CLA-ACL 2020

The annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique normally occurs in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This year's Congress has been cancelled owing to current events. However, CLA-ACL will be held online from May 30 through June 1. Digital attendance is free.

Presentations from scholars who are associated with our department are:

• Nathan Sanders (faculty), Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.), and Lex Konnelly (Ph.D.): "Methods for increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in linguistics pedagogy."
• Peter Jurgec (faculty): "Online interactive tools for undergraduate phonology."
• Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (faculty) and Sahar Taghipour (Ph.D.) with Mansour Shabani (University of Guilan): "The two faces of a nominal linker: Another look at reverse ezafe in Gilaki."
  
• Cristina Cuervo (faculty) and Alexander Tough (MA, Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "Not aspect, but tense: A morphological argument for the old analysis of the Spanish imperfect."
• Sahar Taghipour (Ph.D.) and Phil Monahan (faculty): "Paradigmatic gaps impact early morphological decomposition: Evidence from masked priming."
• Koorosh Ariyaee (Ph.D.) and Peter Jurgec (faculty): "Persian elides the second vowel."
• Diane Massam (faculty) and Ileana Paul (University of Western Ontario): "Instructions for nullness."
• Michelle Troberg (faculty) and Justin Leung (BA): "On the uniform loss of Medieval French verb particles."
• Julien Carrier (Ph.D.): "From ergative to accusative in North Baffin Inuktitut."
• Jean-François Juneau (Ph.D.) with Gavin Bembridge (York University): "Root alternations for discourse effects: A challenge for locality?"
• Gregory Antono (MA): "Expressing a multiplicity of events in Macuxi."
• Nadia Takhtaganova (MA): "Les titres de civilité : De l’ancien français jusqu’au français moderne."
• Rosalind Owen (BA): "Sweet songs and soft hearts: Metaphor in Cuzco Quechua."
• Alia Alatassi (Ph.D., Department of French), and Mihaela Pirvulescu (faculty): "The acquisition of French object clitics by L2 children: Effects of age of onset."
• Olga Tararova (Ph.D. 2018, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, now at the University of Western Ontario) with Martha Black (University of Western Ontario): "Adult acquisition of grammatical gender in instructed L2 Spanish and the role of metacognition."
• David Heap (Ph.D. 1997, now at the University of Western Ontario) with Yarubi Diaz Colmenares (University of Western Ontario): "Variation et changement dans les accords du français inclusif."
• Former visiting student Sander Nederveen (Simon Fraser University): "Discourse novelty, givenness, and EV2 in German."
• Andrew McCandless (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "The influence of phonetic training on production of Spanish rhotics in beginner L2 learners with L1 Canadian English."

Posters include those of:

• Alana Johns (faculty) and Elan Dresher (faculty): "Morpheme structure change in Labrador Inuttut."
• Elan Dresher (faculty), Daniel Currie Hall (Ph.D. 2007, now at St. Mary's University) and Sara Mackenzie (Ph.D. 2009, now at Memorial University of Newfoundland): "The status of phoneme inventories: The role of contrastive feature hierarchies."
• Songül Gündogdu (postdoc), Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (faculty), and Andrew Peters (Ph.D.): "Revisiting 'doubled' ezafe in Southern Zazaki."
• Mihaela Pirvulescu (faculty) and Elena Valenzuela (University of Ottawa): "Genericity in the grammars of Romanian, French, and English trilinguals."
• Elizabeth Johnson (faculty) with Tania Zamuner (University of Ottawa), Amélie Bernard (McGill University), and Félix Desmeules-Trudel (University of Western Ontario): "The time-course of toddlers' recognition for native-accented versus non-native-accented speech."
• Crystal Chow (MA): "Expressing paths of motion in Apurimac Quechua."
• Dan Milway (Ph.D. 2019): "The puzzle of irrelevant assertions in alternative semantics."
• Michael Iannozzi (BA 2014, now at the University of Western Ontario): "Variable realization of /v/ as [v] or [w] in a heritage Italian variety."
• Samuel Jambrović (Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese): "Regular and irregular inflexion of derived proper nouns: A syntactic-semantic model."