The 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
This symposium offers an engaging platform for scholars and researchers to present and discuss theoretical and experimental issues in Arabic Linguistics. Selected papers will cover a diverse range of topics, including but not limited to linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics.
Click here to register now!Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex
Dr. Alec Marantz, NYU
Dr. John Drury, CUNY Brooklyn College
Sam Alxatib, CUNY Graduate Center
We are also excited to announce two special panels at the symposium:
Arabic Morphology as a Window into How the Brain Processes Language
Featured panel speakers:
Dr. Samantha Wray (Dartmouth University)
Dr. Suhail Matar (BCBL lab)
Marianne Azar (NYU).
Potential Uses of AI in Linguistic Studies
Featured panel speakers:
Dr. Leila Wehbe (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dr. Julien Dirani (NYU).
The main coordinator of the conference is Reem Khamis from Long Island University.
Join us for this enriching experience at LIU Brooklyn's Library Learning Center 122, as we delve into the latest advancements and research in Arabic Linguistics.
Note: All presenters must be members of the Arabic Linguistic Society. Membership fees are payable to the Arabic Linguistic Society. Membership Payment link: https://arabic-linguistics-society.uwm.edu/als-membership
Symposium Program
Friday, February 23 (LLC 124)
8:00-8:45 Registration and Refreshments
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Michael Pantalon- Dean of the School of Health Professions, LIU Brooklyn
9:00-10:00 CLINICAL LINGUISTICS I
Chair: Nelson Moses
9:00-9:30 A longitudinal study of the contribution of a diglossia-centered Arabic literacy intervention in kindergarten on reading skills in the 3rd grade
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Rachel Schiff, Lina Haj and Ola Ghawi-Dakwar
9:30-10:00 Morphosyntactic skills in Arabic-speaking children with Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD): Evidence from error patterns in the Sentence Repetition Task
Muna Abd El-Raziq, Natalia Meir and Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address
Roots as the Anchor for Distributional Semantics in Arabic and Beyond
Alec Marantz
11:00-11:15 Refreshment Break
11:15-12:45 CLINICAL LINGUISTICS II
Chair: Mira Goral
11:15-11:45 Arabic understanding and expressing emotions are vital aspects of language development in children
Reem Khamis, Laila Qanawati, Gubair Tarabeh, Dima Zabalawi and Aya Ali
11:45-12:15 Acquisition of mental state verbs of Palestinian Arabic-speaking children with Autism
Israa Watad and Rama Novogrodsky
12:15-12:45 When prosody meets syntax in Hijazi Arabic gapping
Aisha Fuddah, Hammad Alshammari and Hanyong Park
12:45-2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:00 Panel I
Arabic Morphology as a Window into How the Brain Processes Language
Samantha Wray, Suhail Matar, and Marianne Azar
3:00-4:30 CORPUS & DISCOURSE
Chair: Ellen Broselow
3:00-3:30 AROSA: A web-mined Arabic corpus for opinion mining and sentiment analysis using subjective predicates
Khaled Elghamry
3:30-4:00 Ellipsis in Arabic: Using machine learning to detect and predict elided words
Muhammad Abdo, Damir Cavar and Billy Dickson
4:00-4:30 Plural acquisition in Egyptian Arabic-speaking children: A corpus-based study
Samantha Ghali, Mira Goral and Heba Salama
4:30-4:45 Refreshment Break
4:45-5:45 Panel II
AI for Arabic Language Research: Obstacles and Opportunities
Leila Wehb and Julien Dirani
Saturday, February 24 (LLC 124)
8:00-9:00 Registration and Refreshments
9:00-10:30 PHONOLOGY
Chair: Stuart Davis
9:00-9:30 Tongue ultrasound visual feedback for learning Arabic coronal emphatics
Ghada Shejaeya, Kevin Roon and Douglas Whalen
9:30-10:00 An articulatory investigation of Arabic emphatic and guttural consonants using ultrasound
Amanda Eads, Jodi Khater and Jeff Mielke
10:00-10:30 An MRI examination of the pharyngeal place of articulation in Arabic
Zainab Hermes, Benjamin Lang, Samantha Wray, Haidee Paterson, Osama Abdullah and Alec Marantz
10:30-10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-11:45 Keynote Address
Dedialectalisation of Arabic Vernaculars as a Byproduct of Koineisation
Enam Al-Wer
11:45-1:15 SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Chair: Amel Khalfaoui
11:45-12:15 Stylized performance of “mock Berber” in a Moroccan stand-up comedy talent show
Atiqa Hachimi and Gareth Smail
12:15-12:45 Unraveling the linguistic outcomes of contact: Insights from Arabic/English bilingualism
Yasmine Abou Taha and Stephen Levey
12:45-1:15 A core meaning for the discourse marker rāɦ in Egyptian Arabic
Michael White
1:15-2:15 Catered Lunch and Business Meeting
2:15- 3:15 POSTER SESSION
1. A Morphology-Driven Theory of Agree: Unlocking Agreement Variation in Standard Arabic
Aya Halabi
2. The Cophonology by Ph(r)ase Framework (CBP): Evidence from t-liaison in Palestinian-Jordanian Arabic (PJA)
Mahmoud Alawneh
3. Expressive Arabic Text-to-Speech
Khaled Elghamry, Muhammad Abdo and Attia Youseif
4. The Integration of English Loan /p/ into Palestinian Arabic
Nour Tamim and Silke Hamann
5. Acquisition of Noun-Adjective Agreement in Modern Standard Arabic as an L2
Halimah Alalawi and Cynthia Lukyanenko
6. Paradigm Regularization in Iraqi Arabic Hollow Verbs in Forms 7-10
Maimoonah Naji
7. Putting the Linguist’s Rules to Work
Salam Khalifa, Mohammadsadegh Ghalayani, Ellen Broselow, Robert Hoberman, Jordan Kodner, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel and Owen Rambow
8. Policymakers' Perceptions and Ideologies Toward Teaching Saudi Dialect in Modern Standard Arabic Classrooms
Mughram Alshehri
9. Non-final Superheavy Syllables in Non-Bedouin Qassimi Arabic
Abdullah Alzaaq
10. Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Moroccan Patients with Probable Alzheimer´s Disease Mounia El Jaouhari, Mira Goral, Najib Kissani and Samir Diouny
3:15-4:15 Keynote Address
On the Universal Perfect in Palestinian Arabic
Sam Al Khatib
4:15-5:45 NEGATION
Chair: Hamid Ouali
4:15-4:45 Hijazi Arabic muu: Beyond mere negation
Aisha Fuddah
4:45-5:15 A semantic analysis of differential object marking
Aya Zarka
5:15-5:45 Arabic resumptive pronouns in the diglossic grammar
R. Muralikrishnan, Danya Abu Nejim, Shouq Al-Kaabi and Ali Idrissi
6:00-7:30 Banquet Dinner Featuring Musical Performance by Zafer Tawil
Sunday, February 25 (LLC 124)
8:00-9:00 Registration and Refreshments
9:00-11:00 PHONOLOGY
Chair: Samantha Wray
9:00-9:30 Sonority and coda syllabification in Arabic
Mohamed Embarki and Jonathan Owens
9:30-10:00 Converging evidence for similarity avoidance in Arabic
Ali Idrissi, Rawdha Al-Hajri and Yousri Marzouki
10:00-10:30 Quadriliteral comparatives in Arabic
Dua Elhija and Stuart Davis
10:30-11:00 Voicing and distance-based sibilant harmony in Moroccan Arabic
Ali Nirheche
11:00-11:30 Refreshment Break
11:30-12:30 Keynote Address
Attending (or Not) to Diacritics in Arabic Visual Word Recognition
John Drury and Ali Idrissi
12:30-1:30 NEUROLINGUISTICS
Chair: Suhail Matar
12:30-1:00 Affix semantic typicality facilitates word processing: MEG evidence from Arabic
Marianne Azar and Alec Marantz
1:00-1:30 The role of memory consolidation in learning Semitic-like words
Niveen Omar, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Ghada Khattab
1:30– 1:45 Closing Remarks
Reem Khamis, Professor and Academic Director of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department
Contact Information
For any inquiries related to the ALS Conference, please feel free to reach out through the following channels:
General Queries
Email us at the ALS Conference official email: asal37gccuny@gmail.com
Specific Inquiries to the Main Host
Contact Dr. Reem Khamis directly at reem.khamis@liu.edu
We welcome your questions are here to assist with any information you may need regarding the conference
Map & Directions
Location
LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, New York 11201-8423
Public Transportation
• LIU Brooklyn is central to all transportation. Use the MTA's Trip Planner, to plan your trip to the campus.
By Subway:
The LIU Brooklyn campus is served by all major subway lines. IRT: 4 or 5 train (Lexington Avenue Line) or 2 or 3 train (Seventh Avenue Line) to Nevins Street Station; BMT: B, Q, or R train to DeKalb Avenue Station; IND: A, C, or G train (Eighth Avenue Line) to Hoyt Schermerhorn Street Station. For subway information, visit: http://www.mta.info/nyct.
By Railroad: (Long Island Railroad)
The Flatbush Avenue terminal of the Long Island Rail Road is 4 blocks from the Campus. For railroad information visit: http://mta.info/lirr.
By Bus:
The LIU Brooklyn campus is accessible by MTA bus lines B25, B26, B38, B41, B52, B54 and B67. For bus information, visit: http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/bus/bklnsch.htm.
By Plane:
Nearest airports to the LIU Brooklyn campus are John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA). Bus, taxi and limousine service are available at all airports. Connecting train service is available at Newark Liberty. The AirTrain is available to and from JFK Airport with connections to the LIRR Flatbush Avenue terminal, which is located 4 blocks from the Campus. For Port Authority airport travel information, visit: www.panynj.gov.
By Car: (Parking is available on DeKalb and on Flatbush Avenues)
From Manhattan
Via Manhattan Bridge
Proceed along Flatbush Avenue Extension, turn left on Myrtle Avenue, right on Ashland Place and proceed 2 blocks to DeKalb Avenue and turn right. The campus is on your right at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenues.
Via Brooklyn Bridge
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From Queens
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From Staten Island or Brooklyn
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To return to Manhattan via the Manhattan Bridge
Proceed on DeKalb Avenue and turn right on Flatbush Avenue to the Manhattan Bridge.
- via the Brooklyn Bridge, proceed on DeKalb Avenue, turn right on Flatbush Avenue then left on Tillary Street. The entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge will be on your right.
To return to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Queens-bound
Take Flatbush Avenue to Tillary Street. Turn right on Tillary Street and then stay to the left. Enter Ramp for Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
To return to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Brooklyn- or Staten Island-bound
Take Flatbush Avenue to Tillary Street. Turn Left on Tillary Street to Cadman Plaza West. Make a right turn on Cadman Plaza West. Bear left to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Hotel Information
Several hotels and guest housing centers will be available for the 37th annual Arabic Linguistics Symposium. Make sure to book your hotel reservation as early as possible.
1. Hampton Inn Brooklyn/Downtown:
Located just 0.4 miles from the conference venue.
Website: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/nycbohx-91j-9f69d6f6-81be-4a82-b637-2ad596736505/
A block of 25 rooms reserved for conference attendees.
Special Group Rates for Conference Attendees:
Standard King Bed Rooms: $130.00 per night, plus tax. Total cost per night is $152.67 (includes 14.75% tax and $3.50 city tax).
Rooms with Two Double Beds: $160.00 per night, plus tax. Total cost per night is $187.10 (includes 14.75% tax and $3.50 city tax).
Included Amenities:
Enjoy a complimentary buffet breakfast each morning in the main lobby, and complimentary high-speed wireless internet access.
These special rates and convenient amenities make the Hampton Inn Brooklyn/Downtown an excellent choice for conference attendees seeking comfort and proximity to the event.
2. Aloft New York Brooklyn:
A modern and stylish hotel located 0.2 miles from the conference venue
Website: Aloft New York Brooklyn (https://www.downtownbrooklyn.com/listing/aloft-new-york-brooklyn/)
3. Hotel Indigo
A boutique hotel located 700 feel from the conference venue. 20% discount is offered to the conference attendees
Website: Hotel Indigo
(https://www.ihg.com/destinations/us/en/united-states/new-york/brooklyn-hotels)
4. Holiday Inn Brooklyn Downtown
An IHG Hotel located 0.6 miles from the conference venue. 20 rooms are blocked for this conference and 13% off.
Website: Holiday Inn (https://www.guestreservations.com/holiday-inn-brooklyn-downtown/booking?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAr8eqBhD3ARIsAIe-buNfqcmnIo182VuOR19R0w9Sf3C8hmziWbTVhJ82ohgYJaPeX2ZrCqwaAtvqEALw_wcB)
5. Sheraton Brooklyn New York Hotel
Located 700 feet from the conference venue
Website: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/nycys-sheraton-brooklyn-new-york-hotel/overview/