Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Postgraduate Conference 2001



Programme
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Proceedings
Edited by Mika Ito
 

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Topic Area Index



Language and Society

Tom Bartlett  
Empowerment through appropriation of the language system
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Elizabeth J. Erling  
"I learn English since ten years"; The Global English Debate and the German University Classroom
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Chris Heaton  
Reassessing the revival of Modern Hebrew
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Language Evolution and Computation

Henry Brighton 
Meaning space complexity determines the stability of culturally evolved compositional language
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Joseph Poulshock 
Preconditions for Using Memetics in Language Evolution Studies
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Andrew Smith 
The role of shared meaning structure in communication
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Kenny Smith 
Key learning biases for the cultural evolution of communication
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Hajime Yamauchi 
Baldwin skepticism and language evolution - The case of niche construction
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Syntax and Semantics (incl. Pragmatics)

Joseph Arko 
Presupposition and the processing of literary texts
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Virve-Anneli Vihman 
Nothing Personal - Some Detransitivizing Devices in Estonian
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Daniel Wedgwood 
A Single Interpretation For Hungarian `Focus Position'
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Etsuko Yoshida 
Deictic Expressions and Discourse Segment in English and Japanese Task-Oriented Dialogue
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Corpus Linguistics

Joe Caruana 
Construction and Annotation of a Maltese Corpus
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Olga Gouanova  
The Maptask corpus: Case of L2 Russian speakers
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Monica Tamariz  
Real World Constraints on the Mental Lexicon: Assimilation, the Speech Lexicon and the Information Structure of Spanish Words
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Second Language Acquisition

Anastassia Mangana  
Native and non-native judgments on the acceptability of grammatical sentences
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Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt  
Detection of writing errors and organisation of repair in a real-time Japanese word processing activity
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Susana Cortes Pomacondor  
Perception of English consonants by Catalan speakers
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Speech, Phonetics and Phonology

Joe Frankel  
Linear dynamic models for speech recognition: Making the model fit the data
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Olga Gouanova  
Using Bayesian Belief Networks for model duration in text-to-speech systems
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Takeshi Ishihara  
Tonal alignment in Japanese: A preliminary study
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Mika Ito  
Rating experiments of Spoken Japanese Politeness
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Ivan Yuen  
Pitch range and F0 scaling in Cantonese
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Susana Cortes Pomacondor  
Perception of English consonants by Catalan speakers
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Psycholinguistics (incl. mental lexicon)

Maria Luisa Flecha-Garcia 
Facial Gestures and Communication: what induces raising eyebrow movements in Map Task dialogues
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Monica Tamariz  
Real World Constraints on the Mental Lexicon: Assimilation, the Speech Lexicon and the Information Structure of Spanish Words
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Multimodal communication

Maria Luisa Flecha-Garcia 
Facial Gestures and Communication: what induces raising eyebrow movements in Map Task dialogues
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Classroom based Research

Maria Isabel Figueiredo-Silva  
Teaching academic reading: some initial finding from a session on hedging
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Atsuko Iwa  
Interaction, and second language development: A study of question formation in EFL classrooms
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Hsiu-Hsiu Yang 
Genre analysis of the Studio Classroom: A focus on the lesson explanation move
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Miscellaneous

Yeonkwon Jung 
The rhetorical moves in written business communication in Korea
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