TULCON 13

This weekend is the 13th Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON 13), taking place primarily in SS1069, with the poster session in the fourth-floor hallway (by the department offices). The program is available here. Note that if you are interested in attending, you should register.

• Keren Rice (faculty) is giving one of the keynote speeches: "Theoretical and practical challenges of phonological variation."
• Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.) is giving the other keynote speech: "Towards increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the linguistics classroom."

Talks by our undergrads are:

• Anissa Baird (BA): "I am not my body: A preliminary study of gender identity, gender expression, and their effects on sex-based and gender-based variability."
• Milena Injac (BA): "The use of the negative particle ne in Québec French news media."
• Christopher Legerme (BA): "Antimarkedness constraints in the lexicon?: Evidence from Haitian Creole."
• Ernest Leung (BA): "Derogatory terms in Hong Kong English's first dictionary and their sociocultural impacts."
• Justin Leung (BA): "The unified loss of verb particles in Medieval French: A quantitative analysis."
• Rosie Owen (BA): "Sweet songs and soft hearts: Metaphor in Cuzco Quechua."
• Jingshu Yao (BA): "Mom, talk to me in my mother tongue: SES and heritage language maintenance of East and South Asian Canadian community."

And posters:

• Ewen Lee (BA): "Fuzhou tone sandhi: Complications and implications of an OT account."
• Ryan MacDonald (BA): "Onset and coda repair in phonetic loanwords from English into Mandarin Chinese."