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durham.ac.uk>Dear Colleagues We're pleased to announce the programme of the Fifth Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, which will take place on Friday 7 - Saturday 8 June 2002. The conference venue is the Pemberton Building on Palace Green, next to Durham Cathedral (about 20 minutes' walk from Durham station). The programme includes two plenary workshops, as follows: Dr. Wynn Chao (School of Oriental and African Studies) The Syntax of Chinese Prof. Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool) Discourse Analysis Full details of all the other talks and posters are listed at the bottom of this message, and can also be found on our website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/pgconf.linguistics You can pre-register now, for 6 pounds, until 31 May; after 31 May the price rises to 8 pounds. Please send a cheque made payable to 'P.L.O.D', to The Conference Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Durham, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT. We are also taking bookings for the conference dinner on the evening of Friday 7 June. This will be held at a Thai restaurant in Durham, and the price is 15 pounds, including three courses and some drinks. If you'd like to join us, please include the money for this, too, with your pre-registration fee. We are very grateful for LAGB sponsorship of this conference. We look forward to seeing you in Durham! Heather Marsden Co-organiser Fifth Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics ********* PROGRAMME Friday 7 June Registration: 2-2.30pm **Session 1: Fri 7 June** 2.30-3pm Holger Hopp, Durham Poverty of the Stimulus in L2 Acquisition: Remnant Scrambling and Topicalization in the L2 German of English and Japanese learners 3-3.30pm Leah Roberts, Essex The Processing of Ambiguous Sentences by Greek L2 Learners of English 3.30-4pm Sharon Unsworth, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics Young L2 learners and Dutch scrambling 4-4.30pm Coffee Break & Poster Session (see below) 4.30-5pm Beatriz M. M. de Paiva, Heriot-Watt Input and the acquisition of pragmatic abilities in a second language: directives in Portuguese as a second language 5-5.30pm Abdurahman A Hamza, Sheffield Hallam Cross-cultural Linguistic Politeness: Misunderstanding in Interaction between English and Libyan Arab speakers of English **Session 2: Fri 7 June** 2.30-3pm Suthee Sumdangdej, Durham Input and the acquisition of syllable structure by L2 school pupils 3-3.30pm Kazue Kato, Essex Second language phonetic acquisition: perception of English consonant contrasts by Japanese native speakers 3.30-4pm Leendert Plug, York Phonetic interpretation in a substance-free phonology: A case study 4-4.30pm Coffee Break & Poster Session (see below) 4.30-5pm Alcazar Asier, USC The Correlate between Case Assignment and Verbal Form in Basque 5-5.30pm Amel Kallel, Reading The Age Variable in the Rise of Periphrastic do in English **Session 3: Fri 7 June** 2.30-3pm David Stringer, Durham Acquisitional evidence against conceptual atomism 3-3.30pm Stephanie Pourcel, Durham 'Thinking for Speaking' Revisited 3.30-4pm Richard John Harvey & Karolina Owczarzak, Eastern Michigan The need for CASH: Redefining and developing some underlying assumptions in truth-conditional semantics 4-4.30pm Coffee Break & Poster Session (see below) 4.30-5pm Sylvia Amisi, Geneve Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning in a Multilingual Context 5-5.30pm Christophe Scheidhauer, Paris The Development of Immersion Teaching within Western European linguistic Minorities: a preliminary Account focused on Ireland, Wales and Alsace 6-9pm Conference Dinner at Num Jai (Thai restaurant) ***Saturday 8 June*** **Session 4: Sat 8 June** 10-10.30am Paula Gherasim, Iasi / Geneva Linguistic Expression of Subjectivity in Discourse 10.30-11am Jill Treasure, Durham Comparison, time deixis and the discourse marker now in natural talk: an instance of use in an account of events 11-11.30am Coffee break & Poster Session (see below) 11.30am-12pm Birgit Hanke, Exeter Discourse Analysis of Speech in postmodern first-person English, German and Russian fiction - Topic and Transaction Management 12-12.30pm Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta, Cambridge Pronominalization, Focus of Attention and Local Discourse Coherence: Testing Centering Theory 12.30-1pm Paula Rubio Fernández, Cambridge Understanding nominal metaphors: beyond class-inclusion **Session 5: Sat 8 June** 10-10.30am George Kotzoglou, Reading ECM in Greek: Towards a control analysis 10.30-11am Ana Luis, Essex Analytic predicates in European Portuguese: the case of proclisis 11-11.30am Coffee break & Poster Session (see below) 11.30am-12pm Reiko Vermeulen, UCL Multiple nominative constructions in Japanese 12-12.30pm Melinda Whong-Barr, Durham Korean Resultatives: Merge at two levels 12.30-1pm Theresa Biberauer, Cambridge Reconsidering expletives in generative syntax: evidence from Germanic **Session 6: Sat 8 June** 10-10.30am Limin Jin, Cambridge Aspect marking in L2 Chinese by English native speakers 10.30-11am Bettina Knipschild, Essex Aspect in Early English/German Bilingual L1 Acquisition 11-11.30am Coffee break & Poster Session (see below) 11.30am-12pm Yuet-Wah Lam, Durham Initial absence of wh-movement in child L2 acquisition of English questions 12-12.30pm Yuki Tokumaru, Essex Cross-lexical interactions in the Japanese-English mental lexicon 12.30-1pm Kazumi Yamada, Essex Null objects in L2 Japanese and issues of the poverty of the stimulus 1-2.30pm Lunch break & Poster Session (see below) **WORKSHOPS: Sat 8 June** 2.30-5.30 (inc. 30 min coffee break) Workshop 1: Dr Wynn Chao - School for Oriental and African Studies The Syntax of Chinese or Workshop 2: Prof Michael Hoey - University of Liverpool Discourse Analysis 5.30pm Reception & close ***Posters*** Michalis Georgiafentis, Reading The effect of focus on quantifier binding Hui-ling Lang, Manchester Dissertation writing: Case study of a Taiwanese postgraduate business student's literature review Mo Ai-ping & Jiang Qingfeng, Guangdong Uni The pragmatics of bridging reference in Chinese discourse Hitomi Nakata, Reading Correlations between Musical Aptitude and L2 Phonetic Aptitude in Japanese by Native Speakers of English Natsumi Okuwaki, Essex L1 influence on habitual form-meaning relations in L2 English Vilelmini Sosonis, Surrey Investigating Lexical Cohesion: The Case of European Union Texts in English and Greek Eda Ustunel, Newcastle English Pronunciation of Turkish Learners: A Contrastive Analysis of Word Stress in Compound WordsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue