Seminarau Ymchwil Ieithyddiaeth

Seminarau Blaenorol

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2017/18

Semester 1

18 Hydref, 2017	A lexicogrammatical semantics for neologisms: BREXIT as a case study Lisa Fontaine - Prifysgol Caerdydd Darlithfa 4
25 Tachwedd, 2017	‘Introducing The Old Red Tongue – an anthology of Welsh literature’ Gwyn Griffiths - Francis Boule publishers
15 Tachwedd, 2017	Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time Dr Thora Tenbrink - Prifysgol Bangor Darlithfa 2
22 Tachwedd, 2017	Domari: a moribund language of Jerusalem Yaron Matras - Prifysgol Manceinion Darlithfa 2
29 Tachwedd, 2017	"Language learning as cooperative interaction between implicit and explicit processes" Ewa Dabrowska - University of Birmingham
6 Rhagfyr, 2017	'Using vocal communication to explore the cognitive abilities of African elephants'. Graeme Shannon - Biological Sciences, Bangor

Semester 2

24 Ionawr 2018

The pace of grammaticalization in non-standardized Romance languages (and in comparison to major Romance languages)

Emanuele Miolaq - University of Milan-Bicocca

Darlithfa 2

7fed Chwefror 2018

2yp

'David Crystal Day'

Sgwrs 1 : ‘Language BLANK Literature: from Conjunction to Preposition.’
Sgwrs 2: ‘Where have all the dialect words gone?’
Yr Athro David Crystal

Prif Ddarlithfa'r Celfyddydau am 2yp

14 Chwefror 2018

Using linguistic prior knowledge in deep learning
Nina Dethlef - Prifysgol Hull

Darlithfa 2

21 Chwefror 2018

Chwedl y Llodrau (A Tale of the Trousers): Pluralia tantum and agreement in Welsh

Silvia Nurmio - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Ystafell A0:01 - Adeilad Alun

14 Mawrth 2018

Metaphor and the experience of illness.

Elena Semino - Prifysgol Lancaster

Darlithfa 2

21 Mawrth 2018

Meaning: Before and Beyond

Tim Wharton - Prifysgol Brighton

Darlithfa 2

18 Ebrill 2018

Is there Phonology without Meaning? The case of jargon aphasia

Honorary Professor Martin Ball - Prifysgol Bangor

25 Ebrill 2018

Less Is More? Surprising suggestions from studying spatial language

Clare Davies - Prifysgol Winchester

2 Mai 2018

Borrowing and semantic change in early Modern English

Kathryn Allan - University College London

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2016/17

Semester 2, 2017
Chwefror 1	'The David Crystal Day' Darlithfa Eric Sunderland am 2yp Sgwrs 1 - English Accents - Past, Present, Future Sgwrs 2 - Eloquence for al l
22nd February	Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University) "Synchronizing gesture and action with language: joint contribution, diverging benefits."
8th March	Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading) "Referential choice in bilingual and monolingual children: the effect of disclosure and executive function skills."
22nd March	Delyth Prys (Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University) "Language and Technology for Less-resourced Languages."
29th March	Dan Ponsford (School of Linguistics, Bangor university) "Degrees of iconicity in the use of reduplication."
26th April	John Harris, Nick Neasom (University College London) and Kevin Tang (Yale University) "What makes a phonological pattern learnable? A simple unnatural rule in English."

Semester 1, 2016
Hydref 12	Alex Perovic (University College London) "Contrasting linguistic profiles of children with SLI and autism: A case against the shared aetiology view."
Hydref 19	Maria Garraffa (Heriot Watt University) "Bilingualism and minority languages: integrating context of use with linguistic variables."
Tachwedd 30	Ruth Kircher (Liverpool Hope) Who belongs in Quebec? National identity , immigrants' social identities, and the linguistic future of Quebec
Rhagfyr 14	Eirini Sanoudaki (Prifysgol Bangor) Keeping Linguistics sexy: theory and impact in language acquisition research

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2015/16

Semester 1 2015
Hydref 7	Prof. Vyv Evans (Bangor University) The Emoji Code: Language and the future of communication?
Hydref 14	Dr Alex Perovic (University College London) Contrasting linguistic profiles of children with SLI and autism: A case against the shared aetiology view .
Tachwedd 4	Dr Martin Thiering (Berlin Germany) Cognitive Maps in Dene and Eipo
Tachwedd 18	Dr. Steve Oswald (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) "Deception and implicitness: how to tell whether people mean what they don't say"
Rhagfyr 16	Dr Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh) Identification of clinical markers of language impairment in Welsh-English bilingual children

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2014/15

Semester 2 2015
Chwefror 4	Prof. David Crystal (Bangor University) in MALT 2.00pm – The Fascinating First Year. 4.00pm – The Story of English in 100 words.
Chwefror 11	Dr Alison Johnson (University of Leeds) Corpus Linguistics and Big Data: Researching language in historical trial records of the 18th and 19th century.
Chwefror 25	Dr Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki) Division of Labour: the functions of pragmatic borrowings from English in weak contact situations.
Mawrth 4	Dr Anouschka Foltz (Bangor University) Listening to the Tune: Sentence-level prosody in acquisition.
Mawrth 18	Dr Marco Tamburelli (Bangor University) Second Class Languages and the Illusion of Monolingualism in Europe.
Ebrill 15	Dr Cecile Barbet (Bangor University) Logical or pragmatic? Investigating the inter-individual differences in scalar inferences processing.
Ebrill 22	Prof. Mauro Tosco (University of Turin) Issues in the standardization of minority languages: challenges and pitfalls
Ebrill 29	Dr Robyn Orfitelli (University of Sheffield) The emergence of the passive voice in language development.
Mai 27	Prof. Dan Everett (Bentley University, Massachusetts, USA) Title: Nonrecursive, nonendocentric, and nonbinary structures in Amazonian languages: Counterexamples vs. exceptions Venue: Alun A1.01

Semester 1, 2014
Hydref 26	Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Analysing metaphor in discourse: Critical and applied approaches
Hydref 8	Prof. Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) Spatial Demonstratives and Perceptual Space: Describing and remembering object location.
Tachwedd 5	Dr Astrid Schepman(Chester University) Emotion contagion through prosody.
Tachwedd 26	Dr Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Analysing metaphor in discourse: examples from corporate and health communication.
Rhagfyr 3	Dr Peredur Davies (Bangor University) Does the old language endure? Change and continuity in contemporary Welsh grammar.
Rhagfyr 10	Dr Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University) New Approaches to Analyzing Digital Fiction: Ludostylistics, Cognitive Narratology and Empirical Reader Response. *2.00pm, Darlithfa 4*

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2013/14

Semester 2 2014
Chwe 5	Professor David Crystal Abstract ‘The Fight for English’
Chwe 19	To be advised
Maw 12	Professor Hubert Cuyckens (Ku Leuven, Belgium) Abstract ‘Variability in verb complementation: Finite vs. non-finite patterns’
Maw 19	Professor Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) Abstract ‘Spatial Demonstratives and Perceptual Space: Describing and remembering object location’
Ebr 2	Dr Vikki Janke (Kent University) Abstract False friends: the effects of mismatching in morphological complexity on a backward lexical translation task’

Semester 1 2013
Hyd 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
Hyd 23	Professor Roumyana Slabakova (Southampton) Title tbc
Tach 6	Dr Alan Wallington (Bangor University) Title tbc
Tach 20	Professor Anne Pauwels (SOAS, London) Title tbc
Rhafg 4	Professor Michel Denis (CNRS LIMSI, Paris) Title tbc

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2012/13

Semester 1 2012
Hydref 10	Dr Fred Cummins (Dublin) Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action
Hydref 24	Dr Andrea Révész (Lancaster) Second language task complexity, teaching and learning
Tach 7	Dr Koen Plevoets (Leuven) The geometrical representation of language varieties
Tach 21	Dr SJ Hannahs (Newcastle) A conundrum in Welsh prosodic structure
Tach 28	Dr Thora Tenbrink (Bangor) Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Seeing how people think by analysing what they say
Rhag 12	Prof Leah Roberts (York) tbc
Semester 2 2013
Chwef 6	Prof. David Crystal Spell it out (2:15 pm) Txtng(4:00 pm)
Chwef 20	Dr Mits Ota (Edinburgh) Mental representations of L2 sounds and words
Mawrth 13	Dr Patricia Bestelmeyer (Bangor) Paralinguistic aspects of human voice perception
Mawrth 20	Prof Anne Judge (Surrey) French linguistic policies and the regional languages: All bark and no bite?
Ebrill 4	Prof Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University) What can endangered language activists learn from the “revival” of Hebrew? Nodwch: Mae'r digwyddiad yma ar ddydd Iau.
Ebrill 17	Prof Mair Parry (Bristol) Language and dialect in north-west Italy
Mai 1	Dr Silke Brandt (Basel) Children's comprehension and reference to mental states in language and social cognition

Y Flwyddyn Academaidd 2011/12

Hydref 5	Dr. Vicky Chondrogianni, Bangor University Production and on-line comprehension (a)symmetries in sequential bilingual children and children with SLI
Hydref 26	Dr. Chris Hart, University of Northumbria Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis
Tach 2	Dr. Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham Metaphor and the foreign language learner
Tach 16	Professor Mike Hammond Welsh poetry and phonology (2:00 pm)
Tach 23	Dr. Helen Fraser Forensic phonetics - Cognitive theory (2:00 pm)
Tach 23	Dr. John Williams, University of Cambridge Implicit adult language learning: Prospects and limitations (4.00pm)
Rhag 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
Chwef 15	Prof. David Crystal, Bangor University Exploring Shakespeare’s language
Mawrth 7	Dr. Eirini Sanoudaki, Bangor University The pronoun interpretation question(s): answers across tasks and populations
Mawrth 21	Dr. Marija Omazic, Osijek University Phraseology and Cognitive Linguistics: Mechanisms and constraints on idiom creation and modification.
Ebrill 18	Dr. Patrick Rebuschat, Bangor University Implicit and explicit learning of language
Ebrill 25	Dr. Cristina Dye (Newcastle University) Clausal complexity and the production of verb inflection in bilingual vs. monolingual toddlers
Mai 2	Vassiliki Rentoumi, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and University of the Aegean Sentiment Analysis of Metaphorical Language: A Sense-to-Sentiment perspective?

11 Hydref 2006

Professor Joan Beal, Prifysgol Sheffield

“'Shamed by Your English? The 'Market Value' of a 'Good' Pronunciation”

25 Hydref 2006

Dr Dirk Bury, Prifysgol Bangor

“With or without move: Verb movement and verb-initiality in Welsh and Salish”

1 Tachwedd 2006

Dr Jaine Beswick, Prifysgol Southampton

“Portuguese in Jersey: language in diaspora”

22 Tachwedd 2006

Professor Nigel Duffield, Prifysgol Sheffield

“How different can (it) be for English and Japanese Children?”

29 Tachwedd 2006

Dr Adrian Blackledge, Prifysgol Birmingham

“Integrating the ideological and the interactional in research multilingualism”

14 Chwefror 2007

Tom Ristimaki (Myfyriwr PhD, Prifysgol Bangor)

“Fear, firewalking and the language of limitations”

7 Mawrth 2007

Dr. Enlli Thomas (Ysgol Seicoleg, Prifysgol Bangor)

“The acquisition of complex structures in Welsh: an alternative account to rule-based learning”

21 Mawrth 2007

Peredur Davies (Myfyriwr PhD, Prifysgol Bangor)

“How English is Welsh?: identifying language convergence using the Matrix Language Frame model”

25 Ebrill 2007

Professor Paul Kerswill, Prifysgol Lancaster

Dialect levelling is dead: phonetic innovation in inner-London teenage speech

2 Mai 2007

Jonathan Stammers (myfyriwr PhD, Prifysgol Bangor)

““Felly dwi’n mix-io nhw, ’de” – Codeswitching, Lexical Borrowing, and English Verbs in Welsh Speech”

10 Hydref 2007

Professor Francis Katamba, Prifysgol Lancaster

“The Word in Luganda”

21 Tachwedd 2007

Dr Rocío Pérez-Tattam (Bangor, Canolfan Dwyieithrwydd)

“The Development of Verbal Agreement Morphology in Spanish/English Simultaneous Bilingual Child Data: Linguistic Theory and Reality”

5 Rhagfyr 2007

Dr. Paul Carter (Bangor; Ieithyddiaeth)

“Gesture and structure: constraining secondary articulation in liquid consonants”

Gwanwyn 2008

Bydd y seminarau canlynol yn cael eu cynnal yn Ystafell Seminarau Ieithyddiaeth, Prif Adeilad y Celfyddydau (Llawr Gwaelod Isaf) am 2pm ar ddyddiau Mercher

6 Chwefror*

Dr Marie Clague, Manx Heritage Foundation

“The Developing Manx of Immersion Educated Children” [darllen crynodeb]

20 Chwefror

Professor Richard Hudson, Athro Emeritws, Coleg Prifysgol Llundain

“Code Switching in a Network”

5 Mawrth

Subra Shatdarsanam (Myfyriwr PhD, Bangor)

“Conceptual Blending”

12 Mawrth **

Professor Katie Wales, Prifysgol Sheffield

“Unnatural Conversations: Talking to the Dead” [darllen crynodeb]

19 Mawrth

Ursula Langegger-Noakes (Myfyriwr PhD, Bangor)

“Cross-linguistic Interaction in Third Language Acquisition: looking at university students with English as L1, French as L2 and German as L3”

9 April

Dr Anna Trester, Georgetown University

“Intertextuality and the performance of identity in improvisational theater”

16 Ebrill

Professor Ben Rampton, King’s College, Llundain

“Language & Ethnicity at School: Some Implications from recent work in Sociolinguistics” [darllen crynodeb]

30 April

Professor Vyv Evans, University of Brighton

“How we conceptualise time: language, meaning and temporal cognition”

Hydref 2008

8 Hydref

Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt,University of Manchester

Event classification and event decomposition. [abstract]

20 Hydref

Prof Janet Holmes,Victoria University of Wellington.

Mon 4.00pm: Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work

22 Hydref

Dr Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Miami Univeristy, Ohio.

Influence of phonological similarity in the Spanish morphological verb system [abstract]

5 Tachwedd

Dr Leticia Pablos, University of Reading.

The role of agreement in the licensing of NPI constructions in Spanish and Basque [abstract]

19 Tachwedd

Dr Sebastian Hoffmann, Lancaster University.

Corpus linguistics and the Internet

3 Rhagfyr

Dr Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh

Butties from the chippy outside Sevvie: Templatic phonology in Liverpool English [read abstract]

Semester 2

Cynhelir y seminarau canlynol am 2pm ar Ddydd Mercher yn yr Ystafell Seminar Ieithyddiaeth, oni bai hysbysebir yn wahanol.

11 Chwefror

Prof John Local, University of York
‘Trying again’: retrieving topic initiations in conversation [read abstract]

25 Chwefror

Mr Jakob Leimgruber, Bangor University
Ethnicity as a variable in Singapore English [read abstract]

11th Mawrth*

Prof Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Boston University
The difficulty of acquiring a second language in adulthood: Is emotionally-mediated learning the missing ingredient? [read abstract]

* This talk will be hosted by the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism

25 Mawrth

Prof Jenny Cheshire, Queen Mary University of London
Innovation and change in London English [read abstract]

22 Ebrill

Mr Ryuichiro Hirata, Bangor University
Preposition Stranding in Welsh? From generative approach

29 Ebrill

Prof Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham [read abstract]
Developing contextually-sensitive corpora

6 Mai

Prof Jean Aitchison, Worcester College, University of Oxford [read abstract]
Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy

Semestr 2 2010 - 2011

Chwefror 2 2011
Nouns and verbs: The quest for universal schemas
Dr. Willem Hollman, Lancaster University

Chwefror 16 2011
When, Where, and Who Shows a Bilingual Advantage in Executive Function Tasks? Evidence from Welsh-English Bilinguals
Professor Virginia Gathercole, Bangor University

Mawrth 2 2011
Title TBC
Prof. Gerard Docherty, Newcastle University

Mawrth 16 2011
The body-specificity of language and thought
Dr. Daniel Casasanto, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland, and The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

Mawrth 23 2011
Language death: Writing the obituary of languages? (venue Powis Hall)
Prof. David Crystal, Honorary Professor, Linguistics, Bangor University

Mawrth 30 2011
Cognitive evolutionary linguistics
Prof. Arie Verhagen, Leiden University

Ebrill 6 2011
Syllabic membership and processing complexity: Onset effects in nonword repetition tasks.
Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Bangor University

Mai 11 2011
Direct speech and the construction of identities: evidence from Greek conversational data
Dr. Sofia Lampropoulou, Bangor University