Conference Programme
All talks are in room 3.10/3.11 on the 3rd floor of the Dugald Stewart Building. All refreshment breaks are in the common room on the 7th floor.
| Day 1: Wednesday, 3rd June 2015 |  |
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| Workshops | ||
| Chaired by Juliet Dunstone | ||
| 09:30–10:15 | Panel session: The dissertation experience | |
| 10:15–11:00 | Mark Atkinson Running experiments | |
| 11:00–11:45 | Dr Josef Fruehwald Data processing | |
| 11:45–12:00 | Break | |
| Plenary 1 | ||
| Chaired by Yasamin Motamedi | ||
| 12:00–13:00 | Dr Jennifer Culbertson Apparent failures of statistical learning as a window into human cognition | |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 1 | ||
| Chaired by Steve Rapaport | ||
| 14:00–14:25 | Javier Olloqui Redondo The Spanish middle passive analysed from a Cognitive Grammar viewpoint | |
| 14:25–14:50 | Yukiyo Takimoto Remodelling the semantic network of up: the approach from the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models | |
| 14:50–15:15 | Matt Voice Absence, inference, and ideation: soldiers’ description of violent actions in personal narratives of the First World War | |
| 15:15–15:45 | Break | |
| Session 2a | Session 2b | |
| Room 3.10; Chaired by Soundess Azzabou-Kacem | Room 3.11; Chaired by Darryl Turner | |
| 15:45–16:10 | Udita Sawhney The tone system in Dogri, an Indo-Aryan language | Ryan Nefdt Modelling and the Dynamic Turn |
| 16:10–16:35 | Fabienne Westerberg To /i:/ or not to /i:/: an articulatory, acoustic and sociophonetic study of Swedish Viby-i | James Reid Sub-sentential coherence: English free adjuncts and absolutes |
| 16:35–17:00 | George Starling Acoustic correlates of vowel quality in English infant-directed speech | Ana Werkmann Horvat On modal strength in Croatian |
| 17:00–17:25 | No talk | Juan Shao Revisiting and defining synonymy: collocational and colligational behaviour of potential synonyms |
| 18:30 | Conference dinner: Holyrood 9A | |
| Day 2: Thursday, 4th June 2015 | ||
| Session 3 | ||
| Chaired by Katerina Pantoula | ||
| 09:55–10:20 | Anzhela Oganesyan Investigating learner autonomy in a distance learning English classroom | |
| 10:20–10:45 | Takumi Uchihara Does productive vocabulary knowledge predict L2 oral ability? | |
| 10:45–11:15 | Break | |
| Session 4 | ||
| Chaired by Aristeidis Palamaras | ||
| 11:15–11:40 | Elyse Jamieson The end of the curve: verb movement and its loss in Shetland dialect | |
| 11:40–12:05 | Stephanie Doyle-Lerat The interaction between verb tense and illocutionary verbs: the case of ‘to recommend’ | |
| 12:05–12:30 | Catherine Gkritziou Towards a unified structure of pu-clauses in Modern Greek: evidence from factive islands | |
| 12:30–12:55 | J. M. M. Brown Transparent adjuncts in an autonomous syntax | |
| 12:55–14:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 5 | ||
| Chaired by Laura Arnold | ||
| 14:00–14:25 | Jarek Kriukow Investigating English Language identity of Polish migrants in Scotland: the case for ELF-oriented pedagogy | |
| 14:25–14:50 | Stephanie DeMarco Content, practice, direction: identifying differentiated word use within a standardized curriculum using corpus linguistic analysis | |
| 14:50–15:15 | Adam Scott Clark The role of SCOLAR in the promotion of Putonghua in Hong Kong | |
| 15:15–15:45 | Break | |
| Session 6a | Session 6b | |
| Room 3.10; Chaired by Udita Sawhney | Room 3.11; Chaired by Kevin Stadler | |
| 15:45–16:10 | Laura Arnold Verbal subject agreement in Ambel: accounting for apparent irregularities | Marieke S. Woensdregt Modelling the role of Theory of Mind in Language Evolution |
| 16:10–16:35 | Charlotte Hemmings Word-order in Kelabit: typology and information structure | James Winters Access to contextual information and the emergence of structure in asymmetric communication games |
| 16:35–17:00 | Svenja Wagner Aquiring different types of morphology: the role of grammatical type of the mother tongue in Second Language Acquisition | Jon W. Carr Iterated learning in an open-ended meaning space |
| 17:00–17:25 | Julia Hubner On Barbary horses and apple-squires: investigating linguistic metaphor in noun + noun compounds from an Early Modern English literary corpus | Yasamin Motamedi The emergence of systematic structure in artificial gestural communication systems |
| Day 3: Friday, 5th June 2015 | ||
| Session 7 | ||
| Chaired by Sandy Nicholson | ||
| 09:30–09:55 | Jamie Douglas Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects | |
| 09:55–10:20 | Anne Beshears The correlative as an overtly pronounced index of the demonstrative | |
| 10:20–10:45 | Wout Van Praet & Kristin Davidse On the necessity of recognizing specificationally-categorizing copular clauses | |
| 10:45–11:10 | Chen Wang On event structure in Chinese syntax: le is a telicity marker | |
| 11:10–11:40 | Break | |
| Session 8 | ||
| Chaired by Jon Carr | ||
| 11:40–12:05 | Mark Atkinson Adult language learning and sociocultural determination of linguistic complexity | |
| 12:05–12:30 | Sam D’Elia The effect of the perception of distance on complement order preference in two types of double complement constructions: evidence from a picture-sentence matching task | |
| 12:30–12:55 | Michela Bonfieni The role of exective functions in syntactic priming | |
| 12:55–13:20 | Katerina Pantoula Parsing wh-questions: evidence from L1-Greek adults | |
| 13:20–14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15–15:00 | Feedback session In this short informal session, presenters can talk about how the conference went and what they learned about the practicalities of giving a conference presentation. Come along for tips and feedback, and to help other students understand what worked well and what could be improved. | |
| Plenary 2 | ||
| Chaired by Yasamin Motamedi | ||
| 15:00–16:00 | Prof. Geoffrey K. Pullum Being a linguist | |
| 16:00–18:00 | Wine reception, followed by pub evening in Brass Monkey. | |
