9:45     Coffee

10:00   Provost William P. Kelly
            Opening remarks

10:05   Ricardo Otheguy
            Welcome

Chair: Amit Shaked

Sociolinguistics

10:10   Peter Slomanson & Ronit Webman (20 min.)
            The use of Yiddish in contemporary Jewish schools in the United States

10:40   Laura Callahan, Marco Aponte, Adam Nilsen, Rocio Raña, Erika Troseth & Erja Vettenranta (10 min.)
            To accommodate or not to accommodate: Spanish and English in urban service encounters
        
10:55   BREAK (10 minutes)

11:05   Daniel Erker & Ricardo Otheguy (20 min.)
            The role of Morphological Ambiguity as a constraint on subject pronoun expression in NYC Spanish

11:35   Ricardo Otheguy (20 min.)
            The fading of switch references as a constraint on pronoun expression in NYC Spanish

Neuro-Psycholinguistics

11:50  Nathan Maxfield and Loraine K. Obler (20 min.)
           ERP measures of L2-processing under noise

12:05  LUNCH (45 minutes)

Chair: Leigh Garrison

12:50  Teresa Signorelli and Loraine K. Obler (10 min.)
           Working memory in simultaneous interpreters
           
1:05    Mira Goral, Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema, and Loraine K. Obler (20 min.)
           L1 attrition? Evidence from compound processing

1:35    Marie-Michelle Monereau-Murray and Loraine K. Obler (10 min.)
           Idiom-production as a measure of L2 proficiency

1:50    BREAK (10 minutes)

Chair: Ronit Shaham

2:00    Eva Fernandez (20 min)
           Examining the prosody produced by Spanish-English bilinguals: Promising results, methodological challenges

2:30    Sandeep Prasada, Elaine M. Dillingham, & Govini Mohan (20 min.)
           Princinples and statistical connections in generic knowledge and language

3:00    BREAK (10 minutes)

Chair: Rebecca Curinga

Literacy and Academic Assessment

3:30     Gita Martohardjono, Ricardo Otheguy, Agustina Carando, Xuan-Nga Kam, Ronit Shaham, and Amit Shaked (20 min.)
            Syntax and reading in bilingual children
            
4:00     Elaine Klein &  Gita Martohardjono(10 min.)
            Understanding the student with interrupted formal education (SIFE)

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.). Twenty minute papers will be followed by a ten minute question period; Ten minute papers will be followed by a five minute question period.

Lunch will be provided; Please RSVP. Registration for the RISLUS Forum is free of charge and open to everyone.  To confirm you attendance or if you have any questions, please contact Amit Shaked by e-mail.