Conference Program
The program is now available as a PDF file.
Thursday, March 31
12:00-1:45 Registration: Wang Center Theater Lobby
1:45-2:00 Opening remarks, Wang Center Theater
SYNTAX: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Ala'a Melebari
2:00-2:30 Youssef Haddad, University of Florida
Internal vs. external possession in Lebanese Arabic
2:30-3:00 Yahya Aldholmi, Hamid Ouali, & Tue Trinh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
On complex adjectival phrases in Standard Arabic
3:00-3:30 Mohamed Jlassi, University of Sohar, Oman
A fine-grained speech acts layer for a congested periphery in Tunisian Arabic (TA)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break (Arabic Coffee and dates) & a short film (Gesturing Cultures)
PHONOLOGY: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Stuart Davis
4:00-4:30 Iman Albadar, University of Delaware
Vowel-epenthesis patterns in loanword adaptation of initial sC clusters in Najdi Arabic
4:30-5:00 Mutassim Al-Deaibes & Nicole Rosen, University of Manitoba
Geminate-singleton contrast in Rural Jordanian Arabic
5:00-6:00 Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University
6:00 Reception, Wang Center Lobby: All ASAL registrants invited
Friday, April 1
8:00-9:00: Registration, Wang Center Theater Lobby
SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Amel Khalfaoui
10:00-11:00 Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto
"Blacklisted": Gender and verbal hygiene in a globalized Arabic-speaking world
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
MORPHOLOGY/PHONOLOGY: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Ammar Alammar
11:30-12:00 Honaidah Ahyad & Michael Becker, Stony Brook University
The predictability of vowel alternations in Urban Hijazi Arabic imperfective nonce forms
12:00-12:30 Abdulrahman Alamri, University of Ottawa/King Saud University, & Tania Zamuner, University of Ottawa
Phonological, semantic, and root activation in spoken word recognition in Arabic
12:30-1:00 Yahya Aldholmi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/King Saud University
The role of non-concatenativeness vs. concatenativeness experience in perception
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 ALS Business Meeting (location TBA)
SYNTAX: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Hamid Ouali
3:00-3:30 Lina Choueiri, American University of Beirut
The pronominal copula in Arabic
3:30-4:00 Amer Ahmed, York University
Case theory in Standard Arabic: a dependent case approach
4:00-5:00 Coffee Break (Arabic coffee and dates)
SYNTAX: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1,Chair: Youssef Haddad
5:00-5:30 Juman Al Bukhari, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
5:30-6:00 Martin Walkow
Syntactic parallels between verbal and nominal φ-morphology in (Classical) Arabic
6:00-7:30 Reception, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics: all ASAL registrants invited
Saturday, April 2 Wang Center, Lecture Hall 1
8:00-8:30 Registration, Wang Center Theater Lobby
DISCOURSE/PRAGMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL & HISTORICAL: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Agnes He
9:00-9:30 Alexander Magidow, University of Rhode Island, & Yonatan Belinkov, MIT
Periodizing Written Arabic using automated methods and digital philology
9:30-10:00 Wafi Alshammari, Indiana University
Verb form selection as a function of accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
10:00-10:30 Amel Khalfaoui, University of Oklahoma
Generic demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic
10:30-11:00 Abdelaadim Bidaoui & Mustafa Harb, Ball State University
Perception of Arabic and foreign-origin discourse markers of elaboration in three dialects of Arabic
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
PHONOLOGY: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Mark Aronoff
11:30-12:00 Stuart Davis, Indiana University
On templatic mapping in the Arabic comparative
12:00-1:00 John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 POSTER SESSION, Wang Theater Lobby
Chase Adams, Brigham Young University
Study of dialect contact and formation: a case study of glottal-initial verbs in Amman, Jordan
Abdullah Alfaifi & Steven Weinberger, George Mason University
Saudi Arabic coda cluster modification and sonority distance
Ahmad Alqassas, Georgetown University
On the syntax of tense and aspect in Jordanian Arabic
Mohammad Aljutaily & Chad Howe, University of Georgia
A sociophonetic study of fricative variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
Alaa Almohammadi & Gabriella Rundblad, King’s College London
Basem Al-Raba’a, Indiana University
An OT analysis of emphasis spread in Rural Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic
Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Ball State University
Discourse markers of causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian Arabic: a socio-pragmatic analysis
Peter Glanville, University of Maryland
The ground form revisited: Arabic morphology and cognitive semantics
Rania Habib, Syracuse University
Influence of TV and internal and external contact on variation in rural child language
Zainab Hermes, Marissa Barlaz, Ryan Shosted, Mao-Jing Fu, & Brad Sutton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Articulatory differences in the pharyngeal fricatives /ʕ/ and / ħ/ in Gulf and Levantine Arabic
Cheng-wei Lin, University of Michigan
Probabilistic approach to stress assignment in Arabic
Mohammad Mohammad, University of Texas at Austin
The ‘linguistic’ image of The Other in Jordanian and Syrian TV dramas
Kevin Schluter, Matthew Tucker, & Diogo Almeida, NYU Abu Dhabi
Morphological priming of sound and broken plurals in the Standard Arabic mental lexicon
PROCESSING: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chari: Lotfi Sayahi
3:00-3:30 Ali Idrissi, Qatar University, Tommi Leung, UAE University, & R. Muralikrishnan, NYU Abu Dhabi
The processing of resumptive pronouns and gaps in the Arabic diglossic brain: an ERP study
3:30-4:00 Alaa Melebari, King Abdulaziz University/Stony Brook University, Mark Aronoff, Robert Hoberman, & John Drury, Stony Brook University
The interaction of animacy and morphosyntax in the Arabic DP: evidence from event-related potentials
4:00-4:30 Matthew Tucker, NYU Abu Dhabi, Ali Idrissi, Qatar University, & Diogo Almeida, NYU Abu Dhabi
Does grammaticalized resumption repair islands? Acceptability data from Standard Arabic reading
4:30-5:00 Break
SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Wang Center Lecture Hall 1, Chair: Honaidah Ahyad
5:00-5:30 Sarah Schwartz, University of Texas at Austin
Performing language and identity: palatalization among Moroccan slam poets and rappers
5:30-6:00 Navdeep Sokhey, University of Texas at Austin
6:00 Closing Remarks
7:00 Mediterranean Banquet, Hilton Garden Inn (pre-registration required)
Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics, Sunday, April 3, Wang Center
9:00-9:45 Robert Hoberman, Stony Brook University
Deep Indo-European-Semitic Contact
9:45-10:30 Lotfi Sayahi, University at Albany
Variation in the expression of possession in Arabic: the role of language contact
10:30-11:30 POSTER PRESENTATIONS AND COFFEE
Maris Camilleri, University of Vienna
Paradigmatic dependencies in Semitic and Romance Maltese verbal paradigms
Maris Camilleri & Peter Hallman, University of Vienna
Dative recipients in French, Maltese, and Arabic
Amanda Eads, North Carolina State UniversityIndigenous and immigrant Lebanese code-switching within OT
Estefania Valenzuela Mochon, University of Texas
The Origin of the Direct Object Marker /l-/ in Andalusi Arabic
Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa, Lotfi Sayahi, University at Albany, Nahed Mourad, University of Ottawa, & Natalie Dion, University of Ottawa
Adding a little Romance: Lone French nouns in Tunisian Arabic discourse
11:30-12:15 Laura Minervini, University of Naples
Languages in Contact: Arabic and Romance in the Middle Ages
Guidelines for poster presenters
We recommend that posters be no bigger than 40" width x 36" height (= 100cm width x 90cm height). The maximal allowed size is 48" x 36" (120cm x 90cm).
For tips and ideas about poster design, we recommend the LSA guidelines (http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/lsa-poster-guidelines).