Previous Seminars

Academic Year 2017/18

Semester 1

18th October, 2017	A lexicogrammatical semantics for neologisms: BREXIT as a case study Lisa Fontaine - Cardiff University Lecture Room 4
25th October, 2017	'Introducing the OId Red Tongue - an anthology of Welsh literature' (Gwyn Griffiths from Francis Boule publishers accompanied by others will be introducing an anthology of Welsh literature). Gwyn Griffiths - Francis Boule publishers
15th November, 2017	Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time Dr Thora Tenbrink - Bangor University Lecture Room 2
22nd November, 2017	Domari: a moribund language of Jerusalem Yaron Matras - University of Manchester Lecture Room 2
29th November, 2017	"Language learning as cooperative interaction between implicit and explicit processes" Ewa Dabrowska - University of Birmingham
6th December, 2017	'Using vocal communication to explore the cognitive abilities of African elephants'. Graeme Shannon - Biological Sciences, Bangor

Semester 2

24th January 2018	The pace of grammaticalization in non-standardized Romance languages (and in comparison to major Romance languages) Emanuele Miola - University of Milan-Bicocca
7th February 2018 2pm	'David Crystal Day' Talk 1: ‘Language BLANK Literature: from Conjunction to Preposition.’ Talk 2: ‘Where have all the dialect words gone?’ Professor David Crystal Main Arts Lecture Theatre at 2pm
14th February 2018	Using linguistic prior knowledge in deep learning Nina Dethlefs - University of Hull
21st February 2018	Chwedl y Llodrau (A Tale of the Trousers): Pluralia tantum and agreement in Welsh Silva Nurmio - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Room A0:01 - Alun Building
14th March 2018	Metaphor and the experience of illness. Elena Semino - Lancaster University
21st March 2018	Meaning: Before and Beyond Tim Wharton - University of Brighton
18th April 2018	Is there Phonology without Meaning? The case of jargon aphasia Honorary Professor Martin Ball - Bangor University
25th April 2018	Less Is More? Surprising suggestions from studying spatial language Clare Davies - University of Winchester
2nd May 2018	Borrowing and semantic change in early Modern English Kathryn Allan - University College London

Academic Year 2016/17

Semester 2
February 1	The David Crystal Day Main Arts Lecture Theatre at 2pm Talk 1 - English Accents - Past, Present, Future Talk 2 - Eloquence for all
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
October 12	Alex Perovic (University College London) "Contrasting linguistic profiles of children with SLI and autism: A case against the shared aetiology view."
October 19	Maria Garraffa (Heriot Watt University) "Bilingualism and minority languages: integrating context of use with linguistic variables."
November 30	Ruth Kircher (Liverpool Hope) Who belongs in Quebec? National identity , immigrants' social identities, and the linguistic future of Quebec
December 14	Eirini Sanoudaki (Bangor University) Keeping Linguistics sexy: theory and impact in language acquisition research

Academic Year 2015/16

Semester 2
February 3	The David Crystal Day Main Arts Lecture Theatre at 2pm Talk 1 - Language and the Internet Talk 2 - The English Tone of Voice
February 24	Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Corpus approaches to discourse attitudes: The presentation of Islam and Muslims in the British press.
March 2	Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh) Bilingual life after school? Linguistic practice and ideology among Gaelic-medium educated adults.
March 16	Bob Borseley (University of Essex) How Welsh is (not) like English.

Academic Year 2014/15

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

Academic Year 2014/15

Semester 2 2015
February 4	Prof. David Crystal (Bangor University) in MALT 2.00pm – The Fascinating First Year. 4.00pm – The Story of English in 100 words.
February 11	Dr Alison Johnson (University of Leeds) Corpus Linguistics and Big Data: Researching language in historical trial records of the 18th and 19th century.
February 25	Dr Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki) Division of Labour: the functions of pragmatic borrowings from English in weak contact situations.
March 4	Dr Anouschka Foltz (Bangor University) Listening to the Tune: Sentence-level prosody in acquisition.
March 18	Dr Marco Tamburelli (Bangor University) Second Class Languages and the Illusion of Monolingualism in Europe.
April 15	Dr Cecile Barbet (Bangor University) Logical or pragmatic? Investigating the inter-individual differences in scalar inferences processing.
April 22	Prof. Mauro Tosco (University of Turin) Issues in the standardization of minority languages: challenges and pitfalls
April 29	Dr Robyn Orfitelli (University of Sheffield) The emergence of the passive voice in language development.
May 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
October 8	Prof. Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) Spatial Demonstratives and Perceptual Space: Describing and remembering object location.
November 5	Dr Astrid Schepman(Chester University) Emotion contagion through prosody.
November 26	Dr Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Analysing metaphor in discourse: examples from corporate and health communication.
December 3	Dr Peredur Davies(Bangor University) Does the old language endure? Change and continuity in contemporary Welsh grammar.
December 10	Dr Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University) New Approaches to Analyzing Digital Fiction: Ludostylistics, Cognitive Narratology and Empirical Reader Response. *2.00pm, Lecture Room 4*

Academic Year 2013/14

Semester 2 2014
Feb 5	Professor David Crystal Abstract ‘The Fight for English’
Feb 26	Mr David Brown (ELCOS, Bangor University) Abstract A Pidgin language, the social semiotics of the workplace and 21st Century sociolinguistic change In South African mining: Fanagalo and the road to the Marikana Platinum mine
March 12	Professor Hubert Cuyckens (Ku Leuven, Belgium) Abstract ‘Variability in verb complementation: Finite vs. non-finite patterns’
March 19	Professor Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) Abstract ‘Spatial Demonstratives and Perceptual Space: Describing and remembering object location’
April 2	Dr Vikki Janke (Kent University) Abstract False friends: the effects of mismatching in morphological complexity on a backward lexical translation task’
April 30	Prof. Chris Jones (Cardiff University) Abstract Where on Earth was that?: Photo captioning with natural language.

Academic Year 2012/13

Semester 1 2012
Oct 10	Dr Fred Cummins (Dublin) Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action
Oct 24	Dr Andrea Révész (Lancaster) Second language task complexity, teaching and learning
Nov 7	Dr Koen Plevoets (Leuven) The geometrical representation of language varieties
Nov 21	Dr SJ Hannahs (Newcastle) A conundrum in Welsh prosodic structure
Nov 28	Dr Thora Tenbrink (Bangor) Cognitive Discourse Analysis: Seeing how people think by analysing what they say
Dec 12	Professor Leah Roberts (York) Cross-linguistic influences in the L2 processing of tense/aspect
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
March 6	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?
April 5	>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
April 22 / 23	Vivien Mast (Bremen) Language and space in human-computer interaction (workshop)
April 24	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

Semester 1 2013
Oct 9	Dr Elma Blom (Utrecht University) Abstract A usage-based approach to child second language acquisition: The role of input, lexicon, and first language in English L2 children with and without SLI.
Oct 23	Professor Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton) Abstract The effect of construction frequency and native transfer on L2 knowledge of the syntax-discourse interface.
Nov 6	Dr Alan Wallington (Bangor University) Abstract A Profession Without Parallel: So How Can The Butcher Have Botched? An Analysis of Metaphors for Incompetence and Disorder.
Nov 20	Professor Anne Pauwels (University of London) Abstract Language maintenance in light of new multilingual constellations in Europe.
Dec 4	Professor Michel Denis (Université de Paris-Sud) Abstract Spatial Knowledge and Spatial Discourse: A Challenge for Cognitive Science

Academic Year 2011/12

	2011
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?

11 October 2006

Professor Joan Beal, University of Sheffield

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

25 October 2006

Dr Dirk Bury, Bangor University

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

1 November 2006

Dr Jaine Beswick, University of Southampton
“Portuguese in Jersey: language in diaspora”

22 November 2006

Professor Nigel Duffield, University of Sheffield
“How different can (it) be for English and Japanese Children?”

29 November 2006

Dr Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham
“Integrating the ideological and the interactional in research multilingualism”

14 February 2007

Tom Ristimaki (PhD Student, Bangor University)
“Fear, firewalking and the language of limitations”

7 March 2007

Dr. Enlli Thomas (School of Psychology, Bangor University)
“The acquisition of complex structures in Welsh: an alternative account to rule-based learning”

21 March 2007

Peredur Davies (PhD Student, Bangor University)
“How English is Welsh?: identifying language convergence using the Matrix Language Frame model”

25 April 2007

Professor Paul Kerswill, University of Lancaster
“Dialect levelling is dead: phonetic innovation in inner-London teenage speech”

2 May 2007

Jonathan Stammers (PhD Student, Bangor University)
““Felly dwi’n mix-io nhw, ’de” – Codeswitching, Lexical Borrowing, and English Verbs in Welsh Speech”

10 October 2007

Professor Francis Katamba, University of Lancaster
“The Word in Luganda”

21 November 2007

Dr Rocío Pérez-Tattam (Bangor, Bilingualism Centre)
“The Development of Verbal Agreement Morphology in Spanish/English Simultaneous Bilingual Child Data: Linguistic Theory and Reality”

5 December 2007

Dr. Paul Carter (Bangor; Linguistics)
“Gesture and structure: constraining secondary articulation in liquid consonants”

Spring 2008

6 February*

Dr Marie Clague, Manx Heritage Foundation

“The Developing Manx of Immersion Educated Children” [read abstract]

20 February

Professor Richard Hudson, Emeritus Professor, University College London

“Code Switching in a Network” [read abstract]

5 March

Subra Shatdarsanam (PhD Student, Bangor)

“Conceptual Blending”

12 March **

Professor Katie Wales, University of Sheffield

“Unnatural Conversations: Talking to the Dead” [read abstract]

19 March

Ursula Langegger-Noakes (PhD Student, 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 April

Professor Ben Rampton, King’s College London
“Language & Ethnicity at School: Some Implications from recent work in Sociolinguistics” [read abstract]

30 April

Professor Vyv Evans, University of Brighton

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

Autumn 2008

8 October

Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt,University of Manchester

Event classification and event decomposition. [read abstract]

20 October

Prof Janet Holmes,Victoria University of Wellington

Monday, 4pm. Women, men and leadership: constructing complex identities through talk at work

22 October

Dr Eva Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Miami University, Ohio

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

5 November

Dr Leticia Pablos, University of Reading

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

19 November

Dr Sebastian Hoffmann, Lancaster University

Corpus linguistics and the Internet

3 December

Dr Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh

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

11 February 2009

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

25 February 2009

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

11th March 2009 *

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 March 2009

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

22 April 2009

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

29 April 2009

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

6 May 2009

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

October 2009

7th -Time in language, time in the mind
Prof. Vyv Evans, Bangor University
21st Title TBC
Dr. Paul Carter, Bangor University

November 2009

4th -Conceptual frames and investigations into manipulative strategies, adverse legal outcomes, and paedophile communities
Dr. June Luchjenbroers, Bangor University
18th -The role of constructions in grammar evolution
Dr. Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder

December 2009

2nd - Metaphor and gesture
Dr. Alan Cienki, Free University of Amsterdam

January 2010

27th - Language and the senses
Prof. Kenny Coventry, University of Northumbria

February 2010

10th -Getting a handle on category membership in intonation
Dr. Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge
24th -Point of view in discourse
Prof. Paul Chilton, Lancaster University

March 2010

10th-Foreign Accent Syndrome
Dr. Jo Verhoeven, City University London

April 2010

14th- Bilingual cognition
Prof. Vivian Cook, Newcastle University

Semester 2 2010-2011

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

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

March 2nd 2011
Title TBC
Prof. Gerard Docherty, Newcastle University

March 16th 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

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

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

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

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