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choices. Human Subjects Protection (45 CFR 46) raises ethical issues in handling suicide notes, threats, and predatory chats,including data collection methods, legality, and chain of evidence. Ill-formedness entails that analytical procedures must performon messy input while still preserving it. Correcting ill-formedness is close to Contamination, which occurs when multipleunknowns are treated as known examples of one source.Si Chen (University of Florida) Session 34Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida)Contextual variations of tones in Nanjing ChineseWe examine the anticipatory and carryover effect of tones in Nanjing Chinese using real disyllabic words. After visualexaminations and statistical analyses, the results showed that there are partial dissimilatory anticipatory and an assimilatorycarryover effect. The general findings are consistent with other languages reported in the literature that the carryover effect ismore dominant than the anticipatory effect because (1) anticipatory effects last for approximately 10~20% of the entire tone whilecarryover effects last for 25~50%; (2) regression analysis showed a statistically significant linear relationship between the offsetof the first syllable and onset of the second syllable.Yi-An Jason Chen (San Jose State University) Session 66A study on Taiwanese international students and Taiwanese American students: the interface between naming and identityHow one uses two names in a new socio-cultural setting has not adequately addressed. The goal of this research is to discoverhow naming practices influence name adoption and explicate how the uses and choices of names by Taiwanese internationalstudents (TIS) and Taiwanese American students (TAS) are structured through social interaction and cultural context at anAmerican university. The data were collected from in-depth interviews with 20 participants. The results suggest that TIS’s use ofEnglish names highly influences their cultural adaptations. Moreover, TAS’ maintenance of Taiwanese cultures is explicitlyrevealed in their use of kinship terms.Jacee Cho (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Session 39Constraints on L1 transfer in L2 acquisitionThe present study examines L1 transferability in an L2 through an investigation of the acquisition of case marking and word orderin L2 Russian by English and Korean speakers. Data indicate that while morphologically marked properties (e.g., case marking)are transferrable, contextually realized properties (e.g., word order) are not subject to crosslinguistic transfer. Findings of thestudy provide insights into the nature of crosslinguistic transfer.Jacee Cho (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Session 39Re-assembling features in second language acquisitionThe present study seeks to test Slabakova’s (2009) refined version of the Feature Re-assembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2009),according to which the overt/covert status of features makes specific predictions about degrees of difficulty in L2 acquisition.This study examines the acquisition of the covertly (contextually) marked feature [definite] and the overtly (morphologically)encoded feature [specific] in L2 Russian by English-speaking learners. Findings indicate that the overtly marked [specific] isacquired earlier than the covertly expressed [definite]. These findings support Slabakova’s proposal on the degrees of difficulty aswell as Lardiere’s approach to feature re-assembly in L2 acquisition.Jinsun Choe (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) Session 23Children’s difficulty with raising: a non-grammatical accountThis paper investigates English-speaking children’s purported difficulty with comprehension of raising structures that contain anexperiencer phrase (e.g., John seems to Mary to be happy). I show that comprehension improves significantly when theexperiencer is an in situ pronoun rather than a lexical NP. I argue that children’s previously-reported difficulty with raisingstructures is not due to a grammatical deficit of any kind, but rather to performance-level intervention effects of the kind observedin several other sentence types (e.g., object relative clauses).Jaehoon Choi (University of Arizona) Session 17Pronoun-noun collocations in Modern GreekThis paper investigates pronoun-noun collocations in Modern Greek. I draw a parallel between pronoun-noun collocations anddemonstrative-noun collocations by observing their similar semantic/syntactic properties. Based on this, I claim that suchpronouns surface in SpecDP as a result of movement, on analogy with the syntax of demonstratives-noun collocations in Modern141