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Proceedings of the 1998 Postgraduate Conference |
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Wednesday 27th May | ||
SESSION 1 | Chair: Ronnie Cann | |
9.00-9.30 |
Kook-Hee Gil
Topic and binding in Korean
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9.30-10.00 |
Satu Manninen
The syntax of adverb(ial)s
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10.00-10.30 |
Madoka Aiki
Imperfective/perfective aspect and auxiliary selection
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10.30-11.00 |
Stephen Nightingale
Japanese aspectual conjunctions
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee
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SESSION 2 | Chair: Antonella Sorace | |
11.30-12.00 |
Jing Fang
Chinese kinship terms
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12.00-12.30 |
Catherine Rice
Has she tested the subjects who she wondered why the experiment puzzled?
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12.30-1.00 |
Charlie Kemp
Multiliteracy: a study of multilinguals' ability to translate a passage from Middle Egyptian
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1.00-2.00 |
Lunch
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SESSION 3 | Chair: Alice Turk | |
2.00-2.30 |
Kurt Dusterhoff
An investigation into the effectiveness of sub-syllable acoustics in
automatic intonation analysis
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2.30-3.00 |
Laurence White
Polysyllabic shortening
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3.00-3.15 |
Break
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SESSION 4 | Chair: Louise Kelly | |
3.15-3.45 |
Max Louwerse
Cohesion in coherence
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3.45-4.15 |
Marina Rakova
Reasons why metaphor has nothing to do with cognition
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Thursday 28th May | ||
SESSION 1 | Chair: Bob Ladd | |
9.30-10.00 |
David Patterson
The communicative effects of pitch range
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10.00-10.30 |
Ineke Mennen
Second language acquisition of intonation: the case of peak alignment
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10.30-11.00 |
Heather King
Intonation and word order in a "non-configurational" language
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee
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SESSION 2 | Chair: Steve Isard | |
11.30-12.00 |
Laurence Molloy
Suprasegmental duration modelling with elastic constraints in automatic speech recognition
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12.00-12.30 |
Helen Wright
The automatic alignment of accents to syllables
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12.30-1.00 |
Tae-Yeoub Jang
A two-level morphological analysis of Korean
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1.00-2.00 |
Lunch
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SESSION 3 | Chair: Paul Taylor | |
2.00-2.30 |
Rob Clark
Prosodic structure and pitch range in 'real' data
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2.30-3.00 |
John McKenna
Voice quality & accent exchange using linear predictive modelling
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3.00-3.15 |
Break
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SESSION 4 | Chair: Hugh Trappes-Lomax | |
3.15-3.45 |
Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu
Reading in Africa
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3.45-4.15 |
Amadu Khan
Literacy, extensive reading and media intervention: prospects and problems in an African context
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4.15-4.30 |
Break
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4.30-5.30 |
Invited speaker: Anthony Kroch, UPenn
Revisiting "do"
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Friday 29th May | ||
SESSION 1 | Chair: John Joseph | |
9.00- 9.30 |
Carmit Romano-Hvid
Learning English pronunciation with computer technology:
an investigation of the relationship between learning strategies and
achievement
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9.30-10.00 |
Yoko Matsumoto Sturt
A discourse analysis: the semantic relations of power and solidarity in a Japanese film
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10.00-10.30 |
Wendy Noble
"Finding your voice": an analysis of argumentative discourse in the academic writing of L2 students
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10.30-11.00 |
Lesley Gourlay
Framing and task boundaries in L2 classroom discourse
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee
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SESSION 2 | Chair: Caroline Heycock | |
11.30-12.00 |
Ludovica Serratrice
Comparing and contrasting the development of the verbal system in a bilingual child
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12.00-12.30 |
Sonia Rocca
Child second language acquisition of temporality
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12.30-1.00 |
Anna Babarczy
Patterns of form and meaning in child language
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