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Postgraduate Conference 2002ProgrammeAll talks were held in B9, Adam Ferguson
Building.
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| SESSION 1 | Chair: Jim Miller |
| 10:00-10:30 | Jim Hurford Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for the evolution of language abstract full paper |
| 10:30-11:00 | Yoko Yamada English grammatical devices for highlighting particular constituents restrictively in task-related dialogues and formal written English abstract full paper |
| 11:00-11:30 | Virve Vihman Argument Structure: the case of impersonalised impersonals abstract full paper |
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| SESSION 2 | Chair: Alice Turk |
| 12:00-12:30 | Mika Ito Politeness and Suprasegmentals - a study on Japanese spontaneous speech abstract full paper |
| 12:30-1:00 | Takeshi Ishihara Tonal alignment in Japanese abstract full paper |
| SESSION 3 | Chair: Simon King |
| 2:00-2:30 | Yoshinori Shiga Estimation of voicing source and vocal tract characteristics based on multi-frame analysis abstract full paper |
| 2:30-3:00 | Ben Gillett Voice transformation: making new voices for speech synthesis abstract full paper |
| 3:00-3:30 | Jithendra Vepa Objective Distance Measures for Spectral Discontinuities in Concatenative Speech Synthesis abstract full paper |
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| SESSION 4 | Chair: Hugh Trappes-Lomax |
| 4:00-4:30 | Chris Heaton 19th Century Linguistics and the Modern Hebrew Revival abstract full paper |
| 4:30-5:00 | Heather Hewitt How we pay: transactional and interactional features of payment sequences in service encounters abstract full paper |
| SESSION 5 | Chair: Mits Ota |
| 10:00-10:30 | Christine Haunz The influence of speech perception on loanword adaptation abstract full paper |
| 10:30-11:00 | Susana Cortes-Pomacondor Production of English Consonants by Catalan Speakers abstract full paper |
| 11:00-11:30 | John Niekrasz The acoustic effects of articulatory differences between whispered and normal speech at various levels of vocal effort abstract full paper |
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| SESSION 6 | Chair: Simon Kirby |
| 12:00-12:30 | Maria Luisa Flecha-Garcia Eyebrow raising and communication in Map Task dialogues abstract full paper |
| 12:30-1:00 | Monica Tamariz Parameters of word-form similarity abstract full paper |
| SESSION 7 | Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff |
| 2:00-2:30 | Joseph Arko Presupposition and narrative worlds: accessing readers' background knowledge abstract full paper |
| 2:30-3:00 | Isabelle Buchstaller He goes and I'm like: the new quotatives re-visited abstract full paper |
| 3:00-3:30 | Dharshi Santhakumaran Talking yourself out: Why are there no "readers" of women's magazines? abstract full paper |
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| SESSION 8 | Chair: Tony Lynch |
| 4:00-4:30 | Atsuko Iwa A Study of the Acquisition of Question Forms in Task-based EFL Classrooms: preliminary findings abstract full paper |
| 4:30-5:00 | Aileen Irvine Reading-writing connections in EFL abstract full paper |