Friday, October 3, 2008: Chavez rm. 104

1:30 Welcome by Mr. Peter Yucupicio, Chairman of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and by Mrs. Maria F. Leyva, Administrator of the Language Development Department, Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Session A: Phonology and Phonetics I
1:45 – 2:15 Larry Hagberg
An acoustic analysis of Yaqui stress
2:15 – 2:45 Colleen Fitzgerald
Prosodies in Tohono O'odham reduplication

Break

3:00 - 4:30 Invited speaker
Stacey Oberly
The Phonetic Correlates of Southern Ute Stress

Saturday, October 4, 2008: Chavez rm. 307

8:45 Coffee
Session B: Phonology II
9:30 - 10:00 Katherine Matsumoto
Shoshoni Echo Vowels: Markedness versus Faithfulness
10:00 - 10:30 Dirk Elzinga
Shoshoni Intonational Phonology: Some initial observations
10.30 – 11.00 Marcus Smith
Reconsidering Kitanemuk Phonology
11:00 Coffee
Session C: Historical I
11:15 - 11:45 Ana Lidia Munguia
Seguimiento de las consonantes coronales en Uto-Azteca
11:45 – 12:15 Mercedes Montes de Oca
Nominal derivation and conceptual creation in Nahuatl
12:15 – 12.45 Todd McDanields
Pronoun second position in Comanche as an archaic survival
12:45 Lunch
Session D: Syntax I
2:00 - 2:30 Constantino Martínez Fabián
Distribución de funciones gramaticales en la coordinación de la lengua yaqui
2:30 – 3:00 Pamela Munro
Interrogative vebs in Takic
3:00 – 3.30 Alfonso Hernández
Usos y funciones de la particular in en el Nahuatl de Tlaxcala
3.30 Coffee break
Session E: Teaching/ Dialectology
3:45 – 4:15 Juan Ignacio Hernández
La enseñanza de la estructura gramatical del Nahuatl de la montaña de Guerrero en la educación secundaria como objeto de estudio desde una perspectiva intercultural
4:15 – 4:45 Kenneth Hill
Dialect differences in Hopi

Saturday evening: Dinner at La Indita Mexican Restaurant
622 N 4TH Ave Tucson, AZ 85705-8449 520.792.0523

Sunday, October 5, 2008: Chavez rm. 307

8:45 Coffee
Session F: Historical II
10:00 – 10:30 Karen Dakin
Reflexes of initial pUA *p in Nahuatl: complicated or straightforward
10.30 – 11.00 Brian Stubbs
Some Proto-Uto-Aztecan *t > c, in time for *c > s Coffee break
11.00 Coffee break
Session G: Lexicography/ Documentation / Anthropological
11:15 - 11:45 Norbert Francis & Kent Johnson
Development and documentation of aesthetic genres in the Tlaxcalan highlands
11:45 – 12:15 Frederic B. Nagel
A few words related to salt and white from the Beginners Nahuatl dictionary of the early Novohispanic period
12:15 – 12:45 Jane Hill
Looking again at 'Old California Uto-Aztecan'
12.15 Closing remarks by the organizers
Room Room