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School of Linguistics & English Language

Linguistics Circle Lecture Series
Semester 1 2011 - 2012

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The Linguistics Circle is a research talk series that includes speakers from within and outside the university. The talks are open to all members of Bangor University and to the public in general.

Time and day:  4:00pm on Wednesdays

Venue: Linguistics Seminar Room, Room 018, Main Arts Building

Note: Prof. Mike Hammond's lecture on the Nov 16 and Dr. Helen Fraser's lecture on Nov 23 start at 2:00 pm. Prof. David Crystal's lectures on Feb 15 will be held in the Main Arts Lecture Theatre, the first at 2:15pm, the second at 4:00pm.

Oct 5

Dr. Vicky Chondrogianni, Bangor University
Production and on-line comprehension (a)symmetries in sequential bilingual children and children with SLI

Oct 26

Dr. Chris Hart, University of Northumbria
Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis

Nov 2

Dr. Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
Metaphor and the foreign language learner

Nov 16

Professor Mike Hammond
Welsh poetry and phonology (2:00 pm)

Nov 23

Dr. Helen Fraser
Forensic phonetics - Cognitive theory (2:00 pm)

Nov 23

Dr. John Williams, University of Cambridge
Implicit adult language learning: Prospects and limitations 4:00 pm

Dec 7

Dr. Christopher Shank, Bangor University
Moving beyond synchrony: Applying a diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis to examine the development and use of I + think / believe / suppose as ‘epistemic parentheticals’

2012

Feb 15

Prof. David Crystal, Bangor University
By hook or by crook: A journey in search of English (2:15pm)
Exploring Shakespeare's language (4:00pm)

March 7

Dr. Eirini Sanoudaki, Bangor University
The pronoun interpretation question(s): answers across tasks and populations

March 21

Dr. Marija Omazic, Osijek University
Phraseology and Cognitive Linguistics: Mechanisms and constraints on idiom creation and modification.

April 18

Dr. Patrick Rebuschat, Bangor University
Implicit and explicit learning of language

April 25

Dr. Cristina Dye (Newcastle University)
Clausal complexity and the production of verb inflection in bilingual
vs. monolingual toddlers

May 2

Vassiliki Rentoumi, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and University of the Aegean
Sentiment Analysis of Metaphorical Language: A Sense-to-Sentiment perspective?

Previous Seminars

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