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Oct 27, 2012 ... October 27th & 28th. 211 Hall of Languages. Syracuse University. 2012 CNY Humanities Corridor Symposium. The Multilingual Mind,.
2012 CNY Humanities Corridor Symposium

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The Multilingual Mind, Language Development and Methodology

The Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation SU Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Latino-Latin American Studies

October 27th & 28th 211 Hall of Languages Syracuse University syracusehumanities.org/mellon Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics lang.syr.edu

ORGANIZED BY Tej K. Bhatia & William C. Ritchie Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

DAY ONE: OCTOBER 27, 2012

Session 3: 4:45 - 5:45 pm

Session 5: 10:30am—12:00pm

Welcome 1:30 pm

Panel: Multilinguals and Academic Discourse I

Workshop on Language Documentation and Field Linguistics Organizer: Scott Paauw, University of Rochester

Gregg Lambert, Founding Director, SU Founding Director, SU Humanities Center Gail Bulman, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Organizer: Stan Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology Negotiating Meanings in Transnational Academic Discourse Panel participants:

Session 1: 2:00—3:00 pm

Stanley Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology

Pursuing the Process of Bilingual Development in the Young Child: An Enriched Case Study Methodology Provides New Evidence

Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology

David S. Martins, Rochester Institute of Technology

Chair: Iswari Pandey, Syracuse University

KEYNOTE I: Barbara Lust, Cornell University Chair: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University

Dinner: 6:30pm GENESEE GRANDE HOTEL,

Session 2: 3:30—4:30 pm A Differentiated Test of Executive Attention Reveals Cognitive Benefits of Child Bilingualism Across Cultures. PRESENTER: Carissa Kang, Cornell University

Towards understanding diagnostic cognitive reasoning of physicians PRESENTERS: Kathryn Womack and Jim Male, Rochester Institute of Technology Mentors: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Anne Haake, Cara Calvelli

Chair: James W. Gair, Cornell University

Capital Club Room 1600 East Genesee Street, Syracuse

DAY TWO: October 28, 2012 Breakfast 7:30—8:30 am

Working with Language Communities Scott Paauw, University of Rochester Field Semantics and Pragmatics Scott Ander Bois, University of Rochester Field Linguistics: Real-life Experiences in the Amazon & Metadata and Archiving Wilson Silva and Jared O'Loughlin, University of Rochester Chair: Amanda Brown, Syracuse University

Session 6: 12:15pm—1:15pm Panel: Multi-linguals and Academic Discourse II Organizer: Stanley Van Horn, Rochester Institute of Technology Cross-cultural performance and academic literacy Panel participants: Tanya Schueler, Rochester Institute of Technology Lisa Swovick, Rochester Institute of Technology

GENESEE GRANDE HOTEL

Lori Nolasco, Rochester Institute of Technology Steve Foulkrod, Syracuse University

Session 4: 9:00—10:00 am

Deb McGraw, Syracuse University

Code Mixing on Steroids: Multimodal Sign Language -Spoken Language Bilingual Communication Keynote II:

Maureen Edmonds,Syracuse University Chair: Maria Emma Ticio Quesada, Syracuse University

Gerald P. Berent,

National Institute of Deaf. Rochester Institute of Technology Chair: William C. Ritchie, Syracuse University

Closing Remarks Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University