Linguistics Circle Lecture Series 2012 - 2013

Semester 2 2013

Feb 6

Professor David Crystal
Spell it out (2:15 pm)
Txtng (4:00 pm)

Feb 20

Dr Mits Ota (Edinburgh)
Mental representations of L2 sounds and words

Professor Sandra Kuebler (Indiana)

Annotating spontaneous dialogues in a collaborative task: Lessons learned

March 13

Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer (Bangor)
Paralinguistic aspects of human voice perception

March 20

Professor Anne Judge (Surrey)
French linguistic policies and the regional languages: All bark and no bite?

Professor Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)
What can endangered language activists learn from the “revival” of Hebrew?

April 17

Professor Mair Parry (Bristol)
Language and dialect in north-west Italy

Vivien Mast (Bremen)

Language and space in human-computer interaction (workshop)

Dr Jennifer Misyak (Warwick)

Individual differences across statistical learning and language

May 1

Dr Silke Brandt (Lancaster)
Children's comprehension and reference to mental states in language and social cognition

Oct 9

Dr Elma Blom (Utrecht University)
The role of first language, frequency and exposure in English second language children with and without Specific Language Impairment

Oct 23

Professor Roumyana Slabakova (Southampton)
Title tbc

Nov 6

Nov 20

Dec 4

Professor Michel Denis (CNRS LIMSI, Paris)
Title tbc

Semester 2 2014

Feb 5

Professor David Crystal
Title tbc

Feb 19

Dr Lauren Hall-Lew (Edinburgh)
Variation in the English of Scottish MPs

Professor Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven University)
Title tbc

March 19

Professor Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia)
Title tbc

Dr Vikki Janke (Kent University)
Title tbc