Poster presentation

The schedule for the poster session can be viewed below and can be downloaded here.

When and where:

Friday, November 25th, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm & Saturday, November 26th, 11:45 am – 12.45 pm

@Markin Hall Atrium, University of Lethbridge

Poster awards

We will evaluate all student posters, and the three best graduate student posters will recieve awards up to $200. The best undergraduate student poster will receive an award of $100. Poster awards will be announced at the Closing Ceremony on November 26th, 2016.

Poster presentations

1. Socio-Emotional Predictors of Early Productive Vocabulary: A Longitudinal Study

Presenters: Poliana G. Barbosa & Elena Nicoladis (University of Alberta)

2. Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Responses in Non-Native English Listeners

Presenters:Shweta Soni & Matthew Tata (University of Lethbridge)

3. Factors Influencing Second Language Acquisition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study

Presenters: Chantal Labonte & Veronica Smith (University of Alberta)

4. Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Parent-Report Measures of Children’s Language Development

Presenters: Thomas Klee (University of Hong Kong)

5. Bilingualism and the Use of Syntactic Information in Word Learning

Presenters: Kurt Hablado, Ariba Khan, Cass Foursha-Stevenson, & Elena Nicoladis (Mount Royal University)

6. Assessing the Factors Affecting Learning English Languages for Ethiopian Students

Presenters: Firdos Kedir (Addis Ababa University)

7. Cultural Shame: The Non-acquisition of Cree

Presenter: Janine Jackson (University of Lethbridge)

8. VOT Development in Franco-Manitoban Children

Presenters: Nicole Rosen & Daniel Berube (University of Manitoba)

9. Phonological Neighbourhood Density Affects Word Production Computational and Neurophysiological Evidence

Presenters: Stephanie F. Stokes (University of Hong Kong)

10. What is Different About Complex Syntax in Bilingual Children with SLI?

Presenters: Stephanie Thomlinson & Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)

11. Speaking a Heritage Language: Implications for Health among Aboriginal Children in Canada

Presenter: Helen Connolly (University of Lethbridge)

12. Narrative Structure and Child Language Assessments

Presenters: Karissa Eichelt, Tammie Zielinski, Jessie Bee Kim Koh, Elena Nicoladis, & Karen Pollock (University of Alberta)

13. Mandarin Chinese Language Maintenance Among 2nd Generation Children from Chinese Immigrant Families in Saskatchewan

Presenters:Qin Xiang & Veronika Makarova (University of Saskatchewan)

14. Why the First Animal That Comes to Mind is an Ostrich: Items Generated on a Verbal Fluency Task are Related to Frequency

Presenter: Enns, R. & Nicoladis, E. (University of Alberta)

15. What Did You Say? The Dilemma of Speech and Hand Movement

Presenters: Nicole van Rootselaar, Fangfang Li, & Claudia L.R. Gonzalez (University of Lethbridge)

16. Accentedness in Bilingual School Children: A Pilot Study

Presenters: Charlene Chan, Emily Goodridge, Joelle Lam, & Karen Pollock (University of Alberta)

17. Vowels and Consonants: The Relative Effect of Speech Sounds Errors on Intelligibility

Presenters: Kaitlin M. Mackie & Karen E. Pollock (University of Alberta)

18. Vocabulary Development in Immigrant and Refugee Children: Different Input, Same Outcome

Presenters: Tamara Sorenson Duncan & Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta)

19. A Study on the Problems that Affect Student’s English Speaking Skill: Boditti Secondary School

Presenter: Ermias Ayza (Wolaita Sodo University)

20. Building Brains and Futures: One Connection at a Time

Presenters: Celeste Halliwell, Lara Coelho, Mark Mendoza, LaVonne Rideout, Isabelle Plomp, Michelle Mackinnon, Claudia Gonzalez, & Robbin Gibb (University of Lethbridge)

21. Articulations Speaks to Executive Function

Presenters: Nicole Netelenbos, Robbin L. Gibb, Fangfang Li, & Claudia L. R. Gonzalez (University of Lethbridge)

22.  Parental Experiences Change Offspring Ultrasonic Vocalizations: Assessing Neurodevelopment Using Complex Acoustic Features

Presenters: Rachel Stark, Sarah Raza, Allonna Harker, Fangfang Li, & Robbin Gibb (University of Lethbridge)












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