<div><br><br><br>3rd SLRU Symposium on Bilingualism and SLA <br>Short Title: SLRU3 <br><br>Date: 21-May-2008 - 21-May-2008 <br>Location: Edinburgh, UK, United Kingdom <br>Contact: Mike Smith <br>Contact Email: msharwood<img src="http://linguistlist.org/images/address-marker.gif" align="absBottom"><a href="http://blueyonder.co.uk">blueyonder.co.uk</a> <br>
Meeting URL: <a href="http://www.hw.ac.uk/langWWW/cresla/symposium">http://www.hw.ac.uk/langWWW/cresla/symposium</a> 2008/ <br><br>Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics <br><br>Meeting Description: <br><br>The third international (day) symposium on issues relating to bilingualism and <br>
second languages featuring guest speakers that include Juliane House (Hamburg) , <br>Roger Hawkins (Essex), Ineke Mennen (Bangor, Wales) and speakers from <br>universities in Edinburgh. <br><br>09.30. <br>Opening - Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University) <br>
<br>09.40. <br>''Using Think-aloud Protocols to Investigate Inference in Translation'' <br>Julieta Alos Saad (Heriot-Watt University) <br><br>10.10. <br>''Applications of a Corpus of Advanced Learner German'' <br>
Liz Thoday (Heriot-Watt University) <br><br>10.40. <br>Refreshments <br><br>10.50. <br>''English Loanwords in the Greek Media: Tttitudes of the Public.'' <br>Zoi Tatsioka (Heriot-Watt University) <br><br>11.20. <br>
''Exploring Language-Specific Articulatory Settings in L2-Speakers'' <br>Sonja Schaeffler (Queen Margaret University) <br><br>11.50. <br>''Common-or-garden Speech Recognition: What's in it for the Language Learner?'' <br>
John Emslie (Heriot-Watt University) <br><br>12.20. <br>Lunch Break <br><br>14.15. <br>Introduction Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University) <br><br>14.20 <br>''The Role of English as a Lingua Franca in Multilingual Communication'' <br>
Juliane House (University of Hamburg) <br><br>15.10 <br>''Higher, Wider, and Earlier: An Exploration of Language-specific Prosodic <br>Settings in L2 Learners'' <br>Ineke Mennen (Bangor University) <br><br>
16.00. <br>''Comparing 2 Linguistic Models of the Acquisition of Gender Concord by <br>Non-native Speakers'' <br>Roger Hawkins (University of Essex) </div>
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