Date: 14-Mar-2011
From: Richard Littauer <richard.littauer gmail.com>
Subject: Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011
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Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011
Short Title: ULAB2011
Date: 25-Mar-2011 - 27-Mar-2011
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contact: Richard Littauer
Contact Email: linguistic.studentsgmail.com
Meeting URL: http://www.lingstudents.co.uk
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB), in
collaboration with the Edinburgh University Linguistics and English
Language Society invites all students, whether at the undergraduate or
post-graduate level, to a two day conference which will be held at the
University of Edinburgh on the weekend of 26-27 March 2011, with an
opening night on Friday 25 March.
ULAB was founded this year with the intention of bringing together students
of linguistics and related disciplines in the UK in an academic setting, to
present and discuss undergraduate research, and to foster community
among like-minded students. The conference is an opportunity for students
to present in a friendly and supportive environment and will be ideal for
those who are unfamiliar with public speaking.
Friday:
9:00 Pre-Registration at Greyfriars Pub
Saturday:
9:30: Registration
9:45: Introduction
10:00: Richard Littauer (Edinburgh University 4th year) Modelling the
Evolution of Speech Segmentation
10:20: Joel Girling (Edinburgh University 3rd year) The Dialect of Milton
Keynes: An Analysis of The Past and The Present
10:40: Anna Bruggeman (University of York 3rd year) The entertainer - An
ethnographic case study on identity projection by an 11-year-old Moroccan-
Dutch child
11:00: Coffee Break
11:20: Rebecca Jackson (Salford University 3rd year) When is possession
not possession?
12:00: Aimee Keay (Sussex University 3rd year) Jehovah's Witnesses'
Linguistic Identity: An Analysis of The Watchtower Publication
.
12:20: Fiona Edwards (University of Sussex 3rd year) A comparative
corpus-based approach to investigating the metaphor 'language death'
12:40: Jay Rae (Edinburgh University 4th year) Vowel Length: Scottish
Vowel Length Rule vs. Word Frequency
1:00 Lunch
2:00: Alison Biggs (Cambridge Graduate Degree, presenting
Undergraduate work) The unmarked preposed object in Mandarin and its
function in the Low Periphery
2:40: Sam Waterman (Sussex University 3rd year) Fairness in
contemporary British politics: an analysis of the meanings and rhetorical
functions of fair and fairness in George Osborne's Spending Review speech
3:00: Abigael Candelas (University of Edinburgh Graduate Degree,
presenting Undergraduate work) Speaking as a woman: Gender, silencing,
and agency in public discourse
3:20: Coffee Break
3:40: Stephanie Maia (University of Edinburgh 4th year) Bilingual first
language acquisition with a view to attrition
4:00: Judith Gottschalk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum Graduate Degree,
Presenting Undergraduate Work) Storage of linguistic knowledge in the
mental lexicon: An approach within Role and Reference Grammar
4:20: Jon Carr (University of Glasgow 4th year) Language evolution on
Stella Fructa: The effects of novel variables on an iterated learning model of
linguistic evolution by cultural transmission
5:00: David M. T. Arnold (University of Edinburgh 3rd year) On the Origin
of Myths and Myths of Origin: How views on the origins of languages can be
more significant than genetic ethnicity in forming group identity.
5:20: Dinner
Sunday:
11:30: Lilian Fullerton (University of Edinburgh 4th year ) Evolutionary
linguistics, alien languages and duality of patterning: What can slide
whistles tell us about the evolutionary emergence of combinatorial
phonology?
11:50: Timothy Bazalgette (University of Cambridge Graduate Degree,
presenting Undergraduate work) Who posh have I been talking to? An
investigation into a class of non-standard adadjectival wh-phrases in
English.
12:10: Teresa Kieseier (University of Konstanz 4th year) Phonological
Features of North Carolina English
12:50: Elizabeth Anderson (University of Edinburgh 4th year) The
perception of tones with missing fundamental frequencies in beginning and
advanced students of Mandarin Chinese
1:10: Lunch
2:30: Plenary Speaker: Martin Kohlberger (University of Edinburgh
Graduate Degree, presenting Undergraduate Work) A Phonological
Overview and and Analysis of Aspirated Stops in Central Highland
Ecuadorian Quichua
3:30 ULAB AGM
4:30 Wine Tasting
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