[EDLING:1254] CamLing 2006 (w/ date!)

[Francis M. Hult]

----- Forwarded message from CamLing Conference <camling at hermes.cam.ac.uk> ----

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for the omission of the conference date in the previous 
announcement: CamLing 2006 will take place on *Friday, 17 March 2006*. 
Further details regarding location, travel, accommodation, and 
registration are available on the conference website: 
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/.

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
Friday, 17 March 2006
Cambridge, UK

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)