Conference Programme

Monday, 5th June, 2023

09:00 - 09:30	Registration Old College, Teaching Room 04
09:30 - 09:40	Conference Opening and Welcome Dr. Chris Cummins Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
09:45 - 10:45	[Plenary] The same but different: Towards a theory of phonological equivalence and systematic phonetic variability [More...] Prof Alice Turk — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break Old College, Quad Teaching Room
11:00 - 12:55	[Workshop] R for Managing Linguistics Data Sam Henry Old College, MacLaren Stuart Room
11:00 - 11:25	Thai Anaphor Binding [More...] Richard Wilson — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
11:30 - 11:55	Constructing Online Teaching Personae: Variation of Discourse Particles among Taiwanese Educational YouTubers [More...] NienEn Bonnie Liu — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:00 - 12:25	Variation Within the Northern Malay Dialects [More...] Alice Marikan — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:30 - 12:55	Towards a holistic account of expressives’ utterance contribution: Evidence from theoretical and experimental investigations [More...] Mireia Cabanes-Calabuig — University of Cambridge Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	[Plenary] How learning and use shape languages [More...] Prof Kenny Smith — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
15:05 - 17:00	[Workshop] Sounding things out: using non-standard spelling as phonological evidence [More...] Dr. Benjamin Molineaux Ress — University of Edinburgh Old College, MacLaren Stuart Room
15:05 - 15:30	New tools for old questions: Investigating language change with artificial language learning experiments [More...] Marc Meisezahl, Simon Kirby & Jennifer Culbertson — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
15:35 - 16:00	Communicating Mental Health on Instagram: how lifestyle influencers are shaping the current discourse [More...] Aleksandra Sevastianova — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
16:05 - 16:30	The development of finiteness in doch-clauses in German L1 acquisition [More...] Yiwei Si — University of Oxford Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
16:35 - 17:00	Language contact in medieval England: A study of the impact of Latin, Norse, and French on the twelfth-century English lexicon. [More...] Essi Harbord — University of Cambridge Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
20:00 - 22:00	Bowling [More...] Lane7 (St. James Quarter) [registration required]

Tuesday, 6th June, 2023

09:30 - 10:30	[Plenary] ‘…now it is matter is the scaffolding’: Semantic structure and corpora [More...] Prof Marc Alexander — University of Glasgow Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break Old College, Quad Teaching Room
11:00 - 12:55	[Workshop] LaTeX for Beginners Dr. James Donaldson — University of Edinburgh Old College, MacLaren Stuart Room
11:00 - 11:25	Language and Conflict in North Cambridgeshire [More...] Gemma Harvey — Anglia Ruskin University Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
11:30 - 11:55	Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European noun phrase [More...] Danny Bate — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:00 - 12:25	Prosodic end-weight effect in Malay echo reduplication: A learnability study [More...] Jian-Leat Siah — University of California, Los Angeles Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:30 - 12:55	The decline of Sibilant Interchange in Older Scots Correspondence [More...] Emily Gough — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25	Acoustic Analysis of Plosives in Dawoodi: A severely endangered language of Northern Pakistan [More...] Zafeer Hussain Kiani — University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
14:30 - 14:55	The Loss of OV Orders in the History of English: A Re-Evaluation [More...] Gerardo Sánchez Argüelles — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:25	Language Alternation to Scaffold Learning in EMI Classrooms [More...] Sameya Priom — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:55	An evolutionary approach to ellipsis [More...] Sigurd Farstad Iversen — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
16:00 - 17:00	[Plenary] ‘Anywheres’ and ‘somewheres’: National and transnational voices in late modernity [More...] Prof Devyani Sharma — Queen Mary University of London Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
18:30 - 22:30	Speakers' Dinner Waldorf Astoria (Dress code: Formal)

Wednesday, 7th June, 2023

09:00 - 11:00	Poster Festival [More...] 20 student presenters Old College, Teaching Rooms 01,02,03
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break Old College, MacLaren Stuart Room
11:00 - 11:25	The style-shifting of /s/ among men beauty vloggers on YouTube [More...] Zhaoxi Yan — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
11:30 - 11:55	The syntax-discourse interface: a comparative analysis of VS order in Catalan and Spanish [More...] Núria Barrios Jurado — University of Manchester Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:00 - 12:25	Reading-while-listening and Reading-Only in a Second Language at Different Language Proficiencies: An Eye-Tracking Study [More...] Yingjia Wan — University of Cambridge Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
12:30 - 12:55	Irish initial consonant mutation: disentangling phonology from morphosyntax [More...] Anna Laoide-Kemp — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:55	[Workshop] Publishing Your Research Prof Lauren Hall-Lew — University of Edinburgh Old College, MacLaren Stuart Room
15:00 - 16:00	[Plenary] When was that (exactly)? [More...] Prof Caroline Heycock — University of Edinburgh Old College, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 17:30	Closing Reception [More...] Dugald Stewart Building, Common Room (7th floor) [registration required, deadline 7 June 2023 unless sold out earlier]