[EDLING:1253] CamLing 2006

[Francis M Hult]

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Below is the programme for the Fourth Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in 
> Language Research.  Please forward to anyone who might be interested in 
> attending.
> 
> Cheers,
> The CamLing Committee
> 
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> Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research
> c/o Department of Linguistics
> University of Cambridge
> Sidgwick Avenue
> Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK
> 
> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/
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> 
> Please note that the deadline for pre-registration (by cheque/postal order 
> or credit card) is Wednesday, 01 March 2006 (see 
> http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/registration.html).  Conference 
> participants must pre-register in order to attend the post-conference 
> dinner.
> 
> THE FOURTH CAMBRIDGE POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN LANGUAGE RESEARCH
> 
> 09.15 Registration
> 10.00 Welcoming panel and presentation by the Linguistics Association of 
> Great Britain
> 
> - ORAL PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 1 - (10.30-12.30)
> 
> PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
> 10.30 Marion Caldecott (University of British Columbia): Parsed vs. 
> unparsed in St'at'imcets: Does phonetics affect phonological structure?
> 11.00 Jennifer N. Sullivan (University College Dublin): Phonetic alignment 
> and the phrase tone/'trailing tone' ambiguity in Hiberno-English
> 11.30 Ekaterina Samoylova (University of Oxford): Tone identification in 
> whispered speech
> 12.00 Charles Chang (University of Cambridge/University of California, 
> Berkeley): Tense consonants in Korean revisited: A crosslinguistic 
> perceptual study
> 
> MORPHOLOGY & SYNTAX
> 10.30 Ana Carrera Hernandez (University College London): Gapping as a 
> syntactic dependency
> 11.00 Alan Scott (University of Manchester): Polysemy in derived nouns and 
> its role in the lexicon
> 11.30 Daisy Pong (National Chi Nan University): Restructuring argument 
> structure
> 12.00 Asier Alcazar (University of Southern California): Transitive 
> intransitives: Basque unergatives revisited
> 
> PRAGMATICS
> 10.30 Alison Hall (University College London): Are there unarticulated 
> constituents of the proposition expressed?
> 11.00 Sam Callanan (University of Sheffield): Pragmatic interpretation of 
> the Frequency code
> 11.30 Eleni Kriempardis (University of Cambridge): Interpersonal effects 
> on primary propositions
> 12.00 Alyson Pitts (University of Cambridge): The pragmatics of verbal 
> irony
> 
> PSYCHOLINGUISTICS & ACQUISITION
> 10.30 Shane Lindsay (University of Sussex): Perceptual inteference in 
> spatial and non-spatial language processing
> 11.00 Marco Tamburelli (University College London): Paradigms, acquisition 
> and bilingualism
> 11.30 Xingjia Rachel Shen (University of Exeter): Chinese or syntax: Which 
> one comes later?
> 12.00 Piers Messum (University College London): How children learn 
> pronunciation
> 
> 12.30 LUNCH
> 
> - ORAL PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 2 - (13.15-14.45)
> 
> SOCIOLINGUISTICS
> 13.15 Hazel Steele (University of York): I don't want to sound negative: 
> Clitic negation patterns in Leeds English
> 13.45 Parco M.T. Wong (University of Hong Kong): A sociolinguistic study 
> on the social functions and topic focus of youth slang: The case of Hong 
> Kong adolescents
> 14.15 Angeliki Alvanoudi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): The 
> contribution of feminist deconstruction theories to the understanding of 
> the relationship between language and gender
> 
> SYNTAX I
> 13.15 Michele Vincent (University of Essex): An Agree-based account of 
> French past participle agreement
> 13.45 Anja Christina Kleemann (Queen Mary, University of London): The 
> syntax of focus particles in German event vs. result nominals
> 14.15 Kirsten Gengel (University of Stuttgart): Contrastivity and 
> deletion: A feature-based account of ellipsis
> 
> SEMANTICS
> 13.15 Johannes Wespel (University of Stuttgart): Present perfect, 
> discourse relevance, and (non)specificity
> 13.45 Jessica Coon and Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of 
> Technology): Existential constructions and two types of negation in Chol 
> (Mayan)
> 14.15 Stella Gryllia (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics): Broad vs. 
> narrow focus in Greek: Results from a production and a perception 
> experiment
> 
> L2 ACQUISITION AND LEARNING I
> 13.15 Clare Wright (University of Newcastle upon Tyne): Patterns of 
> variation in question forms shown by Chinese learners of English
> 13.45 Filiz Etiz (Middle East Technical University): Pro-drop in L3 
> acquisition: A study in the Optimality Theoretic framework
> 14.15 Pagona-Niki Efstathopoulou (Simon Fraser University): Greek 
> ditransitive structures: Evidence against 'dative shift'
> 
> 14.45 BREAK
> 
> - ORAL PRESENTATIONS, SESSION 3 - (15.00-16.30)
> 
> SOCIOLINGUISTICS & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
> 15.00 Xiao Cheng (Lancaster University): Academic reading experiences: 
> Chinese students in UK higher education
> 15.30 Ekaterina Popova (University of Cambridge): Race-based rhetoric in 
> political discourse: Critical discourse analysis of election manifestoes
> 16.00 Vincent Munyaradzi Vezha (Lancaster University/Zimbabwe Open 
> University): Thematisation and persuasive discourse
> 
> SYNTAX II
> 15.00 Hiroyuki Uchida (University College London): Frozen scope in 
> categorial grammar
> 15.30 You-Min Lin (National Taiwan University): The directionality of 
> grammaticalization revisited: A case study of Chinese guoran
> 16.00 Anna McNay (University of Oxford) and Kirsten Gengel (University of 
> Stuttgart): Recursive information-structural layers in syntax: Evidence 
> from the vP layer
> 
> L2 ACQUISITION AND LEARNING II
> 15.00 Neal Snape (University of Essex): Do Japanese L2 learners have 
> problems (re-)setting parameters? Evidence from the nominal domain in 
> English
> 15.30 Aya Okamoto (University of Essex): Acquisition of transitive 
> alternation in L2 Japanese by L1 English speakers
> 16.00 Lana Kreishan (University of Surrey): Motivations and attitudes of 
> Arab learners of English: A study from Jordan
> 
> - POSTER SESSION - (16.30-17.20)
> 
> ACQUISITION AND LEARNING
> Keiko Matsunaga (University of Essex): Learning motion expressions without 
> acquiring underlying structures
> Laura Herbst (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): The influence 
> of language dominance on early bilingual VOT production: A case study
> Youping Han (University of Cambridge): Second language learners' 
> metalinguistic knowledge on the production of the English definite article 
> 'the'
> Maja Milicevic (University of Cambridge): Set relations in the transfer of 
> L1 morphology: Acquisition of reflexive and reciprocal forms in L2 Italian 
> and L2 English
> 
> COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
> Aaron Nitzkin (Tulane University): Talking about the invisible world: The 
> cognitive semantic structure of language about interpersonal, social, and 
> spiritual intangibles
> 
> DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
> Wei Lai (Pennsylvania State University): Resocialization: How insiders 
> introduce their society to outsiders--an analysis on ESL textbooks
> Arnaud Richard (University Paul Valery of Montpellier): The vision of the 
> name is the vision of the game: Borrowings in French sport discourses
> 
> LITERATURE & STYLISTICS
> Yufang Ho (Lancaster University): A qualitative and quantitative stylistic 
> comparison of the two editions of John Fowles's 'The Magus'
> 
> MORPHOLOGY
> Zaira Khalilova (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology): Some 
> notes on the principles of noun class distribution in Khwarshi
> 
> NEUROLINGUISTICS
> Wen-hui Sah (National Normal University/National Chengchi University): 
> Fundamental frequency range of Chinese aphasics: Compression or 
> exaggeration
> 
> PHONETICS
> Angelos Lengeris and Michael Ashby (University College London): Effects of 
> speaking style on the spectral and temporal characteristics of Greek 
> vowels
> 
> PRAGMATICS
> Kingsley Nwali Ibekwe and Margret Okwudili-Okoye (Ambrose Alli University, 
> Ekpoma): Intercultural sociolinguistics and communication research in 
> Nigeria: Its relevance to academic settings
> 
> SEMANTICS
> Michelle McCarthy (University of Surrey): Relationships of opposition and 
> similarity in the contribution of the prefixes 'ab-', 'aus-', 'durch-', 
> 'er-', and 'ver-' to the meaning of verbs belonging to various categories 
> of Aktionsarten
> Makiko Irie (University of Texas at Austin): A note on two readings of 
> temporal when sentences
> 
> SYNTAX
> Anna McNay (University of Oxford): Split topicalisation: Motivating the 
> split
> Andrey Filchenko (Rice University/Tomsk State Pedagogical University): 
> Khanty parenthetical constructions: Discourse salience vis-a-vis referring 
> expressions
> 
> TEACHING & ASSESSMENT
> Karen Ashton (University of Cambridge/Cambridge Assessment): 
> Cross-language comparability in a new assessment framework for reading
> 
> TRANSLATION STUDIES
> Svetlana A. Skomorokhova (University of Oxford): Source oriented 
> translation versus target oriented translation: Two opposing translation 
> strategies in the translation of Belarusian poetry
> 
> - KEYNOTE ADDRESS - (17.20-18.30)
> Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University): Title TBA
> 
> 18.45 DRINKS RECEPTION, Cambridge University Press bookstore
> 20.00 DINNER, St. Catharine's College (open to all pre-registered 
> participants at a subsidized cost of ¡Ì12 on top of the registration fee)