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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

Geminate patterning in Arabic: an ideal case for the mutual influence between phonetics and phonology

 

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

9:30-10:00 Osama Omari, Yarmouk University

Variation in the acoustic correlates of pharyngealization in Jordanian Arabic: gender and social class

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

Sluicing in Jordanian Arabic        

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

How to delete

 

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

Metaphor comprehension in Arabic-speaking children: on the development of primary and perceptual metaphors

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

The women (and men) who talk funnyii: negotiating gender and prestige through the palatalized nasal in Cairene Arabic

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 University

Indigenous 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).