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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development (SQUID 2008) Conference
(Download the program) ; See the 2006 conference photo album

Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: 11:00am-4:35pm
Location: Graduate Center, Rm 5414

Program

11:00am-11:25am Coffee, breakfasty snacks
11:25am-12:10am Welcoming remarks
Session One
11:30am- Perceptual illusion: the case of vowel epenthesis in English(Mieko Sperbeck)
11:50am- SQUID Topic Maker Uppers (Marisa Genuardi and Emily Zane)
12:10am-12:40pm Coffee and cookies
Session Two
12:40pm- So so (Marcel den Dikken)
1:00pm- d00d, I so pwned u! Neologisms in the Digital Age (Sonya Jaramillo)
1:20pm-2:40pm Lunch
Session Three
2:40pm- The Intermediate Thingamajig of Optimality Theory Candidate Chains (OT-CC) (Tim Bonner)
3:00pm- Too Much Fun! (Stephanie Solt)
3:20pm-3:50pm Break with snacks and BEER
Session Four
3:50pm- Self-Help Pronouns: You can be free of you (but only if you aren't yourself) (Teresa Fredericks)
4:10pm- What's Tense Doing In My Nominal? A Brief Look at 'Tensed' DPs (Jeremy Rafal)
4:30pm-4:45pm Concluding remarks

The 3rd SQUID Conference Organizers

Lucia Pozzan
Elizabeth PrattMbr
Erin Quirk