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    Message 1: The University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research

    Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:29:43 -0500 (EST)
    From: es292 <es292cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: The University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research


    The University of Cambridge 2nd Postgraduate Conference in Language Research Short Title: CamLing

    Date: 19-Mar-2004 - 20-Mar-2004 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Vicky Chondrogianni Contact Email: vc241cam.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/camling/

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for postgraduate students from a range of disciplines to present new research to an interested and friendly audience. The scope of the conference is deliberately broader than that currently offered at post-graduate level, and in this way we aim to create a forum for interdisciplinary discussion, bringing together the disparate threads of research in language. CamLing - The University of Cambridge Second Postgraduate Conference on Language Research will take place on 19 March 2004 at the Law Faculty Building, West Road, Cambridge, UK. The preliminary program is as follows:

    FRIDAY 19 MARCH 2004

    9.15 Registration 9.45 Welcoming session 10.00 - 16.30 Oral presentations

    ROOM LG17:

    (Syntax) 10.00 - 10.30 Marios Mavrogiorgos (University of Cambridge, UK): VOS in Modern Greek: A derivation by phase account. 10.30 - 11.00 Mark de Vos (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Multiple verb movement. 11.00 - 11.30 Glyn Hicks (University of York, UK)Talking tough: a Minimalist account for tough-movement. 11.30 - 12.00 Tea break. 12.00 - 12.30 Susanna Padrosa Trias(University College London and Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona): Catalan verbal prefixation. 12.30 - 13.00 Ana Drobnjakovic(KU Leuven, Belgium):Validity of traditional auxiliary criteria in Serbian. 13.00 - 13.30 Roy Mathieu (Laval University, Canada): On the semantic of plurality of meanings of prenomial evaluative adjectives. 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch break. 14.30 - 15.00 George Kotzoglou (University of Reading, UK): EPP, chain reduction, and expletives: deriving Comp-trace effects. 15.00 - 15.30 Blasius Achiri Taboh (University of Frankfurt - Main, Germany): Wh-movement and resumption in subject relative clause constructions. 15.30 - 16.00 Sun-Ho Hong (University of Essex, UK): A non-movement approach to Wh-in-situ. 16.00 - 16.30 Stella Grillia (University of Leiden, Netherlands): Ex-situ and In-situ focus in Greek: a unified minimalist approach.

    ROOM G24:

    (Phonetics) 10.00 - 10.30 Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge, UK): Coarticulation in British English: differences among speakers in vowel-to-vowel effects. 10.30 - 11.00 My Segerup (Lund University, Sweden): In Gothenburg Swedish short is shorter than short. 11.00 - 11.30 Pik Ki Peggy Mok (University of Cambridge, UK): Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Cantonese and Mandarin. 11.30 - 12.00 Lunch break. 12.00 - 12.30 Michael Tjalve (UCL, UK): Accent features for pronunciation dictionary adaptation in ASR. 12.30 - 13.00 Robert Kelly (University College Dublin, Ireland): Generalization in the automatic acquisition of phonotactic resources. 13.00 - 13.30 Robert Mayr (University of Sheffield, UK): Perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German. 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break

    (Second Language Acquisition) 14.30 - 15.00 Hyun Kyung Bong (University of Cambridge, UK): The status of the functional category Euro~haveEuro(tm) in the second language acquisition of English temporal adjunct clauses by Japanese-speaking learners. 15.00 - 15.30 Lucy (Xia) Zhao (University of Cambridge, UK): Early syntactic development of an English-Chinese bilingual child. 15.30 - 16.00 Anna Bogacka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland): On the perception of English high vowels by Polish learners of English. 16.00 - 16.30 Junko Hondo (Lancaster University, UK): Task-based instruction in CALL: exploiting the internet as a language instructional tool as well as a resource for data collection.

    ROOM B16:

    (Language description - morphology) 10.00 - 10.30 Ben Braithwaite (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK): Evidence for the dislocation of arguments in Nuuchahnulth. 10.30 - 11.00 Gergana Popova (University of Essex, UK): A realizational model of aspectual derivational chains. 11.00 - 11.30 Yun-Hsuan Kuo (University of Essex, UK): Variation and change of the retroflex initial r in Taiwanese Mandarin: evidence of koineisation processes in contact situations. 11.30 - 12.00 Tea break

    (Sociolinguistics) 12.00 - 12.30 Sebastian Marc Rasinger (University of Sussex, UK): Speaking English for integrationEuro(tm)s sake? Considering language use in East London. 12.30 - 13.00 Gert Jendraschek(University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France): A graphic representation of language distribution in multilingual societies. 13.00 - 13.30 Toshihiko Suzuki (Lancaster University, UK): The generation gap in pragmatics: a study of linguistic politeness strategies in Britain and Japan. 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break

    (Semantics - Pragmatics) 14.30 - 15.00 Mikhail Kissine(University of Cambridge, UK): When are the predictions true? The future as a speech act. 15.00 - 15.30 Maria Flouraki (University of Essex, UK): Issues in aspectual composition. 15.30 - 16.00 Jiranthara Srioutai(University of Cambridge, UK): The Thai c2a: a marker of tense or modality? 16.00 - 16.30 Sonia Munteanu (Intercollege, Cyprus): What spatial representation represents.

    ROOM G28:

    (Phonology) 10.00 - 10.30 Kate Ketner (University of Cambridge, UK): A new perspective: Homogeneity of process, heterogeneity of target. 10.30 - 11.00 Sylvia Blaho (University of Tromso, Norway): Featural faithfulness, feature geometry and privativity. 11.00 - 11.30 Gloria Malambe (UCL, UK): Palatalisation in the morphology of siSwati. 11.30 - 12.00 Tea break 12.00 - 12.30 Shakuntala Mahanta (University of Utrecht, Netherlands): Markedness effects in vowel harmony. 12.30 - 13.00 Cheryl Gamble: Consonantal phonology in Prader-Willi Syndrome: a case study. 13.00 - 13.30 Nina Topintzi (UCL, UK): Moraic onsets and WSP partition in Pirah�. 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break

    (Psycholinguistics) 14.30 - 15.00 Ana Raposo, E. A. Stamatakis, H. E. Moss & L. K. Tyler (University of Cambridge, UK): Category related patterns in object recognition - an fMRI study on the interaction between processing demands and conceptual structure. 15.00 - 15.30 Mirjana Bozic, W.D. Marslen-Wilson, E.A. Stamatakis, M.H. Davis, L.K. Tyler (University of Cambridge, UK): Brain activity underlying processing derivationally complex words: involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus. 15.30 - 16.00 Annabel Harrison (University of Edinburgh, UK): Three way attraction effects in Slovenian. 16.00 - 16.30 Eleni Orfanidou, M.H. Davis, W.D. Marslen-Wilson(University of Cambridge, UK): Neural bases of spoken word recognition: effects of lexicality and repetition priming in efMRI.

    16.30 - 17.30 Poster Presentations

    (Computational linguistics) Odejobi Odetunji Ajadi (International Association of the Information Society). A novel intonation model and its application to Yoruba Speech Synthesis.

    Abdul Rashid Salleh. Simulating a Malay WordNet: an experiment in word-sense disambiguation.

    (Psycholinguistics) Petra Augurzky (Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Germany). The influence of prosody on reading - an ERP study on relative clause attachment.

    Linet Frey (University of Cambridge, UK). Cognitive Mechanism of Suppression in L1 and L2 Reading.

    (Second language acquisition) Lin Jiang (University of Essex, UK). Finite/nonfinite asymmetry in the L2 acquisition of Chinese reflexive ziji.

    Ana Ni�o (UMIST, UK). Grammar for writing: A matter of correctness.

    Sima Modirkhamene (University of Surrey, UK). Reading Achievement of Third Language vs. Second Language Learners of English in Relation to Interdependence Hypothesis.

    Kizitus Mpoche (University of Cambridge, UK). Acquisition of the English anaphor by native speakers of Limbum.

    Akiko Takagi (University of Exeter, UK). Motivating Japanese students in the language classroom.

    Liang Yu-Chang (University of Cambridge, UK). Failure or a mapping problem? Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese nominal classifiers by adult English speakers.

    (First language acquisition) Argyri Froso (University of Edinburgh, UK). Crosslinguistic influence in Greek/English bilingual children.

    Piers Messum (University College London, UK). Learning to talk.

    (Syntax-Semantics) Andreas Bulk (University of Leipzig, Germany). A functional account to pronominal clitics in spoken Arabic.

    Xiaoling Hu (Sheffield University, UK). Telicity and the Development of the Chinese language: the case of the Ba-Construction.

    Yordanka Kostadinova-Kavalova (Department of English Language and Linguistics, UCL, UK). Integrated parentheticals and discourse parentheticals.

    (Pragmatics) Assimakopoulos Stavros (University of Edinburgh, UK). Relevance Theory and Grammaticality.

    Hua Xiang (Open University, UK). A Contrastive Study into Apology Strategies: Native British, Chinese Graduate Student and Chinese EFL Learners.

    (Other fields) Kristina Beckman (University of Arizona, USA). Rhetorical Strategies Employed During Legal Proceedings: The Case of Inmate Carl Hearns. [Discourse analysis]

    Andrei Filtchenko (Rice University/Tomsk State Pedagogical University, USA). 'Many Voices of Eastern Khanty'. Discourse-pragmatic perspective on passive and ergative constructions. [Language description]

    Anna Kristina Hultgren (University of Oxford, UK). Talking Like a Man in a Service Job: language, gender and stereotypes. [Sociolinguistics]

    Catherine MacGillycuddy (National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland). Syntax and Communication in a corpus of forty political articles taken from Le Monde. [Corpus linguistics]

    Nuria Yanez-Bouza (University of Manchester, UK). The use of preposition stranding in early Modern English (1500-1800). [Historical linguistics]

    17.30 - 18.45 LAGB/BAAL Invited speaker Professor Deirdre Wilson (University College London) Title: TBA

    19.00 - 20.00 Wine Reception

    All the information above as well as updates and contact details can be found at the conference website: http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/camling/