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Postgraduate Conference 2003ProgrammeAll talks will be held in B9, Adam Ferguson
Building.
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SESSION 1 | Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff |
10:00-10:30 | Oliver Stegen (Edinburgh: TAAL) "If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!" - Minority language development: the case of Rangi. abstract |
10:30-11:00 | Melissa Kronenthal (Edinburgh: TAAL) The EU and Minority Languages: Real or Perceived Failure? abstract |
11:00-11:30 | Aaliya Rajah-Carrim (Edinburgh: TAAL) The role of Mauritian Creole in the religious practices of Mauritian Muslims. abstract |
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SESSION 2 | Chair: Alan Davies |
12:00-12:30 | Chris Heaton (Edinburgh: TAAL) Ahad Ha'am against the Purists: Battles over the Modern Hebrew Revival. abstract |
12:30-1:00 | Carmela Perta (Edinburgh: TAAL) Language obsolescence: the case of Arbėresh in Italy. abstract |
SESSION 3 | Chair: Hugh Trappes-Lomax |
2:00-2:30 | Heather Hewitt (Edinburgh: TAAL) Front desk talk: face to face interaction between GP receptionists and patients. abstract |
2:30-3:00 | Dharshi Santhakumaran (Edinburgh: TAAL) My mother told me not to talk to strangers: When is it acceptable to take advice from a women's magazine? abstract |
3:00-3:30 | Ya-mei Chen (Edinburgh: Dept. of Asian Studies) A Translation-oriented News Discourse. abstract |
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SESSION 4 | Chair: Ronnie Cann |
4:00-4:30 | Yicheng Wu (Edinburgh: TAAL) The Dynamic Syntax of Chinese Passive Constructions. abstract |
4:30-5:00 | Stavros Assimakopoulos (Edinburgh: TAAL) Context Selection and Relevance. abstract |
SESSION 5 | Chair: Mits Ota |
10:00-10:30 | Erich Round (Melbourne: Dept. of German and Swedish Studies) "stressed some": facts, fiction and folklore. abstract |
10:30-11:00 | Christine Haunz (Edinburgh: TAAL) Factors in Loanword Adaptation. abstract |
11:00-11:30 | Shu-chen Ou (Edinburgh: TAAL) Re-ranking Metrical Constraints in Chinese-English Interlanguage. abstract |
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SESSION 6 | Chair: Alice Turk |
12:00-12:30 | Susana Cortes-Pomacondor (Edinburgh: TAAL) Production of English Intervocalic /d/ by Catalan Speakers in Derived and Non-Derived Contexts. abstract |
12:30-1:00 | Takeshi Ishihara (Edinburgh: TAAL) Tonal Alignment in Tokyo Japanese. abstract |
SESSION 7 | Chair: Bob Ladd |
2:00-2:30 | Mika Ito (Edinburgh: TAAL) Voice quality and its contribution to conveying politeness. abstract |
2:30-3:00 | Sasha Calhoun (Edinburgh: TAAL) Sorting Out Theme and Rheme Accents. abstract |
3:00-3:30 | Moritz Neugebauer (University College Dublin: Dept. of Computer Science) Machine Learning and Phonological Classification. abstract |
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SESSION 8 | Chair: Simon King |
4:00-4:30 | Yoshi Shiga (Edinburgh: TAAL/CSTR) Estimating the Spectral Envelope of Voiced Speech Using Multi-frame Analysis. abstract |
4:30-5:00 | Jithendra Vepa (Edinburgh: TAAL/CSTR) Kalman-filter based Join Cost for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis. abstract |
SESSION 9 | Chair: Martin Pickering |
10:00-10:30 | Kerstin Hadelich (Edinburgh: Dept. of Psychology & Saarland University: Dept. of Psycholinguistics) When being patient leads to finishing first: influences of visual and syntactic priming in German. abstract |
10:30-11:00 | Annabel Harrison (Edinburgh: Division of Informatics) Agreement Patterns in Slovenian. abstract |
11:00-11:30 | Mikihiro Tanaka (Edinburgh: Dept. of Psychology) Conceptual Accessibility and word-order in Japanese. abstract |
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SESSION 10 | Chair: Antonella Sorace |
12:00-12:30 | Susanna Flett (Edinburgh: TAAL) Syntactic priming in L1 and L2 Spanish. abstract |
12:30-1:00 | Efrosyni Argyri (Edinburgh: TAAL) Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual First Language Acquisition. abstract |
SESSION 11 | Chair: John Joseph |
2:00-2:30 | Szu-wei Chen (Edinburgh: TAAL) Acquisition of English onset clusters by Chinese learners in Taiwan. abstract |
2:30-3:00 | Aileen Irvine (Edinburgh: TAAL/IALS) Evaluation of Second Language Writing. abstract |
3:00-3:30 | Tony Lynch (Edinburgh: TAAL/IALS) Feedback on spoken English: teachers' options and learners' preferences. abstract |
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SESSION 12 | Chair: Simon Kirby |
4:00-4:30 | Viktor Tron (Edinburgh: TAAL) Towards explaining the diachronic emergence of some morphological patterns. abstract |
4:30-5:00 | Monica Tamariz (Edinburgh: TAAL) What makes words sound similar? abstract |