Programme
All talks are in room 3.10/3.11 on the 3rd floor of the Dugald Stewart Building. All refreshment breaks are in the common room on the 7th floor.
| Day 1: Wednesday, 1st June 2016 | |
| Workshops | |
| Chaired by Vanessa Kuek | |
| 09:00–09:45 | Panel Session: The Dissertation Experience |
| 09:45–10:30 | Chris Tancock (Elsevier) An Introduction to Writing in Academic Journals: How to Get Published |
| 10:30–11:15 | Mits Ota Choosing the right statistical tests |
| 11:15–12:00 | Break |
| Plenary 1 | |
| Chaired by Elyse Jamieson | |
| 12:00–13:00 | Antonella Sorace Complex contingencies: Where L1 and L2 converge in late bilingualism |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch (🌯 provided) |
| Session 1 | |
| Chaired by Jon Carr | |
| 14:00–14:25 | Kate Repnik Monolingual & Bilingual: Putative Impact of Infants’ Language Experience on Disambiguation of Novel Word-object Mappings and their Retention |
| 14:25–14:50 | Marieke Woensdregt, Kenny Smith, Chris Cummins & Simon Kirby The Cultural Co-evolution of Language and Mindreading |
| 14:50–15:15 | Kevin Stadler Neutral Models of Language Change |
| 15:15–15:35 | Break (☕️ provided) |
| Session 2 | |
| Chaired by Marieke Woensdregt | |
| 15:35–16:00 | Yasamin Motamedi From Pantomime to Systematic Sign: The Emergence of Structure in Artificial Sign Languages |
| 16:00–16:25 | Jon W Carr Using Iterated Learning to Reveal Biases for Well-structured Meanings in Language |
| 16:25–16:50 | Carmen Saldana, Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith The Cultural Evolution of Complexity in Linguistic Structure |
| 16:50–17:00 | Break |
| Session 3 | |
| Chaired by Daniel McColm | |
| 17:00–17:25 | Zhixia Yang A Corpus-Based Discoursal Study of Rhetorical Questions (RQs) in the Framework of Relevance Theory |
| 17:25–17:50 | Ai Zhong Chinese Borrowings in the OED |
| 17:50–18:15 | Adam Scott Clark A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Policy and the Implications of Putonghua in Job Advertisements in Hong Kong |
| 19:00–22:00 | Conference dinner (Ox184) |
| Day 2: Thursday, 2nd June 2016 | |
| Session 4 | |
| Chaired by Daniel Lawrence | |
| 09:50–10:15 | Fernanda Barrientos What Can Reaction Times Tell Us about L2 Categories? Perception of the /ɑ–ʌ/ Contrast by Native Speakers of Spanish |
| 10:15–10:40 | Ahmeda M Altoate The Potential for Error: An Effective Method to Measure the Language Learners’ Errors |
| 10:40–11:00 | Break (☕️ provided) |
| Session 5 | |
| Chaired by Adam Scott Clark | |
| 11:00–11:25 | Jill Haldane ‘This Idea Needs Re-expressing’: Linguistic Variation in Written Feedback from EAP Teachers on EASP Postgraduate Academic Writing |
| 11:25–11:50 | Henriette Arndt Learning outside of the Classroom in the Digital Age: The What, Why and How of Online Informal Language learning |
| 11:50–12:15 | Dimitrios Chaidas & Georgia Maniati Viewpoints of Greek as a Second Language |
| 12:40–13:40 | Lunch (🌯 provided) |
| Session 6 | |
| Chaired by Yasamin Motamedi | |
| 13:40–14:05 | Reham Al Rassi Biliteracy and Linguistic Distances effect on Executive Functions |
| 14:05–14:30 | Ruth E. Corps, Abigail Crossley, Chiara Gambi & Martin J Pickering I Hadn’t Finished Speaking! The Role of Content and Length Predictions during Question Answering |
| 14:30–14:55 | Mirjam Elisabeth Eiswirth When Do I Speak the Way You Speak? Analysing Accommodation in Interaction |
| 14:55–15:15 | Break (☕️ provided) |
| Session 7 | |
| Chaired by Michela Bonfieni | |
| 15:15–15:40 | Mengying Xia Cross-linguistic Influences on the Acquisition of Metaphorical Expressions |
| 15:40–16:05 | Wenjia Cai Language Attrition at the Syntax-discourse Interface: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese English Bilinguals |
| 16:05–16:30 | Maki Kubota Attrition of Referential Choice in Bilingual Children: Investigating the Role of Input |
| 16:30–16:40 | Break |
| Session 8 | |
| Chaired by George Starling | |
| 16:40–17:05 | Daniel Lawrence Resistance to Phonetic Change in York, Northern England |
| 17:05–17:30 | Fabienne Westerburg How Do We Deal with Vowel Articulation? |
| 17:30–17:55 | Zac Boyd Sibilant Variation and Indexing ‘Gayness’ in L2 English Speaking French and German Men |
| 18:00–21:00 | BBQ/picnic in the Meadows or drinks in the pub |
| Day 3: Friday, 3rd June 2016 | |
| Session 9 | |
| Chaired by Maki Kubota | |
| 09:00–09:25 | Elyse Jamieson Tag Questions and Exclamatives in Glasgow Scots |
| 09:25–09:50 | Anna Hollingsworth Focus on Contrast: Discourse-features in Finnish |
| 09:50–10:15 | Aristeidis Palamaras Clausal Structure and Re-projective Head Movement |
| 10:15–10:35 | Break (☕️ provided) |
| Session 10 | |
| Chaired by Stephanie Demarco | |
| 10:35–11:00 | Nico Sommerbauer No Negation Is not Ambiguous: Negative Raising |
| 11:00–11:25 | Daniel McColm Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change: A Case Study |
| 11:25–11:50 | James Baker Split Intransitivity in English in Cross-linguistic Perspective |
| 11:50–12:00 | Break |
| Session 11 | |
| Chaired by Carmen Saldana | |
| 12:00–12:25 | Xin Chen Gerunds vs. Present Participles |
| 12:25–12:50 | Ekhlas Ali Mohsin Blend-Formation, from English to Other Languages |
| 12:50–13:15 | Daisy Smith Older Scots Atonic e in Word‑final and Covered Inflectional Positions |
| 13:15–13:40 | Nicholas Carroll Frege, Politics, and the ‘Orthodox View’ of Language |
| 13:40–15:00 | Lunch and Elsevier Best Presentation Award (🌯 provided) |
| Plenary 2 | |
| Chaired by Elyse Jamieson | |
| 15:00–16:00 | Josef Fruehwald Evaluating the inevitability of a sound change: Short-a in Philadelphia (joint work with Betsy Sneller) |
| 16:00–18:00 | Wine reception (🍷 provided) |
