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May 26th, 2017

4th Annual UC Davis Symposium on Language Research

UC Davis Conference Center

Welcome! Schedule of Events

The purpose of the UC Davis Symposium on Language Research, now in its fourth year, is to provide an open and inclusive intellectual space in which researchers worldwide can share a diverse range of approaches to the study of language, drawing upon a variety of different fields, disciplines, and interests. This event is organized by the Cluster on Language Research, a research cluster sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Visit us at languageresearch.ucdavis.edu

The Organizing Committee

Faculty Advisors Dr. Robert Blake and Dr. Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez Directors Benjamin Gomes and Aaron Yamada Committee Members Silvia Aguinaga Echeverría, Daniela Cerbino, Lisa Gonzalves, Kathleen Guerra, Glen Heinrich-Wallace, Claire Henderson, Suzy Hernández, Marta Llorente Bravo, Claire Lozano, Emily Moline, María Emilia Moreschi, Kimberly Morris, Cory Osburn, Caitlin Tierney, Melissa Patiño-Vega, Lina Reznicek-Parrado, Pablo Robles-García

8:30 Breakfast/Registration Foyer 8:45 Opening Remarks Ballroom A 9:00 – 10:00 Session I 10:10 – 11:10 Session II 11:20 – 12:20 Session III 12:20 – 1:10 Poster Exhibition & Lunch Foyer 1:10 – 2:10 Plenary I: Dr. Judith Kroll Ballroom B/C 2:20 – 3:20 Most Innovative Research Ballroom B/C 3:30 – 4:30 Session IV 4:40 – 5:40 Plenary II: Dr. Maria Manoliu Ballroom B/C 5:40 – 6:45 Closing Remarks Ballroom B/C Dinner Reception

Session I (9:00 - 10:00)

SLA: Technology and Assessment [Ballroom A] 9:00 The Grammatical Gender Gap: An IRT Analysis of Grammatical Gender Agreement in Early-Stage Language Assessment Glen Heinrich-Wallace, UC Davis 9:20 Harnessing Online Tools to Foster L2 Spanish Complexity Kimberly Morris, UC Davis 9:40 Pronunciation Technology in Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Babbel, & Mango Languages Joan Palmiter Bajorek, University of Arizona Textual Analysis [Conference Room A] 9:00 Exploring Allan Poe’s Stylistic Distinctiveness from a Computational Stylistic Approach Harvey Zhuang Qiu, UC Davis 9:20 Building for the Future: Developing a Hupa Dependency Treebank Ying Zoey Liu, Tyler Lee-Wynant & Justin Spence, UC Davis 9:40 French and Occitan: didactic and ideological functions of code- switching with a regional language in a press corpus Elyse Ritchey, UC Berkeley

Session II (10:10 - 11:10)

SLA: Studies in Spanish [Ballroom A] 10:10 Negation in L2 Spanish corpora Aaron Yamada, UC Davis 10:30 Effects of Frequency and Typographical Enhancement on Incidental Vocabulary Learning through Reading Pablo Robles García, UC Davis 10:50 The difference between “tomar un viaje” and “hacer un viaje”: Formulaic Language in Advanced and Intermediate Students of Spanish Silvia Aguinaga Echeverría, UC Davis Discourse Analysis [Conference Room A] 10:10 “Cover yourself!” Vs. “Breast is best”: The discourse of breastfeeding in the media Kathleen Guerra & Marta Llorente Bravo, UC Davis 10:30 Co-Construction and Routine Practices of the Elderly with Dementia: Manifestation of Personhood through Complex Language Participation Frameworks Peter Joseph Torres, UC Davis 10:50 Addressing the Audience in Online Dating Profiles Amy Russo, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Multilingualism: New Perspectives [Conference Room B] 10:10 "I thought my Spanish wasn't good enough": Expectations, motivations, and attitudes of receptive bilinguals Claire Julia Lozano, UC Davis Andrea Herrera Dulcet, University of Arizona Gabrielle Yocupicio, University of Arizona 10:30 The Structure of Our Language: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Crystal Richardson, UC Davis 10:50 Student Literacy Practices as Resource in Spanish as a Heritage Language Academic Literacy Development Lina Reznicek-Parrado, UC Davis

Session III (11:20 - 12:20)

This presentation describes

Linguistic Inequality [Ballroom A] 11:20 Linguistic inequality: Interpretation events during parent meetings at a bilingual elementary school Serena Peregrina-Williams, UC Davis 11:40 Peer-to-peer socialization in L1 terminology acquisition: A case study Caitlin Tierney, UC Davis Language in Action [Conference Room A] 11:20 We'll burn that bridge when we get to it: thematic coherence in identifying idiom blends Brent Woo, University of Washington 11:40 Indirect Directives (or when to say "please") Casey Riedmann, San Diego State University 12:00 Ideational Meanings in Academic Oral Presentations: The Notion of Embedding and Logico-Semantic Relations of Expansion María Emilia Moreschi, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Language Pedagogy [Conference Room B] 11:20 The leadership role as catalyst for proficiency growth in study abroad Herbert Donovan, Rikkyo University 11:40 Fostering language learning through multimodality Sandra Pérez Lara & Adriana Isabel Corona Reyes Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla 12:00 Online EAP Courses: Contributions of the Complexity Theory Bruna Gabriela Augusto Marçal Vieira São Paulo State University / University of California, Santa Bárbara

Poster Exhibition (12:20)

Foyer

Please stop by the foyer for the following poster presentations:

Investigating the effects of action concepts on recognition memory

Jiseon Baik & Haeil Park

KyungHee University

Phonological variation of t in Jewish American English

Ingrid Rosenthal UC Davis

The Effect of Language Dominance on Bilingual Speech

Planning

Miguel Miramontes, Yasmeen Sheikh, Evelyn Gámez, Eve Higby & Judith F. Kroll

UC Riverside

Plenary Talk I (1:10 - 2:10)

Most Innovative Research Panel

(2:20 - 3:20)

Ballroom B/C

The three finalists for the Award for Most Innovative Research will present during this session. The winner will

be announced during our Closing Remarks.

Emergent Adult Literacy: Parallels and Divergences Between L1 and L2 Learners

Lisa Gonzalves and Emily Moline

University of California, Davis

Toward Stronger Genre Uptake in Mathematical Argumentative Writing (MAW)

Leslie Banes

University of California, Davis

Heritage Language Ideologies of Bilingual Teacher Candidates

Lina Martín-Corredor

University of Texas, San Antonio

Thank you to our faculty judges:

Dr. Travis Bradley Dr. Agustina Carando

Dr. Kenji Sagae

Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain Ballroom B/C Dr. Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor University of California, Riverside The use of two or more languages is common in most places in the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition, and the brain. In the past 20 years, there has been an upsurge of research that examines the cognitive and neural bases of second language learning and bilingualism and the resulting consequences for cognition and for brain structure and function over the lifespan. Contrary to the view that bilingualism adds complication to the language system, the new research demonstrates that all languages that are known and used become part of the same language system. A critical insight is that bilingualism provides a tool for examining aspects of the cognitive architecture that are otherwise obscured by the skill associated with native language performance in monolingual speakers. In this context, variation in language experience becomes a critical tool for investigating the constraints and plasticity associated with language learning across the lifespan. In this talk, I illustrate this approach to language processing and consider the consequences that bilingualism holds for cognition and the neural networks that support it more generally.

Session IV

(3:30 – 4:30)

Plenary Talk II (4:40 - 5:40)

Language and Gender [Ballroom A] 3:30 Words Count: An Analysis of Gender Equality in the Amount of Speech in Studio Ghibli’s Romantic Relationships Kelly Donovan, Middlebury Institute of International Studies 3:50 Online performance of nonbinary gender identity in French: Innovations in Gender-Neutral Language Alyx Shroy, UC Davis 4:10 Indexing /s/exuality: Towards quantifying ‘gay-sounding’ speech in Japanese through spectral moments analysis Ryan Redmond, UC Davis Language Structure [Conference Room A] 3:30 Oligosynthetic Serial Verb Constructions in Natural Languages Daniel Ross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 3:50 Min Tonal Flip-Flop: Solving the Unsolvable Dan Brodkin, Carleton College Language Ideology [Conference Room B] 3:30 The Manifestation of Myths Casey Richardson, University of Arizona 3:50 U.S. Higher Education as Soft Power: U.S. Government Funded Exchange Programs in Algeria (2008-2016) Saoussen Cheddadi, The University of Kansas 4:10 Understanding lexiculture in the teaching and learning of foreign languages Edda Winkelman, Universidad de Navarra / Black Hills State University

'Animacy' versus 'Efficacy': Culture and Grammatical Gender in Latin Ballroom B/C Dr. Maria Manoliu, Professor Emerita University of California, Davis If studies of non Indo-European languages point to the fact that the scale of Animacy differs from one culture to another (see Dahl 2000), historical grammars of Romance languages have interpreted the Latin grammatical genders in Latin according to Western European culture, as a way of encoding two main inherent semantic oppositions: [Animate vs. Inanimate]. But this model is far from accounting for the difference between the semantic features encoded by Latin neuter and non-neuter grammatical genders. Compare, for example, (1) and (2): (1) neut. saxum ‘stone, rock’ vs. masc. lapis ‘stone, landmark’, rupes ‘cliff’ (2) neut. mare ‘sea, salted water’ vs. masc. pontus ‘sea’ and fem. aqua ‘water’. The Animacy model cannot account for the masculine gender of pontus and neuter of mare or feminine of aqua. According to our hypothesis, the gender subclassification of nouns in Latin was rooted in an earlier Mediterranean culture, in which the cognitive category of ‘Efficacy’ reflected a perception of the ‘(in)capacity of doing, affecting other beings’ as an inherent property of objects. Compare the following distribution of nouns: (i) ‘capable of being effective’ : (3) feminine: terra ‘earth’, arbor ‘tree’, aqua, like femina ‘woman’, masculine: ignis ‘fire’, ventus ‘wind’, like vir ‘man’ (ii) ‘incapable of being effective’: neuter (4) saxum ‘stone’, templum ‘temple’, tempus ‘time’; most nouns referring to fruit: pirum ‘pear’, prunum ‘prune’, generics for species: animal ‘animal’), etc Since some entities can be active in some contexts, and passive in others, it is necessary to distinguish between the virtual and the actual properties of the referents. The ‘capacity of being a doer (active, effective)’ is a virtual property of the referent that might be encoded in an inherent semantic feature (seme) of the noun. The property of ‘being a doer’ is the actualization of this capacity in certain conditions.