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Cette édition spéciale de Hiatus vous offre un aperçu de la richesse des activités qui attendent les nouveaux étudiants au Département de linguistique. Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture. N'hésitez pas à communiquer avec nous si vous avez des questions!

Hiatus nouveaux étudiants

This special issue of Hiatus provides you with a great introduction to many of the exciting things that the Department of Linguistics has to offer new students. We hope you will enjoy what you read below. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions!

Hiatus new students 

 

May 1 2012

Hi everyone. Welcome to the last issue of Hiatus of the semester. We will begin regular issues again in September. We may have a special summer edition if we receive lots of news over the summer.

We hope you will enjoy this issue. Do remember to send us your news.

your editors,

Tania and Ana

ACL/ CLA 2012

The program for the 2012 meeting of the  ACL/ CLA can be found here:

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/prog2012.html

The conference will take place at the University of Waterloo from May 26 till May 28. There will be many talks and posters from current and ex-UofO linguistic members:

Saleh AlQahtani & Éric Mathieu: Licensing by modification in Standard Arabic

Michael Barrie (with Roronhiakehte Deer): Wh-movement and cliticization in Cayuga

Cassandra Chapman: Clitic doubling in Laurentian French: An auditory acceptability judgment task

Galina Dukova-Zheleva: Is wh-movement focus fronting?

Viktor Kharlamov: Partial devoicing in experimentally-elicited speech: Phonological implications

Éric Mathieu: Where's variation? the case of wh in situ and wh movement

Sonia Pritchard: A perception study of Bulgarian and Russian palatalized consonants

Nikolay Slavkov: A Fine Balance: Shifts between passive and active bilingualism

Elena Valenzuela, Juana Liceras, Elisa Acevedo, Araceli Alvarez, Rachel Klassen & Raquel Llama: Ambiguous anaphora resoluation in code-switched sentences

Robert Truswell: English and the typology of nonrestrictive relative clauses

Tania Zamuner, Andrea Thiessen & Ana Sofia Niembro: The phonological characteristics of children’s imitated new words

 

(please let us know if we missed anyone!!)

Marie-Hélène Côté invited lectures

Marie-Hélène Côté will be an invited plenary speaker at the annual conference for the Association of French Language Studies: "Le français a travers le temps: acquisition, changement, variation". The conference will be held on June 1-3, at Newcastle University. The title of Marie-Hélène's talk will be "Vers une analyse des contextes de liason".

Marie-Hélène will also be an invited speaker at the Colloque annuel du Réseau Français de Phonologie, in Paris, June 25-26, as well as invited speaker at the conference "Du français et de l'anglais aux langues du monde: variation, structure et théorie du langage" Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III, June 28-30. Félicitacions!

Shana Poplack invited lectures

Shana Poplack will be an invited plenary speaker at the 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium to be hosted by the Freie Universitat in Berlin on August 21-24 2012. Congratulations! Conference info here.

Shana has also recently been an invited speaker at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, where she presented a talk entitled "Four and half centuries of variability, stability and change in speech: Le français québécois" (link here).

For more news from the SocioLab, look here.

Les français d'ici

Notre département sera bien représenté au colloque international Les français d'ici à l'Université de Sherbrooke (13-14 juin): 

"Le projet PFC et la géophonologie du français laurentien",  Marie Hélène Côté.

"La liaison en français laurentien: l'apport du corpus PFC", Marie Hélène Côté.

"À distance de Paris: normes et usages à Montréal, d'une guerre à l'autre", France Martineau.

"Les relations entre l'insertion du schwa et la réduction des groupes consonantiques dans un corpus français: une analyse de covariance", Peter Milne.

"Dynamiques dialectales actuelles et la phonologie laurentienne: apports du projet PFC",  Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy.

Il y aura aussi une réception pour le lancement de volumes parus dans la collection "Voies du francais" dirigée par France Martineau (Presses de l'Université Laval)

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change

Stephen Levey, Karine Groulx and Joe Roy presented a paper at the conference Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change which took place in Salford on April 18-20. Conference website here.

The title of the paper was "A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting." 

Change and Variation in Canada VI

Many members of our department will be presenting talks at the sixth annual Change and Variation in Canada (CVC VI) workshop that will take place June 2-3 in Montreal: Nathalie Dion, Nicté Fuller Medina, Laura Kastronic, Joe Roy, Shana Poplack, Yukiko Yoshizumi. Congratulations everyone!

3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française

Marie-Hélène Côté et Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy feront une présentation lors du Congrès Mondiale de Linguistique Française, Université Lumière, Lyon 2, 3-7 juillet: "D'un [r] à l'aut[ʁ]e: contribution à la chute du R apical au Québec".  

LaTeX workshop

Joe Roy and Rob Truswell organized an informal introductory workshop on using LaTeX on April 19, to help people get to grips with the document preparation system. The meeting was a great success, with the participation of around 15 grad students and undergraduate students.

This LaTeX workshop was the latest in a series that began years ago with Joe Roy and Jeff Mielke. If you would like to know what LaTeX is, check out these websites:

http://www.latex-project.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

Here are some useful files that were distributed for the workshop: Download LaTeX_tutorial_HO  Download LaTeX_tutorial_HO  (thanks Rob!)

New eyetracker - Centre for Child Language Research

The Centre for Child Language Research directed by Tania Zamuner recently acquired an eyetracker (Eyelink 1000). The lab is now equiped to run eye tracking studies with participants ranging from young children to adults. More information coming in the fall....

Syntax-Semantics Reading Group + ACL/CLA practice talks (May 2, 16)

The next meeting of the syntax-semantics reading group will take place on Wednesday May 2, at 10am in Arts 420. Please contact Rob Truswell if you have questions. The meeting will be dedicated to discussing Peter Svenonious's "Spanning".

The following meeting of the Syntax-Semantics Reading Group will take place on Wednesday May 16, at 10 am Arts 420. The meeting will be dedicated to ACL/CLA practice talks. Please get in touch with Rob if you are interested in participating.

Workshop in General Linguistics 10

Tharanga Weerasooriya presented a paper at the 10th Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL), held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on March 17 2012 (program here). The title of his paper was "Control/Raising dichotomy in Sinhala modal constructions". 

Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium

Brendan McDonald presented a poster at the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium (April 20-22). The title of the poster was "The compositionality of expressives". The program of the conference can be found here. 

Modality workshop pictures

We are happy to report that the modality workshop was a great success. Thanks to everyone who helped out!! Here are some pictures from the poster session, courtesy of Junko Shimoyama (more pictures forthcoming).

Ana (for the organizers)