From June 17-19, 2024, UofT Linguists trekked to Carleton University to attend the 2024 Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA)
Conference.
Will Williams, PhD student, shared this list of talks and posters by UofT people. Bolded names indicate University of Toronto affiliation.
Looking forward to CLA 2025, and the presentation of more incredible presentations such as the ones below!
Posters
Thales Buzan, Cristina Name & Laura Colantoni (Faculty)
Native English Speakers’ Perception of Questions Produced by L1 Brazilian Portuguese and L1 English Speakers
Caroline Mekhaeil (PhD student, UTM)
Could Individual Language Dominance Explain the Transfer to L3 French?
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Caroline Mekhaeil presents poster |
Samuel Akinbo (Faculty), Tongpan Fwangwar & Michael Bulkaam
Morphophonological Polarity in West Chadic Languages
Rim Dabbous, Marjorie Leduc (MA Alumna), David Ta-Chun Shen & Charles Reiss
Locality in phonology is epiphenomenal
Radu Craioveanu (Alum)
Long and short diphthongs in North Saami
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Radu Craioveanu presents poster |
Liam McFadden (Undergrad), Avery Ozburn (Faculty) & Samuel Akinbo (Faculty) - Best Poster!
Language mapping for linguists
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Liam McFadden presents poster |
Talks
Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Neil Myler, Daniel Siddiqi & Lisa Sullivan (Alum)
Metasyncretism and secondary exponence in LRFG
Samantha Jackson (incoming Faculty, ex-postdoc) & Derek Denis (Faculty)
Speaking of immigrants: Commentary on the aural employability of (non-)Canadian English
Samira Ghanbarnejadnaeini (MA Alum)
“Woman, Life, Freedom:” A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender and Political Activism
Laurestine Bradford (MA Alum)
A Source of Conativity in Tlingit Pluractional Verbs
Angelika Kiss (PhD student), Jianing Zhou, & Justin Leung (PhD student)
Declarative questions in Shanghainese and Cantonese
Yawovi Godo, Lydia Mei, Andreea Cristina Nicolae & Lyn Tieu (Faculty)
Étude expérimentale des propriétés d’exhaustivité de la disjonction en français : L’interaction de l’exclusivité, du libre choix, et des implicatures ad hoc
Lisa Sullivan (Alum) & Nicole Rosen (Alum)
/e/-/i/ overlap in Manitoba English
Calvin Quick (PhD Student)
Agreement with nominal antecedents in Welsh
Simone Diana Zamarlik (Alumni)
Preposition stranding in a non-preposition-stranding language: The puzzle of optional preposition omission under sluicing in Polish
Crystal Chen (PhD Student), Lyn Tieu (Faculty) & Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (Faculty)
Investigating the role of gaze and the semantics of demonstratives in referent identification
Samuel Jambrović (PhD Student), Awarded "Honorable Mention"
Defending predicativism: Lessons from Barbie
Nadia Takhtaganova (PhD Student) & Barend Beekhuizen (Faculty)
Variation in the Morphosemantics of Postnominal Prepositions: The Case of Romance A
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (Faculty) & Sahar Taghipour (Alumni)
Ezafe in the context of PPs
Justin R. Leung (PhD Student)
I’m like, “Like is not a complementizer, it seems like”
Dionatan Cardozo (Visiting student)
Quantified Phrases in Brazilian Portuguese: Preliminary Experimental Results
Christiana Moser (PhD Student), Bahar Tarakcı, Ercenur Ünal & Myrto Grigoroglou (Faculty)
Multimodal recipient mentions in possession-transfer event descriptions: language-specificity outweighs conceptual peripherality
Patrick Kinchsular (Undergrad)
External Possession in Kinyarwanda: A Tale of Two Applicatives
Annie Chong, Avery Ozburn (Faculty) & Tamam Youssouf
Phonologically-conditioned allomorphy in Oromo plurals
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux (Faculty), Laura Colantoni (Faculty), Danielle Thomas (alum) & Crystal Chen (PhD Student)
Gender in Toronto Heritage Spanish
Anissa Baird (PhD Student) & Emily Atkinson (Faculty)
Five- & Eight-Year-Olds’ Interpretation of Ambiguous They