50th Anniversary Conference
Department of Linguistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
November 29-30, 2018
Location: The Landing
| Thursday, November 29 |
Friday, November 30 |
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| 10:00 |
Opening remarks & retrospective Marguerite MacKenzie |
Keynote: 50 Ways to be a subject Will Oxford (University of Manitoba) |
| 11:00 |
Object relative clause comprehension in L2 children with limited L2 exposure Maureen Scheidnes & Leslie Redmond |
Size matters: How the emergence of the smallest units of phonology influence child speech productions Yvan Rose |
| 11:30 |
Ten years on the Rock: How NL Made Me a Better Sociolinguist Paul De Decker |
Re-deriving two verbal orders in Innu-aimun Phil Branigan |
| 12:00 |
Cayuga verbo Carrie Dyck |
Lunch break — Retirees’ lunch |
| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
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| 14:00 |
Keynote: Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Era of Truth and Reconciliation Catharyn Andersen (Special Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs, Memorial University) |
Keynote: Ethnolinguistic identity: tradition and transformation in First Nation language varieties Walt Wolfram (University of North Carolina) |
| 15:00 |
Newfoundland and African American Englishes: linguistic cousins? Gerard Van Herk |
Ilangani Inuttut, ilangani Inuktut Doug Wharram |
| 15:30 |
Plural markers in Dene: is they optional? Nick Welch |
Moraic reversal and realization: analysis of a Japanese reversing game Sara Mackenzie & Daiho Kitaoka |
| 16:00 |
Keynote: Language Acquisition: what’s production got to do with it? Paula Fikkert (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
Screening: Talking Black in America Walt Wolfram |
| 19:00 |
Conference banquet |