9:45       Coffee

10:00      Ricardo Otheguy
Welcome

10:05      Marcel den Dikken & Christina Tortora (20 min.)
Morpho-syntactic variation in Appalachian English

10:35      Arthur Spears (20 min.)
African American English: Grammar, History, and Education

11:05      BREAK (10 minutes)

11:15      I. Barriere, S. Frenkel, G.V. Ellis, M. Sputz, L.Hirth, M. Schapiro, E. Rosenfeld, R. Bencheboum, C. Rosenberg, H. Eisner, R. Hauben, R. Zeller, H. Lubinsky (15 min.)
The development of the Yiddish Communicative Development Inventory: sociolinguistic and formal considerations

11:35      Thomas Ihde (15 min.)
Use of a non-native less commonly spoken language by an OPOL* parent, a five-year case study (*One Parent/One Language, One Person/One Language)

11:55      Laura Callahan (20 min.)
Student perceptions of native and non-native speaker language instructors: A comparison of ESL and Spanish

12:25      LUNCH (45 minutes)

1:10       Provost Edwards
Remarks

1:15       Michael Newman (15 min.)
The New York Latino English Project: an update and current directions

1:35       Miki Makihara & Michael Newman (10 min.)
Bilingualism, Identity, and Language Attitudes among young Latinos in Queens

1:50       Ana Ortigosa & Ricardo Otheguy (20 min.)
Collocation borrowings and single borrowings in the Spanish of NYC

2:20       BREAK (10 minutes)

2:30       Elaine Klein, Gita Martohardjono, Agustina Carando, Xuân-Nga Cao-Kam, Rebecca Curinga, Leigh Garrison, Rocio Raña Risso (20 min.)
SIFE in our Schools: A study of English language learners with interrupted formal education

3:00       Elizabeth Ijalba & Loraine K. Obler (20 min.)
Spanish-speakers' difficulty learning English

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; fiften and 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 your attendance or if you have any questions, please contact Ylana Beller by e-mail