LSRL 49 Conference Schedule Subject to change. Please note that this is the master schedule, and may be different from the printed program. Wednesday, May 1, 2019Workshop: Corpora and big data for Romance linguistsThe Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Library300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30605 8:30 - 9:15 am Registration and coffee 9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome 9:30 - 10:30 am Data cleaning methods to improve the accuracy of coding in the Project Phonologie du Français Contemporain Corpus: A Case Study of Schwa Realization, Joshua Griffiths Electronic Corpus of Historical Documents of the Sertão: sources for studying Brazilian Portuguese, Zenaide Carneiro, Mariana Lacerda, Igor Leal, Priscila Tuy and Shirley Guedes 10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee break 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Changing Faces of Morphological Innovation in French: Gender-Marking in Feminist Discourse on Twitter, Charlotte Prieu Unagreement and Spanish Psych-verbs: Evidence from a Twitter database, Irene Fernández Serrano Muchos están mixing but few are mezclando: A data-driven analysis of AUX-V switching, Blake Holman, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Barbara Ellen Bullock 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 - 3:30 pm “Quan’ i’ pleut, et tout” : using media archives for longitudinal analyses of phonological variation in the French media, Zsuzsanna Fagyal Lexical Frequency Effects on Place of Articulation of Voiced Coronal Stops of Spanish-English Bilinguals, Ernesto Gutiérrez Topete Synchronic variation and sound change in Romance languages: a corpus-based study of lenition phenomena in Romanian and Spanish, Ioana Vasilescu and Lori Lamel 3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee break 4:00 - 5:00 pm Plenary talk: Zvjezdana Vrzić, University of Rijeka and New York UniversityEndangered Romance Languages in Istria, Croatia: Documentation and Preservation 5:00 - 7:00 pm Opening Reception Hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute290 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30605 Thursday, May 2, 2019Main Session: Expanding Horizons in Romance Linguistics The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel 8:00 - 8:45 am Registration and coffee 8:45 - 9:00 am Opening LSRL49 remarks 9:00 - 10:30 am Phonetics/Phonology Syntax The long and short of prothesis in early French word-initial /sC/ clusters, Francisco Antonio Montaño Deconstructing the conative alternation in Romance, Josep Ausensi and Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia An acoustic description of prenominal bon in French liaison, Adam McBride Que clauses in Portuguese, Patrícia Rodrigues and Gabriela Matos Dactylic Hexameter isn't Dactylic, Julia Whelan “Adding projections and making connections": Deconstructing the embedded CP through a study of DAT. [gustar / encantar] (eso de / lo de) que, Sophie Harrington 10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee break 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Sociophonetics Syntax/Morphology Language contact and divergent paths of variation: Bilingual rhotics in two island communities, Falcón Restrepo-Ramos VSO Order in Romance: A Distinctness Account, M. Pilar Colomina Discrete and Gradient Approaches to Lateral Darkness: Sociophonetic Variability in the Spanish and Catalan of Valencia, Justin Davidson Alternations between regular and athematic participles in Brazilian Portuguese, Suzana Fong 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch break 1:30 - 3:00 pm Sociolinguistics/Variation Syntax Dative Passivization In Spanish Dialects: Evidence From The Syntactic Atlas Of Spanish (ASinEs), M. Pilar Colomina, Irene Fernández-Serrano, and Loreno Castillo Ros Towards a uniform account of accusative and dative clitic doubling, Adolfo Ausín and Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera Settledness and morphosyntactic variation across Romance, Mark Hoff and Scott Schwenter Clitic position in early Old French coordinated verb-first declaratives: Principled or free variation?, Bryan Donaldson The (non-)adaptation of /VN/ sequences in English loanwords in Québec French (QF): A sociolinguistic and syllabic exploration, Renata Uzzell Ditropic cliticization, object shift, and phases: post-verbal subject in Galician, Brian Gravely 3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee break 3:30 - 5:00 pm Plurilingualism/Language Acquisition Syntax/Semantics Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence at the DOM among Romanian-Spanish bilinguals, Julio César López Otero French constituent unconditionals relativize a free choice item, Aurore Gonzalez and Karoliina Lohiniva Easy come, easy go: Deictic verbs reveal crosslinguistic influence in Heritage speakers of Spanish, Michele Goldin, Kristen Syrett, and Liliana Sanchez The Dynamics of Negative Interpretation: Unexpected variability in Strict Negative Concord, Viviane Déprez and Cecilia Poletto The acquisition of adverbs in trilingual children, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Virginia Hill, Nadia Nacif, Rena Helms-Park, and Maria Petrescu (Non)-pied-piping adjectival wh-comparatives in Spanish, Luis Eguren and Alberto Pastor 5:00 - 5:30 pm Coffee break 5:30 - 6:30 pm Plenary talk: Juan Uriagereka, University of MarylandMicro-variation, Macro-parameters, and Language-acquisition 7:00 - 9:00 pm Graduate Student Event Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute290 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30605 Friday, May 3, 2019Main Session: Expanding Horizons in Romance Linguistics The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel 8:15 - 9:00 am Registration and coffee 9:00 - 10:00 am Sociolinguistics Semantics/Pragmatics Language Attitudes in Liguria: Effects of Gender on the Perception of Genoese, Gabriella Licata Modal superlatives as degree descriptions. Evidence from Romance, Nicoletta Loccioni Sociolinguistic attitudes towards en plan: An emerging quotative in Peninsular Spanish, Juan Escalona Torres and Megan DiBartolomeo A property-analysis for Spanish bare plural objects, Sabrina Grimberg 10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 am Sociolinguistics (cont.) Semantics/Pragmatics (cont.) (Que)-Deletion in Quebec and Europe, Julia Steele The pragmaticalization of capaz ‘capable’ in Brazilian Portuguese, Patricia Rodrigues and Marcus Vinicius Lunguinho Bilingual speech planning as an explanatory framework for contact effects: Guarani grammatical borrowings, calques and other mixing outcomes in Paraguayan Spanish, Bruno Estigarribia The information status of Spanish appositives, Dylan Jarrett and Patrícia Amaral 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Plenary talk: Martine Adda-Decker, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris (LIMSI)Variation in Romance languages: insights from large corpora 12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 - 3:00 pm L2 Acquisition Phonetics/Phonology Enchaînement in non-liaison context in L1 and L2 French: a comparative study, Rodica Frimu Hypercorrection and phonotactic leveling: revisiting Spanish word-medial coda stops, Silvina Bongiovanni Grammatical gender marking in a corpus of L2 Spanish: A longitudinal analysis of feminine modifiers, Aarnes Gudmestad, Amanda Edmonds, and Thomas Metzger Degree of voiced stop weakening depends on place of articulation in Buenos Aires Spanish, Beth MacLeod 3:00 - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 - 5:30 pm Poster Session A prosodic analysis of the Spanish discourse marker venga, Autumn Averitt, Megan DeCleene, and Jingyi Guo Knowledge of null subjects in heritage Spanish bilinguals in a Spanish immersion school, Liliana Sanchez, Michele Goldin, Esther Hur, Abril Jimenez, Julio César López Otero, and Jennifer Austin The Path to Referentiality in L2 Speakers of Spanish: Evidence from Complex Wh-Questions, Maria Turrero-Garcia When syntax transforms a function word: the case of negation, Matteo Greco Nonveridicality and Mood Selection in Yucatec Spanish, Kate Bove Concordance Variability in Two American Romance Varieties: Using Brazilian Portuguese to Inform Mosquito Coast Spanish Data, Madeline Critchfield and Camila Lívio The Processing of Italian Relative Clauses within a Computational Parsing Model, Aniello De Santo On the pragmasemantics of a high adjunct wh-word, Damien Fleury and Lucia Tovena Verb particles in Romance and diachronic change, Michelle Troberg Complex Adjectival Resultatives in French: A Diachronic Study, Maya Krol Factors of Lexical Stability in (Inter)Action Across Romance, Rachel Weiher Ahm, uh, and um: An acoustic study of conversational discourse markers in San Diego CA bilinguals, Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes Aggregating small data sets to explore code-switching in a big way, Barbara Bullock, Elizabeth Green, Jacqueline Serigos, Vivek Sharath, and Almeida Toribio Romanian Transitional Alphabets. A Critical Reevaluation, Frithjof Wöhrmann 5:30 - 6:30 pm Plenary talk: J. Clancy Clements, Indiana UniversityLanguage Families, Language Typology, and Creole Languages 7:30 pm Conference Dinner Saturday, May 4, 2019Main Session: Expanding Horizons in Romance Linguistics The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel 8:15 - 9:00 am Coffee 9:00 - 10:30 am Diachrony L2 Acquisition A diachronic account of pragmatically polyfunctional usted in Colombian Spanish, Eliot Raynor Free classification of Spanish regional dialects by L2 Spanish learners, Steven Alcorn Revisiting (adjectival) resultatives in Old Romance, Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Josep Ausensi, Josep M Fontana and Cristina Real Puigdollers Redefining Sociophonetic Competence: Mapping COG Differences in Phrase-Final Vowel Devoicing in L1 & L2 speakers of French, Amanda Dalola and Keiko Bridwell Grounding grammaticalization paths in contextual constraints: The categoricalization-to-generalization process in three varieties of Spanish, Martín Fuchs and Maria Mercedes Piñango Applying Broaden & Build Theory to L2 Spanish Lexical Acquisition, María Turrero-García and Andie Faber 10:30 - 11:00 am Coffee break 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Plenary talk: Anastasia Giannakidou, University of ChicagoMood Matters 12:00 - 12:15 pm Break 12:15 - 1:45 pm Sociolinguistics Syntax Subject pronoun expression in Equatoguinean Spanish, Lillie Padilla and Álvaro Cerrón-Palomino Italian and Spanish unaccusative sentence focus constructions: What corpora tell us about their word order, Chiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi ¡Me recontra encanta el Twitter! A quantitative look at online use of intensifier 'recontra' in Argentine and Peruvian Spanish, David Hair and Jessica Tiegs Another Piece of the Implicit Argument Puzzle: The Case of Existential on, Marc Authier and Lisa Reed ¿Cómo tú estás? A variationist analysis of word order in Caribbean Spanish, Jingyi Guo Building Axial Parts in Romance, Cristina Real Puigdollers