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Proceedings of the 1998 Postgraduate Conference





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Departments of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Postgraduate Conference 1998

Wednesday 27th May - Friday 29th May







Wednesday 27th May

SESSION 1Chair:   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


SESSION 2Chair:   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



SESSION 3Chair:   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



SESSION 4Chair:   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 1Chair:   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


SESSION 2Chair:   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



SESSION 3Chair:   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



SESSION 4Chair:   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



4.30-5.30 Invited speaker: Anthony Kroch, UPenn

Revisiting "do"

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Friday 29th May

SESSION 1Chair:   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


SESSION 2Chair:   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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