Program

Australian National University 

Sir Roland Wilson Building

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CBR time Thursday 28 November 2024
8:00-9:00 Registration
Foyer
9:00-10:00 Plenary
Caroline Hughes: The AIATSIS purpose in our 60th anniversary year
1.02 Conference room
10:00-10:30 Morning tea
Foyer
  1.02 Conference room 2.02 Theatrette 3.02 Seminar room 1 3.04 Seminar room 2/3 2.10 Lady Wilson Seminar room
10:30-11:00 10: Walking between two worlds - opportunities and challenges for Indigenous linguists

Gulwanyang Moran and Jazlie Davis: Archives for analysis; opportunities and challenges faced by Gathang language workers in revitalisation
3. Current themes in gesture, sign and embodied language research

Josua Dahmen, Alan Rumsey and Erica Sawyer: Establishing joint visual attention in nested interactions
Sociolinguistics
Chair: James Walker

Benjamin Purser: 'would have been, would've been, would of been': Realisation of modal perfect infinitive constructions in Australian English
Syntax
Chair: Jane Simpson

Sonia Hui: The emerging progressive aspect marker haidou in Cantonese: Evidence for bipartite aspect
Applied linguistics
Chair: Evan Kidd

Amani Salman: A Sociophonetic Investigation of English Consonant Clusters in the Perception of Arabic L1 Speakers in Australia
11:00-11:30 Rodney Adams and Melanie McKay Cody: Navigating four worlds instead of two. Understanding the challenging journey of being an Indigenous Deaf Linguists. Lauren Gawne and Claire Gawne: “You can’t see me, but I’m nodding emphatically.” Discussion of gesture in podcasts Dylan Hughes and Howard Manns: Cringe and Irony in the Longevity of Slang My Thi Ha: Comparing the Semantics and Syntax of Incrementals in Cantonese and Vietnamese and Their Pedagogical Implications Mujahid Torwali: From Homeland to Diaspora: The Effects of Migration on Torwali Language and Culture
11:30-12:00 Desiree Johnson, Fiona Martich and Alice Gaby: Bridging Worlds as Language Work Trainers Discussion Gerry Docherty, Catherine Travis and Gnevsheva Ksenia: Variation and change in Australian English vowels: A view across the urban/regional divide Rachel Nordlinger: Word order variation in Murrinhpatha prepositional phrases Jiawen Huo and Kiwako Ito: Chinese ESL Learners' Difficulty in Australian Vowel Production
12:00-12:30 Zulfadli Abdul Aziz and I Wayan Arka: Enhancing Language-Culture and Economic Wellbeing of Minority Ethnolinguistic Groups in Indonesia Discussion Gan Qiao, Ksenia Gnevsheva and Catherine Travis: Second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation for changes in progress Robert Bradshaw: Valency-preserving causatives in Doromu-Koki, a language of Papua New Guinea Alex Cowan, Kiwako Ito and Joshua Osborn: PI training improves subject-verb agreement production in Chinese learners of English: a picture description study
12:30-13:30 Lunch Foyer
book launches 3.02 Seminar room 1
LING heads/reps' meeting 2.10 Lady Wilson Seminar room
  1.02 Conference room 2.02 Theatrette 3.02 Seminar room 1 3.04 Seminar room 2/3 2.10 Lady Wilson Seminar room
13:30-14:00 Amina Mettouchi: Two worlds outside, and within 6. Linguistics Undergraduate Teaching

Introduction
Chair: Gerry Docherty

Shaip Jemini, David Britain and Laura Mettler: The emergence of rhoticity in a Pacific variety of English: the case of Nauru
Chair: Catalina Torres

Szu-I Chang and Jen Ting: Fragment Answers with Pair-List Readings in Mandarin Chinese: An In-Situ Ellipsis Approach
Chair: Maïa Ponsonnet

Mais Alsabayleh, Jaime Hunt and Kiwako Ito: Jordanians' pronunciation of phonetically adapted English loanwords and their attitudes towards the English language
14:00-14:30 David Moore and Jannette McCormack: Arrernteke Akaltyirretyeke/ Learning Arrernte Ksenia Gnevsheva, Rosey Billington and Shubo Li: Strategic Learning and Teaching: Strengthening Foundations and Connections in Linguistics Learning and Teaching; Rachel Nordlinger and Josh Clothier: Undergraduate linguistics teaching at the University of Melbourne Joshua Penney and Felicity Cox: Community linguistic diversity and socioeconomic status: Modelling phonetic variation in speakers from communities with intersecting predictors? Elizabeth Walker and Kiwako Ito: Space in Auslan: Documentation of the spatial language of Australian Sign Language Kimiko Tsukada and Motoko Ueyama: Discrimination of Japanese consonant length contrasts by native speakers of Italian differing in Japanese experience
14:30-15:00 John Giacon, Christopher Orchard and Odee Welsh: Past, Present and Possible futures: for Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay language revitalization. Jill Vaughan, Anna Margetts, Alice Gaby and Kate Burridge: Affordances and challenges in linguistics undergraduate teaching at Monash University; James Bednall: Opportunities and challenges of undergraduate linguistics teaching in the Northern Territory: Case studies from Charles Darwin University Stacey Sherwood and Valeria Peretokina: Triangulating social meaning: The interplay of self-report, perception, and production data in understanding yeah-no in Australian English James Gray, Jane Simpson and Mark Harvey: Associated Path constructions without a path in Anmatyerr Jane Man-Yu Lai, Jae-Hyun Kim and Nan Xu Rattanasone: Narrative Comprehension Abilities of Bilingual Children in Australia
15:00-15:30 Gari Tudor-Smith and Thomas Watson: Ngana Gangulu dhaa digarra Lauren Gawne, Thomas Poulton and Stephen Morey: First thing first (year): Balancing content across the first-year curriculum; Alice Gaby and Jill Vaughan: External expertise in the linguistics classroom Page Maitland: Contact-induced change in languages of the Mamberamo Basin area, and a TAM-based case for genetic relation of Lakes Plain and Sko Mark Harvey, Jane Simpson, James Gray and Robert Mailhammer: Complex verbal constructions in Central Australia Tashi Dema: Language use in politics in Bhutan
15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea
Foyer
  1.02 Conference room 2.02 Theatrette 3.02 Seminar room 1 3.04 Seminar room 2/3 2.10 Lady Wilson Seminar room
16:00-16:30 Panel Discussion Iain Giblin: Explicit Instruction in the Syntax Classroom; Martin Kohlberger: Bridging Classroom and Community: A Case Study of Experiential Learning in Scottish Multilingualism   Applied linguistics
Chair: Eleanor Yacopetti

Rosalyn Thyer: Towards a New-er Vital Sign: A Novel Linguistic Validation Study of the Newest Vital Sign for Health Literacy
 
16:30-17:00 Discussion   Angel Chan, Jane Lai and Monique Mo: Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Screening Tool for Developmental Language Disorder in Cantonese: Evidence from the Cantonese LITMUS-Sentence Repetition Task  
19:00-21:00 Conference dinner, Juliet room at Verity Lane

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