12.1131, Confs: Jordanstown Linguistics Days

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Date:  Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:24:22 +0100
From:  "Alison Henry" <AM.Henry at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Jordanstown Linguistics Days

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Date:  Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:24:22 +0100
From:  "Alison Henry" <AM.Henry at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Jordanstown Linguistics Days

The Annual Jordanstown Linguistics Days at University of Ulster at
Jordanstown will take place on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th
April. This is an informal conference at which faculty and
postgraduate students from University of Ulster and neighbouring
institutions present talks on their current work. Everyone is
welcome to attend and there is no registration fee. This year, in
addition to the general session, there is a day devoted to Linguistic
Theory when linguists working in Ireland on Syntax, Morphology,
Phonology and Language Acquisition Theory will be talking about
their current research.


Thurs 26 April
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Session 1: Room 12 G04


10.05 Maria O'Neill (UUJ)
Children with Downs Syndrome: usage  of grammatical
morphemes


10.30 Jill Titterington (UUJ/BCH)
An Investigation into the relationship  between auditory memory
function and  spoken language  development in  cochlear implanted
children


10.55 Coffee

Session 2: 3E03


11.15 Shi Xu (UUJ)
Aspects of discourse


11.40 Nicola Schmidt-Renfree (UUJ)
Language and Power relations


12.05 Pauline Irving and Alison Henry  (UUJ)
The impact of local dialect in  counselling


12.30 Bronagh Blaney (UUJ)
Intelligibility in Friedrich's Ataxia


12.50 Lunch break


Session 3: 12G04

2.00 Alison Henry and Cathy Finlay  (UUJ)
What Belfast children tell us about  language acquisition: 'seen' ,
'done'  and the past tense acquisition debate


2.25 Catrin Rhys (UUJ)
Interlocutor discourse practices in  response to the word  finding
problems  of an Alzheimer's patient


2.50 Marian Browne (UCD) Aspects of  Traveller English

3.15 Lindsay Klimacka (UUJ)
Listening to deaf speech: does  experience count?




Parasession on Theoretical Linguistics

Friday 27 April

Room: 17E25


11.00-11.30 Arrive/Coffee


11.30 Eithne Guilfoyle (IADT-DL)
	    Issues in the acquisition of Irish


11.55 Cathal Doherty (UCD)
	    Relative pronouns in Modern Irish


12.20 Lunch


1.45 Sile Harrington (IADT-DL/Trinity)
  	   Verb Forms in early Irish


2.10 Paolo Acquaviva (UCD)
	  Irish prepositional agreement
	  and autonomous morphology


2.35 Clodagh Lynam (UCD)
        Verbal agreement with
        conjoined subjects in Old
        English.


3.00 Alison Henry (UUJ)
       Transitive expletives and
       floating associates in Belfast
       English


3.25 Martin Kraemer (UUJ)
	  Affix vowels in Fula vowel harmony


3.50 Siobhan Cottell
        Operator movement and the existence of VP-clefts



4.15 Coffee/Discussion of plans for  future meetings




Professor Alison Henry
Linguistics section
School of Psychology and Communication
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Newtownabbey
BT37 0QB
N Ireland
Tel (+44)(0)2890-366544
Fax (+44)(0)2890-368251



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