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Connected exceptives and nonmonotonic inference (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Garcia-Alvarez, I. (2006, October). Connected exceptives and nonmonotonic inference. Presented at 34th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2006, California State University, Fresno, California, USA

The Linguistics Strategy Group: a new professional association for linguistics (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Rowlett, P. (2006, July). The Linguistics Strategy Group: a new professional association for linguistics. Presented at Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies biennial conference Crossing Frontiers: Languages and the International Dimension, Cardiff

The talk will present the recently formed Linguistics Strategy Group. The Group is currently a small working group with support and representation from LLAS, UCML and CILT, as well as the learned societies in the various sub-areas of linguistics (the... Read More about The Linguistics Strategy Group: a new professional association for linguistics.

User resistance strategies and the problems of blanket prescriptions: a case study of resistance success (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, M., & Light, B. (2006, June). User resistance strategies and the problems of blanket prescriptions: a case study of resistance success. Presented at 14th European Conference on Information Systems, Gotenberg, Sweden

There is a growing body of research on resistance in IS projects, a good deal of which focuses on strategies for overcoming resistance. However, within this strand of research, it appears that there is a ‘blanket prescription’ approach that does not... Read More about User resistance strategies and the problems of blanket prescriptions: a case study of resistance success.

Collocations and word-combinations in English: Considerations, classifications, and pedagogic implications (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Considerations, classifications, and pedagogic implications. Presented at TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Language is a means of communication among people, and language fluency is influenced by how this language is acquired. The speed of articulation is affected not only by one's ability of retention but also by the amount of prefabricated chunks stored... Read More about Collocations and word-combinations in English: Considerations, classifications, and pedagogic implications.

Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Etherington, S. (2006, January). Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment, University of Salford, UK

This paper reports on a small scale action research project concerning subject lecturers' and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) learners' understandings and experiences of writing in a UK university setting and considers how this can usefully infor... Read More about Teaching and testing academic writing: exploring staff and learner experiences.

Excess phase effects and modulation transfer function degradation in relation to loudspeakers and rooms intended for the quality control monitoring of music (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Holland, K., Newell, P., Castro, S., & Fazenda, B. (2006, January). Excess phase effects and modulation transfer function degradation in relation to loudspeakers and rooms intended for the quality control monitoring of music. Presented at Institute of Acoustics

Previous papers 1, 2 have discussed the effects of loudspeaker alignment and resonances on the accuracy of reproduction of low frequency audio signals, and a system of modulation transfer function (MTF) measurement was developed which incorporated bo... Read More about Excess phase effects and modulation transfer function degradation in relation to loudspeakers and rooms intended for the quality control monitoring of music.

Urban space and Viennese popular fiction (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Foster, I. (2006, January). Urban space and Viennese popular fiction. Presented at Memory, History and Critique: European identity at the Millennium, Utrecht, Holland

This paper explores the use of urban settings in texts by Alfons Petzold (Das rauhe Leben) and Hugo Bettauer (Die freudlose Gasse) in relation to the socialist culture of inter-war Vienna.

Urban design: towards a working strategy (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Lyons, K., & Dunbar, T. (2005, November). Urban design: towards a working strategy. Presented at Sensuous Knowledge II: Aesthetic Practice and Insight, Bergen National Academy of Arts, Bergen, Norway

To introduce this project – for the purpose of this event we have called it a “Working Strategy” – we have invited a.r.r.r.t.s to write some introductory notes on the way it has developed over the past year. We have always maintained a close connec... Read More about Urban design: towards a working strategy.

Design conscious investment and interpretive design: the case of museums, art galleries and cultural heritage attractions (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Sterry, P. (2005, September). Design conscious investment and interpretive design: the case of museums, art galleries and cultural heritage attractions. Presented at Joining Forces: International Conference on Design Research, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland

The significant growth in museums, galleries and cultural heritage attractions in recent years is evidence of a wider leisure industry that is replicated internationally. There has also been a number of high profile millenium projects developed in th... Read More about Design conscious investment and interpretive design: the case of museums, art galleries and cultural heritage attractions.

Measurement of sound quality for critical listening (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., Holland, K., & Newell, P. (2005, July). Measurement of sound quality for critical listening. Presented at 12th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Lisbon

For the critical assessment of music recordings the uniformity of the pressure amplitude response with respect to frequency has robustly been defended as one of the principals of prime importance for any electro-acoustic monitoring system. This has b... Read More about Measurement of sound quality for critical listening.

Teaching linguistics to students of modern foreign languages (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Rowlett, P. (2004, August). Teaching linguistics to students of modern foreign languages. Presented at Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Roehampton University

Six aims: 1. Relevant features of my own background 2. Salford event 3. Background: benchmark statements 4. Student trends 5. Linguistics and MFL students 6. Linguistics and MFL at Salford Conclusion