PLM2008 Abstracts
Abstracts of papers accepted for presentation at PLM2008 are available below, sorted alphabetically by the (first) author's surname. All abstracts are in pdf format.
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Wiesław Awedyk
Mikołaj Rudnicki’s (1881-1978) not-so-recent ideas
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Sa'da Bader & Dafydd Gibbon
Phonological disorders of Arabic-speaking Jordanian children with speech and language impairments
Anna Balas
Feature economy in vowel variation
Jerzy Bańczerowski
Mikołaj Rudnicki: A forgotten linguistic legacy
Maciej Baranowski
The development of nasal systems for /ae/ and /aw/ in Charleston, South Carolina
Hans Basbøll
Position of suffixes in word structure: A general model of phonology-morphology interaction applied to Danish
Marc Bavant
Proto-Indo-European ergativity... revisited
Christina Bismark
'Connections is drawn': Subject-verb agreement in non-standard varieties of English and in the insular Celtic languages
Anna Bloch-Rozmej
Resonance elements in Irish: Licensing and mutual interactions
Maria Bloch-Trojnar
The semantics of Light Verb Constructions in Modern Irish
Péter Bodor
Approaching identity talk and the case of ascribing schizophrenia to Europe and Hungary
Andrew Breeze
How to do things with place-names
Karien Brits & Rigardt Pretorius
The development of a rule-based lemmatiser for Setswana: The noun
Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Anna Ewert & David Singleton
Understanding conversational implicatures in two languages
Joanna Bugaj & Nikolaus Ritt
Why languages are best understood as inherently historical systems
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Vincent Tao-Hsun Chang
Cultural consumption and identity politics in advertising: Campaigning discourse of the Beijing Olympics
Anna Cieślicka & Roberto R. Heredia
Cerebral asymmetries in context sensitivity during figurative language processing in L and L2
Anna Cieślicka, Karolina Rataj, Justyna Małaszuk & Dorota Jaworska
Figurative language impairment in aphasic patients: The effects of the type of figurative trope
Bartłomiej Czaplicki
Functional approaches to metathesis. Evidence from dialects of Polish
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Agata Daleszyńska
"You feel good knowing that you are a Bequian." Language variation and identity on Bequia
Éva Dékány
On the base-position of Hungarian verbal particles
Patricia Donegan
Hypotheses of Natural Phonology I
Anatolij Dorodnych & Anna Kuzio
Gender, culture, and ideology in translation
Wolfgang U. Dressler
Natural Phonology as Part of Natural Linguistics
Krzysztof Dyczkowski, Norbert Kordek, Paweł Nowakowski & Krzysztof Stroński
A phonetic grammar of the Polish language
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Debating the proposition "Nothing in linguistics makes full sense except in a diachronic light"
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
NP extension: B&B phonotactics
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani
Invocatory duration of vowel for ritualistic effects: "Muhammad" and "Husayn" in Persian Shiite sermons
Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani
Some religiously-charged linguistic labels: Their regulatory functions and effects in Islamic contexts
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Dariusz Galasiński
Identities of failure: Depression and gender identities
Błażej Gałkowski
Formulaic language: Linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives
Piotr Gąsiorowski
How language changes despite our best efforts: The emergence of function and the fallacy of intelligent design
Dafydd Gibbon
The diachronic chicken - the synchronic egg - the missing link
Bożena Gierek
The Irish language as the first official language in the Republic of Ireland
Elin Gunleifsen
On the use of possessive markers
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
The cosmogony of Stalinist propaganda in post-war Poland
Camiel Hamans
Language consciousness and deliberate changes
Kiyoshi Hara
Comparing the language policies and the revitalization process of Celtic languages at the beginning of 21st century
Sabine Heinz
Diminutive formations in modern Welsh/Functions of diminutive formants in Welsh
Roberto Heredia
Critical methodological considerations in (bi)language research
Dwight Holbrook
Inside out: Reversing the roles of outer world and inner perspective
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Tomohiko Ito, Shinji Fukuda, Suzy E. Fukuda, Kiyoshi Otomo, Hiroshi Fujino & Yuko Yamaguchi
Computational and non-computational aspects of language in Japanese grammatical specific language impairment: A case study
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Sylwester Jaworski
Inertial and non-inertial lenition processes
Anna Jelec & Karolina Rataj
Over the bridge: Does bypassing the corpus callosum alleviate the symptoms of dyslexia?
Aleksandra Jełowicka, Thomas H. Bak, Joanna Seniów & William Marslen-Wilson
Stem and affix processing in Polish aphasics
Diarmuid Johnson
Neo-Irish: An emerging post-traditional idiom?
Konrad Juszczyk
Dialogue between a child and the computer in the process of learning to read: Analysis in joint attention paradigm
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Henryk Kardela
Cognitive grammar as a connectionist alternative: A parametrized account of the Polish reflexive pronouns
Michiya Kawai
Verbal morphology, agreement and head movement: Reexamination of Lasnik 1995
Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo
Vowel perception in foreign language learning: An empirical study in the framework of Natural Phonology
Witold Kieraś
Grammatical complexity of natural languages: The case of morphology
Laila Kjærbæk, Hans Basbøll, Claus Lambertsen & Sonja Wehberg
Early morphology and recurring sound patterns: Comparing different kinds of data on the acquisition of Danish noun plurals
Monika Kopytowska
Framing the Other: Media (re)construction of Islam
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Correspondence constraints and semantic distance
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk & Marzena Zygis
Phonetic effects at the prefix-stem juncture in Polish and its phonological interpretation
Agnieszka Kujałowicz, Agnieszka Chmiel, Karolina Rataj & Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
The effect of conference interpreting training on bilingual word production
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Nicola Lampitelli
How the syntactic change interferes on morphology
Elena Lieven
Building abstractions in language development
Maria Łukasiewicz
Theoretical and psychological foundations of content and language integrated learning: Towards the development of the interlanguage
Beata Łukaszewicz
How specific are child-specific phonological patterns?
Beata Łukaszewicz & Bogdan Rozborski
The acoustic grounding of lexical stress in Polish: A developmental perspective
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro
Phonetically unrealized elements in agrammatism: The case of 'pro'
Grzegorz Michalski
The interface and the domain structure in Polish palatalisation and voice assimilation
Janina Mołczanow
Intervocalic deletion and positional faithfulness in Russian
Marcin Morawski
Idiom comprehension in aphasic populations
Magdalena Murawska
Patient imaging in medical case reports
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Dorota Nowacka
The English language teacher as a communication supporter
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Deriving -ble forms out of unergatives and unaccusatives
Miren Lourdes Oñederra
Stampe reader
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Joanna Pawelczyk & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak
Speaker and listener in the construction of identity in discourse: A gender mismatch
Tadeusz Piotrowski
Proper names as discursive parameters of identity
Aleksander Płaczkowski
The ambiguity of some semantic and phonological classifications with reference to English phrasal verbs
Monika Połczyńska
Modification and extension of language tests performed during intraoperative electrical stimulation and pre-operative brain mapping methods
Monika Połczyńska, Yishai Tobin & Shimon Sapir
Correlation between vowel centralization and incomplete stop articulation in individuals with traumatic brain injury
DJ Prinsloo & Gertrud Faasz
Noun and verb guessing for automatic POS tagging in Sepedi
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Rudolf Reinelt
Social indication: The eighth sieve
Marta Rominiecka
Phonostylistic processes as a marker of style-shifting in political discourse
Karolina Rosiak
On the use of diminutives in Present Day Welsh
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Shimon Sapir, Monika Połczyńska, Yishai Tobin, Lorraine Ramig, Cynthia Fox, Jennifer Spielman, Christopher Dromey, Shawn Nissen & Nelson Roy
Formant centralization ratio (FCR) as a sensitive metric of vowel undershoot: Comparison with vowel space area (VSA) in impaired versus healthy speakers
Tobias Scheer
Debating the proposition "Nothing in linguistics makes full sense except in a diachronic light"
Tobias Scheer
Selective spell-out and piece-driven phase
Geoffrey Schwartz
Auditory representations in Natural Phonology
Steven Small
The biology of face-to-face communication: Action understanding and language
Steven Small
The mirror neuron system and aphasia theory
Filip Smolík
Facilitating sentence comprehension by syntactic priming
Agnieszka Sowińska
Becoming European: On representations of the EU and its values in the Polish and British press
David Stampe
Hypotheses of Natural Phonology II
Michal Starke
Partial reduplication in Kitharaka: Evidence from copying of a full syntactic tree
Michal Starke
Towards a lexicon-free grammar
Christopher Straughn
History vs. theory: The grammaticalization of the Uzbek 'say' complementizers
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Kseniya Timko
Discursive construction of migrants' identity and the image of their Motherland
Yishai Tobin
Phonology as human behavior: Applying theory to the clinic
Yishai Tobin
Synchrony and diachrony: The Siamese twins syndrome
Beata Trawiński
Towards the valuation of PHI-features
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
C.U.C. Ugorji
New Englishes in diachronic light: Evidence from Nigeria English phonology
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Boriana Vukovska
Body metaphors between universality and culture
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Bogusława Whyatt
Looking into the translating mind: Research methods and future perspectives
Siôn Rees Williams
Giving the wrong message: An example of erroneous Welsh signage from the private sector
Zofia Wodniecka, Sylvain Moreno, Ellen Bialystok & Claude Alain
Neurological correlates of conflict resolution during sentence processing in bilinguals and monolinguals: Evidence from ERP
Hans-Georg Wolf
Cultural models of religious belief systems in L2 varieties of English
Beata Wójtowicz & Piotr Bański
High-detail reference structures in an electronic dictionary of Swahili
Magdalena Wrembel & Karolina Rataj
On hearing colours: An investigation into cross-modal associations in L1 and L2 vowel perception in a non-synaesthetic population
A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z
Marzena Zygis
Insertions from a phonetic and phonological perspective