Postgraduate Conference 2002

EFL

• Iwa, Atsuko. A Study of the Acquisition of Question Forms in Task-based EFL Classrooms: preliminary findings.
• Irvine, Aileen. Reading-writing connections in EFL.

Language Evolution & Computation

• Hurford, Jim. Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language.

Language in Context

• Heaton, Chris. 19th Century Linguistics and the Modern Hebrew Revival.
• Erling, Elizabeth J. English as the language of the European academic community: Questions from the Freie Universitat Berlin
• Hewitt, Heather. How we pay: transactional and interactional features of payment sequences in service encounters.
• Arko, Joseph. Presupposition and narrative worlds: accessing readers' background knowledge.
• Buchstaller, Isabelle. He goes and I'm like: the new quotatives re-visited.
• Santhakumaran, Dharshi. Talking yourself out: Why are there no "readers" of women's magazines?

Phonetics & Phonology

• Haunz, Christine. The influence of speech perception on loanword adaptation
• Cortes-Pomacondor, Susana. Production of English Consonants by Catalan Speakers.
• Ishihara, Takeshi. Tonal alignment in Japanese.
• Ito, Mika. Politeness and Suprasegmentals - a study on Japanese spontaneous speech.

Psycholinguistics

• Flecha-Garcia, Maria Luisa. Eyebrow raising and communication in Map Task dialogues.
• Tamariz, Monica. Parameters of word-form similarity.

Speech Technology

• Shiga, Yoshinori. Estimation of voicing source and vocal tract characteristics based on multi-frame analysis.
• Gillett, Ben. Voice transformation: making new voices for speech synthesis.
• Vepa, Jithendra. Objective Distance Measures for Spectral Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis.
• Niekrasz, John. The acoustic effects of articulatory differences between whispered and normal speech at various levels of vocal effort.

Syntax & Semantics

• Vihman, Virve. Argument Structure: the case of impersonalised impersonals.
• Yamada, Yoko. English grammatical devices for highlighting particular constituents restrictively in task-related dialogues and formal written English.