19.1603, Confs: General Linguistics/UK

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Date: 16-May-2008
From: Mike Sharwood Smith < msharwood at blueyonder.co.uk >
Subject: 3rd SLRU Symposium on Bilingualism and SLA

 

	
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:07
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Subject: 3rd SLRU Symposium on Bilingualism and SLA 
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3rd SLRU Symposium on Bilingualism and SLA 
Short Title: SLRU3 

Date: 21-May-2008 - 21-May-2008 
Location: Edinburgh, UK, United Kingdom 
Contact: Mike Smith 
Contact Email: msharwood at blueyonder.co.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.hw.ac.uk/langWWW/cresla/symposium 2008/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The third international (day) symposium on issues relating to bilingualism and
second languages featuring guest speakers that include Juliane House (Hamburg) ,
Roger Hawkins (Essex), Ineke Mennen (Bangor, Wales) and speakers from
universities in Edinburgh. 

09.30.  
Opening - Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University)

09.40.	
''Using Think-aloud Protocols to Investigate Inference in Translation''
Julieta Alos Saad (Heriot-Watt University)

10.10. 
''Applications of a Corpus of Advanced Learner German''
 Liz Thoday (Heriot-Watt University)

10.40. 
Refreshments

10.50.  
''English Loanwords in the Greek Media: Tttitudes of the Public.''
Zoi Tatsioka (Heriot-Watt University)

11.20.  
''Exploring Language-Specific Articulatory Settings in L2-Speakers''
Sonja Schaeffler (Queen Margaret University)

11.50.  
''Common-or-garden Speech Recognition: What's in it for the Language Learner?''
 John Emslie (Heriot-Watt University)

12.20. 
Lunch Break

14.15. 
Introduction Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University)

14.20 
''The Role of English as a Lingua Franca in Multilingual Communication''
Juliane House (University of Hamburg)

15.10 
''Higher, Wider, and Earlier: An Exploration of Language-specific Prosodic
Settings in L2 Learners''
Ineke Mennen (Bangor University)

16.00. 
''Comparing 2 Linguistic Models of the Acquisition of Gender Concord by
Non-native Speakers''
Roger Hawkins (University of Essex)







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