Program

9:00

Lee Abraham

Sociopragmatic variation in computer-mediated Spanish discourse: A corpus-driven analysis

John Grinstead, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Grant Goodall

Subject-verb inversion and verb finiteness are independent in Spanish

Alejandro Cuza & Joshua Frank

Qué cuándo fue qué fue: The development of double que structures in Spanish heritage speakers and L2

9:30

Robyn Wright

A comparison of past tenses in blogs across three dialects of Spanish

Veronika Jansen & Natascha Müller

The syntax of code-switching and the language of the left periphery

Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch

Lexical register in Heritage and advanced second language speakers of Spanish: A case of incomplete acquisition

10:00

Amelia Dietrich & Colleen Balukas

A corpus study of verb bias in Spanish

Michael Iverson

On L1 attrition and the Interface Hypothesis: A case study of Spanish attrition

Kim Potowski & Mariska Bolyanatz

Reactions to (in)felicitous codeswitching: Heritage speakers vs. L2 learners

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

IMU Conference Lounge

11:00

Anne Marie Guerrettaz

Kitchen talk among working Yucatec Maya women

Justin Davidson, Israel de la Fuente, Rebecca Foote, Silvina Montrul

An advantage for Spanish heritage speakers with gender marking in the oral production of diminutives

Michael Gradoville

Task effects in /t/ and /d/ palatalization in Várzea Alegre Portuguese

11:30

Jim Michnowicz

The standardization of Yucatan Spanish: Family case studies in Izamal and Mérida

Irma Alarcón

The role of age and context of acquisition in the processing of Spanish gender agreement

Mary Beaton & Hannah Washington

"What" questions in Brazilian Portuguese: Activation, delimitation, and common ground

12:00

Daniel Erker Marcos Rohena-Madrazo

Socially conditioned subphonemic differences in variable fricative production in Spanish

Zoe MacManmon

Heritage Language Maintenance in Cicero, IL

Patrick Brand & Kimberly Hoff

A grammatical reflection of a pragmatic contrast: The Portuguese future subjunctive

12:30 –2:00 

Lunch

On your own

2:00

Lauren Schmidt

Dialectal variation and second language acquisition: Perception of aspirated-s by L2 learners of Spanish

Timothy Gupton

Object clitics in Galician and complications for clausal analyses

Ana de Prada Pérez, Diego Pascual y Cabo, Joseph Murielle, Dominique Rora

Subject position in Spanish in contact with English in the US: Evidence for the Differential Interface

2:30

John Trimble

The intelligibility of Spanish dialects from the L2 learner’s perspective

Chad Howe & Celeste Rodríguez Louro

Variation at the periphery: Continuative meaning and the Spanish Perfect

Rachel Showstack

The Pocho other: Metapragmatic models and linguistic practice among Texas Spanish speakers

3:00

Miriam Díaz

Discrimination of cross-linguistic mid front vowel contrasts: The case of native English speakers learning Brazilian Portuguese

Yolanda Gordillo & Alvaro Villegas

Mood choice following Spanish epistemic adverbs: The case of posiblemente

Gibran Delgado & Luis Ortiz

El pretérito vs el imperfecto: ¿adquisición aspectual o temporal en 2L1 (criollo/español) y L2 (español)?

3:30-3:45

Short break

IMU Conference Lounge

3:45

Miren Hodgson & Barbara Pearson

Children's acquisition of Spanish se verbal forms

Erin Arthur & Manuel Díaz-Campos

"Por ahí agarrábanos los autobuses": A sociolinguistic analysis of the alternation between mos/nos

Marda Rose

The effect of traditional and co-constructed role-plays on the production of L2 speech act sequences

4:15

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

Ellipsis and AGREE: Parallelism effects in L2 Spanish

Pilar Chamorro

Tener + past participle in Galician Spanish: Another perfect with pluractional meaning

Heather Kaiser

The effects of pragmatic instruction on the development of language learners’ communicative competence

4:45

Slabakova, Campos, Leal Mendez, Kempchinsky & Rothman

Further explorations into the Syntax-Discourse Interface and its L2 acquisition

Sonia Barnes

¿Qué dijistes?: A Variationist reanalysis of non-standard -s on second singular preterit verb forms

Robert Sauveur

L2 pragmatic processing development indexed by conversational constituency

5:15 – 5:45

Coffee break

Ballantine Hall, 004

5:45 – 6:45

Keynote address by Robert Bayley

Ballantine Hall - 013

8:30 – 11:00

Registration with coffee

Ballantine Hall, 004

9:00 – 10:00

Keynote address by Richard Cameron

Ballantine Hall - 013

10:15

Marianna Nadeu & José Ignacio Hualde

Acoustic correlates of secondary stress in Catalan

Dunia Catalina Mendez Vallejo

"Quiubo marica": The new trendy form of address in Colombian Spanish

Aarnes Gudmestad

Toward an understanding of the relationship between mood use and form regularity: Evidence of variation across tasks, lexical items and participant groups

10:45

Nicholas Henriksen

Declarative question and wh-question intonation in Manchego Peninsular Spanish: Spontaneous and laboratory speech compared

Mary Johnson & John Grinstead

The pragmatic alternation between voseo and tuteo negative imperatives in Argentine Spanish

Matthew Kanwit

The interpretation of the Spanish subjunctive in adverbial clauses: A cross-sectional study

11:15

Susana Pérez Castillejo

Efecto de la frecuencia en la realización de /d/ final en el centro-norte de la Península

Greg Newall

The subjective component of variation: Second-person singular forms in Cali Colombian Spanish

Sarah Blackwell & Margaret Quesada

The L2 acquisition of discourse-pragmatic constraints on Spanish third-person subject use

11:45

Justin Davidson

Phonetic interference of Catalan in Barcelonan Spanish: A sociolinguistic perspective

Mónica Millán

Pronominal address in two varieties of Colombian Spanish

Kimberly Geeslin & Stephen Fafulas

Variation of the simple present and present progressive forms in second-language Spanish

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch

On your own

Abing, Jesse

Differential object marking and the role of referentiality and verbal semantics

Barnes, Hilary

Ethnic identity as a factor in language maintenance in an Italo-Mexican community

Cerrón-Palomino, Álvaro

Animate vs. Inanimate: Resumptive pronouns and preposition phrase chopping  in Spanish oblique relatives

Chappell, Whitney

Applying a fuzzy set theory to the Spanish subjunctive

Delicado Cantero, Manuel  & González Rivera, Melvin

DP definiteness, agreement and feature sharing in the nominal domain

Crespo del río, Claudia

The use of past subjunctive in Peruvian Spanish

Damico, Melanie

The role of learning context on L2 fluency and willingness to communicate

Dorado, Dorian

Le escribo letras a mi familia: Differences in calque use among Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans

Durán Urrea, Evelyn

Intonation units in the study of code-switching in New Mexican Spanish-English discourse

File-Muriel, Richard

Publically available corpora in sociolinguistic research

George, Angela

Teacher L1 use in the Spanish foreign language classroom: A qualitative study

Krause, Alice

An Optimality theoretic analysis of the acquisition of Spanish diphthongs

Lang, Jennifer

Prosody in Córdoba, Argentina: An acoustic analysis of the tonada cordobesa

Lenardon, Maria Laura

Variation of the palatals in the Spanish of Córdoba, Argentina

McNulty, Erin

Activity type: The causative component of structured input

Montoya, Angelica

Intrasentential code-switching in adult second language learners and Spanish Heritage speakers

Olsen, Michael

The complementizer particle si of Spanish spoken in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Osborne, Denise

The realization of the speech acts of refusals of an invitation among Brazilian friends

Pinilla-Herrera, Angela

Incompetente hasta que se demuestra lo contrario: Dominio masculino en la conversación de una pareja puertorriqueña

Roberts, Kristin

WH-exclamations used as deictic discourse markers in Spanish: A corpus-based study of the uses of Yo

Rosales, Natalia

Percepción dialectal en el Español del norte de México

Sinnott, Sarah

The contextual dependence of address forms: conversational implicature and the indexical field

Tamarit-Torres, Francesc, Pons-Moll, Claudia & Cabrera-Callis, Maria

Rhotic metathesis en algherese Catalan: A harmonic serialism account

Weissglass, Christine

Svarabhakti vowel occurrence and duration in onset clusters in Peninsular Spanish

Wendorf, Arthur

The speech rate of vernacular speech

Yoon, Jiyoung

The semantics of metaphorical and metonymical compounds in Spanish

2:00

Jorge Aguilar Sánchez

Formal instruction and language contact in language variation; The case of ser and estar + adjective

Luiz Amaral & Meghann Peace

New evidence on the acquisition of the OPC in Spanish, and what it means for a theory of SLA

Ji Young Kim

Influence of L2 phonology on the perception of L1 speech sounds

2:30

Ana M. Carvalho

Linguistic continuity along the Uruguayan-Brazilian border: Monolingual perceptions of a bilingual reality

Jason Rothman & Michael Iverson

On typology and syntactic L1 preemption: Brazilian Portuguese speakers acquiring L2 Spanish

Gabriela Vokic

L2 learners’ sensitivity to frequency effects of L2 sounds: Evidence from advanced Spanish learners’

3:00

Elizabeth Juárez-Cummings

Ser y Estar en la Ciudad de México; ¿Un cambio establecido o en progreso?

Ana Faure & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

Specificity in L2 Spanish

Ana María Díaz Collazos, Diego Pascual y Cabo, Gillian Lord-Ward

Falling diphthongs [ai̯] [oi̯] among Japanese learners of Spanish as L3: A case of stylistic variation

3:30- 3:45

Short break

IMU East Lounge

3:45

Aroline Seibert Hanson & Nuria Sagarra

L2 Spanish learners´comprehension of first nouns: Universal strategy or transfer?

Marcos Rohena-Madrazo

Voicing variation and paradigm leveling in Buenos Aires Spanish sibilants

Gonzalo Campos & Jennifer Cabrelli

New evidence for the psychotypological transfer of morphosyntax in the L3 initial state

4:15

Daniel Tight

The First Noun Principle and ambitransitive verbs

Catherine Travis & Rena Torres Cacoullos

Testing the equivalence of variable subject expression in Spanish and pitch accent in English

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Three in a bed: Copula choice in L3 Spanish

4:45

Paul Malovrh

Tasks and planning time: Development and variability in the L2 production of Spanish clitic pronouns

Diana Ranson

Identification and quantification of the pragmatic functions of Spanish subject pronouns

Nuria Sagarra, Nick Ellis, Aroline Seibert Hanson & Mila Crespo

The role of L1 and L2 experience in the acquisition of L2 Spanish tense

5:15-5:45

Coffee break

Ballantine Hall 004

5:45-6:45

Keynote address by Ricardo Otheguy

Ballantine Hall - 013

7:00

Conference reception

Mathers Museum

8:00 - 8:30

Coffee

IMU Conference Lounge

8:30

Melisa Dracos

Spanish subject pronoun use in instructional input

Mark Amengual

Cognate status and VOT in Spanish production: Data from heritage speakers of Spanish

Fernando Martínez-Gil & Andre Zampaulo

Glide consonantization in Spanish: A Stratal OT approach

9:00

Naomi Lapidus Shin

A variationist approach to overt and null Spanish subject pronouns in first language acquisition

Mandy Menke

The phonological skills of two-way immersion learners: An acoustic analysis of Spanish vowels

Violeta Martínez-Paricio & Francesc Torres-Tamarit

When sonority fails: High vowel clusters in Catalan and Spanish

9:30

Daniel Erker

A closer look at subject pronouns in the Spanish of New York City: Frequency of use and contact-induced change at the individual verb level

Letania Ferreira & Marisol Garrido

The acquisition of Spanish diphthong sequences by English native speakers

Bradley Hoot

Narrow focus on pre-nominal modifiers in Spanish: An Optimality Theoretic analysis

10:00

Jonathan Holmquist

Subject personal pronoun expression: Data from the interior of Puerto Rico

David Counselman

The role of attention in L2 pronunciation learning

Chad Howe

Clausal Temporal Constructions in Spanish and Portuguese: Cross-linguistic variation in structural change

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

IMU Conference Lounge

10:45

Raúl Aranovich

Dative clitic doubling and postverbal word order in Spanish. A corpus study

Gillian Lord

The combined effects of immersion and instruction on second language pronunciation

Christina García& Michael McCarron

Pragmatic constraints of dar + gerund commands in Highland Ecuadorian Spanish

11:15

Chiyo Nishida

What can a corpus study tell us about the Spanish dative alternation?

Kimberly Geeslin, Lorenzo García-Amaya, María Hasler-Barker, Nicholas Henriksen, Jason Killam

Variability and the SLA of perfective past time reference in Spanish in an abroad immersion setting

Joe Bauman, Bonnie Holmes, Colleen Balukas

Factors affecting pre-hodiernal perfective expression in Peninsular Spanish: A corpus-based study

11:45

Iera Zinkunegi Uzkudun

Spanish in the Basque Country: Null objects by Spanish-dominant speakers and Basque-dominant speaker

Ryan LaBrozzi

Examining the processing of redundant cues: The role of study abroad and inhibitory control

Juliana De la Mora

“De lengua me como un taco”: Variable se-marking in Spanish ingestive verbs

12:15

Manuel Delicado Cantero, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Fraibet Aveledo

Focus at the Interface: How many and how local?

Lorenzo García-Amaya & Marisa Figueras-Gómez

From filled pauses to discourse markers in 6 weeks in an overseas immersion program: An account of the relationship of these particles with clause type and oral fluency

12:45

Closing remarks & business meeting

IMU Oak Room