17th International Postgraduate Research Linguistics Conference17th International Postgraduate Research Linguistics Conference7 - 8 February 2008
Council Chamber, Whitworth Building, University of Manchester
-- We gratefully acknowledge the support from AHRC, SLLC and UKGrad --
Professor Martin Durrell Linguistic minorities and national identity
Professor Peter Trudgill Language contact: simplification and complexification
10.00 Introduction and Welcome by Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Workshop on Corpus Linguistics in computer lab W2.19, Samuel Alexander Building by Dr Paul Bennett
The session will deal with tagging, i.e. the automatic assignment of part-of-speech labels to the words in a text. A general introduction to tagging will be followed by a description of a tagger for English designed for teaching purposes. There will then be a practical session where participants will run this tagger and add items to its lexicon and set of rules. This will give them the opportunity to increase the tagger's coverage and discover for themselves some of the problems involved in tagging. No previous experience of tagging or computational linguistics will be needed.
For an application of PERL, see for instance, Paul Bennett's co-authored
article with Martin Durrell and Astrid Ensslin: "GerManC: A historical
corpus of German 1500-1800". 2007. Sprache und Datenverarbeitung. Vol. 31.1, 71-80.
12.00 Lunch
14.00 Visit to John Rylands Library Deansgate [pdf] (meet in the foyer/reception), 14.45 refreshments
15.20 Visit to Chetham's Library (meet at the School entrance opposite the Urbis museum)
8.30 Registration and Coffee
8.50 Welcome by Fil Nereo
Chair: Fil Nereo
9.00 Keynote: Linguistic Minorities and National Identity, Professor Martin Durrell (Manchester) [video] [.doc]
10.00 Vowel Height Harmony in the English of North-East Scotland, Jillian Yurkova (York) [video] [audio download]
10.30 Understanding of metaphor and metonymy in Williams syndrome: implications for daily conversations, Jo Van Herwegen (King's College London) [video] [audio download]
11.00 Refreshment break/posters
Chair: Michael Ramsammy
11.30 American Hungarian language shift, Emőke Kovács (Szeged) [video] [audio download]
12.00 Prestige, attitudes and linguistic identity in two sister languages: Occitan and Catalan, Aurélie Joubert (Manchester) [video] [audio download]
12.30 Theoretical and methodological issues with power in blogs, Brook Bolander (Berne) [video] [audio download]
13.00 Lunch/posters - Christie Bistro
Chair: Christiana Themistocleous
14.00 Keynote: Language contact: simplification and complexification, Professor Peter Trudgill (UEA)
15.00 Types of accommodation in first-generation dialect contact, James Wilson (Sheffield) [video]
15.30 Language Maintenance and Shift in the Asian Community of Rochdale, Adele Chadwick (Manchester) [video]
16.00 Refreshment break/posters
Chair: Michael Ramsammy
16.30 Bilingual Language Policy in Transylvania: Theory and Implementation, Zsuzsanna Éva Kiss (Szeged) [video]
17.00 Laryngographic analysis of glottalisation phenomena, Elke Philburn (Manchester) [video]
17.30 Urban Metropolitan France: a Sociolinguistic Exception?, Sophie Nicholson (Exeter) [.pdf]
18.00 Drinks reception with live jazz by saxophonist Chris Lehner - Christie Bistro
19.30 Evening Meal
The syntactic behaviour of Arabic idioms: a corpus-based study, Ashraf Abdou (Manchester)
The Old Irish 'passive' construction compared with its Modern Irish 'impersonal' descendant, Jenny Graver (Oslo)
Vernacular Universals in the Interlanguage of Users of English as a Lingua Franca, Karolina Kalocsai (Szeged)
Conflicting identities revisited, Marlene Miglbauer (Vienna)
Excursion to York, weather permitting (train leaves Piccadilly station at 10.27 and should arrive in York by midday, a return ticket should cost no more than £24; there will also be a guided tour which is free of charge for conference delegates)
ContactAccommodation suggestions are available here.
Enquiries should be sent to Christiana Themistocleous at:
P/G Linguistics Conference, SLLC, Samuel Alexander Building, formerly Humanities Lime Grove
- Room S3.08 -
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, UK