All talks and workshops are in room LG.09 in David Hume Tower. Lunches and the wine reception are in the common room on the 7th floor of the Dugald Stewart Building.
| Day 1: Monday, 29th May 2017 | ||
| Workshops | ||
| Chaired by Tian Li | ||
| 09:30–10:15 | Rob Truswell & Candice Mathers (University of Edinburgh) The Dissertation Experience [slides] | |
| 10:15–11:00 | Iain Davidson (Institute for Academic Development) Presenting at Conferences [slides, recommended talks] | |
| 11:00–11:45 | Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh) Research methodologies [slides] | |
| 11:45–12:00 | Break | |
| Plenary 1 | ||
| Chaired by Mirjam Eiswirth | ||
| 12:00–13:00 | John Joseph (University of Edinburgh) ‘Language contains society’: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement interpreted through Benveniste’s Last Lectures (and vice-versa) | |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch (DSB common room) | |
| Session 1 | ||
| Syntax • Chaired by Tom Wood | ||
| 14:00–14:25 | Marwan Jarrah (Newcastle University) A closer look at syntax of clausal complements of factive verbs in Jordanian Arabic | |
| 14:25–14:50 | Anna Hollingsworth (University of Cambridge) Calling Finnish speakers: Evidence for speaker and hearer syntax from discourse particles | |
| 14:50–15:15 | Ali Alzayid (University of Edinburgh) The syntax of sentential negation in Abha Arabic dialect | |
| 15:15–15:40 | Sherry Yong Chen (University of Oxford) Double topicalisation, syntax does constrain! | |
| 15:40–15:50 | Break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| Applied linguistics • Chaired by Adam Scott Clark | ||
| 15:50–16:15 | Chia-Ying Yang (University of Edinburgh) Practiced language attitudes: A case of mother tongue education in Taiwan | |
| 16:15–16:40 | Oun Almesaar (University of Essex) Emerging self-identities and emotions: A qualitative case study of ten Saudi students in the UK | |
| 16:40–17:15 | Break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| Language acquisiton • Chaired by Kate Repnik | ||
| 17:15–17:40 | Sakine Çabuk (Middle East Technical University) A cross-linguistic approach to adpositions in third language acquisition | |
| 17:40–18:05 | Sharifa Al Harrasi (University of Stirling) Think aloud protocols: A window into the minds of how English as a foreign language students process feedback | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner (wahaca) | |
Day 2: Tuesday, 30th May 2017 |
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| Session 4 | ||
| Historical linguistics • Chaired by Jade Sandstedt | ||
| 09:00–09:25 | Daisy Smith (University of Edinburgh) Scary statistics and historical linguistics | |
| 09:25–09:50 | Hiroshi Yadomi (University of Glasgow) Language, identity and community: The use of third-person neuter possessives of early modern preachers | |
| 09:50–10:15 | Sergio López Martínez (University of Oviedo) Discourse and topicalization in old English subordination | |
| 10:15–10:25 | Break | |
| Session 5 | ||
| Psycholinguistics • Chaired by Ruth Corps | ||
| 10:25–10:50 | Michela Bonfieni (University of Edinburgh) Mechanisms of cognitive control in bilinguals: The empirical generalizability of the ‘bilingual advantage’ | |
| 10:50–11:15 | Yangzi Zhou, Holly Branigan, & Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh) Effects of conceptual accessibility and similarity in simple sentence production in Mandarin | |
| 11:15–11:40 | Alina Konradt (University College London) Syntactic priming and animacy effects in Russian-speaking children | |
| 11:40–12:05 | Katerina Pantoula (University of Edinburgh) Parsing wh-questions: Evidence from L1-Greek adults and implications for bilingual learning | |
| 12:05–13:05 | Lunch & poster session (DSB common room) | |
| 12:05–13:05 | Poster session (level 7) | |
| Qingyuan Gardner, Vicky Chondrogianni, & Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh) The influence of temporal context on the production of temporal morphology in L2 speakers of English | ||
| May Ouma (Meisei University) Indirectness in the face of cultural competency | ||
| David A. J. Warren (University of Aberdeen) Phonetic preaspiration of word-final voiceless fricatives in North East Scotland | ||
| Hu Xiaoyi (University of Edinburgh) Exploring young learners' foreign language anxiety in China | ||
| Session 6 | ||
| Evolutionary linguistics • Chaired by Andres Karjus | ||
| 13:05–13:30 | Jon Carr (University of Edinburgh) Iterated learning optimizes for simplicity | |
| 13:30–13:55 | José Segovia Martín & Mónica Tamariz (University of Edinburgh) Population dynamics effects on the evolution of communicative conventions | |
| 13:55–14:20 | Fausto Carcassi (University of Edinburgh) Squaring a line: How similar are gradable adjectives to quantifiers? | |
| 14:20–14:45 | Asha Stewart (University of Edinburgh) I see what you did there: The role of iconicity in the acquisition of signs | |
| 14:45–14:55 | Break | |
| Session 7 | ||
| Pragmatics/semantics • Chaired by Luca Bevacqua | ||
| 14:55–15:20 | James E. M. Reid (University of Edinburgh) Free adjuncts and discourse structure | |
| 15:20–15:45 | Ivana Králiková (Masaryk University-Brno) Construction grammar and lexical polysemy: A case study of the verb feed in two argument structure constructions | |
| 15:45–15:55 | Break | |
| Session 8 | ||
| Sociolinguistics, phonetics, & discourse analysis • Chaired by Victoria Dickson | ||
| 15:55–16:20 | Johannes Woschitz (University of Edinburgh) A scientific realist stance towards sociolinguistic metatheory | |
| 16:20–16:45 | Rachel Moyer (University of Edinburgh) The United States of ‘Merica: Indexicality and Twitter hashtag use | |
| 16:45–17:10 | Fabienne Westerberg (University of Glasgow) The changing Swedish /iː/ vowel: Evidence from three central Swedish cities | |
| 17:30–19:30 | Potluck picnic in the Meadows | |
| 20:00–21:30 | Rachel Moyer Language tour of Edinburgh | |
Day 3: Wednesday, 31st May 2017 |
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| Session 9 | ||
| Evolutionary linguistics • Chaired by Jon Carr | ||
| 09:00–09:25 | Jonas Nölle (University of Edinburgh) Linguistic niche or academic niche? The role of language-external biases in language evolution | |
| 09:25–09:50 | Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, & Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh) The cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading | |
| 09:50–10:15 | Svenja Wagner (University of Edinburgh) Investigating effects of morphological types and their word formation patterns in SLA | |
| 10:15–10:25 | Break | |
| Session 10 | ||
| Language acquisition • Chaired by Wenjia Cai | ||
| 10:25–10:50 | Hyowon Kwon & Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh) The development of tense morphology by Welsh-English bilingual children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI) | |
| 10:50–11:15 | Francesca D’Angelo (University of Edinburgh) Instructed vs. uninstructed bilinguals: The role played by metalinguistic awareness in third language acquisition | |
| 11:15–11:25 | Break | |
| Session 11 | ||
| Syntax • Chaired by Tom Wood | ||
| 11:25–11:50 | Eisa Alrasheedi (Newcastle University) On the structure of possessive ħagg in free state nominals in Haili Arabic | |
| 11:50–12:15 | Rebwar Tahir (Newcastle University) The noun phrase in central Kurdish: A projection of D (DP) not Num (NumP) | |
| 12:15–12:40 | Callum Hackett (Newcastle University) Variational models of language acquisition: The best is still not good enough | |
| 12:40–13:30 | Lunch (DSB common room) | |
| Session 12 | ||
| Corpus linguistics & discourse analysis • Chaired by Adam Scott Clark | ||
| 13:30–13:55 | Emma Franklin (Lancaster University) A corpus-lexicographical discourse analysis of the verb ‘destroy’ | |
| 13:55–14:20 | Ming Ni (University of Stirling) Master’s students’ language use of their first and second languages in class: A small-scale case study | |
| 14:20–14:45 | Elena Afromeeva (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) Strategies of persuasion and argumentation in political rhetoric on example of the inaugural addresses of American, British, Byelorussian, German, and Russian | |
| 14:45–15:00 | Break | |
| Plenary 2 | ||
| Chaired by Mirjam Eiswirth | ||
| 15:00–16:00 | Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh) The acquisition of case-marking and word order in heritage speakers: Greek heritage children in New York City | |
| 16:00–17:30 | Wine reception | |
| 19:30 | Pubs and Wugs: Pub evening | |