UofT @ CLA Annual Conference!

The Canadian Linguistic Association will be hosting their Annual Conference from June 1st - 4th! It will be held virtually via Zoom and Discord. There will be a strong UofT presence this year! See below for the list of presenters for each day! 

 June 1st: 

• Samuel Akinbo (University of Minnesota) & Avery Ozburn (Faculty). Rounding harmony and loanword epenthesis in Yoruba
• Justin R. Leung (PhD Student). Given the sack, yet promoted: passivizable V-IO-DO constructions in Cantonese
• Pedro Mateo Pedro (Faculty). Acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al
• Martin Renard (PhD Student). The Implications of Idiomatic Noun Incorporation Expressions for L2 Kanien’kéha Revitalization
• Julianne Doner (University of Toronto) Deriving Endpoints from Containment Relations in Niuean 
• Crystal Chen (PhD Student). That Kind-of Demonstrative: A Semantic Analysis of English Demonstratives
• Nadia Takhtaganova (PhD Student). Post-Verbal PP Complements in Huasteca Nahuatl
• Bruno Andreotti  (PhD Student). Modelling Figurative Meaning using Expectations of Normality

June 2nd: 

• Matthew Patience (PhD Candidate). Predicting difficulty in L2 speech: Moving towards a comprehensive model of L2 perception and production
• Andrew McCandless (PhD Student). Acoustic Analysis of Spanish Vowels in Native Spanish and English Speakers
• Song Jiang (PhD Student). Cue weighting in Mandarin tone perception: A comparison between native speakers and learners of Mandarin
• Omar Gamboa Gonzalez (PhD Candidate). Les nominalisations en -ance en français

Elizabeth Cowper (Faculty) is the 2022 Recipient of the National Achievement Award, and will be ending the day with a plenary talk!

Poster Presentations (June 2nd): 

• Ohanna Severo (PhD Student). The syntactic properties of bare nouns in a Spanish-Portuguese contact situation
• María Cristina Cuervo (Faculty), Liam Donohue (PhD Student), Nadia Takhtaganova (PhD Student) & Michelle Troberg (Faculty). At the edge of valence
• Tim Gadanidis (PhD Candidate) Linguistic identity construction in restaurant customer service narratives

June 3rd:

• Catherine Anderson, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis (Faculty), Julianne Doner (University of Toronto), Margaret Grant, Martin Kohlberger, Nathan Sanders (Faculty) & Ai Taniguchi (Faculty). Teaching Introductory Linguistics with Justice: Updating an Open Educational Resource
• Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Isabelle Boyer, Elizabeth Cowper (Faculty), Daniel Currie Hall, Louise Koren & Dan Siddiqi. Person and gender in pronoun paradigms: A semantic account of a morphological pattern

Poster Presentations June 3rd

• Samantha Jackson (Postdoctoral Fellow). What I say or how I say it? Ethnoracial accents and hiring decisions in Toronto
• Rukayat Olawale (University of Toronto) Une étude perceptive de l’influence du contexte pragmatique sur l’expression du vocatif en yoruba

To attend, registration is required in advance. 

Best of luck to all presenters!