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mACOL 2020 Program

The Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL) was hosted virtually by the Linguistics Program at the University of Montana on Saturday, November 14, 2020.

Schedule
Saturday, November 14th
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2020
8:45 AM	Opening Ceremony Aspen Decker, Salish Kutenai College Larry Hufford, University of Montana, Missoula University of Montana, Missoula 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome: Organizing Committee Prayer: Aspen Decker, Member of the T̓ at̓ áyaqn, Qlispé u Sqlqlsé (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) Opening Remarks: Larry Hufford, Dean of the College of Humanities & Sciences Conference Overview
9:00 AM	Keynote Leora Bar-el, University of Montana, Missoula Richard Littlebear, Chief Dull Knife College University of Montana, Missoula 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Introduction: Leora Bar-el Practical Application of Linguistics in Saving Indigenous Languages: Dr. Richard Littlebear, President of Chief Dull Knife College Q&A Break
10:00 AM	Session 1: Syntax Leora Bar-el (Chair), University of Montana, Missoula University of Montana, Missoula 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM The Processing of Prepositional Relative Clauses in L2 Spanish: Andrea Levenstein-Rodriguez The Lives of Coordinate Structures: Evidence from Distribution and Cases of Three (or More) Conjuncts: Brooklyn Sheppard Movement of Turkish Bare Direct Objects Motivated by Strong Accusative Case Feature: Metehan Oguz Break
11:10 AM	Session 2: Phonetics & Phonology Irene Appelbaum (Chair), University of Montana, Missoula University of Montana, Missoula 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM Addressing Concerns in Linguistics and Pedagogy Through Collaboration: Mizuki Miyashita, Naatosi Fish, Min Chen, & James Randall Voice Onset Time in a Language Without Distinctive Voicing: Blackfoot Oral Stops: Inge Genee & Fangfang Li Documentary Exploration of the Evolution of Spanish Sibilants: Andrés Guidice
12:10 PM	Lunch Break University of Montana, Missoula 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM	Poster Session Steven Buxbaum (Chair) Jarrett Hopewell (Chair) University of Montana, Missoula 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Phonetics & Phonology The Epenthetic Vowel in Persian Loanwords Borrowed from English: Mahyar Nakhaei Are English Speakers “Deaf” to Serbian Lexical Pitch Accent Contrasts?: Dušan Nikolić Plains Cree VOT in a Single-Series Typology: Merion Hodgson The Phonology of Gemination in Garo: Cheman Baira A Sangma Psycholinguistics Children's Understanding of Logical Connectives: Cheryl Iwanchuk & Dimitrios Skordos The Developmental Trajectory of Scalar Implicatures: Amy Sun, Dimitrios Skordos, & David Barner Shyness and Sarcasm Use: Is There a Stereotypical Relationship?: Megan Bohach Bilingualism Bidirectional Cross-Linguistic Influence and Language Dominance: The Case of Preverbal Indefinites in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: Hannah Bou-Lai Lam Adding Quantities to Quantifiers: Measuring Frequency of Code Switching: Sonya Trawick & Dora LaCasse Syntax On the Syntax of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particle: A Neo-Performative Analysis: Kang Xu Break
2:00 PM	Session 3: Text & Aspect Inge Genee (Chair) University of Montana, Missoula 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Words in His Mouth? The Openings and Closings of Barnaby's Stories in Kutenai Tales: Irene Appelbaum Variable Exponence of Aspect in Tsuut'ina Verbs: Kody Tufts Imperfective in the Absence of Perfective: -ag in East Ruvu Bantu: Leora Bar-el & Malin Petzell
3:00 PM	Closing Ceremony Naatosi Fish, Member of Aamsskáápipikani (Blackfeet) University of Montana, Missoula 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Closing Remarks: Organizing Committee Prayer: Naatosi Fish, Member of Aamsskáápipikani (Blackfeet)