Graduate Student Contributions

Here is a list of some contributions by the graduate students in the Linguistics Program at University of Florida.

Recent Publications:

• Habib, Rania. 2008. Humor and Disagreement: Identity Construction and Cross-cultural Enrichment. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (6). 1117-1145.
• Habib, Rania. (2008). The syntax of the Standard Arabic particles "an and " anna. In Kleanthes Grohmann and Phoevos Panagiotidis (eds.), Selected Papers from the 2006 Cyprus Syntax Fest. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
• Habib, Rania. (2007). Review of Introducing Sociolinguistics. Miriam Meyerhoff (2006). London; New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). LINGUIST List issue number 18.2420. http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2420.html
• Huang, Chun. 2007. Language Planning for Naming and Its Socio-cultural Connotation: A Case Study in Taiwan. Current Issue in Language Planning. vol. 8:3
• Habib, Rania. (2007). Review of Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVI: Papers from the Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Cambridge, March 2002. In Sami Boudelaa (ed.)(2006), Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 266. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. LINGUIST List issue number 18.554. http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-554.html#1.
• Haddad, Youssef. 2007. Subject Anaphors: Exempt or Not Exempt. Linguistic Inquiry 38. 363-372.
• Haddad, Youssef. 2006. Dialect and Standard in Second Language Phonology; the Case of Arabic. SKY Journal of Linguistics 19, 147-171. http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/skyjol-en.shtml
• Linfoot-Ham, Kerry. 2006. Conversational Maxims in Encounters with Law Enforcement Officers. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, vol. 13:1.
• Linfoot-Ham, Kerry. 2005. The Linguistics of Euphemism. Journal of Language and Linguistics, vol. 3:2, p. 227-263, 2005.

Presentations:

August, 2008

• Habib, Rania. Sociolinguistic variation in Syrian Arabic within the framework of Optimality Theory. AILA 2008 (the 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics), Essen, Germany. August 24-29, 2008.

Janurary, 2008

• Habib, Rania. Modeling sociolinguistic variation in the Gradual Learning Algorithm. The 82nd/2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. January 3-6, 2008.

October, 2007

•  Ziliak, Zoe. Optimal Domains in Kikuyu Tonology: Spreading, Shifting, and Bidirectional Domains. Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology 13. Columbus, Ohio. October 26-28, 2007.

April, 2007

• Habib, Rania. Optimality Theory and sociolinguistic interpersonal variation. AAAL 2007 (The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2007 Conference). Costa Mesa, California. U.S.A. April 21-24, 2007.

March, 2007

• Bao, Mingzhen. Prosody of Focus among Information Structures in Pulaar. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. March 22-25, 2007.
• Gogoi, Divya Verma. Phonetic occurrence of voiceless implosives in Pulaar. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. March 22-25, 2007.
• Liu, Binmei. Learning to Make Suggestions in a Chemistry Lab.
  2007 Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. March 26-28, 2007.
• Zhu, Weihua. The function of NE in Pulaar. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2007)& 11th Annual African Language Teacher's Association Conference (ALTA 2007). Gainesville, Florida. March 22-25, 2007.
• Zhu, Weihua. "This is your problem": Direct disagreement among Chinese learners of English. International Linguistic Association 52nd Annual Conference. New York. March 30-April 1, 2007.
• Ziliak, Zoe. Inconsistency in Stem-Initial Consonant Grade Mutation of Pulaar Headless Relatives: Indicative of an Emergent Urban Dialect? 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Gainesville, FL. March 22-25 2007.

October, 2006

• Jangjamras, Jirapat. Why-In-Situ: Three Overt Syntactic Positions In  Thai. Western Conference on Linguistics 2006. Fresno, California.  October 27-29, 2006.

July, 2006

• Linfoot-Ham, Kerry. The Derivational Thinking Paradigm, Norm Resistance Theory and 911 Response Interviews. Conference on Language, Psychology and the Law, University of Leicester, UK. July 10th-12th, 2006.
• Linfoot-Ham, Kerry, “Derivational Thinking, Norm Resistance Theory and Police Interviewing Techniques. International Investigative Interviewing 2nd Conference, University of Portsmouth. July 3rd-7th, 2006.
  
• Linfoot-Ham, Kerry, “Derivational Thinking, Norm Resistance Theory and Police Interviewing Techniques. International Investigative Interviewing 2nd Conference, University of Portsmouth. July 3rd-7th, 2006.

June, 2006

• Habib, Rania. An OT account of a sociolinguistic inter-personal variation in the Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic. Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), College Park, Maryland. June 8-10, 2006.
• Haddad, Youssef. The Left Periphery in Standard Arabic Clause Structure. LSA Summer Meeting, Michigan. June 22-25, 2006.
• Liu, Binmei. PISH Structure and Verb-Copying Construction in Chinese. LSA-Summer Meeting(poster presentation), Michigan State University. June 22-25, 2006.
• Bao, Mingzhen. Tough Construction and Movement in Chinese. The 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, US. June 23-25, 2006.

May, 2006

• Bao, Mingzhen. A Comparative Study of Sentential Stress Distribution in Mandarin Multi-Style Speeches. 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany. May 2-5, 2006.
• Habib, Rania. The syntax of ?an and ?anna. InterPhases, Nicosia, Cyprus. May 18-20, 2006.

April, 2006

• Gai, Lili. Enhancing Foreign Language Instruction: Perspectives of Students in One Chinese University. AERA Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, April 7-11, 2006.

March, 2006

• Verma, Divya. Prosodic characteristics of declaratives in Hindi-English: an Experimental Study. 15th PG conference on Linguistics. University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. March 3rd, 2006.
• Smouse, Mantoa Rose:  Social Interaction and the use of literature in a foreign language classroom. ALTA (African Language Teachers' Association) Rutgers, NJ. March 23-25, 2006.
• Haddad, Youssef. Pseudo-Metathesis in Arabic Broken Plural. International Linguistics Association, Toronto, Canada. March 31-April 2, 2006.