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The XII Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Syposium at Ohio State

The Ohio State University
Congress on Hispanic and
Lusophone Linguistics
April 23-24, 2010
Columbus, Ohio
Conference Program

Friday, April 24
8:00-8:45 Registration (coffee & bagels) outside Mendendall (ML) 100, first floor.
Campus Map: http://www.osu.edu/map/index.php

9:15 Opening Remarks: Dr. Elizabeth Davis (Acting Chair,
Department of Spanish & Portuguese) - Mendenhall 0115

Mendenhall Laboratory - 0115

Syntax
Session Chair: Dr. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, OSU Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

9:30-10:00

The syntax of negation in Brazilian Portuguese
Quinn McCoy Hansen
The University of Florida

10:00-10:30

CP or not CP, that is the question
Manuel Delicado Cantero
The Ohio State University

10:30-11:00

The stranded version of Spanish prepositions: A Caribbean overview
Melvin González & Dimaris Barrios-Beltrán
The Ohio State University, Indiana University - Bloomington

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

Pragmatics
Session Chair: Dr. Scott Schwenter, OSU Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

11:15-11:45

Mitigation and politeness of speakers and hearers
Lori Czerwionka
University of Texas - Austin

11:45-12:15

Implicature and default meaning in Peninsular Spanish: The case of address forms
Sarah Sinnott
The Ohio State University

12:15-12:45

Universal Address Theory and the Spanish voseo
Jeremy King
Louisiana State University

1:00-2:00

Lunch - Hagerty Hall Atrium

Language Attitudes
Session chair: Dr. Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, OSU Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

2:00-2:30

Explicit attitudes in Brazil towards varieties of Portuguese
Talia Bugel
Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

2:30-3:00

Language attitudes toward devoicing among youth in Buenos Aires
Christy King
The Ohio State University

3:00-3:30

Señas de identidad nacional y generacional en el español de Puerto Rico - Cancelled
Wilfredo Valentín-Marquez
Millersville University

3:30-3:45

Coffee Break

Variation & Change
Session chair: Dr. Brian Joseph, OSU Dept. of Linguistics

3:45 - 4:15

Resumption or contrast? Non-standard subject pronouns in Spanish relative clauses
Álvaro Cerrón-Palomino
University of Southern California

4:15 - 4:45

Local and global factors in differential object marking: quantitative evidence for underlying hierarchal constraints in Spanish
Ian Tippets
The Ohio State University

4:45 - 5:15

Sobre la Variación de las Formas Analíticas y Sintéticas del Presente Progresivo en el Español
Stephen Fafulas
Indiana University - Bloomington

5:30-6:30

Plenary Talk: Language Ecology and Contact-Induced Language Change
J. Clancy Clements
Indiana University - Bloomington
Hagerty Hall 180

7:00

Wine & Cheese Welcome Reception
George Wells Knight House
104 E. 15th Ave.
(Located across High Street, close walking distance. Please see insert for map.)

Saturday, April 25
7:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast and Registration outside Mendendall (ML) 100, first floor.
Campus Map: http://www.osu.edu/map/index.php

Mendenhall Laboratory - 0115

Variation & Change II
Session Chair: Sandro Sessarego, OSU Dept of Spanish & Portuguese

8:00 - 8:30

Gustar: An analysis of its variants and their usage in one Spanish dialect
Mary Johnson
The Ohio State University

8:30 - 9:00

Os usos inovadores no Português do Brasil
Maria Célia Lima-Hernandes
Universidade de São Paulo

9:00 - 9:30

Velar palatalization in Chilean Spanish
Tanya Flores
Indiana University

9:30-9:45

Coffee Break

Prosody
Session chair: Dr. Fernando Martínez-Gil, OSU Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

9:45-10:15

Decomposição da entoação frasal em componentes estruturais e semântico-funcionais: um teste com análise da variação de gênero
Waldemar Ferreira Netto, Fernanda Consoni & Daniel Oliveira Peres
Universidade de São Paulo

10:15-10:45

El papel de la prosodia en el intercambio de códigos en el español nuevomexicano
Evelyn Durán Urrea
The University of New Mexico

10:45-11:15

O acento lexical como pista para o reconhecimento de palavras segmentadas em português brasileiro
Fernanda Consoni & Waldemar Ferreira Netto
Universidade de São Paulo

11:30-12:30

Plenary Talk: Exploring prosody and meaning in Paraguayan Guaraní
Cynthia G. Clopper & Judith Tonhauser
The Ohio State University
Mendenhall 100

12:30-2:00

Lunch

Language Contact
Chair: Dr. Donald Winford, OSU Dept. of Linguistics

2:00-2:30

The extent of Spanish influence on the Tagalog vowel system
Cory Shain
The Ohio State University

2:30-3:00

Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní
Cory Shain
The Ohio State University

3:00-3:30

The extent of Spanish influence on the Tagalog vowel system
Marivic Lesho
The Ohio State University

Acquisition
Session chair: Dr. John Grinstead, OSU Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

3:30 - 4:00

Context and scalar implicatures of indefinites
John Grinstead, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Marissa Vargas-Tokuda
The Ohio State University

4:00 - 4:30

An elicited production test of the optional infinitive stage in child Spanish
John Grinstead, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Juliana de la Mora & Blanca Flores
The Ohio State University, El Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación

4:30 - 4:45

Coffee Break

4:45-5:30

Workshop: An Online Catalog of Dialectal and Cultural Diversity
Terrell A. Morgan
The Ohio State University

5:30 - 6:30

Panel Discussion: Academic networking in an economic crisis: The consequences of small budgets for our big ideas

7:30 - ?

Live entertainment and Latin fare
Brazilian music: Maggie Green and Canto Poético Arepas, empanadas, and other refreshments provided
Victorian's Midnight Café
251 W. 5th Avenue (at Neil Ave.)
(Six blocks south of campus. Please see insert for map.)

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