Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research

WISSLR 2019 Friday, March 15th, 2019 Location: Weldon Library 258
9:00AM-9:20AM	Registration
9:20AM-9:30AM	Opening Remarks - Douglas Severo
9:30AM-10:30AM	Session 1
9:30AM	Further Evidence for Morphomes: The H-Pattern in Ibero-Romance Katie Slemp \| Western University
9:50AM	Perception of Similar Sounds as a Function of Language Dominance in Late Bilinguals of English and Spanish Martha Black \| Western University
10:10AM	Detecting Mispronunciations in Ongoing Speech: A Replication Study Shailynn Athmer \| University of Saskatchewan
10:30AM-10:40AM	Break
10:40AM-12:00AM	Session 2
10:40AM	A Computational Discourse Analysis of the Pejorative Effeminate and Homosexual Epithet on 4chan Andrew Siscluna \| Western University
11:00AM	How do Bilingual Young Women Create Solidarity through Stance-taking and Construction of Similar Identities in Text Messages? Yanfei Lu \| Western University
11:20AM	Narratives in the Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis Alexandra Caputo \| Western University
11:40AM	"Honestly I Wasn’t Even Down for It": Examining Interest through Conversational Analysis and Stance Taking Abigail Edwards \| Western University
12:00PM-1:00PM	Lunch – University College 3127
1:05PM- 1:35PM	Keynote Presentation Newsworthy: Names as Discursive Figures in Online Discourse Dr. Karen Pennesi \| Western University
1:35PM-1:50PM	Break
1:50PM-3:10PM	Session 3
1:50pm	Michif : A Unique Community’s Unique Language Michael Iannozzi \| Western University
2:10pm	Michif Adjectives: Pre-Nominal vs. Post-Nominal Syntactic Constructions Caylen Walker \| Western University
2:30pm	Gujarati Word Order: An Analysis of Word Order Variation in Active and Passive Constructions Dominie Yu, Jessica Chiu and Abigail Edwards \| Western University
2:50pm	When Verbs follow Verbs: A Curious Case of Double Verb Structures in Ga Deborah Allotey \| Western University
3:10PM-3:25PM	Break
3:25PM-4:25PM	Session 4
3:25PM	On the Topic of Malagasy ‘dia’ Topicalization Construction Kang Xu \| Western University
3:45PM	On the L2 Acquisition of Embedded Tense in Before-Clause: A Bi-directional Study of a Truth Conditional Mismatch Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal \| University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
4:05PM	How Quirky Can Be “quirky subjects”? Evgenii Efremov \| Western University
4:25PM	Break
4:35PM-5:00PM	Closing and Final Remarks