Friday, October 7th

Tate Student Center - 137

Time Speaker Title

8:30 9:00 Coffee and Refreshments
9:00 9:05 Lisa Lipani Welcome from LSUGA President

9:05 9:15 Dr. Tim Gupton Opening Remarks from UGA Linguistics Faculty
University of Georgia
9:15 9:40 Trevor Ramsey A Perceptual Argument for the Phonetic Realization of Dorsal
University of Georgia Stop Consonants in PIE
9:45 10:10 Ian Kirby Multiple Negation and Any as a Negative Polarity Item: A
Emory University Corpusbased Study from Old English to Modern English
10:15 10:40 Joe Rhyne Quantifying the Comparative Method: A Computational Approach
University of Georgia to Historical Linguistics
10:45 11:00 Break
11:00 11:25 Joy Peltier The French Discourse Marker Bon: A Diachronic Understanding
University of Georgia of Modern Pragmatic Functions
11:30 11:55 Valentina Concu Turn construction units and overlaps among speakers of different
Purdue University L1s
12:00 12:25 Jason Quinley Trust and Implicature: Repeated Interaction Driving Lexical
University of Tubingen Evolution
12:30 1:45 Lunch
1:45 2:10 Caleb H. Kelley Null and Overt Subject Pronouns in Madrid and Caracas with
University of Alabama Verbs of External Activity: A Corpus Study
2:15 2:40 Stacey Jacobson Cognizer Verbs and the First Person Pronoun Yo in Contact: A
University of Alabama Corpus Study
2:45 3:00 Break
3:00 3:25 Daniel Brodkin Lexical Semantics: the Athabaskan Classifier in Han
Carleton College
3:30 3:55 Joey Stanley An EWP Model Of Quechua Agreement: Further Evidence Against
University of Georgia DM
4:00 4:25 Ashwathi P. Menon Language as a Biological Construct: On the Intrinsic Variability
Emory University and Selection of Language
4:30 4:45 Break
Plenary Talk David P. Medeiros ULTRA: Lexical Items as Processes, not Atoms; Syntax as Timing,
4:45 5:45 University of Arizona not Geometry

Friday Night Social: Teds Most Best, 254 W. Washington Street

 Saturday, October 8th
Miller Learning Center - 250

Time Speaker Title

8:30 8:55 Coffee and Refreshments
8:55 9:00 Doug Merchant and Welcome from LCUGA 3 Cochairs
Mike Olsen
9:00 9:25 Kim Waters Rebel Time Speech in the 21st Century: An Acoustic Analysis of
University of Georgia Sapelo Island Geechee
9:30 9:55 Omar Alkhonini Coda Consonant Cluster Patterns in the Arabic Najdi Dialect
George Mason University
10:00 10:25 Linda Chinelo Nkamigbo Phonology and Meaning in the Igbo Mental Lexicon
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:10 Humberto Borges Contact-induced Language Change in the Gois Dialect of
University of Brasilia Brazilian Portuguese
11:15 11:40 Betsy Miller & Mariah Gonna, Finna, Tryna: The Grammaticalization of ing + to
Parker, Univ. of Georgia Constructions and the Emergence of New English Modals
11:45 12:10 Brent Woo, University of Slash: A New Coordinator in English and its behavior slash
Washington Seattle structure (Best Student Abstract)
12:15 1:15 Lunch
1:15 1:40 James Stratton Linguistic Gender Marking: The Contemporary Use of the
Purdue University Inflectional Morpheme in(en) in spoken dialogue in High
German
1:45 2:10 Tannistha Dasgupta Examining Fluency in Second Language Speaking from a Speakers
EFL University, India Perspective: A Cognitive Approach
2:15 2:40 Johnny Cheng A Parametric Approach to the Asymmetry in D-stranding and
Emory University Linearization
2:45 3:00 Break
3:00 3:25 Aulea Lotty, Garfield Natural Language Processing and the Mental Lexicon
Waslh, and Jesse Powell
Georgia Southern Univ.
3:30 3:55 Megan Gotowski Psycholinguistic Evidence for Secondary Agents in Get-Passives
UCLA
4:00 4:25 Huseyin Uysal, Jungyoung Effects of Prototypicality on Processing Metonymical Meaning:
Park, U. of Florida; Jose An Eye-tracking Study
Sanchez, SUNY-Buffalo
4:30 4:45 Break
Plenary Talk John T. Hale Word Meaning and Phrase Structure as Explanations for Brain
4:45 5:45 Cornell University Activity During Sentence Comprehension

LCUGA 3 Reception at Saucehouse BBQ, 830 W. Broad Street, begins at 6:30

 Sunday, October 9th
Miller Learning Center - 250

Time Speaker Title

8:30 8:55 Coffee and Refreshments
8:55 9:00 Rachel Miller Olsen and Welcome from LSUGA Secretary and Treasurer
Rachel Kim
9:00 9:25 Joshua Hummel Protest, Riot, Trump, and Other Current Events: Comparing the
University of Georgia Use of protest and Use of riot in News Medias Descriptions of
Conflict
9:30 9:55 Katie Kuiper Turned Up his Toes and Cashed in His Chips: A Corpus Guided
University of Georgia Study of Idioms for Death
10:00 10:25 Tyler Kibbey Where is the Metaphor in a Word: An Analysis of the Lexical Unit
University of Tennessee in Metaphor Studies
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:10 Bill Kretzschmar The Organization of the Lexicon
University of Georgia
11:15 11:40 Susan Tamasi, Emory U.; A Lexicon of Womens Health: Findings from a Social Media Study
Betsy Barry, Illocution Inc.;
Pamelo Batzel, Treato
11:45 12:00 Break
Plenary Talk Allison Burkette Material Effects and the Lexicon
12:00 1:00 University of Mississippi
1:00 Doug Merchant and Closing Remarks from LCUGA 3 Co-chairs
Mike Olsen