Postgraduate Conference 2003

EFL

• Irvine, Aileen. Evaluation of Second Language Writing.
• Lynch, Tony. Feedback on spoken English: teachers' options and learners' preferences.

Language Typology

• Round, Erich. "stressed some": facts, fiction and folklore.
• Tron, Viktor. Towards explaining the diachronic emergence of some morphological patterns.

Language in Context & Sociolinguistics

• Chen, Ya-mei. A Translation-oriented News Discourse.
• Heaton, Chris. Ahad Ha'am against the Purists: Battles over the Modern Hebrew Revival.
• Hewitt, Heather. Front desk talk: face to face interaction between GP receptionists and patients.
• Kronenthal, Melissa. The EU and Minority Languages: Real or Perceived Failure?
• Perta, Carmela. Language obsolescence: the case of Arberesh in Italy.
• Rajah-Carrim, Aaliya. The role of Mauritian Creole in the religious practices of Mauritian Muslims.
• Santhakumaran, Dharshi. My mother told me not to talk to strangers: When is it acceptable to take advice from a women's magazine?
• Stegen, Oliver. "If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!" - Minority language development: the case of Rangi.

Phonetics & Phonology

• Calhoun, Sasha. Sorting Out Theme and Rheme Accents.
• Cortes-Pomacondor, Susana. Production of English Intervocalic /d/ by Catalan Speakers in Derived and Non-Derived Contexts.
• Haunz, Christine. Factors in Loanword Adaptation.
• Ishihara, Takeshi. Tonal alignment in Tokyo Japanese.
• Ito, Mika. Voice quality and its contribution to conveying politeness.
• Neugebauer, Moritz. Machine Learning and Phonological Classification. 
• Ou, Shu-Chen. Re-ranking Metrical Constraints in Chinese-English Interlanguage.

Psycholinguistics & Language Acquisition

• Argyri, Efrosyni. Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual First Language Acquisition.
• Chen, Szu-wei. Acquisition of English onset clusters by Chinese learners in Taiwan.
• Flett, Susanna. Syntactic priming in L1 and L2 Spanish.
• Hadelich, Kerstin. When being patient leads to finishing first: influences of visual and syntactic priming in German.
• Harrison, Annabel. Agreement Patterns in Slovenian.
• Tamariz, Monica. What makes words sound similar?
• Tanaka, Mikihiro. Conceptual Accessibility and word-order in Japanese.

Speech Technology

• Shiga, Yoshi. Estimating the Spectral Envelope of Voiced Speech Using Multi-frame Analysis.
• Vepa, Jithendra. Kalman-filter based Join Cost for Unit-selection Speech Synthesis.

Syntax, Semantics & Pragmatics

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros. Context Selection and Relevance.
• Wu, Yicheng. The Dynamic Syntax of Chinese Passive Constructions.

- PGC 2003 Proceedings edited by Stavros Assimakopoulos -