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SALSA XXI Program
April 12-13, 2013
University of Texas at Austin
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FRIDAY
April 12, 2013
UTC 4.112
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8:30-9:00        Registration & Coffee

9:00-9:15        Opening Remarks

9:15-10:15        Keynote Address:

           Introduction: Nora England (University of Texas at Austin)

         Sergio Romero        University of Texas at Austin
"We're not Mexicans": Grammar, variation and honorifics in Nahuatl and Pipil in 17th Century Guatemala

10:15-10:30        Break

Session I

10:30-11:00        Snobra Rizwan        Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan   
Genre Analysis and Clause Complex Relations: A Linguistic Analysis of Bilingual Hindi Film Songs

11:00-11:30        Vineeta Chand            University of Essex   
TH-Fronting in the UK: Social explanations for Colchester behavior and practical aspects of implementing sociolinguistic data collection and coding within the undergraduate classroom

11:30-12:00        Chris Taylor              Rice University
Intertextuality and the Metapragmatic Regimentation of Vocalic Variation

12:00-12:30        Rachel George            UCLA   
From War to Memes: The changing meanings and uses of Serbian Cyrillic       

12:30-1:45        Lunch-on your own


2:00-3:00        Keynote Address:

            Introduction: Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin)

            Spike Gildea               University of Oregon
Reflexive causative > passive in English and Cariban

Session II
3:00-3:30        Aimee Lawrence   University of Texas at Austin
Deliberate Language Change and Standards of Evidence

3:30-4:00        Coleman Donaldson     University of Pennsylvania   
Vehicularization and Reflexive Marker Loss in Burkina Faso Jula

4:00-4:30        Donna Gerdts & Kevin Baetscher            Simon Fraser University, Canada   
Cross-generational variation in Hul'q'umi'num' Salish       

4:30-5:00       Kelly Murphy            University of Calgary, Canada   
Universals and Variation in Question Intonation: A Comparative Study of Hawaiian and Hawaii Creole English

5:00-5:45       Special Guest

           Introduction: Lars Hinrichs (University of Texas at Austin)

Samy Alim        Stanford University   
Obama's Steez: The Racial Politics of Being Articulate While Black

6:00-8:00        Welcome Reception Dinner - Union Building, Quadrangle Room
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SATURDAY
April 13, 2013
CLA 1.302
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8:30-9:00        Registration & Coffee

9:00-10:00        Keynote Address:

           Introduction: Anthony Woodbury (University of Texas at Austin)

            Jacqueline Toribio and Barbara Bullock        University of Texas at Austin
Spanish in Texas Project

10:00-10:15        Break

Session III
10:15-10:45        Parisa Erfani            Simon Fraser University, Canada   
Azeri morphosyntactic variation: The effect of Persian on NP structure

10:45-11:15        Marc Pierce & Hans C. Boas                University of Texas at Austin   
Social Networks and Language Change in Texas German: A Case Study

11:15-11:45        David Huenlich    University of Texas at Austin   
The German Motion Verb Lexicon of Multiethnolect Native Speakers

11:45-12:15        Lars Hinrichs & Axel Bohmann    University of Texas at Austin   
Dialect Leveling in Texas English: A Mixed-Method Approach to Real-Time Change in the GOOSE Vowel


12:15-1:45        Lunch - on your own


1:45-2:45        Keynote Address:

            Introduction: Elizabeth Keating (University of Texas at Austin)

            Jacob Eisenstein        Georgia Tech
   
Session IV
2:45-3:15        Brandon Loudermilk                     University of Texas at San Antonio
Perception of Speaker Dialect and Sociolinguistic Variation: Evidence from Event-related Brain Potentials

3:15-3:45        Litong Chen        Ohio State University   
Motivation of Code-switching in Chinese Christian Church in the United States

3:45-4:00        Break

4:00-4:30        Michele Gazzola        Humbolt University, Germany   
Language policy and linguistic justice in the European Union

4:30-5:00        Katherine Hilton            Stanford University   
Obscuring Causality in Rape Discourse:
a Quantitative Analysis of Variation in Argument Structure


7:30-9:30        SALSA 2013 Party - at Scholtz Garden (1607 San Jacinto Blvd)




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