Tuesday, May 20, 2003
10:00 Ricardo Otheguy
Opening
Remarks
15 minute papers
10:05 Gita Martohardjono, Ricardo Otheguy,
Michele
deGoeas-Malone, Alison Gabriele,
Malgosia Szupica-Pyrzanowski, Erika Troseth
The
Role of Syntax in Reading Comprehension: a study of bilingual readers
10:30 Gita Martohardjono, Ricardo Otheguy,
Eulalia
Canals, Michele deGoeas-Malone,Daniel Erker, Silvia Rivero,
Malgosia Szupica-Pyrzanowski,
Supporting
Language Skills in Immigrant Pre-schoolers: an intervention study
10:55 Break
20 minute papers
11:05 Eva Fernández, Dianne Bradley and Dianne Taylor
Prosodic
weight and informativeness in the relative clause attachment
ambiguity: Monolingual evidence, bilingual implications
11:35 Ricardo Otheguy and Ana Celia Zentella
Research
on variable use of Spanish subject pronouns from the vantage
point
of the New York corpus
12:05 Break
12:15 Micheal Newman and Peter Slomanson
Variation
in New York Latino English
12:45 Lunch
1:30 Ricardo Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella,
Naomi Lapidus
Contact
induced changes in the grammar?: The case of overt
indefinite "ellos" in New York Spanish
2:00 Elaine Klein
Language
Skills and High Stakes Testing Among Immigrant High Schoolers:
An
intervention project
2:30 Break
2:35 Loraine Obler and Elizabeth Ijalba
Learning
to Read in a Relatively Opaque Orthography
3:05 Break
10 Minute Papers
3:15 Jennifer Eddy
Foreign
Language Education (title TBA)
3:30 Anastasia Riazantseva
Academic
Literacy development in the L1 and L2
3:45 Mira Goral
Lexical-Retrieval
Deficits in First-Language Attrition in Healthy
Aging and in
Bilingualism
4:00 William McClure
Does
"go" = "iku" = "gada" = "zhou"?
All talks will take place in the Skylight Room, on the 9th floor
of the CUNY Graduate Center
(365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.). If you
would like to attend or if you have any questions, please contact Alison Gabriele by
e-mail or by phone 212-817-8511.
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