ALS 2010 Annual Conference Programme - Australian Linguistic ...

4:15 (39A-209) Grammar and typology. Chair: Ghil’ad Zuckermann
4:15 Yankee Modi Cut verbs in Tani languages
4:45 Diana Guillemin (Griffith University) Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not
necessarily both: an economy principle
Thursday 8 July
9:00 (14-216) English National Curriculum in Australia. Chair: Allan
Dench
9:00 Jean Mulder (University of Melbourne) Grammar in the school curriculum:
Why should linguists care?
9:30 Panel: Jean Mulder, Kate Burridge & Doug Absalom
9:00 (14-217) English and Sociolinguistics. Chair: Diana Guillemin
9:00 Susan Douglas & Lesley Stirling (University of Melbourne) Pretend play narratives
and social understanding in autism
9:30 Diana Eades (University of New England) Language ideologies and courtroom
talk
10:00 Sascha Rixon (University of Melbourne) Multiple requests: A comparison of
initial and subsequent request formulations in general practice consultations and
facilitated workshops
9:00 (14-219) Australian Languages, Phonology and Kinship. Chair:
Brett Baker
9:00 Erich Round (Yale University) Tone and Grammar in Akan
9:30 Robert Mailhammer (Australian National University) Retroflexion as a transitional
feature in Amurdak and other Iwaidjan languages
10:00 Harold Koch (Australian National University) The diachronics of Arandic kinship
terminology
11:00 (24-S304) Plenary 2: Mary Laughren (University of
Queensland)
Changes in grammatical case marking in Australian languages:
triggers and consequences
2:00 (14-216) English phonology. Chair: John Ingram
2:00 Catherine Travis (University of New Mexico, James Cook University) & Rena
Torres Cacoullos (Pennsylvania State University) The interaction of general and
local patterns in discourse: Pitch accented I
2:30 Marjolaine Martin (Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique – Tours, France) Lexical
Stress of Multicategorial Words and Exceptional Disyllables in Australian English