NUS-Lund Linguistic Colloquium (2002)
NUS-LUNDLINGUISTIC COLLOQUIUM
Incollaboration with the Department of Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden
Organizedby the Department of English Language and Literature, NUS
October 29-30, 2002 Venue: AS7, Faculty Lounge
PROGRAM
1stday: language acquisition, development and processing
9.15-9.30 Opening remarks UA/JOS
9.30-10.30 First session
Victoria Johansson: Speech vs.writing - a developmental perspective
Eva Magnusson and Kerstin Nauclér: Spoken and writtenlanguage problems in a developmental perspective
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.00 Second session
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira: Two prosodies, two languages: infant production in Portuguese and Swedish
Susan Sayehli:Cross-linguistic influences in second language acquisition
12.00-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-15.00 Third session
Gisela Håkansson: Second language acquisition of typologically different languages
Wei Cai and Benny Lee:Investigating the influence of morphological structure and contextual clue onL2 learners' processing of unfamiliar words
Vivan Franzén: A studyof the development of some discourse parameters in children with Swedish as L2and L1
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-16.30 Last session: various
Sven Stromqvist: The emergence of function words in child language development
Roman Kotov Rashidovich: Developmental pragmatics and cognition: the acquisition ofrequests by Singaporean children
2ndday
9.00-10.30 First session: Phonetics/ Phonology
Tan Ying Ying: The Perception of Prominence in the Ethnic Varieties of Singapore English
Per Lindblad: Mandibularmovements and syllables
Bao Zhiming: When tone and accent clash
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.30 Second session: cont'd
Gösta Bruce: Prosody anddialectal variation
David Deterding: Misunderstandings between Singaporeans and someone from Britain
Lisa Lim: Prosodic erosionof grammaticalized morphemes in Colloquial Singapore English: a proposal
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00 Third session: various
Paul Bruthiaux: Constraints ondiscourse in real-time versus delayed online soccer reporting
Jordan Zlatev & Peerapat Yangklang: Serializing languages: neither 'verb-framed' nor 'satellite-framed' (with focus on Thai)
15.00-15.30 BREAK
15.30-16.30 Last session: various
Niclas Burenhult: The linguistic coding of space in Jahai,an Orang Asli language of Hulu Perak
Umberto Ansaldo: Asketch of Cocos Malay
Closing Remarks JOS/UA
Wednesday night dinner: a dinner is plannedat Hua Yu Wee, an excellent restaurant to sample typical Singaporean fare (e.g.Chilli crab, pepper crayfish, sotong etc.). We would like to know how manyintend to take part. That will give us a chance to negotiate a good price forthe dinner. We expect it to cost roughly S$25 per person. It's worth it!
EVERYONEIS WELCOME TO ATTEND