Timetable
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Thursday 20 April 2006
| Chair: Simon Kirby | |
| 09.30-10.00 | Karen Ludke Case study using music in foreign language education: teaching French to 13-year-old schoolchildren |
| 10.00-10.30 | Dave Hawkey The evolution of colour vision and colour terms |
| 10.30-11.00 | Anna Parker Was recursion the key evolutionary step in the emergence of language? |
| Coffee Chair: Alice Turk | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Anna Leonard Cook Implicit learning in adult second language acquisition: the issues of awareness and abstractness |
| 11.45-12.15 | Lukas Wiget Is auditory word recognition direct or indirect? |
| 12.15-12.45 | Catherine Dickie Phonology without orthography and the extent of the phonological deficit in dyslexia |
| Lunch Chair: Dan Wedgwood | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Manon Jones Investigating orthographic, phonological and adjacency influence on Rapid Automized Naming (RAN) deficits in developmental dyslexia |
| 14.30-15.00 | Annabel Harrison Subject-verb agreement: how gender is processed in Slovene |
| Coffee Chair: Nik Gisborne | |
| 15.15-15.45 | Frances Wilson Syntax-discourse interface in L2 learners |
| 15.45-16.15 | Inga McKendry Mid tone in Santa Domingo Nuxaa Mixtec |
Friday 21 April
| Chair: Patrick Honeybone | |
| 10.00-10.30 | Lynn Clark The effects of frequency on vocalic variation in Scots and Scottish English |
| 10.30-11.00 | Will Barras The exhalations whizzing through the... er? SQUARE and NURSE in Lancashire English |
| Coffee Chair: Bob Ladd | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Evia Kainada Segmental and suprasegmental cues to prosodic boundaries |
| 11.45-12.15 | Timothy Mills Investigating the goals of speech production: the integration of emphasis-cuing parameters |
| 12.15-12.45 | Merilin Miljan What is case alternation in Estonian all about? |
| Lunch Chair: April McMahon | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Ian Underwood What’s so special about quantifiers? |
| 14.30-15.00 | Amanda Patten The impact of lexical collocation on the origin of emphatic DO |
| Coffee Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff | |
| 15.15-15.45 | Remco Knooihuizen Language shift, ethnolinguistic vitality and historical sociolinguistics: testing the models |
| 15.45-16.15 | Imelda Suhardja Scientific news as a genre: a linguistic account of distortion of scientific information |
| 16.15-16.45 | Ayako Namba ‘Listenership’ in Japanese face-to-face interaction: the contribution of laughter, especially in its interaction with nodding and verbal backchannelling |