Events

RISLUS FORUM 2007

9:45 a.m. Coffee
10:00 a.m Welcome Ricardo Otheguy
10:05 a.m. Academic Literacy among Immigrant Students: The SIFE Project (20 min.)
Elaine C. Klein, Gita Martohardjono, Leigh Garrison, and Rebecca Curinga
10:35 a.m. Preparing for College: Reading Skills of Immigrant High School Students (10 min.)
Elaine C. Klein, Carolina Barrera-Tobón, and Luana Ferreira
10:50 a.m. Too Long or Not Long Enough?: Long-Term English Language Learners in High School (15 min.)
Kate Menken and Tatyana Kleyn
11:10 a.m. Break
11:25 a.m. Loan Words and Borrowing: Issues in Spanish in New York (20 min.)
Rachel Varra
11:55 a.m. The Use of Written Accents in the Spanish of the United States, Latin America, and Spain (10 min.)
Laura Callahan
12:10 p.m. Lunch in room 9205
1:15 p.m. Environmental Influences on the Early Bilingual (Yiddish/English, Spanish/English) Development of Children from Low SES in NYC (20 min.)
Isabelle Barriere
1:45 p.m. Linguistic Landscape and First Language Acquisition of Less Commonly Spoken Languages (20 min.)
Thomas Ihde
2:15 p.m. Prosody, Reading, and L2 (20 min.)
Inge Anema
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Subject Agreement Variation: Confronting the Hypothesis Space with Novel Data (20 min.)
Christina Tortora and Marcel den Dikken
3:30 p.m. The Native/Non-Native Distinction: Preliminary Evidence from the Speech of Spanish/English Bilinguals (20 min.)
Eva Fernández, Michael Newman, and Gita Martohardjono
4:00 p.m. The Aging Interpreter (20 min.)
Loraine Obler
4:30 p.m. End of day
All are welcome to attend the Linguistics Program’s end of semester party in room 7400