Timetable
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Thursday 20 April 2006

Chair: Simon Kirby
09.30-10.00Karen Ludke
Case study using music in foreign language education: teaching French to 13-year-old schoolchildren
10.00-10.30Dave Hawkey
The evolution of colour vision and colour terms
10.30-11.00Anna Parker
Was recursion the key evolutionary step in the emergence of language?
Coffee
Chair: Alice Turk
11.15-11.45Anna Leonard Cook
Implicit learning in adult second language acquisition: the issues of awareness and abstractness
11.45-12.15Lukas Wiget
Is auditory word recognition direct or indirect?
12.15-12.45Catherine Dickie
Phonology without orthography and the extent of the phonological deficit in dyslexia
Lunch
Chair: Dan Wedgwood
14.00-14.30Manon Jones
Investigating orthographic, phonological and adjacency influence on Rapid Automized Naming (RAN) deficits in developmental dyslexia
14.30-15.00Annabel Harrison
Subject-verb agreement: how gender is processed in Slovene
Coffee
Chair: Nik Gisborne
15.15-15.45Frances Wilson
Syntax-discourse interface in L2 learners
15.45-16.15Inga McKendry
Mid tone in Santa Domingo Nuxaa Mixtec

Friday 21 April

Chair: Patrick Honeybone
10.00-10.30Lynn Clark
The effects of frequency on vocalic variation in Scots and Scottish English
10.30-11.00Will Barras
The exhalations whizzing through the... er? SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English
Coffee
Chair: Bob Ladd
11.15-11.45Evia Kainada
Segmental and suprasegmental cues to prosodic boundaries
11.45-12.15Timothy Mills
Investigating the goals of speech production: the integration of emphasis-cuing parameters
12.15-12.45Merilin Miljan
What is case alternation in Estonian all about?
Lunch
Chair: April McMahon
14.00-14.30Ian Underwood
What’s so special about quantifiers?
14.30-15.00Amanda Patten
The impact of lexical collocation on the origin of emphatic DO
Coffee
Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff
15.15-15.45Remco Knooihuizen
Language shift, ethnolinguistic vitality and historical sociolinguistics: testing the models
15.45-16.15Imelda Suhardja
Scientific news as a genre: a linguistic account of distortion of scientific information
16.15-16.45Ayako Namba
‘Listenership’ in Japanese face-to-face interaction: the contribution of laughter, especially in its interaction with nodding and verbal backchannelling