0 The 3rd Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 9 July 2008- Programme

The provisional conference programme is now available

Please click on the title of the presentation to download the abstract in pdf format.

8.30 - 9.15

Registration
Poster set-up
9.15 - 10.15

Bonnie D. Schwartz, Jee Hyun Ma, Junghee Kim
University of Hawai'i

Island sensitivity in development: L2 adults, L2 children and L1 youths
Rm 1
 

Stream 1: Rm 1

Stream 2: Rm 2

Stream 3: Rm 3
 

Syntax

L1, L2 Syntax

Acquisition/Teaching
10.15 - 10.45

Elena Papadopoulou & Sonja Eisenbeiss
University of Essex

Acquisition of Wh-questions: Syntactic priming in Cypriot Greek

Not in use

Maria Xanthou
University of Cyprus

Learning subject matter through the medium of a foreign language (CLIL). On its effects on primary school learners' L2 vocabulary development and content knowledge
10.45 - 11.15

Pauline Harries
University of Manchester

Double definiteness and the Faroese Noun Phrase

Not in use

Hong (Lily) Wan
Newcastle University

The role of language anxiety in L2 learning
11.15 - 11.45

Coffee break
Poster presentations
11.45 - 12.15
Poster presentations
12.15 - 1.15

Prof Mike Sharwood-Smith
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

"Transfer versus Translation: On the modular interpretation of linguistic performance"
Rm 1
1.15 - 2.15
Lunch
 

Syntax

Phonology/ Phonetics

Acquisition
2.15 - 2.45

Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
King's College London

Clitics in standard modern and Grecia Salentina Greek: A dynamic account

Mirjana Sokolovic-Perovic
Newcastle University

Voicing-conditioned vowel duration in Southern Serbian: a pilot study

Gary C. Wood
University of Sheffield

The identity of silence: acquiring the identity condition on sluicing
2.45 - 3.15

Daniel Paul
University of Manchester

Clitic placement in Iranian Taleshi

Rob Drummond
University of Manchester

Evidence of the acquisition of northern vowel sounds by non-native English speakers in Manchester

Erin Bidlake
Newcastle University

Going solo: case-studies at the intersection of CALL and SILL. A pilot study
3.15 - 3.45

Valentina Papa
University of Florence

How many comparatives?

Nora Zahrani
University of York

Prosodic (Non)marking of repair in Arabic spontaneous speech

Atipat Boonmoh
University of Warwick

Methods for researching [p]ocket [e]lectronic [d]ictionary use: a study of PED consultation of Thai university students
3.45 - 4.15
Coffee
 

Semantics/Pragmatics/ Sociolinguistics

Phonology/Phonetics/ Corpus Linguistics

Acquisition/Teaching
4.15 - 4.45

Kevin McManus
Newcastle University

Cross-Linguistics differences in the second language acquisition of aspect: the conceptual-linguistic form interface

Patrycja Strycharczuk & Peter Jurgec
CASTL, University of Tromsø

Prosodic influences on formant frequencies of Polish vowels

Diego Rascón
University of Jaén

Cross-curricular teaching in Jaén and Newcastle-upon-Tyne foreign language classrooms
4.45 - 5.15

Andrew D. Gargett
King's College London

Towards an interactive model of person reference

Emilie Caratini
Université de Nice/ Universität Leipzig

Osl can be enough

I-Chin Nonie Chiang
Newcastle University

Do parents and children read happily ever after?
5.15 - 5.45

Steve Disney
Lancaster University

Uses and history of BE going to + infinitive in English

A. Omar
Newcastle University

A cluster analysis of the electronic corpus of Wilkie Collins: The problem of document length variation

Hamid Reza Haghverdi
Khorasgan Islamic Azad University

New horizons in teaching and testing listening via phonetics and phonological awareness - what is the problem with existing listening tests
5.45 - 6.45

Prof Andrew Radford
University of Essex

"Language mixing and accommodation in bilingual children"
Rm 1

Poster presentations

The following people will be presenting their work as a poster presentation. Please click on the title for the full abstract in pdf format.

Name Affiliation Title
Khaled El-Ebyary Newcastle University Why washback has what effects it does have
Rehab Gad Newcastle University Is there multiple wh-fronting in Egyptian Arabic (EA)?
Kate Green Newcastle University Setting language acquisition to music: do you hear what I hear?
Agnieszka Latos Bologna University Concession on different levels of linguistic connection
Clare Wright Newcastle University The Role of Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition
Tat Shing Yeung University of York Do onsets of vocalic segments make a difference in tone discrimination?