Postgraduate Research Afternoon

22 March 2017

Time: 1:00 - 6:00pm
Venue: G.O. Jones UG1

13:00 - Refreshments

13:15  - Rosie Oxbury: Diffusion and the feature pool in the development of Multicultural (London) English

13:45 - Andy Law: Talking beyond the binary: Queer and genderqueer speech

14:15 - Elisa Passoni: L1 attrition and L2 acquisition of pitch in Japanese-English late sequential bilinguals as a function of gender

14:45 - Break

15:00 - Aleksandr Kalinin: Gapping and its mechanism

15:30 - Dora Wen: Some problematic issues in the analysis of Mandarin Gapless Relatives

16:00 - Break

16:15 - Maame Nikabs: They call it ‘corruption’, he calls it ‘Soli’, I call it ‘reciprocity’: Different perspectives of news practices in Ghana

16:45 - Tom Rausch: The construction of risk in a pan-African health organisation: A linguistic ethnographic study

17:15 - Karen Beaman: Swabian thriving or dying? Coherence, convergence, and change in dialect and standard language usage

17:45 – Close

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