.: Programme

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

Monday 14 May

Plenary	10:00 - 11:00	James Kirby Experimental and computational approaches to sound change
Coffee Break
Phonetics/Phonology	11.30 - 12.00	Marton Soskuthy An experimental investigation of phonetic biases Watch the video
	12.00 - 12.30	Amanda Cardoso PRICE Realisations and Phonological Change: Liverpool English
	12.30 - 13.00	Jon William Carr Towards a measure of the optimization of natural vowel systems Watch the video
Lunch (Bring your own)
Text Analysis	14.00 - 14.30	Stephanie DeMarco Identification and Indexicality of Self Aware Failures of Blackness in African American English on Twitter
	14:30 - 15.00	Sara Myers A Plurality of Plurals: the inflected genitive noun forms of the B scribe of the Trinity Homilies
	15.00 - 15.30	Ruth Friskney Police language: evaluating sources and status of information
Coffee Break
Language Evolution	16.00 - 16.30	Alan Nielsen Systematicity vs Arbitrariness in Artificial Language Learning: A Laboratory Investigation

Tuesday 15 May

Modelling linguistic diversity	10:00 - 10:30	Bill Thompson Iterated Learning From Multiple Teachers: Learning and Evolving Expectations About Linguistic Homogeneity
	10.30 - 11.00	Sean Roberts There's no such thing as language: Arguments against the evolution of a bilingual faculty Watch the video
Coffee Break
Cross-linguistic Semantics	11.30 - 12.00	Jie Yang Revising Talmy's Typology of Motion Events in the Light of Chinese
	12.00 - 12.30	Christoph Hesse Lexicalisation evidence in metaphor processing
	12.30 - 13.00	Maha Al-Ayyash "She doesn't know that she has a tumor": A Conversation Analysis of Three-Party Medical Consultations in Saudi Arabia Watch the video
Lunch (Provided)		DSB 7th Floor Common Room
Language Evolution	14.00 - 14.30	Cartiona Silvey The coevolution of words and meanings
	14.30 - 15.00	Vanessa Ferdinand Mapping out the cultural evolutionary dynamics of probability matching behavior
	15.00 - 15.30	James Thomas What are the 'design features' of language?: how culture changes the question and some possible evolutionary answers
Coffee Break
Psycholinguistics	16.00 - 16.30	Rachael Bailes Facts about referents as conversational precedents
	16.30 - 17.00	Emma Healey Word learning as the product of multiple cues: Factors involved in learner's strategy preferences Watch the video

Wednesday 16 May

Plenary	10:00 - 11:00	Hannah Cornish
Coffee Break
Language Evolution	11.30 - 12.00	Justin Sulik Abductive inference in word learning
	12.00 - 12.30	Christian Kliesch Recursive mindreading in implicit and an explicit story telling
	12.30 - 13.00	János Németh A Prehistory of Evolutionary Linguistics Watch the video
Lunch (Bring your own)
Linguistics in the classroom	14.00 - 14.30	Rachel Macdonald A comparison of the effect of perception and/or production training techniques on the perception of difficult L2 French contrasts.
	14.30 - 15.00	David Arnold Ken Aboute Language: Edinburgh students' plans for school outreach to develop KAL and awareness of linguistics Watch the video
	15.00 - 15.30	Du Yi Analysis of four Chinese EFL classrooms: The use of L1 and L2
Coffee Break
Experimental Syntax and Language Development	16.00 - 16.30	Manuela Rocchi Does the level of education of participants in linguistic experiments matter?
	16.30 - 17.00	John-Sebastian Schutter Residual V2 at the syntax-lexicon interface of advanced Dutch learners of English: a syntactic priming study
	17.00 - 17.30	Gloria Galan L1 attrition in Spanish L2 learners of English: An eye-tracking study
Drinks Reception	17:30-18:30	DSB 7th Floor Common Room

Linguistics and English Language
Postgraduate Conference 2012