.: Programme

Thursday 19 April (B9, Adam Ferguson Building)

09:30-10:00 Ashraf Abdelhay
The Politics of Language Planning in the Sudan: Naivasha Language Policy and the Discursive Construction of the 'Indigenous' as 'National'
10:00-10:30 Remco Knooihuizen
Target varieties in language shift and what that means
10:30-11:00 Gareth Roberts
Keeping safe by talking different: why it’s not always good to sound like the neighbours
11:00-11:30 Break (Drinks and biscuits will be provided)
11:30-12:00 Evia Kainada
Influence of prosodic boundary strength on durations, external sandhi and intonation in Modern Greek
12:00-12:30 Sarah Collie
Word frequency and ‘fake cyclicity’: a new analysis of English word stress preservation
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Buffet in the AFB Common Room)
13:30-14:00 Marleen Spaargaren
Laryngeal specification in Present Day and Historical English
14:00-14:30 Merilin Miljan
Estonian syntactic cases are actually semantic
14:30-14:50 Break (Drinks and biscuits will be provided)
14:50-15:20 Kaori Miura
PCON and Dative and Possession Construction in English and Japanese
15:20-15:50 Kohji Kamada
The Postposing Construction in Japanese
15:50-16:20 Kyoko Otsuki
Elliptical utterances in task-oriented dialogues: a cross-linguistic (Japanese/English) analysis of form and functions

Friday 20 April (B9, Adam Ferguson Building)

09:30-10:00 Catherine Dickie
The development and representation of phonological segments and suprasegmentals
10:00-10:30 Anna Leonard-Cook
What are the limits to implicit learning?
10:30-11:00 Kate Thatcher
English-speaking children’s early passives: what can syntactic priming show us?
11:00-11:30 Break (Drinks and biscuits will be provided!)
11:30-12:00 Vinton Poon
What should we say and how should we speak? Looking at linguistic norms
12:00-12:30 Nick Wilson
The Framing of Leadership: How leaders use style and what this achieves
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Buffet in the AFB Common Room)
13:30-14:00 Cyprian Laskowski
The effects of auditory stimuli on prelinguistic categorisation: a proposed com- parative study
14:00-14:30 Thom Scott-Phillips
Signalling signalhood: A study into the emergence of communicative intentions
14:30-14:50 Break (Drinks and biscuits will be provided)
14:50-15:20 Madeleine Campbell and Frances Wilson
Early word learning in bilingual children: do bilingual children apply Mutual Exclusivity in a different way than monolingual children?
15:20-15:50 Frances Wilson
L2 Processing of Information Structure: The Role of Word Order and Pronominalization in German.

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