.: Programme

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

Wednesday 11 May

9:30-10:00	Keelin Murray An empirical test for musical protolanguage hypotheses
10:00-10:30	Lili Fullerton Evolutionary linguistics, alien languages and duality of patterning: What can slide whistles tell us about the evolutionary emergence of combinatorial phonology?
10:30-11:00	Erin Brown Mechanisms underlying symbolic representation and their role in the emergence of symbolic communication
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Marton Soskuthy The effects of gradient phonetic biases on the evolution of sound patterns
12:00-12:30	Oliver Watts Unsupervised continuous-valued word features for phrase-break prediction without a part-of-speech tagger
12:30-13:00	Trevor Fountain Incremental Models of Natural Language Category Acquisition
13:00-2:00	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
14:00-14:30	Rachel Macdonald A comparison of techniques used to perceptually train difficult foreign language contrasts
14:30-15:00	Akiko Muroya Interpreting morphological variability in adolescent Japanese-English Interlanguage
15:00-15:30	Monira Almohizea Cross-linguistic infuence (CLI) analysis of the performance of EFL students on idioms: A cognitive-linguistic approach
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:00	Thom Scott-Phillips On Publishing

Thursday 12 May

9:30-10:00	Elspeth Edelstein Verb-modifying adverbs and English VP structure
10:00-10:30	Katya Alahverdzhieva Integrating Speech and Co-speech Gesture into a Multimodal Grammar
10:30-11:00	Manuela Rocchi The irrealis subordinator if
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Justin Sulik Semantic priming affects abductive hypothesis generation, not Bayesian hypothesis evaluation
12:00-12:30	Justin Quillinan Communication Networks and the Emergence of Social Communication
12:30-13:00	Richard Littauer A Simulation of the Evolution of Speech Segmentation
13:00-2:00	Lunch (Provided)
14:00-14:30	Sean Roberts Modelling mutual exclusivity in populations
14:30-15:00	John Pate Predictability effects in adult-directed and infant-directed speech: Does the listener matter?
15:00-15:30	Emma Healey The relationship between social cues and linguistic cues in word learning
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-16:30	Christop Hesse Figurative language - Grice, Relevance, and Beyond
16:30-17:00	Jing Han On Subjectification in the light of Semantic Conceptualization

Friday 13 May

9:30-10:00	Bill Thompson How cultural evolution can regulate biological adaptation to language
10:00-10:30	Rachael Bailes Hemispheric Interaction, Mind-reading and the Emergence of Language
10:30-11:00	David White Exploring Linguistic Excess
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	John-Sebastian Schutter An experimental approach to testing near-nativeness at the syntax-lexicon interface of advanced Dutch learners of English
12:00-12:30	Bohye Ko L1 Attrition: Divergence in Representations or in On-line Processing?
12:30-13:00	Shuang Ma Orthographic Input and its Effects on L2 Phonological Acquisition
13:00-2:00	Lunch (Bring Your Own Lunch)
14:00-14:30	Erin Carrie Attitudes, perceptions and behaviours in a cross-linguistic context
14:30-15:00	Ruth Friskney How do the police apologise?
15:00-15:30	Silvia Pareti Automatic extraction of attribution relations and classification of their features
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:00	Round Table Panel discussion of career paths
17:00-18:30	Reception

Linguistics and English Language
Postgraduate Conference 2009