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Conference times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Friday, April 9, 2021
8:00 am – 8:45 am Registration & Sign In (Gather)
8:45 am – 9:00 am Opening Remarks by Öner Özçelik, Director of Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Indiana University (Whova)
9:00 am – 10:00 am Parallel Session 1 (Whova)
Session 1A
Session 1B
Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu,
Michigan State University,
Marc Anthony Hullebus and Natalie Boll-Avetisyan,
University of Potsdam,
An experimental investigation of the productivity of vowel and vowel-consonant harmony in Uyghur
Katya Aplonova,
CNRS, LLACAN,
Contrastive study of two reported speech constructions in Bashkir

Siyu Liang,
Georgetown University,
Incomplete Vowel Assimilation in Tehrani Persian

Nadezda Christopher,
University of Surrey,
Empirical Approach to Mutual Intelligibility between Kazakh, Karakalpak and Uzbek

10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break (Gather)
10:30 am – 11:30 am Plenary Session 1: Matthew Gordon, University of California Santa Barbara (Whova)
Secondary and Vowel Quality-Driven Stress in Uralic and Northwest Caucasian Languages
11:30 am – 12:00 pm Lunch break (On your own)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Poster Session I (Gather)
1. Eylül Sözen, Indiana University
Error Analysis of L2 Students of Writings of Turkish

2. Ceyda Steele, University of California, Los Angeles
Using Learner Centered Instruction to Evaluate Turkish Teaching Pedagogies as a Foreign Language: Case Study of UCLA Elementary Turkish Students


3. Gunel Orujova, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Defining ways of Turkic elements in medieval Persian dictionaries

4. Tabita Toparlak Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelly, and Hossep Dolatian, Hossep Dolatian, Stony Brook University
Acoustics cues for sentential stress and focus across Armenian

5. Robert Halm and Jay Slater
Progress and prospect in Nivkh historical linguistics: Rendezvous with Tungusic studies

6. Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida
Sorani Kurdish: An Elementary Textbook for Language and Culture

7. Tahmuras Abdulhamidov, Saint Petersburg State University
The Imperative Mood in Tajik

8. Ali Muhammad, Area Study Centre (Russia, China & Central Asia) University of Peshawar
Impacts of Pak-Afghan Border on Pashto Language


1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Parallel Session 2 (Whova)
Session 2A
Session 2B
Hossep Dolatian,
Stony Brook University,
Head-based bracketing paradoxes in Armenian compounds
Selim Tiryakiol,
Istanbul Medeniyet University,
Telecollaboration for L2 Turkish Students: The Analysis of Online Interpersonal Communication
Joshua Sims,
Joshua Sims, Indiana University,
Stress to Tone Realignment of Loanwords in Dungan Chinese
Sun Shin,
Indiana University,
Developing proficiency tests for Central Asian languages
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Coffee Break (Gather)
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Plenary Session 2: Ayşe Gürel, Bogazici University (Whova)
Enriching SLA research with data from less commonly taught languages
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break (Gather)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Parallel Session 3 (Whova)
Session 3A
Session 3B
Ilaria Porru, Michael Stern, and Gita Martohardjono,
The Graduate Center, CUNY,
Explicit and implicit measures of language dominance in Turkish-English bilinguals
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail,
Indiana University,
Poetics of Kokinshū In the Context of Eurasia
Aylin Coskun Kunduz and Silvina Montrul,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The case of older children
Azadeh Vatanpour,
Emory University,
Lost in Translation: Challenges of Rendering the Yārsān Religious Texts
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ConCALL Happy Hour (Gather)
  • Student Awards Announced (5:30 in Auditorium)
  • Virtual Cultural Performances (Auditorium)
  • Games (Lounge)
  • Networking with presenters and conference attendees


Saturday, April 10, 2021
8:30 am – 9:00 am Morning Coffee (Gather)
9:00 am – 10:30 am Parallel Session 4 (Whova)
Session 4A
Session 4B
Alimujiang Tusun,
University of Cambridge,
Uyghur children’s acquisition of caused motion expressions: typological and cognitive factors
Feruza Shermatova,
Osh State University,
Sign Language: Voices of Deaf in Kyrgyzstan

Ugurcan Vurgun,
University of Pennsylvania,
Both locative alternation variants in Turkish are change of state predicates with ResultPs

Gulnara Suleymanova,
A systematic review about the historical development of the Azerbaijani language

Deniz Satik,
Harvard University,
Genitive case and agreement asymmetries in Turkic

Zhazira Agabekova,
Nazarbayev University,
Onomastic Problems in the New Kazakh Alphabet

10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break (Gather)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session 3: William Fierman, Indiana University (Whova)
Trajectories of Language Policies and Development in Post-Soviet Central Asia
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Lunch break (On your own)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Parallel Session 5 (Whova)
Session 5A
Session 5B
Ian Kirby,
Harvard University,
The Sakha focus particle da(qanɨ)
Madina Djuraeva,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Language acquisition, language maintenance and language use of minority students in Kazakhstan
Patricia McDonough, Indiana University,
Classification of Tibeto-Burman languages in Northeast India.
Gulnara Glowacki, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amber Kent, Indiana University,
Accounting for Scope and Sequence in Elementary Kazakh Textbook
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Poster Session II (Gather)
9. Yahya Polat, Ala-Too International University
Translating Kyrgyz Proverbs into Turkish

10. Fazira Kakzhanova, Buketov Karaganda State University
Multufunctional Kazakh Tense Category

11. Ilshat Nasipov, M.Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University, and Unal Kerami, Egypt Turkish Cultural Association
The Main Sources on Tatar Etymology


12. Hossep Dolatian, Stony Brook University
Parameterizing sentential stress in Armenian vs. Turkish and Persian

13. Erik Stenly, Ege Universitesi
Political Communication Style And Medium Uses: A Case Study Of Black Sea, Aegean, Marmara, Mediterranean, Central Anatolia Eastern Anatolia and South Eastern Anatolia Region

14. Alexandr Umnyashkin, Center for Study of Ancient and Modern Languages of Azerbaijan Common Lexicon of the Iranian Languages of the Caucaus: A Comparative Historical Aspects

15. Somaye Akbari, University of Bayreuth
Disclaimers as Impoliteness Strategies in Iranian Presidential Debates

16. Imtiaz Zeba, Government College Woman University, and Tabbasum Ghazala, Rawalpindi Woman University
Culturally Motivated Lexis in Pakistani Invitations

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Plenary Session 4: Irene Vogel, University of Delaware (Whova)
Word and Phrasal Prominence in Uzbek: a typological perspective
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break (Gather)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Parallel Session 6 (Whova)
Session 6A
Session 6B
Julian Kreidl,
Indiana University,
The Ablative Case in Pashto
Shuan Karim, Ohio State University and Ali Salehi, Stony Brook University,
Soranî Applicative Types
Angeliki Athanasopoulou, University of Calgary, Irene Vogel, University of Delaware, and Hossep Dolatian, Stony Brook University,
Foot Structure in Uzbek
Narges Nematollahi,
University of Arizona,
Mood selection of epistemic MUST in Persian and its implications for the general theory of modality
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Coffee Break (Gather)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Parallel Session 7 (Whova)
Session 7A
Session 7B
Farooq Babrakzai,

Perfective Aspect in Pashto
Pedagogy Workshop #1
Julio C. Rodriguez, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Designing Project-Based Language Learning Experiences
Christopher Beckwith,
Indiana University,
The Spoken Language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Pedagogy Workshop #1
(cont.)
Julio C. Rodriguez, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Designing Project-Based Language Learning Experiences


Sunday, April 11, 2021
8:30 am – 9:00 am Morning Coffee (Gather)
9:00 am – 10:30 am Parallel Session 8 (Whova)
Session 8A
Session 8B
Samuel G. E. Griggs,
Peking University,
An Overview of the Spoken Uyghur Evidential System
Andrei Bazarov and Bair Tushinov,
The Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies,
Preserving of the Buryat language in the "Buddhist basket"

Aigul Ermekova, Sagima Sultanbekova, and Leilya Sabitova,
L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University,
Meaning Predictability as the Key Issue in Derivative Models of Kazakh Neologisms

Khawaja Rehman,
Education Colleges,
Kundal Shahi, a Severely Endangered Language

Anastasija Gruzdeva,
Lomonosov MSU,
Semantics of the sociative suffix lsa in Barguzin Buryat

Gulnar Adebietqyzy Sarseke,
L.N.Gumilyev Eurasian National University,
Corpus Analysis of the Language of Covid-19 in Kazakh

10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break (Gather)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session 5: Karen Baertsch, Southern Illinois University (Whova)
Sonority-based Segmental Restrictions: Focus on Turkic Languages
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Coffee Break (Gather)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Parallel Session 9 (Whova)
Session 9A
Session 9B
Atilla Mátéffy,
University of Bonn,
On the Common Origin of the Old Turkic birlä and Hungarian vēle/vele ‘together, with’ Postpositional Phrases as well as -lA and -val/-vel Comitative and Instrumental Markers
Pedagogy Workshop #2
Betty Sibongile Dlamini, Indiana University
Song & Dance in Virtual Language & Culture Lessons
Michael Fiddler, University of California, Santa Barbara,
The grammaticalization cline of the Uyghur converb: Syntax, morphology, and prosody
Pedagogy Workshop #2 (cont.)
Betty Sibongile Dlamini, Indiana University
Song & Dance in Virtual Language & Culture Lessons
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm Closing Remarks (Gather - Auditorium)

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