• 8:30am | Opening Remarks & Announcement of 3-Minute Thesis Finalists

• 8:45am | Meet Your Pod

• 9:00am - 10:00am | Parallel Session 1A: Speech perception and raciolinguistic ideologies

  • Sociolinguistic Perceptions of Syntactic and Lexical Variation Among Persian-English Bilingual Speakers, Tyler Kline (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

  • Influence of raciolinguistic expectations on phoneme categorization in Spanish-English bilinguals, Jennifer Dibbern (Doctoral student, Northwestern University)

  • How should a refugee sound? "Hearing" racialized personae in asylum proceedings, Jeremy A. Rud (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

• 9:00am - 10:00am | Parallel Session 1B: Psycholinguistics | View panel recording here.

  • Do labels help children form more specific categories? Isabella Duan (Undergraduate student, Stanford University) and Bria Long (Postdoc, Stanford University)

  • Syntactic and semantic interference on the processing of disfluent sentences, Leonardo Zeine (Master’s student, University of São Paulo)

  • The Impact of Working Memory and Language Experience on the Processing of Attachment Ambiguities, Beverly Cotter (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

• 9:00am - 10:00am | Parallel Session 1C: Language Teaching & Learning | View panel recording here.

  • Methodological synthesis of second-language anxiety and motivation questionnaires: A call for reform, Ekaterina Sudina (Doctoral student, Northern Arizona University)

  • The Role of Using Allegories in Enhancing EFL Learners’ Critical Reading Skills, Hamoudi Benarba (Doctoral student, University of Béchar)

  • Strategy-Based Instruction: The Effect of Curriculum-Integrated Explicit Strategy Instruction, Sylvia Chaiyeon Lee (Doctoral student, University of San Francisco)

• 10:00am-11:00am | Most Innovative Research Panel - Undergraduate

  • View panel recording here.

  • Using Sociolinguistic Factors to Improve Language Technologies in Predicting Mandarin-English Codeswitching Through Classification and Regression Trees (CART) and Random Forest Models, Irene Yi (Undergraduate student, University of California, Berkeley)

  • Labeling emotions in a native and foreign language: An ERP study on emotion regulation in bilinguals via affect labeling, Christy Lei (Undergraduate student, Reed College)

  • From No-body to Un-bod(ied): Black Trans Social Death & Digital Grammar, Amari Grey Johnson (Undergraduate student, Harvard University)

• 11:00am | Keynote Address: Modeling human nature: Visualizing the dangers and delights of laughter and humor - Otto Santa Ana & Samuel Rose

  • View Keynote address recording here.

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• 11:45am-12:15pm | Lunch Break

• 12:15pm-1:15pm | Parallel Session 2A: Bilingualism | View panel recording here.

  • Self-rated daily language use, rather than self-rated bilingual language competency, moderates the effects of brain on cognition in a Hispanic cohort, Meghan Elliott (Master’s student, University of Southern California)

  • Modulating Bilingual Switch Costs with Cognitive-Control Engagement, Lauren Salig (Doctoral student, University of Maryland)

  • How Speech-Shaped Noise Influences Phonetic Perception in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners, Zunaira Iqbal (Doctoral student, University of California, Merced)

• 12:15pm-1:15pm | Parallel Session 2B: Language Identity & Policy | View panel recording here.

  • Language Identity and Economic Outcomes in Spanish Bilinguals, Rebecca Ash-Cervantes (Master’s student, California State University, Los Angeles)

  • Autoethnography as a Window into an Immigrant Female Teacher’s Identity, Laura Brass (Doctoral student, The University of British Columbia)

  • Producing Humor by Portraying Asymmetries in Racial Common-Sense, Lillian Cheeks (Undergraduate student, University of California, Santa Barbara)

• 12:15pm-1:15pm | Parallel Session 2C: Syntax | View panel recording here.

  • Agreement in Hixkaryana person portmanteaux: An analysis, Amor Leal (Master’s student, California State University, Northridge)

  • El preceding embedded clauses: a phenomenon of variation in Spanish and other Romance languages, Cristina Ruiz-Alonso (Doctoral student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Quantifying the syntactic bootstrapping effect in verb learning: A meta-analytic synthesis, Anjie Cao (Doctoral student, Stanford University) and Molly Lewis (Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University)

• 1:15pm | Keynote Address: Teaching to a Classroom of Millions: How Duolingo Approaches Issues in Language Learning - Emily Moline & Bozena Pajak

  • View Keynote address recording here.

• 2:00pm-3:00pm | Most Innovative Research Panel - Graduate

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  • Look it’s un Perro! Infant-Directed Speech With Spanish-English Bilingual Parents, Andrea Ramirez Barajas (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

  • "I looked in the dictionary, it doesn’t even exist!": Young Nonbinary Montréalers’ Fight for Linguistic Recognition in a Prescriptivist World, Jennifer Kaplan (Doctoral student, University of California, Berkeley)

  • The Language of Women’s Migraine Pain: A Corpus for Improving Pain Assessment, Emilie Schiess (Master’s student, Ball State University)

• 3:00pm | Afternoon Break & Pod Session

• 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Parallel Session 3A: Text Processing & Computational Linguistics | View panel recording here.

  • Bare Nouns and Determiners in Kwéyòl Donmnik: A Corpus-Based and Experimental Study of Discourse-Pragmatic Features, Joy Peltier (Doctoral student, University of Michigan)

  • A corpus analysis of children’s counterfactual production, Ioana Grosu (Doctoral student, New York University)

  • Spanish diacritic restoration, Maria Elizabeth Garza (Master’s student, CUNY Graduate Center)

• 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Parallel Session 3B: Sociolinguistics | View panel recording here.

  • Generic representations: the reliability of non-binary language in Spanish, Noelia Ayelén Stetie (Doctoral student, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires)

  • Language documentation for talk about language: Strengthening research and practice, Allison Taylor-Adams (Doctoral student, University of Oregon)

  • Lassoing Spanish Heritage Speaker Verb Mood Complexity, Paul Kidhardt (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

• 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Parallel Session 3C: Phonetics & Phonology | View panel recording here.

  • What makes a voice memorable? Investigating voice recognizability through typicality?, Ashley Keaton (Doctoral student, University of California, Davis)

  • Korean American English in GA: [+back] on the B/OW/T, Dot-Eum (Rachel) Kim (Doctoral student, University of Georgia)

  • How Lexical and Phonological Variation Interact in Speech Perception Across American and British English, Riley Stray (Undergraduate student, University of California, Davis)

• 4:15pm | 3-Minute Thesis and Most Innovative Award Presentations

• 4:45pm | Closing Remarks

  • View Awards & Closing Remarks video recording.

• 5:00pm | Final Pod Session - Good Byes

• 5:15pm | Virtual Social Mixer

*All times are Pacific Daylight Time.

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