Conference Programme

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Session 1

Typology/Description

Lameen Souag: The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber
Anicka Fast: Moral Incoherence in Documentary Linguistics: Theorizing the Interventionist Aspect of the Field

Session 2

Lexicology/Lexicography

Elsa Barros and Miriam Buendía Castro: Controlled Language through Definitions of Coastal Terms in English
Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi: Defining the Degree of Lexicalization of Adverbialized Converbs

Psycholinguistics

Ismael Teomiro-García: Agrammatism and the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Dutch Aphasics' Performance on Saturated Experiencer Verbs
Sebastian Knospe: 'English meets German': On the Creative Exploitation of Anglicisms and Code-mixing in Language Use in the Context of the Fifa World Cup 2006

Session 3

Sociolinguistics 1

Nanna Hilton: The Social Meaning of Stress Assignment in Hønefoss Norwegian
Caroline Piercy: A Quantitative Analysis of Rhoticity in Dorset: Evidence from Four Locations of an Urban to Rural Hierarchy of Change
Dave Sayers: Beyond the speech community: Quotative 'be like' and the 'linguistic virtual collective'

Pragmatics 1

Anna Sysoeva: Word Meaning, Defaults and Conscious Pragmatic Inferences: Interaction between Sources of Information in a Theory of Utterance Processing
Henry Beecher: Interpreting Sluiced Prepositional Phrases: Evidence for a Pragmatic Inference Process and its Constraints
Hiroyuki Uchida: Logic in Pragmatics

Session 4

Second Language Acquisition 1

Michael Markey: Investigating the Role of Previous Second Language Learning Experience when Approaching a Foreign Language at Secondary School: Learning French as a Third Language in Ireland
Kholoud Al-Thubaiti: Age Effects on the Acquisition of Uninterpretable Features by Proficient Arabic Speakers of English
Esuna Dugarova: Acquisition of the Chinese Reflexive 'ziji' by Russian and English Speakers

Phonetics & Phonology

Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez: How Can Song Help us Understand Spoken Language? Text-setting Constraints in English and Spanish
Jennifer Sullivan: Title-Variability in F0 Valleys: The Case of Belfast English
Angelos Lengeris: Native and Non-native Cue Weightings when Identifying Non-native Vowel Contrasts: A Cross-linguistic Study

Syntax

Marlies Kluck: The Perspective of External Remerge on Right Node Raising
Aya Meltzer: The Experiencer Constraint Revisited
Adam Kay: Tree Folding

Session 5

Teaching & Assessment

José María Lahoz Bengoechea: Place of Articulation and Consonantal Strength
Shih-Chieh Chien: The Role of Writing Strategy Use in Relation to Chinese EFL Students' Achievement in English Writing: A Cognitive Approach
Hana Lim: A Study of Self- and Peer-Assessment on Learners' Oral Proficiency

First Language Acquisition

Pragmatics 2

Charikleia Kapellidi: The Speaking Subject in Communication: Subjectivity and the (Gendered) Self
Inji Choi: How and when Do Children Acquire the Use of Discourse Markers?
Eleni Karafoti: Politeness, Gender and the Face of the Speaker

Session 6

Second Language Acquisition 2

Ghisseh Sarko: Morphophonological or Syntactic Transfer in the Acquisition of English Articles by L1 Speakers of Syrian Arabic?
Carol Jaensch: L3 Acquisition of Articles in German by Native Japanese Speakers
Nattama Pongpairoj: Are L2 English Article Choices UG-regulated?

Sociolinguistics 2

Cristina Psomadakis: Mapping Metaphors in Modern Greek
Christian Egger: Is there a Trend towards Greater Foreign Language Diversity and Multilingualism in Compulsory Education in Europe?
Lukasz Abramowicz: Solving Thorny Theoretical Issues with Sociolinguistic Data: The Case of Person/Number Marking in Polish

Interdisciplinary session

Miltiadis Kokkonidis: The Syntax-Semantics Interface of Lexical Functional Linear Logical Grammar
Michael Chiou: Two Subtypes of M-implicatures: A Study with Special Reference to Modern Greek
Chris Lucas: Language-internal and Contact-induced Change in Negative Constructions

Posters

Anna Asbury: Decomposing Case Paradigms: A Reanalysis of Finnish

Cauvis Fung: OBJECT Topicalization in Cantonese

Mariko Honda: The Role of Prosody in Japanese: Variation in the Use of Accentual Information in Spoken Word Recognition by L1 and L2 Speakers of Japanese

Dong Lee: A Computer-aided Error Analysis of a Korean Learner Corpus: Procedures, Findings and Pedagogical Applications

Jakob Leimgruber: Variation in Singapore English as Reflected in Aspectual Constructions

Nikola Milic: Language Standardization and the Printing Industry in the sixteenth century-Italy

Lindsay Milligan: A Systems Model of Language Planning

Alyson Pitts: The Markedness of the Negative: Analysing Negation in a Spoken Corpus