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Fall 2007

Rod Ellis, University of Auckland

Tuesday 6 November, 7:30pm, Human and Social Development Building (HSD) A240
“Controversies in the Teaching of Grammar”,
Wednesday 7 November, 3:30pm, Clearihue A311
“The Roles of Pre-Task and On-Time Planning in Oral and Written L2 Production”
Friday 9 November, 3:30pm, Clearihue A201
“Measuring Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Second Language”

Spring 2007

Elizabeth Ritter, University of Calgary
Monday 19 March, 7:30 pm Clearihue A311
“’He is the past tense of you : Exploring the relationship between person and tense in Blackfoot”
Tuesday 20 March, 1:30 pm Harry Hickman 110
Not at UVic I won’t: Focus and the syntax of Not-topics”
Thursday 22 March, 11:30 am MacLaurin D287
“Ambiguity, generality, and the formalization of person and number features.”

Dr. Natasha Warner, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Title: Analysis of Harrington data for language revitalization and linguistic research:
The Mutsun language (Abstract PDF)
Wednesday March 14, 12:30-1:30, CLE A311

Title: Categorical and Gradient Variability in Intervocalic Stops (Abstract PDF)
Thursday March 15, 11:30-1pm, CLE C112

Duk-Ho An, University of Connecticut, "Right Node Raising: What is Right?"
Thursday, 8 February 11:30 - 12:50 in CLE B020.

Ken Hiraiwa, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo and New York University, "Nominative- Genitive Conversion 35 Years After: The Syntax of C-T"
Monday, 12 February , 11:30 - 12:50 in CLE D267

Francesca Del Gobbo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University of Southern California, "What Chinese Can Teach Us about Appositives"
Thursday, 15 February, 11:30 - 12:50 in CLE C112

Friday January 5th, 3:30-5pm, CLE A206
Janet Werker, University of British Columbia
Title: "Speech perception and word learning in infants growing up bilingual"

Friday January 19th, 3:30-5pm, CLE A206
Andrea Wilhelm, UVic and University of Alberta
Title: "The expression of number in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan)"
Download Abstract PDF

Thursday January 25th, 11:30-1pm, CLE C112 May Bernhardt, UBC
Title: "Applications of phonology and phonetics in speech therapy with children"

Fall 2006

Friday October 6 : Dr. John Archibald (UCalgary)
"The redeployment hypothesis in 2nd language phonology."

Friday October 13:Dr. Martina Wiltschko (UBC)
"What is a functional category and how can we tell? A case study of marking plurality in Halkomelem"

Friday October 20: Dr. Joe Kess (UVic)
"A Tale of Two Bloomfields: Turning Points in the Early History of Linguistics"

Friday October 27: Dr. Marguerite MacKenzie (Memorial University)
"It's different in the east: linguistic work with Aboriginal communities in northern Quebec-Labrador"

Friday November 17: Dr. Yue Wang (SFU)
"Behavioural and brain correlates of second language speech learning"
Download a PDF of the presentation here. (note: file is large)

2005-2006

September 22nd            Departmental Forum
(Thursday)                    CLE C110, 11:30-1pm

September 30th Murray Monro, Simon Fraser University
Foreign accent and speech intelligibility

October 14th                Dr. Will Lewis, University of Washington and CSU Fresno
Preserving endangered languages' data: Standards for data
                                    endurance and long-term utility

October 24th                Dr. David Wood, Carleton University and University of Victoria
(Monday)                     Fluency and Formulaic Language in Second Language Speech CLE C110, 11:30am-1pm

November 2nd              Dr. Li-Shih Huang, University of Toronto
(Wednesday)                Raising Learners’ Awareness of Strategy Use in Speaking:  Is It Enough?
CLE A311, 2:30-4pm

November 3rd               Dr. Marilyn Abbott, University of Alberta and Government of
(Thursday)                    Alberta
English Reading Strategies: Differences in Arabic and Mandarin Speaker Performance on the CLBA
CLE C110, 11:30am-1pm

November 14th             Dean Mellow, Simon Fraser University
(Monday)                     The emergence of second language grammar: Understanding
acquisition and teaching.
CLE 110, 11:30am-1pm

November 25th             Alexei Kochetov, Simon Fraser University
The role of perceptibility in place of articulation markedness
asymmetries

November 28th             Juliane de la Campa, University of Victoria
The use of L1 in foreign language teaching: A study of amount,
purpose and teacher awareness of L1 use in two German classes

January 26th                  Adam Ussishkin and Andrew Wedel, special 505/510 course time
(Thursday)                    (open to the public)
CLE D134, 11:30am-1pm

January 27th                   Adam Ussishkin and Andrew Wedel, University of Arizona
Conspiracies of contrast in paradigm structure

January 30th                       Dr. Zeki Hassan, Göteborg University, Sweden
(Monday)                     Acoustic evidence of a prevailing emphatic feature over the syllables of multisyllabic words in Arabic
CLE D134, 11:30am-1pm

February 9th                 Sonya Bird, University of Victoria
(Thursday)                    St’át’imcets glottalised resonants: A case study in phonetic
variability
CLE D134, 11:30am-1pm

February 13th                    Heriberto Avelino, University of California, Berkeley
(Monday)                     Laryngeal Contrast: Phonetic and Experimental Perceptual Evidence
CLE C115, 11:30am-1pm

February 16th               Marc Brunelle, University of Michigan
(Thursday)                    Phonetic variation and the realization of Eastern Cham registers
ELL 162, 11:30am-1pm

Landsdowne Visiting Scholar

February 27th               Dr. Dónall Pádraig Ó Baoill, Professor of Irish; Director of
(Monday)                     Research and Education, Irish and Celtic Studies Unit, Head of the
School of Language, Literatures, and Performing Arts; Queen’s
University Belfast
Minority Language Revival and Revitalization – Lessons and
Pitfalls – The Case of Ireland
CLE C112, 7:30pm-9pm

March 1st                     Language Planning Issues and the Practical Application of
(Wednesday)                Language Policies
CLE A307, 2:30-4pm

March 2nd                     Irish as a VSO Language – Issues in Theoretical Syntax (Thursday)              ELL 162, 11:30am-1pm

March 3rd                     Wh Movement in Modern Irish: Subject/Object Asymmetries and
(Friday)                        Superiority
CLE A206, 3:30-5pm

March 17th                   John Alderete, Simon Fraser University
Exploring recursivity, stringency, and gradience in the Pama-
Nyungan stress continuum
CLE A204, 3:30-5pm

March 20th                         Ms. Florence Woo, University of California, Santa Cruz
(Monday)                     Serialization Structures in Nuu-chah-nulth
CLE D134, 11:30 am – 1pm

March 27th                   Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, UCLA
                                    Towards a Syntactic Typology of Body and Component Part
Locatives
CLE D134, 11:30am-1pm

April 3rd                               Suzanne Gessner, University of British Columbia
(Monday)                     Variation in Dakelh Complex Sentences: Causatives and Relatives
CLE D134, 11:30am-1pm

April 10th                             Jonathan Blasberg, University of Victoria
(Monday)                     Verbs in space: Indicating verbs in ASL
CLE A203, 11:30-1pm

April 13th                      Hossein Nassaji, University of Victoria
(Thursday)                    Elicitation and reformulation and their effects on learner output in
                                    dyadic student-teacher interaction
CLE A206, 11:30-1pm