.: Programme

All talks take place in 3.10-11, Dugald Stewart Building

Wednesday 20 May

Session 1 Chair: Patrick Honeybone
09:30-10:00 Will Barras
I like spontaneous speech data and I like standardised elicitation task data, but which is better? There's only one way to find out...
10:00-10:30 Helen West
‘I'm not f***ing Geordie! I'm not actually anything!’ Koineization and the struggle for identity in a South Durham new town
10:30-11:00 Damien Guillaud
Some reasons why ambisyllabicity is a crucial tool in the phonology of English
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Joseph Gafaranga
11:30-12:00 Florence Bonacina
Interpreting educational language policy: A perspective from newly-arrived children in France's induction classrooms
12:00-12:30 Natasha Memon
Economic change and English language teaching and learning in Pakistan: the growth of the Private sector and challenges for the Public sector
12:30-13:00 Rong-Xuan Chu
Correct me please: An empirical research on learners' and teachers' views on error correction
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
Session 3 Chair: Meg Laing
14:00-14:30 Ann Ferguson
The double paradigm of Old English ‘be’
14:30-15:00 Penny Thompson
Syncope in West Saxon verbs and adjectives: Some morphological complications
15:00-15:30 Lauren Stewart
“Why tho cham a Zomerzetshire wanch che know a leet manners too”: Dialect representations in the work of Thomas D'Urfey (c. 1653–1723)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Session 4 Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff
16:00-16:30 Ifigenia Papageorgiou
Towards an alternative framework for the investigation of ‘practiced’ policies in bilingual classrooms
16:30-17:00 Tanya Ekanyaka
Contested spaces: Sinhala ethnicity and Sri Lankan identity in post 1998 Sri Lankan Contemporary Popular Song (98+SLCPS)

Thursday 21 May

Session 1 Chair: Thom Scott-Philips
09:30-10:00 Erin Brown
Integrating gesture research with theories of language evolution
10:00-10:30 Chrissy Cuskley
Linguistic and Communicative Cross-modality: Improving and Expanding the Methodology
10:30-11:00 James Thomas
Multiple inheritance systems, niche construction and the importance of active agency in the evolution of language
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Heather Hewitt
11:30-12:00 Anna Strycharz
So is Bill Clinton more respect-worthy than princess Diana? Patterns of use of local honorifics among three generations of Osaka women.
12:00-12:30 Chie Adachi
Title: (Im)politeness and Gender: The use of male-preferred form sugee in complimenting by young Japanese females
12:30-13:00 Golnaz Nanbakhsh
The socio-cultural impact of the 1979 Iranian revolution on language use and politeness: Evidence from Iranian family and media discourse
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Provided in the DSB Common Room)
Session 3 Chair: Andrew Smith
14:00-14:30 Anna Martowicz
Socio-cultural factors and clause-combining devices: a cross-linguistic study
14:30-15:00 Gareth Roberts
From alien language to Wikipedia: a study of the emergence of structured variation in language
15:00-15:30 Remco Knooihuizen
Language shift and standardisation: evidence from France and Scotland
15:30-16:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 Chair: Mits Ota
16:30-17:00 Karen Ludke
Songs to support foreign language learning and memory: Evidence from two experimental studies
17:00-17:30 Francesca Lamorgia
Input and dominance in bilingual first language acquisition

Friday 22 May

Session 1 Chair: Bert Remijsen
9:30-10:00 Tareq Maiteq
Prosodic boundaries and anticipatory pharyngealisation spread in Arabic: a cross-dialect study
10:00-10:30 Emi Sakamoto
L2 acquisition of Japanese pitch contrasts: an investigation on cross-linguistic difference in the function of pitch
10:30-11:00 Jennifer Sullivan
In intonation, can we infer anything about directions of language change from patterns in the present?
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Mónica Tamariz
11:30-12:00 Hannah Cornish
In defense of recent approaches to the emergence and evolution of language
12:00-12:30 Matthijs Westera
Modelling the role of joint attention in the emergence of syntax through pragmatic plasticity
12:30-13:00 Cyprian Laskowski
The role of language and words in conceptual coordination
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
Session 3 Chair: Caroline Heycock
14:00-14:30 Wenshan Li
Inverse syntactic realization of agent and patient in Mandarin Chinese
14:30-15:00 Kaori Miura-Dowman
The double-o constraint and argument alternation in Japanese
15:00-15:30 Francesca Filiaci
Anaphoric reference of null and overt subject pronouns in Italian and Spanish
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Session 4 Chair: Dan Wedgewood
16:00-16:30 Zakaris Svabo Hansen
Syntactic variation in Faroese
16:30-17:00 Will Barras, Remco Knooihuizen, Lauren Stewart
The -meister builder: generative processes in nickname formation
17:00 - Wine Reception

Posters

Posters will be displayed throughout the conference, and will include the following:

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