The Twentieth Meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society took place February 19–20, 2021. March 5–6, 2021. The conference was hosted virtually by the University of Texas at Austin. Presentations came from all areas of linguistics, but the conference placed a special focus on the role of language in perpetuating and dismantling social inequality.
Cite as: Coons, Caitie, Gabriella Chronis, Sofia Pierson, and Venkat Govindarajan (eds). 2021. Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society. http://tls.ling.utexas.edu/2021tls/TLS_2021_Proceedings.pdf
Included papers:
Last updated March 4
Download the Schedule| Time (CST) | Event |
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| 9:00AM - 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Paper Talks: Syntax Xiaolong Lu -- What Can History Tell Us About Antonymous Compounds? Evidence from Adverb Chi-zao in Mandarin Chinese Tris Faulkner -- Es bueno que usamos el indicativo: How Mood Use Influences Social Attitudes Jesus Olguin -- As if-constructions in typological perspective |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Keynote: Jenny L. Davis From 'Last Indians' to 'Last Speakers': Celebrity and erasure in the counting down of Indigenous Languages |
| 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Paper Talks: Revitalization/Sign Language Luke Bishop -- New Speakers as the future of minoritized languages: A projection from Iberia to the Americas Elizabeth Merrill and J. Albert Bickford -- Language use among deaf and hearing people in a Mexican Zapotec community Austin German -- The emergence of segmentation in Zinacantec Family Homesign |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Keynote: Jeremy Calder Whose gendered voices matter?: moving beyond the white and cisgender speaking subject in sociolinguistic research |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Break |
| 4:30 PM - | Reception - Gather Town |
| Time (CST) | Event |
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Paper Talks: Discourse analysis Ping-Hsuan Wang -- Attacking or advocating Taiwan's gender equity education in Facebook comments Mahmood K. Ibrahim and Ulrike Tabbert -- The Linguistic Construction of Political Crimes in Kurdish-Iraqi Sherko Bekas' Poem The Small Mirrors Katherine Arnold-Murray -- "Because I’ve had these things I know I didn’t do by myself": A case study of how one life storyteller constructs an emergent spiritual identity through representations of agency |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Keynote: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio The performativity of language among Dominicans |
| 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Lunch |
| 12:45 PM - 2:30 PM |
Poster Session (Gather Town) 1. Sahar Almohareb -- Effects of Shared L1 Background on the Rating of Foreign Accent 2. Dimitrios Ntelitheos and Marta Szreder -- Non-verbal Predicate Negation in Child Emirati Arabic 3. Marcel Schlechtweg and Greville G. Corbett -- Plural agreement in English: Does it affect the duration of the nominal s suffix? 4. Mina Giannoula -- The nature of preverbs in Modern Greek 5. Alejandra Montero Saiz-Aja -- Gender differences in the perceptual learning styles and productive vocabulary of EFL learners 6. Nicole Sedor -- The Relationship of Instruction, Assessment, Feedback, and Performance Within the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) Framework 7. Emily Lindsay-Smith -- Non-Exceptional Stress Exceptions: Prosodic Preferences in Arabic Affixes 8. Mian Jia and Shuting Yao -- Face and impoliteness in Chinese Freestyle Rap Battles |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM |
Paper Talks: Semantics/pragmatics Katja Hannß -- The Chipaya salience-marking enclitics as discourse operators Guillem Belmar Viernes, Alonso Vásquez-Aguilar and Jeremías Salazar -- Agent hierarchy and segmental erosion: Allomorphy in dependent pronouns in Yucunani Sà'án Sàvǐ |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 PM - | Happy Hour - Gather Town |
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