22.1243, Confs: General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 22.1243, Confs: General Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: 14-Mar-2011
From: Richard Littauer [richard.littauer at gmail.com]
Subject: Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011

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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:55:23
From: Richard Littauer [richard.littauer at gmail.com]
Subject: Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011

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Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain 2011 
Short Title: ULAB2011 

Date: 25-Mar-2011 - 27-Mar-2011 
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact: Richard Littauer 
Contact Email: linguistic.students at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.lingstudents.co.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB), in 
collaboration with the Edinburgh University Linguistics and English 
Language Society invites all students, whether at the undergraduate or 
post-graduate level, to a two day conference which will be held at the 
University of Edinburgh on the weekend of 26-27 March 2011, with an 
opening night on Friday 25 March.

ULAB was founded this year with the intention of bringing together students 
of linguistics and related disciplines in the UK in an academic setting, to 
present and discuss undergraduate research, and to foster community 
among like-minded students. The conference is an opportunity for students 
to present in a friendly and supportive environment and will be ideal for 
those who are unfamiliar with public speaking. 

Friday:

9:00 Pre-Registration at Greyfriars Pub

Saturday:

9:30: Registration	
9:45: Introduction	

10:00: Richard Littauer (Edinburgh University 4th year) Modelling the 
Evolution of Speech Segmentation

10:20: Joel Girling (Edinburgh University 3rd year) The Dialect of Milton 
Keynes: An Analysis of The Past and The Present

10:40: Anna Bruggeman (University of York 3rd year) The entertainer - An 
ethnographic case study on identity projection by an 11-year-old Moroccan-
Dutch child	

11:00: Coffee Break	

11:20: Rebecca Jackson (Salford University 3rd year) When is possession 
not possession?

12:00: Aimee Keay (Sussex University 3rd year) Jehovah's Witnesses' 
Linguistic Identity: An Analysis of The Watchtower Publication
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12:20: Fiona Edwards (University of Sussex 3rd year) A comparative 
corpus-based approach to investigating the metaphor 'language death'

12:40: Jay Rae (Edinburgh University 4th year) Vowel Length: Scottish 
Vowel Length Rule vs. Word Frequency	

1:00	 Lunch	

2:00: Alison Biggs (Cambridge Graduate Degree, presenting 
Undergraduate work) The unmarked preposed object in Mandarin and its 
function in the Low Periphery

2:40: Sam Waterman (Sussex University 3rd year) Fairness in 
contemporary British politics: an analysis of the meanings and rhetorical 
functions of fair and fairness in George Osborne's Spending Review speech

3:00: Abigael Candelas (University of Edinburgh Graduate Degree, 
presenting Undergraduate work) Speaking as a woman: Gender, silencing, 
and agency in public discourse	

3:20: Coffee Break	

3:40: Stephanie Maia (University of Edinburgh 4th year) Bilingual first 
language acquisition with a view to attrition

4:00: Judith Gottschalk (Ruhr-Universität Bochum Graduate Degree, 
Presenting Undergraduate Work) Storage of linguistic knowledge in the 
mental lexicon: An approach within Role and Reference Grammar

4:20: Jon Carr (University of Glasgow 4th year) Language evolution on 
Stella Fructa: The effects of novel variables on an iterated learning model of 
linguistic evolution by cultural transmission

5:00: David M. T. Arnold (University of Edinburgh 3rd year)	 On the Origin 
of Myths and Myths of Origin: How views on the origins of languages can be 
more significant than genetic ethnicity in forming group identity.

5:20: Dinner

Sunday:

11:30: Lilian Fullerton (University of Edinburgh 4th year ) Evolutionary 
linguistics, alien languages and duality of patterning: What can slide 
whistles tell us about the evolutionary emergence of combinatorial 
phonology?

11:50: Timothy Bazalgette (University of Cambridge Graduate Degree, 
presenting Undergraduate work) Who posh have I been talking to? An 
investigation into a class of non-standard adadjectival wh-phrases in 
English.

12:10: Teresa Kieseier (University of Konstanz 4th year) Phonological 
Features of North Carolina English

12:50: Elizabeth Anderson (University of Edinburgh 4th year) The 
perception of tones with missing fundamental frequencies in beginning and 
advanced students of Mandarin Chinese

1:10: Lunch

2:30: Plenary Speaker: Martin Kohlberger (University of Edinburgh 
Graduate Degree, presenting Undergraduate Work) A Phonological 
Overview and and Analysis of Aspirated Stops in Central Highland 
Ecuadorian Quichua

3:30	 ULAB AGM

4:30	 Wine Tasting

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