CRiLLS Research Away Day
1 July 2009
Research Beehive, Room 2.21
9:00 – 9:20
Tea and Coffee
9:20-10:00
SLA Group. English as a 'lingua franca' and its relevance for Second Language
Acquisition Research
Debate between Vivian Cook and Alan Firth
10:00 – 10:40
Phonetics Research Group. Linking perception, production and learning:
current issues in phonetic theory
Presentation and discussion
Ghada Khattab, Gerry Docherty, Katya Samoylova, Jalal Al-Tamimi
10:40 – 11:20
MARG Group. Corpus Linguistics and Conversation Analysis
Presentation and debate
Steve Walsh, Andy Harris, Adam Brandt, Shu-Hui Lai
11:20 – 11:50
Tea and Coffee
11:50 – 12:30
Child Language Research Group: The challenge of defining and identifying
language impairment in children
Presentation and discussion
Carolyn Letts and Ghada Khattab
12:30 – 1:00
SLA Group : Interdisciplinarity in SLA research
Presentation and discussion
Clare Wright and Zoe Agiasophiti
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 2:40
Syntax reading Group. The relationship between historical data and synchronic
syntactic analysis
Presentation and discussion
Old English/Spanish comparison, led by Ian MacKenzie.
Origins of question particles, with Laura Bailey, Anders Holmberg, Vivienne Rogers,
Michelle Sheehan, Mais Sulaiman & Malgorzata Krzek.
2:40 – 3:00
Language in Context Group. Actuation: how new variants in language change
emerge
Presentation and discussion
Richard Waltereit and Isa Buchstaller
3:00 – 3:40
Adult Language Disorders Research Group. Sentence comprehension and
production by people with aphasia.
Presentation and discussion
Julie Morris and Anne Whitworth