PLM2007 Abstracts
Abstracts of papers accepted for presentation at PLM2007 are available below, sorted alphabetically by the (first) author's surname. All abstracts are in pdf format.
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Liudmila Araeva
Derivational categorization of the world
Helen Aristar-Dry
Mapping new territory: Integrating GIS into a cyberinfrastructure for linguistics
B
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Piotr Bański and Beata Wójtowicz
Swahili-Polish lexicography: A new chapter
Maciej Baranowski
The Southern Shift in a marginally Southern dialect
Nuria Bello Piñón
Aiming to feature lectures: diachronic study of code-switching and borrowing in scientific English
Adam Biały
Reflections of verbal syntax in nominalization and adjectivization
Lukas Bleichenbacher
Linguistic replacement in the movies
Anna Bloch-Rozmej
An element-based approach to the back fricatives in Ukrainian
Jennifer Bloomquist
Dialect differences in Central Pennsylvania: a socio-historical account of regional dialect use and adaptation by African American speakers in the Lower Susquehanna Valley
Péter Bodor and Anikó Illés
Possibilities and constraints of analyzing visual conduct with an eyetracker device - or, are there variations of ritual constraints of public gazing while walking?
Vladimir A. Bondar
Pronominal objects and in Old English Texts
Anna Bondaruk and Bogdan Szymanek
Polish nominativeless constructions with dative Experiencers: Form, meaning and structure
Joanna Bugaj
The semantics of repetitive constructions in Renaissance legal English and Scots
C
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Marcus Callies and Konrad Szcześniak
Links klicken, grosse Hallen spielen, und Economy fliegen - cases of syntactic borrowings from English?
Camelia M. Cmeciu
"Spinning the thread" around images of time
Ron Cole
PLM Progress Report 6 - Inventing tutorial dialogs to improve science learning
Doina Cmeciu
Text and discourse as semiotic web (in Virginia Woolf's Orlando. A Bibliography)
Eugeniusz Cyran
Syllabic 'space' and cluster size - Polish phonotactics and Universal Grammar
Piotr Czajka
Niches and cynosures in the formation of discourses
Iwona Czyżak
An OT account of prosodically driven allophony of the English lateral
D
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Zsuzsanna Degi
The problem of rule complexity in implicit/explicit learning
Mojmír Dočekal
Czech determined verbs and GSTA
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Typological and diachronic perspectives on morphonotactics
Radosław Dylewski and Piotr Jagodziński
Words and phrases of African American provenience in General American: a corpus-based study
Anna Dziemianko
Noun and verb codes in pedagogical dictionaries of English: A search for names
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Grzegorz Krynicki
Phonotactic preferences in Polish, English and German: quantitative perspective
E
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Anna Ewert and Iwona Wegner
Bilinguals' acceptability judgements on lexical borrowings from the L2
F
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani
Three thematic encyclopedic dictionaries on "Ashura": Problems, prospects, and translatability
Gisbert Fanselow
A non-functional account of word order variation in German and Polish
G
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Rosalind R. Gann
Linguistic accommodation among AAVE and WAVE youngsters in a time of community conflict
Nathalie Gasigalia
The treatment of anglicisms in a selection of dictionaries for young French schoolchildren
Dafydd Gibbon and Jolanta Bachan
Speech synthesis in phonetics teaching
Jacek Gintrowicz and Krzysztof Jassem
Transfer of regular expressions in example-based machine translation
Klaus Guenther
Legal opinions: The effects of textualization
H
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Martin Haiden
Linearization in base prosodic structure
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
Zabrocki’s structural phonetics and the substance of speech
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
Visual syntax in the iconography of Saint Nicholas
Camiel Hamans
Blending in a Zabrockian way
Katherine Horwinski Healy
French Creoles of Colour in English - Origins of Louisiana Dialect (examples from the Badin/Metoyer family in the 1800s)
J
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Ewa Jarmołowicz, Maciej Karpiński, Zofia Malisz and Michał Szczyszek
Gesture, prosody and lexicon in task-oriented dialogues: A progress report
Krzysztof Jaskuła
The origin of Celtic lenition in the coda mirror
Joanna Jendryczka-Wierszycka
Vagueness of tags in Poglish and Polish
Katarzyna Jędrzejewska-Pyszczak
On the status of pseudonyms within the theory of names: evidence from the Celtic setting
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
Extracting Polish translations of German compound nouns from a large bilingual corpus
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Filip Graliński
Problems in Polish-to-German rule-based machine translation
Konrad Juszczyk, Maciej Karpiński, Janusz Kleśta, Emilia Szalkowska and Marcin Włodarczak
Categorization and labelling of dialogue acts in Pol'n'Asia project
K
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Marcin Kilarski and Paula Orzechowska
The role of phonotactics in gender assignment in Polish
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
The e~zero alternation in Polish from the perspective of frequency and languae use
Grzegorz Krynicki
PACO - a free online parallel concordancer for English-Polish parallel corpus
Małgorzata Kul
Issues in lenition and fortition
L
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Antje Lahne
A non-cartographic approach to sentence architecture
M
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Zofia Malisz
Contextual effects on Polish vowel duration and their consequences for dynamical models of language
Krzysztof Marasek and Ryszard Gubrynowicz
Polish human-human spoken dialog transcriptions – Experience from LUNA project
Ana E. Martínez Insua and Javier Pérez-Guerra
It is more complex to read letters than drama (really?): on linguistic complexity and text-type variation in the recent history of English
Roland Meyer
Focus, cliticization and verb movement in li questions in Russian
Grzegorz Michalski
Double-linked left-edge vowels in CVCV. A case of Poznan-Cracow voicing
Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen
The role of fuctional features in the derivational procedure: a new account of EPP-effects, case and agreement
Janina Mołczanow
The Problem of the Russian labial fricatives: an OT analysis
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
The struggle of ideologies and the evolution of meaning of political labels (on the example of “liberal” and “conservative”)
Nadia Morăraşu
Unfolding multi-dimensional time in the narrative web
N
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Roland Noske
Repercussions of the history of a typological change in Germanic
O
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Marcin R. Odelski
Ecology of the Kashubian language
John J. Ohala
An interpretive history of phonological science
John J. Ohala
Some speculations on the ethological basis of agonistic signaling with the eyes
Mirosław Olędzki and Piotr P. Chruszczewski
Selected aspects of the relationship between religious and artistic discourses in the work of literary art
P
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Barbara Pastuszek-Lipińska
Influence of musical expertise on second lanuage acquisition
Mirosław Pawlak
The effect of formal instruction as a function of rule complexity: an empirical study
Elizabeth Peterson
Creating language awareness in the EFL setting: teaching dialects to English students in Finland
Tadeusz Piotrowski
Anglicisms in comparison with other borrowings in Polish
Tadeusz Piotrowski, Aleksandra Skrzypczyk and Adrianna Szafruga
Towards a Polish WordNet
Agnija Platace
Anglicisms in Latvian and Norwegian in the post-war period in contrastive aspect
Adam Przepiórkowski
Towards the automatic construction and evaluation of valence dictionaries
Adam Przepiórkowski
On semantic and syntactic selectional restrictions of the Polish distributive preposition PO
Adam Przepiórkowski, Aleksander Buczyński and Daniel Janus
Syntactic processing of the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish
R
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Joanna Rabiega-Wiśniewska, Małgorzata Marciniak, Agnieszka Mykowiecka
Overview of annotation tools for Polish dialogs
Nikolaus Ritt
The fall and rise of any in Early English
Marta Rominiecka
Non-verbal communication in political discourse: an analysis of non-verbal clues by American and European politicians
Karolina Rosiak
Towards a definition of diminutive in Modern Welsh
Monika Rosińska
Collecting Polish–German parallel corpora in the Internet
Grażyna J. Rowicka
Ethnic Englishes: American Indian English
Jacek Rysiewicz
Meta-linguistic knowledge, language aptitude and foreign language proficiency
S
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Ioan Sava
Fictional text and the matter of Freed perspectives
Irena Sawicka
A typology of the Slavic sandhi
Tobias Scheer and Heather Newell
Procedural first
Paweł Scheffler
The natural approach to adult learning and teaching of L2 grammar
Carmen Scherer
Morphological and syntactical properties of verbal anglicisms in German
Geoffrey Schwartz
What a trout can tell us about the primacy of onsets
Danko Šipka and Jakub Zgoliński
Lexicographic support of computer-assisted language-learning authenticity
Particia Skorge
Visual representations as effective instructional media in foreign language teaching
Anna Snarska
Partial control under (partial) control?
Włodzimierz Sobkowiak
Deliberate mispronunciations on EFL e-dictionaries: integrating PDI with TTS
Agnieszka Sowińska
Constructing Polish identity in the discourse of The Economist
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Category fusion. Prepositional constructions in Celtic languages
Attila Starčević
Palatalisation in Serbian and Croatian (a CV/VC approach to the i vs. j problem)
Adrianna Strugielska
Intransitivity: from conceptual schematicity to clause structure
Kensei Sugayama
How cognitive/discourse factors can influence argument realisation: A case of object omission
Sylwia Szewc
Anglicisms in Polish media texts: a corpus-based study
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Ryotaro Tashiro
The use of voiced labiodental frocative /v/ among American L2 learners of Spanish
Yishai Tobin
Looking at sign language as a visual and gestural shorthand
Barbara Tomaszewicz
Subjunctive complementizers in Polish
Ewa Tomaszewicz
Novel words with final combining forms in English. A case for blends in word formation
Maddalena Toscano, Massimilano Sorrentino and Tommaso Borrelli
Updating UWAZO – A corpus based Kiswahili-Italian on-line lexical data base
Peter Trudgill
On the irrelevance of national identity to new-dialect formation: colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages
Maria Tymczyńska
Cross-linguistic interaction in trilinguals performing translation tasks
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
C.U.C. Ugorji
Teaching English pronunciation to L2 learners: an articularory-perceptual approach
Shanti Úlfsbjörninn
The formal dynamism of categories: stops and fricatives, simplicity vs primitivity
V
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Arjen Versloot
Dynamic Phonology: Are Rich Phonology and Discrete Perception incompatible?
W
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Aleksandra Wach
Using metalinguistic terminology in teaching grammar to older children
Anja Wanner
Competitors of the passive in scientific discourse
Bogusława Whyatt
The use of metalinguistic knowledge in the process of translation. A study of metalinguistic comments in student self-reports
Arndt Wigger
Advances in the lexicography of Modern Irish verbs
Krzysztof Wilk
Polish adaptation of the Modern Language Aptitude Test - a report on a project in progress
Sion Williams
Trilingualism amongst Welsh language speakers - An example taken from number systems
Ewa Willim
On gender resolution in Polish
Alicja Witalisz
Some remarks on hidden anglicisms
Jacek Witkoś
Movement Theory of Control and CP-infinitives in Polish
Matylda Włodarczyk
Memorials of the 1820 Settlers – Colonial transformations of a text-type
Sylwia Wojciechowska-Bartkiewicz
Metonymic meaning extension: representation problems in English monolingual learners' dictionary
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Marcin Zabawa
The role of a corpus of spoken language in the research on anglicisms
Paulina Zydorowicz
Polish (mor)phonotactics: acquisition and markedness
Marzena Zygis
Phonetic grounding of voicing in coronals