"014 UIC BILINGUALISM FORUM
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
STUDENT CENTER ROOM 605
STUDENT CENTER EAST ROOM 613
9:00 REGISTRATION
10:00 WELCOME -­‐ Dr. Kay González-­‐Vilbazo
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Language co-­‐activation in Single-­‐language contexts: Anthony Shook (Northwestern University) and Viorica Marian (Northwestern University) The DP in French-­‐Dutch Code Switching: Emma Vanden Wyngaerd (Leiden University)
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Bilinguals Activate Both Languages When Viewing Visual Scenes: Sarah Chabal (Northwestern University) and Viorica Marian (Northwestern University)
DP-­‐Internal Code Switching: Romanian and Serbo-­‐Croatian in Interaction: Vanessa Petroj (The University of Connecticut)
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context: Marisa Nagano (CUNY Graduate Center)
Bilingual Greek-­‐English Code Switching under Ellipsis: Jason Merchant (The University of Chicago)
Is the Overt Pronoun Constraint Learnable?: Caroline Jianqiao Huang (The University of Hong Kong) and Janny HC Leung (The University of Hong Kong)
Methods in Code Switching Research: When Does Modality Matter? Bryan Koronkiewicz (The University of Alabama) and Shane Ebert (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
POSTER SESSION
13:30
LUNCH BREAK
14:30
Ortographic Wordlikeness and Second Language Vocabulary Priming Effects and Language Contact in Null Objects Among Learning: James Bartolotti (Northwestern University) and Viorica Basque-­‐Spanish Bilinguals: Lorena Sainz-­‐Maza Lecanda (The Marian (Northwestern University)
Ohio State University) 15:00
Does Learning a Highly Inflected Language Heighten L1 Inflectional Sensitivity?: Alexandra Morales-­‐Reyes (Bellarmine University)
Great Aspect-­‐ations: Morphological Encoding in Second language Acquisition: Jeanne Heil (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Testing Cognate Interaction in Spontaneous Speech: Evidence from New Mexican Spanish-­‐English bilinguals: Colleen Balukas (Ball State University)
The Use of French-­‐Origin Words in Written and Spoken Moroccan-­‐Arabic-­‐French Code Switching: Rebekah Post (The University of Texas at Austin)
If it ain’t Broken don’t Fix it: Priming Prior Knowledge through the L2 Blocks Later Conceptual Learning from L2 Text: Joseph Negron (The University of Texas at El Paso) and Ana Schwartz (The University of Texas at El Paso) BREAK
KEYNOTE
Bimodal Bilingual Language Acquisition and Theories of Bilingualism
Diane Lillo-­‐Martin (The University of Connecticut)
18:00 DINNER -­‐ 9 Muses (315 S. Halsted St.)
█ Theoretical Linguistics █ Sociolinguistics, Heritage/Bilingual Acquisition █ SLA, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics █ Keynote
UIC BILINGUALISM FORUM
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
STUDENT CENTER EAST ROOM 605
STUDENT CENTER EAST ROOM 613
9:00 REGISTRATION
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Audio-­‐Visual Memory Encoding in Bilinguals and Monolinguals: On the Status of Gender Assignment and Gender Agreement in Scott Schroeder (Northwestern University) and Viorica Marian the Mind of the Bilingual: Evidence from Code Switched (Northwestern University)
Structures: Juana Liceras (The University of Ottawa), Rachel Klassen (The University of Ottawa) and Raquel Fernández-­‐
Fuertes (The University of Valladolid)
Hearing vs. CI: Language-­‐Synthesis and Argument Omission in ASL-­‐English Bilingualism: Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University)
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Individual Differences in Interference Control in Bilinguals with Transitivity Alternation in Korean Heritage Speakers: Sunny Varying Levels of L2 Proficiency: Eve Higby (CUNY Graduate Park-­‐Johnson (DePaul University)
Center) and Loraine Obler (CUNY Graduate Center)
Microparametric Variation Among Romance Languages: The L2 Verb Borrowing in a Root-­‐Pattern Language: English Verbs in Acquisition of Spanish Locative and Existential Constructions Cairene Arabic: Ryan Fan (The University of Texas at Austin)
by Catalan and Italian Speakers : Silvia Perpiñán (The University of Western Ontario)
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Wait, That’s What Happened? Testing the Interface Hypothesis Prosody production: Conceptual and Lexical Repetition in Balanced and Unbalanced Bilinguals: Tuan Lam (Northwestern in L2 Turkish: Megan Smith (Michigan State University)
University) and Viorica Marian (Northwestern University)
Processability Theory and the Procedural Skills Hypothesis: Focus Realizations in Native, Heritage and L2 Spanish: Tania Patti Spinner (Michigan State University) and Sehoon Jung Leal (Indiana University), Emilie Destruel (The University of (Michigan State University)
Iowa) and Brad Hoot (DePaul University)
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14:30 Morphosyntactic Development in a Second Language: An Eye Tracking Study on the Role of Attention and Individual Differences in Motivation and Working Memory: Bernard Issa (The University of Illinois at Chicago), Kara Morgan-­‐Short (The University of Illinois at Chicago) and Gary Raney (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
15:00 Gender Transfer Versus Default Gender: Where to Look for Evidence: Rachel Klassen (The University of Ottawa) and Juana Liceras (The University of Ottawa)
15:30 Multi-­‐stream statistical learning in monolinguals and bilinguals:Federica Bulgarelli (Penn State University) and Daniel Weiss (Penn State University)
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KEYNOTE How Bilinguals Construct Reference: Linguistic and Attentional Processes
Antonella Sorace (The University of Edinburgh)
CLOSING SPEECH -­‐ Dr. Kay González-­‐Vilbazo
RECEPTION -­‐ Language Oasis (Grant Hall 308)
█ Theoretical Linguistics █ Sociolinguistics, Heritage/Bilingual Acquisition █ SLA, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics █ Keynote
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