16th Annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference

Session Chair: Dorian Roehrs

9:00am – 9:30am: Patricia Cukor Avila (UNT)

“Macro and micro demographic changes and their linguistic consequences”

9:30am – 10:00am: Marco Shappeck (UNT Dallas)

“Bringing Linguistics to the Public: Developing Metalinguistic Awareness through Accessible Pedagogy”

10:00am – 10:30am: Lisa Jeon (UNT), Andrew Cheng (University of Hawai'i Manoa), Dot-Eum Kim (University of Georgia)

“A comparative analysis of English vowel shifts and vowel space area among Korean Americans in three dialect regions”

Coffee Break

Session Chair: Frederik Hartmann

11:00am – 11:30am: Marie Bissell (UTA)

“Effects of dialect exposure on perceptions of allophonic variation”

11:30am – 12:00pm: Dani Quaye (UTA)

“Acoustics of labial-velar stops in Gã (Niger Congo)”

12:00pm – 12:30pm: Sadaf Munshi (UNT)

“Issues and Challenges in Lexicography: A Comparative Study on Burushaski, Kashmiri and Mankiyali”

Lunch Break & Poster Session 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Session Chair: Xian Zhang

2:00pm – 2:30pm: Michael Boutin (Dallas International University)

“An Anthropological Linguistics Exploration of Bonggi Names and Naming Conventions”

2:30pm – 3:00pm: Paul Kroeger (Dallas Intl. University & SIL Intl.)

“Iamitive functions in Kimaragang and beyond”

3:00pm – 3:30pm: Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University-Commerce)

“The pragmatics of eristic discourse”

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Coffee Break

Session Chair: Katie Crowder

4:00pm – 4:30pm: Flavia Belpoliti  & Gouda Taha (Texas A&M Commerce)

“This technology learns a little bit, and then we can let him do the work for us. Metaphoric representations of ChatGTP among second language instructors: from cognition to teaching practices”

4:30pm – 5:00pm: Blake Fisher (UNT)

“Tettenin Fosun Safei -- “The Structured Language of Medicine”: Exploring the integration of Chuukese medical terminology into medical ontologies for machine translation”

1. Hoda Salimi (UTA) & Reza M. Sahraei (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran). “The Influence of Web-Based Reflective Teaching Courses on Educators' Reflective Abilities and Professional Advancement”
2. Peggy Semingson and Katie Welch (UTA). “Fostering Service Learning in TESOL Courses for a Digital Workplace”
3. Erica Dagar (UTA). “Reduced VOT imitation by Native English Speakers”
4. Dema Smadi (UTA). “Phonetic L2 Development and Phonetic Attrition in L1 Arabic L2 English immigrants’ stop production”
5. Duaa Makhoul (UTA). “Arabic Request Behavior among Foreign Language Learners through Sociopragmatic Variables”
6. Bahareh Yousefian (UTA). “Meaning Interpretation of Persian Noun-Noun Compounds: A Conceptual Blending Approach”
7. Laurel Stvan (UTA). “Wikipedia Editing in the Linguistics Classroom?”
8. Matthew Benton (UTA). “Speech Rhythm Perception of Monolingual English and Bilingual Spanish/English Speakers Based on Acoustic Pairwise Variability”
9. Pete Unseth (Dallas International University). “Typology of Grammatical Complexity in African Proverbs”
10. Sloane Cheesebrough (UNT). “Perceptions of Neopronouns”
11. Rusty Mills (UNT). “Lexical Analysis of Semantic Shift in Nuclear Power Terms”
12. Harvey Simpson (UNT). “Creating an Online Corpus for Rural African American English”
13. Yumi Standlee (UNT). “A Historical Phonology of Nduke”
14. Alejandro Garza-Lainez (UNT). “What the X?!: Is 'Latinx' a Label of Progress or Cultural Controversy?"