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Conference schedule
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Friday 28th March 2008/ Vendredi, 28 mars 2008

Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
4:00 – 5:30 Registration/Inscription

Room 302, Student Union Building
6:00 – 7:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Professor Lisa deMena Travis, McGill University
“The Middle Way: A (re-)look at Features and Movements Crosslinguistically”

Linguistics Building, 1085 Dr. Penfield
7:15 – 8:30 Wine and Cheese Reception

La Caverne Grecque, 105 rue Prince-Arthur Est
9:00 Dinner

Saturday 29th March 2008/ Samedi, 29 mars 2008

Lev Bukhman Room, Student Union Building, 2nd floor
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00 Registration/Inscription
SESSION 1. Chair: Shayna Cummings
10:00 – 10:30 Meredith Tamminga, McGill University
“Nonstandard Phonological Configurations in the Westray Dialect: Maintenance or Decline?”
10:30 – 11:00 Blakey Larsen, McGill University
“Non-subject Wh-movement in Banjar”
11:00 – 11:15 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
11:15 – 11:45 Dylan Uscher, University of Toronto
“‘Where our Queer Friends at?’ A Sociolinguistic Analysis of GLBQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer) Speech in Canadian Youth”
11:45 – 12:15 Odilia Yim, University of Toronto
“The Influence of Length of Residence and Educational System on Lexical Choices in Canadian English”
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK/ PAUSE DÉJEUNER
SESSION 2. Chair: Raphaelle Beard
1:30 – 2:00 Jessica LaBrie, Dartmouth College
“Numeral Classifiers in the Mru Language”
2:00 – 2:30 Louise Swanepoel, University of Texas at Austin
“The ge- prefix: Its Function and Fate in English and German”
2:30 – 2:45 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
2:45 – 3:45 POSTER SESSION
3:45 – 4:00 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
4:00 – 5:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Andrea Santi, McGill University
“fMRI Studies of Broca’s Area in Sentence Comprehension”

Gert’s Pub
6:00 Pizza party

Sunday 30th March 2008/ Dimanche, 30 mars 2008

Lev Bukhman Room, Student Union Building, 2nd floor
10:00– 10:30 Breakfast
SESSION 3. Chair: Masha Westerlund
10:30 – 11:00 Rosalind Brayfield, Carleton College
“‘I like your ponytail, but I have a ponytail, too!’ The Acquistion of the Logical Properties of Because and But”
11:00 – 11:15 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
SESSION 4. Chair: Lilian Fullerton
11:15 – 11:45 Emily Gref, McGill University
“Early and Late Spell-out: Evidence from Austronesian Nasal Substitution”
11:45 – 12:15 Marc Garellek, McGill University
“Deriving Transitivity from the Intransitive: Evidence from Banjar ”
12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK/ PAUSE DÉJEUNER
SESSION 5. Chair: Stephan Hurtubise
1:30 – 2:00 Mary-Jane Blais, McGill University
“Idiom Compositionality Effects on Word by Word Reading”
2:00 – 2:30 Sabina Matyiku, Concordia University
“(Dis)agreement of Post-verbal Subjects in Marshallese Intransitives”
2:30 – 2:45 COFFEE BREAK/ PAUSE CAFÉ
2:45 – 3:00 Closing Remarks