LINGUIST List 17.1622
Mon May 29 2006
Confs: Applied Ling/General Ling/Newcastle, UK
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1. David
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1st Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Message 1: 1st Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Date: 26-May-2006
From: David Young <d.g.youngncl.ac.uk>
Subject: 1st Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
1st Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Date: 23-Jun-2006 - 23-Jun-2006
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom
Contact: David Young
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://pglinguistics2006.ncl.ac.uk
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
We are pleased to announce the First Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in association with the University of Durham, sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
The success of the Durham Postgraduate Linguistics Conference over the past decade, and the recent amalgamation of Durham’s linguistics department with Newcastle University’s School of English, has led to the creation of a new conference based in Newcastle. This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.
Professor Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) will be giving a guest lecture at this year’s conference on ‘Language and Genes’.
1ST NEWCASTLE POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS (in association with the University of Durham)
Friday, 23rd June, 2006
The conference will take place in the heart of the Newcastle University campus in the Research Beehive (Old Library Building), with lunch and the poster session in the Percy Building (School of English). There will be two parallel speaker sessions throughout the day, and two guest speaker slots. Professor Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute) and Professor Vivian Cook (Newcastle University) will be delivering guest lectures at the conference.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
0900 - 1000 Registration and Poster set-up (Research Beehive)
SESSION A > Psycholinguistics, syntax, morphology & phonology (Room 220)
1000 - 1030 Takako Kondo (Essex) 'Acquiring English unaccusative verbs: the role of UG and L1 transfer' 1030 - 1100 Alan Scott (Manchester) 'Competition in the lexicon: a failure of blocking'
1100 - 1130 Refreshment Break
1130 - 1200 Clare Wright (Newcastle) 'Is interlanguage variation in complex CP structures predictable?' 1200 - 1230 Charles Chang (Cambridge/Berkeley) 'On Meaning Activation in the Dual-Route Model of Reading: The Case of Non-Homophonous Homographs'
SESSION B > Sociolinguistics, language acquisition & pragmatics (Room 222)
1000 - 1030 Ruth Kircher (Queen Mary, London) 'Language attitudes towards Quebec French versus European French' 1030 - 1100 Heike Pichler (Aberdeen) 'Variation in the use of discourse marker 'I don't know' in Berwick-upon-Tweed'
1100 - 1130 Refreshment Break
1130 - 1200 Daniel Paul (Manchester) 'Assessing Language Proficiency through Storying' 1200 - 1230 Yi-An Lin (Cambridge) 'A Corpus-based Study of Syntactic Errors in English SLI Children'
GUEST SPEAKER SESSION 1 > Room 220
1230 - 1330 Professor Vivian Cook (Newcastle) 'Some Repurcussions of Multi-Competence for Linguistics'
1330 - 1430 LUNCH BREAK & POSTER SESSION (Percy Building foyer)
Poster Presenters:
Yen-Chi Fan (Leicester) 'Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Theoretical Underpinnings, Applications and Implications in EFL University Context' Vasfiye Geckin (Bogazici University) 'Do L2 learners 'fluctuate' between definiteness and specificity? Evidence from Turkish child L2 learners of English' Frenette Southwood (Stellenbosch University) 'Does specific language impairment exist in Afrikaans?' Gizella Nagy (Eotvos Lorand) 'Wh-movement and its interactions with topicalisation' Ondene Van Dulm (Stellenbosch University) 'The syntax of English-Afrikaans intrasentential codeswitching' Kaycey Ihemere (Newcastle) 'Sequential Analysis of Code-switching: The Case of the Ikwerre of Port Harcourt'
SESSION C > Psycholinguistics, syntax, morphology & phonology (Room 220)
1430 - 1500 Robert Truswell (UCL) 'Extraction from Adjuncts and the Interpretation of Secondary Predicates' 1500 - 1530 Marina Kolokonte (Newcastle) 'Bare Argument Ellipsis and Polarity in Modern Greek' 1530 - 1600 Edward Wilford (Cambridge) 'A locative feature in Fin? Evidence from Breton auxiliaries'
1600 - 1630 Refreshment Break
1630 - 1700 Rosalia Rodriguez-Vazquez (Edinburgh) 'Text-setting constraints in English and Spanish' 1700 - 1730 Sam Callanan (Sheffield) 'Signs, signals and biological codes of information'
SESSION D > Sociolinguistics, language acquisition & pragmatics (Room 222)
1430 - 1500 Miri Hussein (Newcastle) 'Discourse Markers in Classical Arabic' 1500 - 1530 Kristin Borjesson (Leipzig) 'Literal meaning - the result of pragmatic processes' 1530 - 1600 Michael Chiou (Reading) 'The Modern Greek anaphoric expression o idhios: a neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis'
1600 - 1630 Refreshment Break
1630 - 1700 James Hawthorne (Essex) 'The acquisition of prepositional constructions and their associated case-marking properties in the L2 German of L2 English speakers' 1700 - 1730 Vivienne Rogers (Newcastle) 'Syntactic development in L2 learners of French'
GUEST SPEAKER SESSION 2 > Room 220
1730 - 1830 Professor Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) 'Language and Genes'
1830 CONFERENCE CLOSE
There will be a conference dinner at an Italian restaurant in Newcastle in the evening for all those who wish to join us. This costs £10 in addition to the standard registration fee. Please see the website for further details:
pglinguistics2006.ncl.ac.uk
The First Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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