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      Postgraduate Conference 2005

      Programme

      All talks will be held in B9, Adam Ferguson Building.
      Proceedings will afterwards be available on-line, eventually.

      A printable PDF-version of this programme is available here.

      A complete program with all abstracts is available for download at the foot of the abstracts page.

      Wednesday, April 20th - morning

      SESSION 1 Chair: James R Hurford
      10:30-11:00 Dave Hawkey (Edinburgh: LEC)
      Evolutionary Models of Meaning abstract
      11:00-11:30 Vipas Pothipath (Edinburgh: LEC)
      Typology and Possible Evolution of Numeral-Noun Constructions abstract

      		- BREAK -
      SESSION 2 Chair: Kenny Smith
      12:00-12:30 Stefan Hoefler (Edinburgh: LEC)
      Is Syntactic Ambiguity an Adaptation to the Learning Bottleneck? abstract
      12:30-1:00 Dan Dediu (Edinburgh: LEC)
      Simulating Language and Genetic (De)Correlations - General Problems abstract

      - NO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION -

      Thursday, April 21st - morning

      SESSION 3 Chair: Ronnie Cann
      10:30-11:00 Mark McConville (Edinburgh: ICCS)
      Towards a Performance Theory of the CCG Lexicon abstract
      11:00-11:30 Sasha Calhoun (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Modelling Semantic and Phonetic Weight - NP Case Studies abstract *** CANCELLED

      		- BREAK -
      SESSION 4 Chair: Daniel Wedgwood
      12:00-12:30 Stavros Assimakopoulos (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Ad-Hoc-Context, Context Selection and Relevance abstract
      12:30-1:00 Merilin Miljan (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Morphological object marking in Estonian – how to account for it? abstract

      Thursday, April 21st - afternoon

      SESSION 5 Chair: Hugh Trappes-Lomax
      2:00-2:30 Corinne Maxwell-Reid (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Using Contrastive Rhetoric to Compare Spanish and English Discourse abstract
      2:30-3:00 Vasuki Walker (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      From 'Variant' to 'Variance': Contextualising Phonology abstract

      		- BREAK -
      SESSION 6 Chair: Tony Lynch
      3:30-4:00 Phaisit Boriboon (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      "Third Space" Materials and EFL Learners' Linguistic Markers of Involvement abstract
      4:00-4:30 Onnicha Sudachit (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Task Evaluation in an EFL Reading Course for Thai University Students abstract

      Friday, April 22nd - morning

      SESSION 7 Chair: Alice Turk
      10:00-10:30 Timothy Mills (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      An Endoscopic Study of Glottal Opening in Normal and Whispered Voicing Contrasts abstract
      10:30-11:00 Lukas Wiget (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Sublexical Representations in Spoken Word Recognition: a Repetition-priming Study abstract
      11:00-11:30 Emi Sakamoto (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      L2 Production and Perception in Japanese Phonological Contrasts: From the Methodological Point of View abstract

      		- BREAK -
      SESSION 8 Chair: Bob Ladd
      12:00-12:30 Inga McKendry (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Evidence for Right Tone Shift in Mixtec Languages abstract
      12:30-1:00 Fiona Kenney (Edinburgh: CSTR)
      Using the Bayesian Information Criterion to Segment Speech into Sub-word Units abstract

      Friday, April 22nd - afternoon

      SESSION 9 Chair: Janet McLean
      2:00-2:30 Annabel Harrison (Edinburgh: Psychology)
      Semantic Effects Subject Verb Agreement: Do L2 Speakers Differ from L1 Speakers? abstract
      2:30-3:00 Manon Jones (Edinburgh: Psychology)
      Investigating the Cause(s) of Dyslexia: Do Aberrant Visual Processes Slow Performance on Time-pressured Letter-naming Tests? abstract

      		- BREAK -
      SESSION 10 Chair: Antonella Sorace
      3:30-4:00 Catherine Dickie (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Phonological Representations in Dyslexia abstract
      4:00-4:30 Hannele Nicholson (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Disfluency and Eyegaze: "You ehm You don't see that?" abstract
      4:30-5:00 Susanna Flett (Edinburgh: TAAL & Psychology)
      Acquisition of Syntactic Structures and Preferences in L2 Speakers abstract
      POSTER SESSION Coffee breaks on Friday, room B9

      		 Lynn Clark (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      Investigating t-glottaling and th-fronting in Fife: Evidence from an Ethnographic Study of an Adolescent Community (of Practice?) abstract

      		Lucy MacGregor (Edinburgh: TAAL & Psychology), Martin Corley (Edinburgh: Psychology) & David Donaldson (Stirling: Psychology)
      It's Not Just What You Say, It's Also How You Say It: Disfluency in Speech Affects the Comprehension Process abstract

      		Jyi-yeon Yi (Edinburgh: TAAL)
      The Linguistic Characteristics of Korean Students' English Writing abstract

      Any queries to: PGC organisers