Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Conference Program

ALL TALKS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE MARTIN SEGAL THEATRE (on the ground floor). Posters will be presented just outside the theatre.
A .pdf of the program can be downloaded here.
Information for speakers and poster presenters can be found here.

NOVEMBER 13 (THURSDAY)

08:30-09:00
REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST

09:00-09:15
Opening Remarks

09:15-09:45
Keiko Murasugi & Chisato Fuji (Nanzan & Connecticut)
Root infinitives: The parallel routes the Japanese- and Korean-speaking children step in

09:45-10:15
David Stringer (Indiana)
Phonomimesis and directional predication in child language

10:15-10:45
Hyang Suk Song & Bonnie D Schwartz (Hawaii)
On the acquisition of Korean wh-constructions with negative polarity items

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00-11:30
Gwanhi Yun (Daegu)
Korean learners' perception of word boundaries in English

11:30-12:00
Kan Sasaki (Sapporo Gakuin)
Syllable deletion as a prosodically conditioned derived environment effect

12:00-12:30
Shigeto Kawahara & Kazuko Shinohara (Rutgers & Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Phonetic and psycholinguistic prominences in pun formation: Evidence for positional faithfulness [note title change]

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:45-17:15
Kensuke Takita (Nanzan/Connecticut/JSPS)
Argument ellipsis in Japanese right dislocation

17:15-17:45
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama)
More than one, but at most two thematic -wa in Japanese

BREAK

18:00-19:00
INVITED TALK
Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto)
Japanese expression of temporal identity: aspectual and counterfactual interpretation of tokoro-da

19:30-
CONFERENCE DINNER (7pm at Toodai (on East 32nd Street))

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NOVEMBER 14 (FRIDAY)

08:30-09:15
REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST

09:15-09:45
Bjarke Frellesvig & John Whitman (Oxford & Cornell)
Prenominal complementizers and the derivation of complex NPs in Japanese and Korean

09:45-10:15
Reijirou Shibasaki (Okinawa)
From nominalizer to stance marker in the history of Okinawan

10:15-10:45
Tomohide Kinuhata & John Whitman (Kyoto & Cornell)
The genesis of indefinite pronouns in Japanese and Korean

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00-11:30
Michinori Shimoji (Australian National University)
Quasi-kakarimusubi in Irabu

11:30-12:00
Maki Shimotani (UT Austin)
A sequential approach to the relationship between prosody and social action: The case of eh in Japanese conversation

12:00-12:30
Jae-Eun Park (UCLA)
Turn units in Korean conversations

15:15-16:30
CONCURRENT PHONOLOGY POSTER SESSION

Myoyoung Kim (SUNY Buffalo)
Phonological representation and psycholinguistic manifestation of Korean glides
[phonology alternate]

Dongmyung Lee & Stuart Davies (Indiana)
Evidence for an accentless class in South Kyungsang Korean

Seunghun J Lee & Jeremy Perkins (Central Connecticut State & Rutgers)
An OT analysis of consonant-tone interaction in Korean

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

18:00-19:00
INVITED TALK
Maria Polinsky (Harvard)
Are head-final languages special? A new look at an old problem

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NOVEMBER 15 (SATURDAY)

10:00-10:30
LATE BREAKFAST

10:30-11:30
INVITED TALK
Peter Sells (SOAS)
How negation scopes in Japanese and Korean

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:45-12:15
Suwon Yoon (Chicago)
Expletive negation in Japanese and Korean

12:15-12:45
Xiao Li (Rutgers)
The semantics of sugi- 'exceed' in Japanese

LUNCH

14:30-15:00
Hijo Kang (Stony Brook)
An exception in two ways: Korean vowel harmony in irregular stems

15:00-15:30
Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College)
Lexical indexation in Sino-Japanese exceptionality

15:30-16:00
Hyun-ju Kim (Stony Brook)
The phonology and phonetics of unaccented vowels in Kyungsang Korean

COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:15-16:45
Junko Shimoyama (McGill)
Degree quantification and the size of noun modifiers

16:45-17:15
Shin-Sook Kim (Frankfurt)
Noun complements and clause types in Korean (and Japanese)

17:15-17:30
Closing Remarks

17:30
Conference closes