LSRL47 PROGRAM
(April 20-23, 2017)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
THURSDAY APRIL 20, 2017
11:00-12:30
REGISTRATION / COFFEE
12:30-1:00
OPENING - theater
1:00-2:30
SESSION TH-PM-1
ROOM 1
Authors
David Rubio Vallejo
Justin Royer
Anna Kocher
ROOM 2
Authors
Alba Cerrudo
Ares Llop Naya, Anna
Paradís Pérez
Ares Llop Naya
Title
Future-Oriented Reproachative Imperatives
Expletive Negation, Modality, and Scales in
Québec French
Epistemic modality and evidentiality: (non)at-issue meaning and (inter)subjectivity
Title
Reprojection in fragment amalgams. Evidence
from Spanish
Restructuring contexts as biclausal defective
domains: evidence from Clitic Climbing and
postverbal negative markers in Catalan
dialects
Jespersen’s cycle revisited in Occitanoroman
varieties. Formal approach and implications
regarding negative concord systems
2:30-3:00
BREAK
3:00-4:30
SESSION TH-PM-2
ROOM 1
Authors
Silvio Cruschina
Aurore Gonzalez, Teodora
Mihoc
Elena Castroviejo, Laia
Mayol
Title
GO-periphrases and the expression of surprise
Authors
Rajiv Rao, Sandro
Sessarego, Brianna Butera
Svetlana Kaminskaia
Title
Notes on the declarative intonation of four
Afro-Hispanic varieties
Language contact and tonal aligment in
ROOM 2
Bare nominals in French and Romanian
Echoic contrastive conditionals in Spanish
Mark Amengual, Miquel
Simonet
4:30-5:00
BREAK
5:00-6:00
KEYNOTE -
French
Second-language speakers of Catalan find its
unstressed vowel reduction rule easy. Why?
theater
ARMIN SCHWEGLER
Romance Linguistics in collaboration with Population Genetics (DNA): Challenges and
opportunities
6:00-7:30
RECEPTION
FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2017
8:00-9:00
REGISTRATION / COFFEE
9:00-10:30
SESSION FR-AM-1
ROOM 1
Authors
Karoliina Lohiniva
Isabelle Charnavel
Marc Authier, Lisa Reed
ROOM 2
Authors
Lena Dal Pozzo, Cilena
Rodrigues
Teresa Cabré, Antonio
Fábregas
Gabriel Martínez Vera
ROOM 3
Authors
Margaret Renwick
Randall Gess
Angeliki Athanasopoulou,
Irene Vogel
10:30-11:00
BREAK
Title
French concessive bien que as a scalar
subordinator
French causal puisque-clauses in the light of
(not)-at-issueness
Irreducibly Symmetric Predicates and Partial
Control in French
Title
Whose finger? The Identity of Silent
Pronouns: A Cross-linguistic Study
On the morpho-syntactic structure of Catalan
dative clitics
On recomplementation, verb movement and
high adverbs in the Spanish left periphery
Title
Dimensions of phonemic contrast in three
Romance languages
On the debuccalization of /ʒ/ in a minority
North American variety of French
Variation in French Word-Final Schwa: The
effects of focus and speaker variability
11:00-12:00
KEYNOTE
PILAR PRIETO
Prosodic and gestural bootstrapping mechanisms in first and second language learning:
evidence from Romance
12:00-1:30
LUNCH
1:30-3:00
SESSION FR-PM-1
ROOM 1
Authors
Lena Baunaz, Genoveva
Puskas
Paola Cepeda, Sonia
Cyrino
Title
Selecting subjunctive clauses: emotive predicates
and syncretic complementizer(s)
Against Double Object Constructions in Spanish
and Portuguese: Ditransitives revisited
Authors
Title
ROOM 2:
Special
Session (L2)
The longitudinal development of fine-phonetic
Joseph V. Casillas
detail: production and perception of Spanish
stops in a stateside immersion context
Carolina Gonzalez, Anel The acquisition of intonation in L2 Spanish: A
Brandl, Elyssa Fenton
longitudinal study
Development in the acquisition of sociophonetic
Megan Solon
competence: Exploring contexts of acceptance of
and preference for /d/ deletion
3:00-4:00
BREAK / POSTERS
4:00-5:00
SESSION FR-PM-2
ROOM 1
Authors
Nicoletta Loccioni
Sonia Cyrino, M. Teresa
Espinal
Title
The syntax of superlative phrases in Romance
Authors
Title
Christine Shea
L2 dialect processing gains during study abroad
Early simultaneous or sequential exposure to two
languages has consequences on the production of
L2 allophonic variants in adulthood
Title
Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and
semantics: The social meanings of /r/ variants in
ROOM 2:
Special
Session (L2)
Mark Amengual
ROOM 3
Authors
Patrícia Amaral, Manuel
Díaz-Campos, Gibran
On the status of Number in Romance
Delgado-Díaz, Iraida
Galarza
Alba Arias, Isaac
McAlister
5:00-5:30
BREAK
5:30-6:30
KEYNOTE
Puerto Rican Spanish
Dude, obvio, ho!: A cross-linguistic pragmatic
account of Asturian Spanish Ho and American
English Dude
THIERRY NAZZI
Finding word forms in the speech stream : the French-learning infant perspective
6:30-7:30
RECEPTION
SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2017
8:00-9:00
REGISTRATION / COFFEE
9:00-10:30
SESSION SA-AM-1
ROOM 1
Authors
Jonathan MacDonald,
Matthew Maddox
Irene FernándezSerrano
Title
Anaphora resolution and predication in
Rioplatense Clitic left-dislocations with epithets
Passive Se in Spanish and French as a Product of
Cyclic Interaction
Hyper-agreement in Spanish dialects: a microparametric approach
Authors
Title
Bruno Estigarribia
ROOM 2:
Special Session
(Clitics)
Laura Bafile,
Rosangela Lai
Christina Tortora,
Paola Benincà
Francisco Ordóñez,
Lori Repetti
ROOM 3
Authors
Luca Iacoponi, Viviane
Deprez
Juan Pablo Comínguez,
Nuria Sagarra, Aurora
Bel, Estela GarcíaAlcaraz
Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian
On the role of a segment’s essence in its (de-)
grammaticalization as a subject clitic
Informal Negative Imperatives in the Romance
Languages of Italy
Title
Negative Concord in Italian: An experimental
approach
The Position of the Antecedent Strategy in Spanish
A Cross-dialectal Comparison
Nuria Sagarra, Joseph
Casillas
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-12:30
SESSION SA-AM-2
ROOM 1
Authors
Rodica Frimu
Mireille Tremblay,
Emmanuelle Labeau,
Hélène Blondeau
Enrique Huelva
Unternbäumen, Rozana
Naves
ROOM 2:
Special Session
(Clitics)
Title
Connections between knowledge of verb forms
in French and the Conceptual System
What is the future of texting? Future temporal
reference in text messages from Belgium and
Québec
The encoding of self-movement in cyberspace:
bridges between the phenomenologicalcognitivist and the minimalist approaches to
grammar
Authors
Title
M. Pilar Colomina
Impossible Clitic Combinations: A Distinctness
Account
Anna Cardinaletti, Lori
Repetti
Txuss Martin
ROOM 3
Lexical stress predicts L1 and L2
morphosyntactic processing
Authors
Almitra Medina, Gil
da Socarrás, Sridhar
Krishnamurti
Patricia Gonzalez
Darriba
Restrictions on Clitic Clusters
The Internal Structure of Dative Clitics
Title
Utterance length and linguistic proficiency on L2
Spanish aural decoding and comprehension
Self-directed motion in spontaneous and
translated English: A comparable corpora study
12:30-2:00
LUNCH (BUSINESS MEETING)
2:00-3:30
SESSION SA-PM-1
Authors
ROOM 1
Fernando Martínez-Gil
Marta Ramírez, Miquel
Simonet
Benjamin Storme
Title
Analogical extension across paradigms: the
historical emergence of the [ATR] mid-vowel
alternations
The phonologization of velar palatalization:
Majorcan Catalan
Schwa-stem derivatives in French and gradient
attraction
ROOM 2
Authors
Fiona Dixon
Alba Arias
Meghan Frances
Dabkowski
3:30-4:30
BREAK / POSTERS
4:30-5:30
SESSION SA-PM-2
ROOM 1
Authors
Jeriel Melgares
Valentyna Filimonova
ROOM 2
Authors
Vanessa Petroj
Nikos Angelopoulos,
Dominique Sportiche
5:30-6:00
BREAK
6:00-7:00
KEYNOTE
Title
Linguistic Pressure and Dialect Maintenance:
Dominicans in Madrid
Backed /r/ realizations of the Puerto Rican
community: an acoustic study between Puerto
Rico and the Massachusetts diaspora
A sociophonetic investigation of Mexico City
Spanish vowel weakening
Title
Politeness and pronominal forms of address in
Honduran Spanish
Polite leísmo in Mexican Spanish:
Sociopragmatic variation in processing
Title
Romanian-Serbian code-switching (CS)
Romance Scrambling and Hierarchy within Clitic
Clusters
PAOLA MERLO
Quantitative Computational Syntax: some initial results on Romance and other languages
7:30-10:30
RECEPTION – BANQUET at MARRIOTT HOTEL
SUNDAY APRIL 23, 2017
8:00-9:00
REGISTRATION / COFFEE
9:00-10:30
SESSION SU-AM-1
ROOM 1
Authors
Giuliano Bocci, Valentina
Bianchi, Silvio Cruschina
Catherine Léger, Marcus
Vinicius Lunguinho,
Patricia Rodrigues
Michelle Sheehan, Jeffrey
Title
On the assignment of nuclear pitch accent in
Italian wh-questions
To see as a marker of contextual salience in
Romance languages: Evidence from Acadian
French and Brazilian Portuguese
Inflected infinitives in Galician
Blokzijl, Maria del
Carmen Parafita Couto
ROOM 2
Authors
Title
Code-switching or borrowing?: Measuring
integration of lone lexical items in Spanish-LC
speech
Ashley LaBoda
Barbara Bullock,
Gualberto Guzmán,
Joseph Ricard, Jacqueline
Serigos, Almeida
Jacqueline Toribio
Chad Howe, Bethany
Bateman
ROOM 3
Authors
Mireille Tremblay,
Monique Dufresne
Michelle Troberg
Gustavo Guajardo
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-12:00
KEYNOTE
Quantitatively Modeling French-English and
Spanish-English Code-switching for Syntactic
Analysis
Variation and divergence in the periphrastic past:
Evidence from Andean Spanish
Title
The role of Gender in the emergence of D in Old
French
Result-to-v Raising in Medieval French
A Quantitative Study on the Evolution of the
Subjunctive System in Argentinean Spanish
GREGORY GUY
Trajectories of change in Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas
12:00-12:30
CLOSING
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2017
3:00-4:00 PM
Crystal Marull
Stephanie Côté
Christina Mirisis
Covadonga SánchezAlvarado
Language Experience Effects on the Employment of L2
Morphosyntactic Anticipatory Mechanisms
The effects of cognitive and affective variables on grammatical
gender agreement accuracy in intermediate L2 French
L2 acquisition of /bdg/ in Spanish and Italian: Are variations in
manner of articulation orduration more easily acquired?
L2 Spanish Intonation in the Realization of Subject Focus
Eduardo Garcia-Fernandez
Josh Frank, Almeida
Jacqueline Toribio
Andrea Faber
Melvin González-Rivera,
Carmelo Bazaco
Daniela Isac, Justin Royer
Marios Mavrogiorgos
Pablo Rico
Sophie Harrington, María
Cristina Cuervo
Cristina Real
Evan Bradley, Hope
Schmid, Sofi Teitsort
Juan Pablo Comínguez
Teresa Cabré, Maria
Ohannesian
A preliminary intonational account of initial vocative calls in
Asturian
Syntactic variation in Cuban Spanish: Evidence from multiple
complementizers
Analyzing nominal agreement in Spanish and Asturian
Extreme degrees and scalar structure
Clause Typing and Québec French TU
Aromanian SE-structures and voice: a constructionist approach
Periphery restrictions in Spanish CP-defective domains
Mood selection under parecer (‘to seem’): introducing the
polarity indicative
What measure verbs have: an insight into the syntax of
possession
An update on the usage of 'on' vs. 'nous' in spoken
Mediterranean French
The Processing of the Relative Clause Island Constraint:
Evidence from L2 Spanish CLLD
Person/Number exponent in imperative-enclitic contexts
SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2017
3:30-4:30 PM
Caitlin Gaffney
Patricia Gonzalez Darriba
Eve Higby, Valerie L.
Shafer, Eva Fernández,
Loraine K. Obler
Anastasia Kharlamova
Aaron Yamada
Anaele Cuerrier, Charles
Reiss
Extraversion as an explanatory variable in spoken L2 French
fluency
Acquisition of “auxiliary haber + manner adverb” word order in
L2 Spanish
The advantage for heritage speakers of knowing two grammars
Affricated Consonants in Aromanian Spontaneous Speech
Double t graphs in diachronic Spanish texts
Geminates and Vowel Laxing in Québec French
Sebastià Salvà i Puig
Unaccusatives beyond unaccusatives: non-agentive but affected
subjects in Old Majorcan and North-Eastern Catalan
Gabriela Alboiu, Virginia
Hill
Non-finite Root Declaratives in Two Romance Languages
Renato Lacerda
Anna Paradís
Almike Vazquez-Lozares
Gavin Bembridge
Iara Mantenuto
Mihaela Ilioaia, Marleen
van Peteghem
Preposition stranding in a “non-preposition- stranding
language”: Brazilian Portuguese
Clitic Climbing: Beyond restructuring verbs
The position of subjects of infinitivals: data from Basque
Spanish
Futures, Conditionals, Infinitives and Theme Vowels in Spanish
A multimorphemic analysis of demonstratives: from Teramano
to Italian
The evolution of the ‘mihi est’ construction in Romanian