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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 |
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28 May 2001, 5:50 pm |