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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID 2007) Conference
(Download the program) ; See the 2006 conference photo album

Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
Time: 10:15am-4:45pm
Location: Graduate Center, Rm 6421

Have you been thinking about a problem that's just, well, too quirky for a standard conference talk?

Members of the CUNY Linguistics community are invited to participate in the Second Annual Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development Conference (SQUID2), a forum for sharing your most fun, crazy or just plain preliminary ideas. SQUID2 will be held on Friday, April 20, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

The format for the conference will be 15-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions. All CUNY linguists are invited to participate, but students, particularly Level 1 and Level 2 students, are especially welcome and encouraged to take part. This is a great opportunity to give a talk on those slightly wacky or undeveloped topics you've been thinking about. Plus it's a chance to get some experience giving talks in a fun, lighthearted environment.

The many successes of SQUID1 (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/events/squid2006.html)include analyses of the (strangely!) overlooked problems of L1 English speakers' pronunciation of sake when such speakers are ordering a bottle or glass of it; the interpretation of Gatorade ads; and the relationship between the syntax of obscene imperatives and the syntax of polite imperatives. Talks on all aspects of linguistics are welcome at SQUID2, and should be in the not-too-serious spirit that is the theme of the conference.

To participate, send an e-mail to Erika Troseth (etroseth@gc.cuny.edu) with a BRIEF (3-5 sentence) description of your talk by March 30. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who would like to present, so there's no need for a full abstract.

So join us on April 20, get some practice giving a talk, and have some fun!

SQUID2 organizers Stephanie Solt
Erin Quirk
Erika Troseth

Program

10:15am-10:40am Coffee, breakfast-like snacks
10:40am-10:45am Welcoming remarks
Session One
10:45am- Liking Her Liking Her and the Visible Visible Stars (Erika Troseth)
11:05am- Do Bare Sentences Exist in Chinese? (Li Ma)
11:25am- On the Japanese Light Verb –SURU Constructions (Miho Nagai)
Break and Snacks (11:45am-noon)
Session Two
12:00pm- Here Kitty, Kitty! A linguistic analysis of pet-directed speech (Ingrid Heidrick)
12:20pm- Several Things (Stephanie Solt)
Lunch! (12:40pm-2:00pm)
Session Three
2:00pm- What do I know?! Reflections on a rhetorical question (Marcel den Dikken)
2:20pm- The Phonology of Tongue Twisters (Luana Ferreira)
2:40pm- The Interpretation of Japanese Topicalized Sentences (Megumi Yoshida)
Break and Beer (3:00pm-3:30pm)
Session Four
3:30pm- Far(ly?) From Enough Talk about Nearly (Susan Schweitzer and Lucia Pozzan)
3:50pm- Getting High on Ti and Other Substances (Jeremy Rafal)
4:10pm- I Woke Him up but He didn’t Wake up: On the aspectual class of accomplishments in English and Japanese (Mamori Sugita)
4:30pm-4:45pm Concluding remarks and announcement of lottery winner

The 2nd SQUID Conference Organizers

Stephanie Solt
Erin Quirk
Erika Troseth