.: Programme

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

Wednesday 19 May

9:30-10:30	Nik Gisborne How to Fail with Style
10:30-11	Coffee Break
11-11:30	Jennifer Sullivan Belfast and Glasgow English 'rises': Are there phonological distinctions between them?
11:30-12	Marton Soskuthy Innovation and propagation in the Theory of Utterance Selection
12-12:30	Jimmi Nielsen Word Frequency Effects in Lexical Diffusion: A Cue to the Origins of Sound Change
12:30-1:30	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
1:30-2	John Sebastian Schutter Residual V2 in Online L2 Production at the Syntax-Discourse Interface of Near-Native Dutch Learners of English
2-2:30	Gloria Galan L1 attrition in subject interpretation in Spanish L2 learners of English
2:30-3	Tomoko Watanabe The use of and so on by Japanese learners of English in a learner corpus
3-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4	Ali Algryani Preposition stranding in Libyan Arabic sluicing
4-4:30	Rhona Alcorn What's so special about dative?
4:30-5	Anna Martowicz Semantics of clause-linkers - what a cross-linguistic analysis can tell us about organization of human mind and evolution of subordinators

Thursday 20 May

10-10:30	Oliver Watts The use of higher-level linguistic features in HMM-based Speech Synthesis: An Analysis
10:30-11	Tatiana Reid Morphophonological alternations in Thok Reel verb inflection
11-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:20	Elspeth Edelstein Adverb Climbing and Infinitival Complement Size
12:20-1	Laura Bailey The syntax of question particles: a cross-linguistic investigation
13:00-14:00	Lunch (Provided)
2-2:30	Bohye Ko First Language Attrition: Syntax, interfaces and processing
2:30-3	Emilia Wrobel What can you get from a media-sharing website that is of sociolinguistic relevance?
3-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4	Keelin Murray Musical protolanguage revisited
4-4:30	James Thomas Domestication as a Factor in the Evolution of Language
4:30-5	Chrissy Cuskley Iconicity in the evolution of language: a resurgence

Friday 21 May

9:30-10:00	Judith Pfeifer 1683 revisited: Media Representations of Ritual and Remembrance
10-10:30	Rowan MacKay Multimodal legitimation
10:30-11	Chie Adachi Gendering and powering a speech act: Complimenting at the intersection of gender and power amongst young Japanese
11-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12	Wenshan Li Classifiers and Semantic Underspecification
12-12:30	Gosia Krzek Generic subject in Polish impersonal constructions
12:30-1	Jing Han "Definiteness" of Object in the Chinese Ba Construction
1-2	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
2-2:30	Sean Roberts Bilingualism and Social Networks
2:30-3	Justin Quillinan Language Evolution and Social Networks
3-3:30	Coffee Break
3:30-4	Erin Brown Nonarbitrary representation and the evolution of symbolic communication
4-5	Justin Sulik Do Symbols Matter in Language Evolution?

Linguistics and English Language
Postgraduate Conference 2009