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Postgraduate Conference 2004
Programme
At long last, we have posted the writeups that were submitted (links
below). We apologise for the delay.
If you are interested in research that was presented for which no
paper is available here, please contact the author as the PGC2004
organisation committee has disbanded.
Monday morning, 24th May
| SESSION 1 |
Chair: Ronnie Cann |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Laura Korte (Edinburgh: Informatics)
Deep Types for Categorial Grammar: a side effect
analysis abstract
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Christina Sevdali (Cambridge: Linguistics) Temporal
Properties in the Ancient Greek infinitive and their
manifestation abstract
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| SESSION 2 |
Chair: Simon Kirby |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Anna Parker (Edinburgh: TAAL)
Towards an
evolutionarily plausible theory of language: thecase against
minimalism
abstract
paper (PDF)
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| 12:30-1:00 |
Jelle Zuidema (Edinburgh: TAAL)
Language evolution
and the appearance of design argument
abstract |
Monday afternoon, 24th May
| SESSION 3 |
Chair: Joseph Garafanga |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Heather Hewitt (Edinburgh: TAAL) "I don't know how to
explain this": problematic encounters between patients and
receptionists in GP surgeries
abstract |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Dharshi Santhakumaran (Edinburgh: TAAL) "It's because I
love sport, not because I'm a bloke, obviously": reproducing and
resisting gender categories and gendered practices in
talk-in-interaction
abstract |
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| SESSION 4 |
Chair: John Joseph |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Jyi-Yeon Yi (Edinburgh: TAAL & IALS)
A Rating Scale Development for Writing Assessment for Korean
Learners of English
abstract |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Phaisit Boriboon (Edinburgh: TAAL)
"We would rather talk about Pla Ra than hamburgers": Voices
from low-proficient EFL learners in rural Thailand
abstract
paper (DOC)
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Tuesday morning, 25th May
| SESSION 5 |
Chair: Cassie Mayo |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Yoshinori Shiga (Edinburgh: CSTR) Accurate spectral
envelope estimationfor articulation-to-speech synthesis
abstract
paper (PDF)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Tim Mills (Edinburgh: TAAL) Toward a model of
compensation abstract
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Lukas Wiget (Edinburgh: TAAL) The interaction of lexical
and phonetic-category learning in speech perception
abstract |
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| SESSION 6 |
Chair: Ellen Bard |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Inbal Arnon (Edinburgh: Psychology) Child acquisition of
relative clauses in Hebrew
abstract |
| 12:30-1:00 |
Hannele Nicholson (Edinburgh: TAAL) Disfluency: The Cost
of Attending to Listener Feedback?
abstract
paper (PDF)
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Tuesday afternoon, 25th May
| SESSION 7 |
Chair: Bert Remijsen |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Sasha Calhoun (Edinburgh: TAAL) A Proposal for Function-Based
Phonological Intonation Categories
abstract |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Stefan Sudhoff (visitor to Edinburgh: TAAL) Prosody and
Information Structure of German Sentences Containing the Stressed
Focus Particle "auch"
abstract
paper (PDF)
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| 3:00-3:30 |
Fiona Kenney (Edinburgh: CSTR) Are there better sub-word
units than phones for automatic speech recognition?
abstract |
| 4:00-5:00 |
NOT PART OF CONFERENCE: Julia Simner (Edinburgh: Psychology) is
giving a talk to the
P-Workshop
and people may be interested in attending: Why ebony is sky-blue,
and society tastes of onions: Mechanisms of linguistically triggered
synaesthesia
Abstract.
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Wednesday morning, 26th May
| SESSION 8 |
Chair: Antonella Sorace |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Susanna Flett (Edinburgh: TAAL & Psychology)
Syntactic priming in native and L2 Spanish
abstract |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Barbora Skarabela (Boston University: Applied Linguistics)
Argument realizationin child Inuktitut
abstract |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Efrosyni Argyri (Edinburgh: TAAL) Crosslinguistic
interference in bilingual acquisition: The case of Greek/English
bilingual children
abstract |
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| SESSION 9 |
Chair: Ronnie Cann |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Yicheng Wu (Edinburgh: TAAL)
Chinese Emphatic
Construction: A Dynamic Approach
abstract
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| 12:30-1:00 |
Takeshi Koike (Edinburgh: English Language) The history
of the genitivecase in English as a grammaticalisation of the
determinative function
abstract
paper (DOC) and
bibliography (DOC)
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Wednesday afternoon, 26th May
| SESSION 10 |
Chair: Mits Ota |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Shu-chen (Sherry) Ou (Edinburgh: TAAL) Metrical Perception
Strategy in Chinese-English Interlanguage abstract |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Emi Sakamoto (Edinburgh: TAAL) L2 speech perception &
speech production in Japanese phonological contrasts
abstract |
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Bonus paper
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Oliver Stegen (Edinburgh: TAAL) Editing Rangi Narratives:
a pilot study in literature production
paper (PDF)
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