50th Anniversary Conference

Department of Linguistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
November 29-30, 2018
Location: The Landing

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Thursday, November 29

Friday, November 30

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

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
Cochrane Centre (42 Bannerman Street entrance)