.: Programme

All talks take place in B9, Adam Ferguson Building

Wednesday 23 April

09:30-10:00	Catherine Dickie and Lauren Stewart 'Looking at language': Linguistics in the classroom
10:00-10:30	Frances Wilson Antecedent Preferences for Anaphoric Demonstratives in German
10:30-11:00	Robert Maier Syntactic Persistence in a Translation Task: Ditransitives
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Agata Daleszynska "Me nah bin got no money, man". Analysis of past tense in Bequian
12:00-12:30	Oliver Stegen Questions of Language Awareness Raising in Rangi Literacy
12:30-13:00	Will Barras "We would say 'a bit Gretnarish' and we'd put an r in": rhoticity and r-sandhi in East Lancashire speech
13:00-14:00	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
14:00-14:30	Elspeth Edelstein An Argument Against the Functional Specifier Approach to Adverb Distribution
14:30-15:00	Tanya Ekanayaka Debating Meaning as blurring boundaries kaleidoscopes birth…Codeswitching : Sinhala (s) : Sri Lankan Englishes : Music !!
15:00-15:30	Wenshan Li Locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Thursday 24 April

09:30-10:00	Giorgos Argyropoulos From the neocerebellum to grammaticalization
10:00-10:30	Gareth Roberts An experiment for the investigation of the role of the freerider problem in language change
10:30-11:00	Thomas C. Scott-Phillips How Natural Selection Constrains the Space of Possible Pragmatic Theories
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Kyoko Otsuki Elliptical utterances in task-oriented dialogues: a comparative study of the use of ellipsis
12:00-12:30	Chie Adachi What is a compliment? : a view from a non-Western perspective
12:30-13:30	Lunch (in the AFB Common Room)
13:30-14:00	Kate Messenger Semantic factors in children's early passives: Comparing comprehension and syntactic priming
14:00-14:30	Emma Healey An investigation into the relationships between lexical acquisition, social cognition and metalinguistic awareness in monolingual and bilingual populations
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
15:00-15:30	Jaehyeok Choi Vowel reduction in Old and Middle English
15:30-16:00	Remco Knooihuizen The interplay of language shift and new-dialect formation: the development of Shetland Scots
16:00-16:30	Lauren Stewart Representations of Northern Dialect in 17th Century Drama

Friday 25 April

10:00-10:30	Golnaz Nanbakhsh A Macro-Linguistic Analysis of Persian Second Person Pronouns
10:30-11:00	Rebecca Maybaum The role of the Ulpan in constructing Israeli national identity in new immigrants
11:00-11:30	Anna Strycharz Dialect levelling in the area of honorifics in Osaka Japanese – a different perspective
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-12:30	Jennifer Sullivan A preliminary assessment of approaches to measuring phonetic similarity
12:30-13:00	Evia Kainada Prosodic structure effects on segmental phenomena in Modern Greek
13:00-14:00	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
14:00-14:30	Cyprian Laskowski The role of words and language in categorisation
14:30-15:00	Christine Cuskley Experiments in Cross-modal Associations: Problems with the current framework, suggested solutions, and possible implications for language origins
15:00-15:30	Anna Martowicz Levels of explicitness. The case of markers of encoding states of affairs relations
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	Florence Bonacina Forbidden or frowned upon? : Multilingual interactional practices in French reception classrooms
16:30-17:00	Ashraf Abdelhay Joseph Greenberg On The Hamitic Hypothesis As A Fictitious Discourse Of Identity: Some Social Implications For The Sudanese Practice Of Language Planning
17:00 -	Wine Reception

Linguistics and English Language
Postgraduate Conference 2008