POSTER SESSION 2

ACQUISITION OF NEGATIVE CONCORD IN CHILD STANDARD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Sumrah Arshad and Hedde Zeijlstra

AN EXPLORATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NOMINAL FORM AND TEMPORAL SEMANTICS

Alex Carr

CAUSED-POSITION CONSTRUCTION REVISITED

Ian Joo and Meichun Liu

THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH THE USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Jelena Kirejeva

HEAD-BANGINGLY CRAZY' – WHEN 'VERY CRAZY' IS NOT CRAZY ENOUGH: LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY AS A DEVIATION FROM EXPECTED CONSTRUCTIONAL PATTERNS

Birgit Kohn

VARIABILITY OF “FAMILY” STEREOTYPE IN SPOKEN DISCOURSE

Alina Makoveyeva

ABSTRACTNESS AND ABSTRACTION OF LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ITEMS

Atreyee Mukherjee and Soumyadeep Mukherjee

POLYSEMY AND DE-CONTEXTUALISATION: A QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION BASED ON SIMILARITY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF PROTOTYPICAL MEANING

Sae Nishiuchi, Sachi Kato and Masayuki Asahara

CONSONANT ICONICITY: AN OPEN-CATEGORIAL APPROACH TO SOUND SYMBOLISM

Xinjia Peng

LEXICAL NETWORK OF A POLYSEMOUS WORD

Svetlana Pesina, Tatyana Solonchak and Julia Rodionova

PERSPECTIVATION AND PRETEND PLAY IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A CORPUS STUDY

Michael Pleyer

MUM AND ME: A COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF MATERNAL NURSERY TERMS AND FIRST PERSON OBJECT DESIGNATORS

David Ridley

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN'S SENTENCE INTERPRETATION AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

Noorin Rodenhurst and Katherine Messenger

TIME IS MOTION METAPHORS IN FIJIAN

Kazuko Shinohara and Yuichi Asai

METAPHOR INTERPRETATION STRATEGY USE BY EFL LEARNERS

Maria Tsitoura

RE-OPENING A CHAPTER: IS KIKI VS. BOUBA REALLY A STABLE SOUND-SYMBOLIC EFFECT IN YOUNG CHILDREN?

Susann Ullrich and Ralf Rummer

CONTRAST IN CAUSED MOTION EVENT CONSTRUAL: THE CASE OF CANTONESE AND MANDARIN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

Siu Ho Yau

CONFIRMATION/AGREEMENT SEEKING IN TALK-IN-INTERACTION: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INTERROGATIVE PARTICLE “HAO”（嚎）IN NORTHEASTERN MANDARIN CHINESE

Shihong Zhou