Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
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Wednesday morning, 31st May
| SESSION 1 | Chair: Keith Mitchell |
| 10:00-10:30 | Chung-Yao Kao
Examining the validity of the Tour Guide English Language Speaking Test |
| 10:30-11:00 | Wararat Whanchit
A computer mediated communication project to promote EFL writing at a Thai university |
| 11:00-11:30 | Hsiu-Hsiu Yang
Topics in Studio Classroom |
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| SESSION 2 | Chair: Elizabeth Black |
| 12:00-12:30 | Karin Sode-Woodhead
Making suggestions and evaluating suggestions. Linguistic features used for decision making purposes |
| 12:30-1:00 | Yeonkwon Jung
The Korean face revisited: an application of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory |
Wednesday afternoon, 31st May
| SESSION 3 | Chair: Paul Taylor |
| 2:00-2:30 | Paola Escudero
The L1 perception of English vowels and its implications for L2 acquisition: Sub-phonemic 'reliance' in the perception of the /i/ - /I/ contrast |
| 2:30-3:00 | Olga Goubanova
Predicting segmental duration using sums of products model |
| 3:00-3:30 | Weonhee Yun
Korean oral stop recognition using durations |
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| 4:00-5:00
(double slot) |
Joe Frankel and Korin Richmond
An automatic speech recognition system using neural networks and linear dynamic models to recover and model articulatory traces |
Thursday morning, 1st June
| SESSION 4 | Chair: Jim Hurford |
| 10:00-10:30 | Henry Brighton
On the required learning biases for the cultural evolution of topographic mappings |
| 10:30-11:00 | Joseph Poulshock
Empirical and conceptual problems with protolanguage |
| 11:00-11:30 | Andrew Smith
Meaning creation by object discrimination |
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| SESSION 5 | Chair: Simon Kirby |
| 12:00-12:30 | Kenny Smith
Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication |
| 12:30-1:00 | Hajime Yamauchi
The Baldwin effect in the evolution of language |
Thursday afternoon, 1st June
| SESSION 6 | Chair: Ellen Bard |
| 2:00-2:30 | Max Louwerse
Not too early, not too late: The construction of coherence in the comprehension process |
| 2:30-3:00 | Maria-Luisa Flecha-Garcia
An investigation into non-articulatory facial gestures and intonation |
| 3:00-3:30 | Kate Joester
Real-world sex-role stereotypes and anaphor resolution: Where is the real world and what newspapers do they read there? |
| 3:30-4:00 | Ruby Rennie
Ways of seeing irony: some of the theories applied to Muriel Spark's writings |
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| SESSION 7 | Chair: Mits Ota |
| 4:30-5:00 | Bert Remijsen
Predicting the relative importance of prosodic cues from linguistic structure - the case of stress and tone in the word prosody of Samate Ma'ya |
| 5:00-5:30 | Ivan Yuen
Declination in Cantonese: Variabilities vs. invariabilities |
Friday morning, 2nd June
| SESSION 8 | Chair: Caroline Heycock |
| 9:30-10:00 | Tomoko Arakaki
Aspect and modality in Luchuan |
| 10:00-10:30 | Patricia Mabugu
Accomodating recalcitrant data within an analysis of the ChiShona applicative |
| 10:30-11:00 | Dan Wedgwood
The homogeneity of Hungarian `focus position' effects |
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| SESSION 9 | Chair: Tony Howatt |
| 11:30-12:00 | Helena Alfaya Lamas
Mediaeval scribes and poetry: The production of copies in the late Middle English period |
| 12:00-12:30 | Richard Smith
Re-viewing history of applied linguistics |
| 12:30-1:00 | Val Waggot
Chinese chracters - A direct link to thought? Chinese language - a direct link to logic? |
PAPERS RECEIVED FROM POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS NOT ABLE TO ATTEND JULY'S CONFERENCE:
Tom Bartlett
Not deep, just thick
Elizabeth J. Erling
International/Global/World English:
is a consensus possible?
Joanna Kerr Thompson
Don't "mock" it: Towards a methodological
framework for the linguistic investigation of witness' "discourse rights"
Ineke Wallaert
Translating sociolects