Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Postgraduate Conference 2001


Programme

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All talks will be held in B9, Adam Ferguson Building

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Wednesday morning, 30th May
 
SESSION 1 Chair: Elizabeth Black
10:00-10:30 Tom Bartlett 
Empowerment through appropriation of the language system
10:30-11:00 Yeonkwon Jung 
The rhetorical moves in written business communication in Korea
11:00-11:30 Joseph Arko 
Presupposition and the processing of literary texts
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SESSION 2 Chair: Hugh Trappes-Lomax
12:00-12:30 Hsiu-Hsiu Yang 
Genre analysis of the Studio Classroom: A focus on the lesson explanation move
12:30-1:00 Maria Isabel Figueiredo-Silva 
Teaching academic reading: Some initial findings from a session on hedging


Wednesday afternoon, 30th May
 
SESSION 3 Chair: Jim Hurford
2:00-2:30 Andrew Smith
The importance of shared meaning in communication systems
2:30-3:00 Henry Brighton 
Meaning space complexity determines the stability of culturally evolved compositional language
3:00-3:30 Kenny Smith 
Key learning biases for the cultural evolution of communication
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SESSION 4 Chair: Jim Hurford
4:00-4:30 Hajime Yamauchi
Baldwin skepticism and language evolution - The case of niche construction
4:30-5:00 Monica Tamariz
The information structure of Spanish words


Thursday morning, 31st May
 
SESSION 5 Chair: Caroline Heycock
10:00-10:30 Dan Wedgwood
Interpretational dependence: A reason to broaden the scope of pragmatic explanation in grammatical analysis
10:30-11:00 Virve-Anneli Vihman
Nothing personal: De-transitivizing devices in Estonian
11:00-11:30 Anastassia Mangana
Native and non-native judgments on the acceptability of grammatical sentences
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SESSION 6 Chair: Ellen Gurman Bard
12:00-12:30 Maria Luisa Flecha-Garcia 
Eyebrow movements in Map Task dialogues
12:30-1:00 Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt 
Detection of writing errors and organisation of repair in a real-time Japanese word processing activity


Thursday afternoon, 31st May
 
SESSION 7 Chair: Alice Turk
2:00-2:30 Mika Ito
Politeness and its vocal effect on spoken Japanese
2:30-3:00 Takeshi Ishihara 
Tonal alignment in Japanese: A preliminary study
3:00-3:30 Ivan Yuen 
Pitch range and F0 scaling in Cantonese
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SESSION 8 Chair: Simon King
4:00-4:30 Olga Goubanova
Predicting segmental duration using Bayesian networks
4:30-5:00 Joe Frankel 
Linear dynamic models for speech recognition: Making the model fit the data
5:00-5:30 Susana Cortés Pomacóndor
Perception of English consonants by Catalan speakers


Friday morning, 1st June
 
SESSION 9 Chair: John Joseph
10:00-10:30 Chris Heaton 
Reevaluating the revival of modern Hebrew
10:30-11:00 Atsuko Iwa 
Input, peer interaction and second language development: A study of question formation in the EFL classroom
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SESSION 10 Chair: Mits Ota
11:30-12:00 Joe Caruana 
Design and construction of a corpus of modern written Maltese
12:00-12:30 Olga Goubanova 
The Maptask corpus: Case of Russian L2 speakers

Last update:

28 May 2001, 5:50 pm