XIV Québec-Ontario Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Private Dining Room, Burwash Hall

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15-10:15 Panel 1 (Moderator: Olivia Marasco)
Null and overt subject distribution in non-native Spanish
Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Université de Montréal

Psychotypology and L1 attrition: A case study on Hispanic (late) bilinguals in Canada

Jérôme Simon, University of Ottawa

Typology of negative doubling in Chipileño Spanish: Is negation in Chipilo a case of the Jespersen
Cycle?
Olga Tararova, University of Toronto
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:50 Panel 2 (Moderator: Olga Tararova)
Effects of acoustic training on the perception of Spanish lexical stress
Owen Ward, University of Toronto

La dificultad articulatoria en la adquisición del español

Matthew Patience, University of Toronto

The effects of language dominance on the production of interrogative intonation by Spanish-

English bilingual children: A bi-directional study
Scott James Perry, Western University

Intonation patterns in Argentinian- and Venezuelan-Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish:

Investigating parental and English influences
Jacob Aziz1, Vanina Machado Araujo2, Celina Valdivia1, Natasha Swiderski1,
Yasaman Rafat1, Ryan Stevenson1, & Rajiv Rao3, 1Western University,
2
University of Toronto, 3University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:50-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel 3 (Moderator: Sophie Harrington)
Influencia interlingüística en la adquisición del género en español como L3
Hugues Lacroix1, 2 & Anahí Alba de la Fuente1, 1Université de Montréal,
2
Université Bordeaux-Montaigne/IKER-UMR-5472

Acquisition of the /u/-/l/ distinction in simultaneous and early successive bilingualism

Adriana Soto-Corominas, Western University
 Motion events in bilingual stories
Grace Gomashie, Western University
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-3:25 Panel 4 (Moderator: Matthew Patience)
l-vocalization as gestural lenition: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
Phil Howson1 & Marzena Żygis2, 1University of Toronto, 2Zentrum fur
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

La sonorización y el ensordecimiento de las álveo-palatales fricativas en el habla de Andrea del

Boca
Petre Ene, University of Toronto
3:25-3:40 Coffee Break
3:40-4:40 Panel 5 (Moderator: Malina Radu)
Parental discourse strategies in heritage language maintenance: Why do parents prefer less effective
strategies to more effective ones?
Joselyn Brooksbank, University of Ottawa

Evidence for the nominal nature of indicative dependents: A study of dudar (de) que
Sophie Harrington, University of Toronto

Adjectives in child Spanish: An input-output analysis

Erin Pettibone, University of Toronto
4:40-5:00 Closing Remarks