ALUMNI REUNION CONFERENCE

Monday, 8 September 2003

PROGRAMME

9.00 Registration in the Rock Room (Dept of Earth Sciences, Room 4, First Floor, South Wing of UCL Main Building)

Coffee and Poster Session

10.00 Welcome

Dr Valerie Hazan - Introduction

• Dr Jack Mapanje

Poems

10.20 – 11.30 Session 1

Chair: Prof Deirdre Wilson

• 10.20 Introduction

• 10.30 Prof John Holm (University of Coimbra)

The Development of Partially Restructured Vernaculars

• 10.50 Prof Victor Awonusi (University of Lagos)

Hegemonic English and Languages of Wider Communication in Nigeria: Implications for Linguistic Pluralism

• 11.10 Dr Dinah Murray (Autism & Computing)

Interest, Relevance and Autism

11.30 Photograph

11.50 – 1.00 Session 2

Chair: Prof Dick Hudson

• 11.50 Introduction

• 12.00 Dr Mary McGee Wood (University of Manchester)

Why I do not use categorial grammar anymore

• 12.20 Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras) & Dr Ianthi M Tsimpli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

The Derivation of VSO in Greek and its Implications for Word-Order Variation

• 12.40 Dr Fuyo Osawa (Tokai University)

Language Variation and Functional Categories

1.00 – 2.30 Lunch and Poster Session

2.30 – 3.40 Session 3

Chair: Dr Valerie Hazan

• 2.30 Introduction

• 2.40 Dr Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University)

Direction of Assimilation as a Reflection of Prosody-Melody Interaction

• 3.00 Dr Kriszta Szendröi (Utrecht University)

Marked Stress and Only – L1 Acquisition Support for a Unified Theory of Focus

• 3.20 Dr Eva Estebas-Vilaplana (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain)

From F0 to Phonological Interpretation: The Last Pitch Accent of Catalan Declaratives

3.40 - 4.00 Tea and Poster Session

4.00 – 5.10 Session 4

Chair: Prof Neil Smith

• 4.00 Introduction

• 4.10 Dr Hye Kyung Kang (Open Cyber University, Seoul)

Children’s Interpretation of Stress-Shift Constructions

• 4.30 Dr Elizabeth Reis Teixeira (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

Language Production in Early Acquisition

• 4.50 Dr Corinne Iten (Carleton University)

Two Types of Linguistic Meaning: The Conceptual and the Procedural

5.10 The Centre of Human Communication (Prof Moira Yip)

and Closing Remarks (Dr Valerie Hazan)

5.20 Drinks and Poster Session

6.30 Dinner

Posters by

Alumni

· Dr Sophia Adjaye (California State University, Bakersfield)

Consonant Deletion in Ghanaian English

· Dr Nadia Benrabah-Djenane (Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3 )

Nucleus Placement and the French Learner of English

· Dr Hyunsong Chung (Daegu University)

Comparison of Phone Boundary Alignment between Handlabels and Autolabels

· Dr Muhsin Karas (Abant Izzet Baysal University)

European Union Membership and Teaching of Turkish in Turkey

· Dr Mitsuhiro Nakamura (Nihon University)

Redundant Features and Coarticulation: A Case Study of CyV variability and de-palatalisation in Japanese

and by current research students

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Author: Stefanie Anyadi, 3 September 2003

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