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
Poems
10.20 – 11.30 Session 1
Chair: Prof Deirdre Wilson
- 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
- 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
- 2.40 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
- 4.10 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