SLINKI 2014 :: Boone, NC
Saturday, February 8, 2014
9:00-9:30
Conference check-in and registration at Plemmons Student Union (PSU), Appalachian State University.
The registration table will be located on the first floor, near the PSU Welcome Center and the ACT Community Office. Signs will be posted, and a PDF map of the Union is available here.
Free parking is available in several lots near the Union. To view a campus map, click here.
1:45-3:00. Concurrent sessions.
1. Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking World. Tater Hill Room
Hilary Barnes (College of Charleston)
Mid-vowel contrasts in Veneto-Spanish bilinguals
Ayelet Harel (SUNY-Geneseo)
The L1 in an immersive L2 environment: A case study of the Puerto Rican community of Rochester, NY
2. Heritage Speakers of Spanish. Linville Gorge Room
Amanda Boomershine (UNC-Wilmington)
Perception of contrastive and allophonic consonants by heritage Spanish speakers
Jim Michnowicz, Rebecca Ronquest, Meghan Cooper, Gisela Harris, Irene Ramos-Arbolà &
Caroline Sferuzzo (North Carolina State University)
The realization of intervocalic /bdg/ in NC Spanish: heritage and immigrant speech
Ariana Mrak (UNC-Wilmington)
The Spanish composition class: Teaching heritage and second language learners
9:30-10:45. Single session: Variation in L2 Spanish. Tater Hill Room
Laurie Massery (Randolph-Macon College)
Morphological variability in L2 Spanish
Benji Souza, Casey Jones (Appalachian State University) & Alyssa Downs (Coastal Carolina CC)
Beginning English-Spanish learners’ lexical mis-mapping of read-aloud texts
11:00 - 12:15. Concurrent sessions.
1. Variation and Change in Morphosyntax and in Bilingualism Research. Tater Hill Room
Stephen Fafulas (East Carolina University)
Dialect variation and progressive constructions in Spanish
Carol Owens & Jim Michnowicz (North Carolina State University)
Change in Spanish subject pronoun expression across time
Mark Amengual (Furman University), David Birdsong & Libby Gertken (University of Texas at Austin)
Operationalizing and quantifying language dominance in bilingualism research
2. Spanish L2 Pedagogy & Pragmatics. Linville Gorge Room
Mariche GarcÃa-Bayonas (UNC-Greensboro)
Modified Spanish Language Program at UNCG
Yun Sil Jeon (Coastal Carolina University)
Secuencia gramatical en los textos de enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos
Patrick Moore (Indiana University)
¿Puedo usar…? or ¿Me podrÃas prestar…? Spanish L2 learners’ communication in context:
A study of U.S. high school study abroad students’ request pragmatics
​12:15 - 1:15
LUNCH (a catered lunch will be provided)
1:00-1:40 Poster Session in Tater Hill Room:
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A sociolinguistic analysis of morphosyntactic phenomena in the Spanish of Pitt County: A pilot study (Mario Becerra, Katie Broadwell, Dana Josephson, Briceida Rodriguez & Cynthia Wilmot, ECU)
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Evolución de las vocales españolas en un programa de inmersión (Paula Crites & Amanda Boomershine, UNC-W)
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Prosodic timing of North Carolina adolescent Hispanic heritage speakers (Laura Griffith, NCSU)
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/s/ weakening in Veracruzan speakers in central North Carolina (Kelsey Lawler-Childress, NCSU)
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La producción oclusiva de /bdg/ en Nicaragua (Katherine Lewis, NCSU)
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The maintenance of Spanish in an immigrant family: Generational differences in Spanish/English bilingualism among siblings (Dani Smith, NCSU)
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Assimilation of Argentinian [ʒ] and [ʃ] in the United States (Martha Summerlin, NCSU)
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Lexical variation of socially-indexed adjectives in Colombian Spanish (Stephanie Knouse & Dylan Jarrett, Furman University)
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An experimental approach to Levinson’s M-based implicatures (PatrÃcia Amaral & Kirby Varnadoe-Russ, UNC-Chapel Hill)
​3:15-4:15. Single session: The syntax of Spanish and Spanish-influenced English. Tater Hill Room
Ellen Thompson and Nandi Sims (Florida International University)
Embedded I to C in Spanish-influenced English: An experimental view
Bruno Estigarribia (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Automatic detection of syntactic patterns from texts with application to Spanish Clitic Doubling
Please note that the times listed below are subject to change. Any changes or updates will be posted here, and also annouced to presenters via email.