explicitness in second language development |
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March 13 |
Shahrzad Mahootian (North Eastern Illinois) |
The Medium and the Message: Codeswitching in written discourse |
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March 20 |
Karlos Arregi (U of C) |
Morpheme Metathesis and Reduplication in the |
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April 3 (2 - 3 PM) |
Fernando Ramallo (Universidade de Vigo) |
La situación social del gallego: problemáticas y |
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April 10 |
Dennis Ott (Harvard) |
Stylistic fronting as remnant movement |
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April 24 (2 - 3 PM) |
Zuriñe Alonso (UIC) |
Prospective Study about the |
Fall 2008
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
September 8 |
Rafael Núñez-Cedeño (UIC) |
The Dominican marker /-se/: a case for Expressive Morphology |
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October 6 |
Erin O’Rourke (University of Pittsburgh) |
Dialect differences and the bilingual vowel space in Peruvian Spanish |
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October 20 |
Susanne Rott (UIC) |
Why do Advanced Learners of German sound Non-Native Like? A Cognitive Linguistic Explanation on the Use of Phrasal Verbs |
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November 3 |
Kara Morgan-Short and students (UIC) |
Electrophysiological investigation of bilingual processing: ERP Methods for Heritage and Second Language Processing |
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November 24 |
Anastasia Giannakidou (U of C) |
Negative polarity in natural language: Variation, scalarity, and dependent reference |
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December 1 |
Patrick Wong (NWU) |
Effects of Long- and Short-Term Auditory Experiences on the Auditory Pathway: Speech, Voice, and Music |
Fall 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract/Handout |
September 5 |
Luis López and Kay González (UIC) |
VP structure and focus/accent structure: Evidence from code-switching |
Abstract |
September 19 |
Kara Morgan-Short (UIC) |
A Neurolinguistic Investigation of Late-Learned Second Language Knowledge: The Effects of Explicit and Implicit Conditions |
Abstract |
October 3 |
Clara Burgo (UIC) |
Grammaticalization of a perfect into a perfective in Bilbao Spanish |
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October 10 |
Kim Potowski (UIC) |
Discourse Markers in Chicago Spanish: so and entonces |
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October 24 |
Laura Bartlett (UIC) |
Personal subject pronouns: Testing the Theory of Perseveration |
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November 7 |
Gregory Ward (Northwestern University) |
Who’s the Pad Thai? That would be me. |
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November 14 |
Volker Struckmeier (University of Cologne) |
Towards a typology of phase structures: Subordinating D |
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November 15 |
Volker Struckmeier (University of Cologne) |
Workshop: "Minimalism" |
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November 16 |
Volker Struckmeier (University of Cologne) |
Workshop: "German(ic) Syntax" |
Spring 2007
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract/Handout |
May 1 |
Daniel Büring (UCLA) |
The Least At Least Can Do |
Contact Information
Feel free to email us with any questions or if you are interested in giving a talk.
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