English Dialects / Dialectes de l’anglais
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Morphosyntax / Morphosyntaxe
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Alain Flaubert Takam (Dalhousie U)
The use of articles in non-standard dialects of British English and in Cameroon English: A comparative analysis

Emmanuel Aito (U Regina)
Esan dialects and orthography harmonization: Addressing the “Russian Doll” effect

Christa Beaudoin-Lietz (St Mary's U)
Creating awareness of academic writing: Surveying first-year level students' awareness of register differentiation

Anthony C Lister (Fredericton)
Defining postverbal prepositional phrases in Chinese

William Davey & Richard MacKinnon
(Cape Breton U)
A report on the Dictionary of Cape Breton English: The defining process

Cynthia Potvin (U Moncton & U Laval)
Concept de monotonicité et distribution du subjonctif: interface entre morphosyntaxe et sémantique

Keynote Speaker / Conférencière invitée
Sali Tagliamonte (U Toronto)
Dialects in the city of variation: Toronto

Continental breakfast /
Petit déjeuner continental

Variation Studies / Études variationnistes
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Syntax / Syntaxe
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Mariadelaluz Matus-Mendoza (Drexel U)
Phonetics of Guatemalan fincas

Yi-An Lin (U Cambridge)
The encoding of definiteness, specificity and referentiality in Chinese languages

Gerard Van Herk, Becky Childs & Jennifer Thorburn  (Memorial U Newfoundland & Coastal Carolina U)
Identity marking and affiliation in an urbanizing Newfoundland community

Jasmina Milicevic (Dalhousie U)
Serbian clitic auxiliaries: Syntactic heads or dependents?

Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki
(U Moncton & U New Brunswick)
La variation dans les formes verbales 3pl à l'imparfait en français acadien

Pei-Jung Kuo (U Connecticut)
The preposed object in Mandarin Chinese and Southern Min

Français langue maternelle  / French L1
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Text and Creativity / Texte et créativité
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Patricia Balcom (U Moncton)
Do instruction and exposure make a difference on the learning of orthographic spelling by speakers of a regional variety?

Emmanuel Aito (U Regina)
Democracy without language? Lexical creativity in a Nigerian minority language

Jean-Guy Mboudjeke (U Windsor)
Norme contre variations: les difficultés normatives des étudiants canadiens de français langue maternelle

Anne Furlong (U Prince Edward Island)
"Everything old is new again": The role of memory in the productive repetition of texts

Annual General Meeting /
Assemblée générale annuelle

Banquet
Hôtel Crowne Plaza Hotel
Fredericton-Lord Beaverbrook