A 61 million word corpus of Brazilian Portuguese film subtitles as a resource for linguistic research: Investigating the (non-)role of token frequency on phonology (Kevin Tang, Andrew Nevins, Michael Becker, University College London)
10:00-10:30 --
English stress and phonological representations (Quentin Dabouis, Elodie Descloux, Université Francois Rabelais)
Visual word learning in dyslexic and typical adults (Rosa Kwok, Andy Ellis, University of York)
Illness narratives: A corpus-based analysis of gender and identity in patients’ accounts (Marco De Martino, University of Naples Federico II )
10:30-11:00 --
Instances of contemporary palatalization (ICP’s) in the English-speaking world.(Olivier Glain, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Frequency and L2 grammar knowledge acquisition under implicit learning conditions (Nadiia Denhovska, University of Manchester)
How Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby’s speech is different from that of Sissy and Louisa in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times: A corpus-based view (Pablo Ruano, University of Extremadura)
11:00-11:30 -- COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:30 -- PLENARY TALK: Dr Sam Hellmuth
12:30-12:45 -- IRIS Talk
12:45-13:30 -- LUNCH
13:30-14:30 -- PLENARY TALK: Professor Francis Nolan
14:30-15:00 --
Scaffolding L2 development through virtual learning environments (second life/SIMiLLE): A path to enhancing English for Academic Purposes (EAP(Vasiliki Antoniou, University of Essex)
Articulatory coordination of two-stop clusters in Tripolitanian Libyan Arabic(Abdurraouf Shitaw, University of Leeds)
Agreement patterns in It-clefts: a minimalist account (Ewelina Mokrosz, Catholic University of Lublin)
15:00-15:30 --
Projective gestures: Investigating the utility of manual movements during a map task (Jack Wilson, University of Leeds)
Perception and production of smiling voice (Ilaria Torre, University of York)
Negative/modal elements in late archaic Chinese and intervention effect of negation (Aiqing Wang, University of York)
15:30-16:00 -- COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00 -- POSTER SESSION
17:00-17:30 --
Innovation and transfer in Bradford Punjabi-English (Jessica Wormald, University of York)
Auditory-visual speech processing when the talker’s face is disguised by facewear (Natalie Fecher, University of York)
E-BBC: Investigating auntie’s online language usage (Carmen Ebner, Morana Lukac, Leiden University)
17:30-18:00 --
The stress of stress: Minia Arabic converging towards Cairene Arabic Stress (Saudi Sadiq, University of York)
Population statistics for articulation rate in male Southern Standard British English speakers (Erica Gold, University of York)
Text message shortcuts; luv em or h8 em, are they still used and why? (Kirsten Bartlett, University of York)
18:00-19:00 -- DRINKS RECEPTION
19:30 -- DINNER AT MELTON'S TOO (York City Centre)
