Program

Australian National University 

Sir Roland Wilson Building

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CBR time Friday 29 November 2024
8:00-9:00 Registration
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
9:00-9:30 Phonetics and phonology
Chair: Mark Harvey

Shubo Li and Rosey Billington: Consonant mutation in Nakanamanga
Psycholinguistics
Chair: Kiwako Ito

Chloe Castle, Anna Skałba and Marit Westergaard: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the L3: Do dominance, recency, and property play a role?
Historical linguistics
Chair: Bethwyn Evans

Aditi Dubey: Tracing the origins of a contact feature: a case study from Hindi
Semantics
Chair: Joe Blythe

Alice Gaby, Ashmore Louise, Laurits Stapput Knudsen, Bill Palmer, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Oscar Whitehead: Rotating the Paman compass: tracing pathways of semantic change in directional adverbs
8. The Wealth of Resources on Migrant Languages in Australia

James Walker: Preserving and Studying Melbourneís Greek Heritage
9:30-10:00 Claire Jingyuan Ye: Where to rhotacize in Chinese: using phonological clues to interpret morphological change Anton Malko, Sasha Wilmoth, Thivina Thanabalan, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Rachel Nordlinger, Matthias Schlesewsky and Evan Kidd: Online thematic role processing in Pitjantjatjara: evidence from eye-tracking William Giang: Modifying the Story: A New Functional History of Japanese Adjectival Modifiers Bill Palmer: Directional terms in Tangkic languages
10:00-10:30 Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Brett Baker and Clair Hill: Medial consonant lengthening in Eastern Middle Paman is conditioned by onset position, not (necessarily) lexical stress

 
Eleanor Yacopetti and Michelle Martin: Patterns in Kune spatial reference strategies: Experimental findings in the context of language maintenance Sam Hames, Simon Musgrave and Michael Haugh: Unparliamentary language in Australian Federal Parliament Sam Passmore: The global recurrence and variability of kinship terminology structure Alastair Pennycook: The wealth of translingual practices and resourceful speakers
10:30-11:00 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
11:00-11:30 Chair: Brett Baker

Kathleen Jepson, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode and John Mansfield: Finding and describing stylised sustained prosody in Australian languages
Chair: Bill Palmer

Cris Edmonds-Wathen and Sasha Wilmoth: Pitjantjatjara children's comprehension and problem-solving in a spatial cognition task
Chair: Lauren Gawne

Mae Carroll, Sam Passmore, Christian Döhler and Nicholas Evans: A Phylogeny of Yam Languages
Chair: Carmel O’Shannessey

Niklas Alexander Pohl, Andreea Calude, Hēmi Whaanga, Eline Zenner and Laura Rosseel: Lost in translation or lack of nuance? Perception of (near-)synonymy of common te reo Māori loanwords in New Zealand English
Loy Lising: Life in a New Language: Migrantsí lived experience in Australia based on multiple sociolinguistic ethnographies
11:30-12:00 Catalina Torres and Sarah Babinski: Global tonal patterns of nouns and phrases in two Australian languages Kiwako Ito, Bill Palmer, Alex Thorpe and Elizabeth Walker: Whose side are you on? Individual differences in perspective taking during interpretation of transverse spatial terms Jennifer Hendriks: From Early Modern koine formation to present-day sound change in progress: Dutch word-initial labiodental fricatives Andrew Morrison: Can we agree to disagree? A story-based task to test judgments of faultless disagreement Catherine Travis, Gan Qiao and Anisa Puri: Oral histories as a sociolinguistic resource
12:00-12:30 Nicholas Watson: An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Dhanggati Kiwako Ito, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Pauline Welby, Wynne Wong, Thierno Aliou Diallo and Madeleine Lock: Effect of dialectally variable input on the acquisition of French gender-marking clitics Bethwyn Evans and Huade Huang: Continuity and change in Austronesian applicative constructions Eleanor Yacopetti, Connor Brown and Maïa Ponsonnet: Finding the wei: Spatial functions of ‘directional’ marker wei across Kriol varieties and in contact Victoria Oliha, Jaime Hunt and Heike Wiese: Register data from heritage-language communities: German in Australia
12:30-13:30 Lunch Foyer
Book launches 3.02 Seminar room 1
13:30-14:00 Chair: Rosey Billington

Joshua van de Ven, Brett Baker, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen and Yizhou Wang: A doll on the dole: Prelateral length mergers in Australian English
Chair: Chloe Castle

Shanthi Kumarage, Anton Malko and Evan Kidd: Indexing prediction error during syntactic priming via pupillometry
Chair: Rob Mailhammer

Stephen Morey: Australian Aboriginal Languages in the RH Mathews papers (NLA MS 8006)
Chair: Iain Giblin

George Lindsay and I Wayan Arka: Usage vs. cognition in language structure formation: Evidence from the verbal complex in Marori
Paola Escudero, Milena Hernandez Gallego, Gloria Pino Escobar, Chloe Diskin-Holdaway and John Hajek: A multilingual corpus of Australian young children: educatorsí and childrenís speech in heritage languages and resources for linguistic analysis
  1.02 Conference room 2.02 Theatrette 3.02 Seminar room 1 3.04 Seminar room 2/3 2.10 Lady Wilson Seminar room
14:00-14:30   Alex Cowan, Kiwako Ito and Alexander Thorpe: Training to improve subject-verb agreement processing in Chinese learners of English: a picture selection study Siyang Xia: The Historical Development of Past Participles in English Jonathon Lum: Going down to Melbourne: geocentric senses of English directional adverbs Discussion
14:30-15:30 Plenary
Virginia Yip: Through the Chinese looking glass: from bilingual to trilingual development
1.02 Conference room
15:30-15:45 Closing
1.02 Conference room
  End of program
16:00-18:00 Informal drinks at Badger & Co

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