RLS 6 Schedule
Friday, March 20th, 2015
Farnsworth Pavilion, Rice Student Center
| TIME1 | EVENT/SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE | |
| 8:00-8:50 | Registration / Breakfast | |||
| 8:50-9:00 | Opening Remarks | |||
| PANEL 1: DISCOURSE/IDENTITY | ||||
| 9:00-9:30 | Sarah Seewoester Cain | Rice University | It’s not all jokes: Teasing among non-intimates during late-night comedy performances |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Samantha Mauney | Rice University | Transposition and stance in the pentecostal church | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Anthony Koth | Rice University | Online dating ads: Discursive identity formation practices on Grindr | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |||
| PANEL 2: CORPUS APPROACHES | ||||
| 11:00-11:30 | Rok Sim | Kyung Hee University | English out of V-ing construction: A corpus-based approach | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jonas Wittke | Rice University | Recruiting biclausality: Additional ‘is’ in verb-focused pseudoclefts | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Philipp Stempel | Rice University | Iconicity of sequence: An investigation of the order of temporal clauses in German | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |||
| PANEL 3: PHONETICS/SOCIOLINGUISTICS | ||||
| 1:30-2:00 | Mark Gibson | Universidad de Navarra | The spatio-temporal organization of gestures in Spanish clusters at two prosodic boundaries |
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| 2:00-2:30 | Patricia Cukor-Avila | University of North Texas | Linguistic variation in groups and individuals | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Lisa Jeon | Rice University | Regional variability and ethnic identity: Korean Americans in the multicultural, multilingual context of Houston |
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| 3:00-3:30 | Break | |||
| PLENARY 1 | ||||
| 3:30-4:30 | Dennis Preston | Oklahoma State University | [ˈsʌδɚn], [ˈsʌδən], [ˈsʌδɹən], [sʌ̃ːn], etc…: What we/they think/thought it is/was/will be | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Break | |||
| 5:00-6:30 | Dinner | Jones Masters House (On campus) | ||
| 6:30-Close | Valhalla | (On campus) | ||
Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Breakfast in Rice Linguistics Department in Herring Hall; Presentations in the Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
| TIME | EVENT/SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE |
| 8:30-9:20 | Registration / Breakfast | Herring: Linguistics Department | |
| 9:20-9:30 | Walk to Fondren | ||
| PANEL 4: ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Hsiao-ping Wu | Texas A&M University-San Antonio | Linguistic features in instant messaging and pragmatics among different interactive discourse |
| 10:00-10:30 | Asha Tickoo | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | On the use and acquisition of narrative in support of an end-state statement |
| 10:30-11:00 | C. Sophia Rammell | Indiana University | Factors affecting second language sentence recognition in noise |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | ||
| PANEL 5: MORPHO-SYNTAX | |||
| 11:30-12:00 | Abigail Thornton | University of Connecticut | If verbal number is Lo-Low |
| 12:00-12:30 | Daniel Ross | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Locating associated motion: An underdescribed morphological category |
| 12:30-1:00 | Vlad Soare | Rice University | A comparative analysis of verb agreement in Thadou-Kuki |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| PLENARY 2 | |||
| 2:00-300 | Christina Willis-Oko | Rice University | Language purity: Constructing the idealized speaker in Darma |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | ||
| 3:15-5:00 | Poster session with Reception | ||
1All times subject to change