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Proceedings of the 1997 Postgraduate Conference

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Departments of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Postgraduate Conference 1997

Wed. 21st May - Thurs. 22nd May

Wednesday 21st May

9.00 - 11.00 Phonetics/Phonology

9.00-9.30

Helen Wright: Modelling Intonation using Hidden Markov Models
As published in Proc. ESCA Intonation Workshop, Athens, 1997.

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9.30-10.00

Hassan A. Durgauhee: Realism and the need for a Phonological Semantics

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10.00-10.30

Satsuki Nakai: Perceptual Factors in the Acquisition of FL Vowels

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10.30-11.00

Kurt Dusterhoff: Generating F0 contours for speech synthesis from prosodic and syllabic context

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11.30-1.00 Classroom-based research

11.30-12.00

Manuel Montenegro: The COFE Project: The Development of a Colombian Undergraduate Degree

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12.00-12.30

Lesley Gourlay: Adult Foreign Language Learning in the Classroom Setting

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12.30-1.00

Alhassan Seidu: Language Alternation in Ghanaian Primary Schools

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2.30-4.00 Dialogue

2.30-3.00

Matthew Bull: Who is replying to what? The problems with analysing turn-taking

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3.00-3.30

Simon King: Conversational speech recognition
As published in Proc. Eurospeech 1997

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3.30-4.00

Max Louwerse: Discourse processing and eye-movement

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4.30-5.00

Marina Rakova: Putnam versus Fodor: a metaphorical counterfactual

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5.00-5.30

Theodora Alexopoulou: Clitic Doubling, Quantifiers and Weak Crossover Effect

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As published in Proc. ESSLLI 1997, Student sessions

Thursday 22nd May

9.00-11.00 Syntax

9.00-9.30

Kook-Hee Gill: Anaphor Binding in Korean

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9.30-10.00

Miriam Eckert: Null Topics and Discourse Configurationality in German

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10.00-10.30

Satu Manninen: Interpretation of Adverbials with Stage/Individual Level Predicates

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10.30-11.00

Stephen Nightingale: The Grammaticalization of Auxiliaries in English and Japanese

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11.30-1.00 Second Language Acquisition

11.30-12.00

Busi Dube: Complementizer-less Comps or a morpho-phonologically underspecified C head in early Zulu L2 subordination?

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12.00-12.30

Szilvia Papp: Some notes on optionality in native and non-native grammars of Hungarian

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12.30-1.00

Carmen Santos Maldonado: Lexical access in visual word recognition: word frequency, neighbourhood size and neighbourhood frequency effects in Spanish

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2.30-4.00 Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

2.30-3.00

Iraide Ibarreche: Metonymical processes in semantic change

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3.00-3.30

Sylvie Hancil: The progressive form in Old English

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3.30-4.00

Aaron Drews: Second Dialect Acquisition

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4.30-5.30 L1 Acquisition

4.30-5.00

Anna Babarczy: On why children "put cow the floor" and "break on the chair"

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5.00-5.30

Ludovica Serratrice: The emergence of determiners in the speech of a bilingual child

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Last updated: 21 October 1997


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