Departments of
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

1999 Postgraduate Conference

All talks will be held in B9, Adam Ferguson Building
Coffee and lunch will be available in the Linguistics Common Room

	Wednesday 26th May	Thursday 27th May	Friday 28th May
9.00-9.30			Robert Clark Accent Pitch-alignment in "real" speech
9.30-10.00	Valerie Waggot Globules or cobwebs or something else: towards a possible model of lexical retrieval in bilingual readers.	Lesley Gourlay Transcription and initial analysis in a language classroom discourse study	Helen Wright Synthesising intonation contours using Hidden Markov Models
10.00-10.30	Ardeshir Geranpayeh Trait Structures in IELTS and TOEFL	Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt Sound effects in L2 compound kanji recognition	John McKenna Kalman filtering for speaker characterisation
10.30-11.00	John Cleary Trends in language learning in Europe: evidence from the Eurobarometer	Mei-fang Chen Suggestions in Chinese and English	Laurence Molloy Predicting phoneme duration distributions for unseen prosodic contexts in the TIMIT database
11.00-11.30	Jacqueline Gollin Some functions of clefts in academic writing	Coffee Poster presentations	Coffee
11.30-12.00	Coffee	Hee-Cheol Yoon ECM constructions in Old English	Anna Babarczy From conceptual structure to grammar
12.00-12.30	Evangelia Plemmenou The psycholinguistics of grammatical gender	Patricia Mabugu The applicative construction in Shona	Sonia Rocca A bi-directional study on child L2 acquisition of tense- aspect morphology
12.30-1.00	Max Louwerse Toward Cognitive Evidence for a Parameterisation of Coherence Relations	Madoka Aiki Directional Imperfectives: COME/ GO constructions in Japanese	Anastasia Mangana Parallel paths in first and second language acquisition
1.00-2.00	Lunch	Lunch
2.00-2.30	Tae-Yeoub Jang Consonant Types and Vowel F0 in Korean	Laurence White Word-level durational effects in speech
2.30-3.00	Kurt Dusterhoff Objective methods for evaluating synthetic intonation	Ivan Yuen Tonal alignment in Cantonese
3.00-3.30	Coffee	David Patterson: Pitch range modelling Bob Ladd: Segmental anchoring of tones as a word-boundary correlate in English
3.30-4.00	Weonhee Yun Statistical Analysis of Korean Stop Durations and its Application for Speech Recognition
4.00-4.30	Korin Richmond An articulatory basis for speech recognition
4.30-5.00	Heather King Is there a high onset pitch accent in Warlpiri intonation