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' Main Arts Lecture Theatre at 2pm |
14th February 2018 | Using linguistic prior knowledge in deep learning |
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 |
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) |
29th March | Dan Ponsford (School of Linguistics, Bangor University) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Academic Year 2014/15
Semester 1 2015 |
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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 |
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February 4 |
Prof. David Crystal (Bangor University) in MALT |
February 11 |
Dr Alison Johnson (University of Leeds) |
February 25 | Dr Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki) |
March 4 |
Dr Anouschka Foltz (Bangor University) |
March 18 | Dr Marco Tamburelli (Bangor University) |
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) |
Semester 1 2014 |
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October 8 |
Prof. Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) |
November 5 |
Dr Astrid Schepman(Chester University) |
November 26 | Dr Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) |
December 3 |
Dr Peredur Davies(Bangor University) |
December 10 | Dr Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University) |
Academic Year 2013/14
Semester 2 2014 |
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Feb 5 |
Professor David Crystal |
Feb 26 |
Mr David Brown (ELCOS, Bangor University) AbstractA 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) ‘Variability in verb complementation: Finite vs. non-finite patterns’ |
March 19 |
Professor Kenny Coventry (University of East Anglia) |
April 2 | Dr Vikki Janke (Kent University) |
April 30 | Prof. Chris Jones (Cardiff University) |
Academic Year 2012/13
Semester 1 2013 |
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Oct 9 |
Dr Elma Blom (Utrecht University) Abstract |
Oct 23 |
Professor Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton) Abstract |
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 |
Academic Year 2011/12
2011 |
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Oct 5 |
Dr. Vicky Chondrogianni, Bangor University |
Oct 26 |
Dr. Chris Hart, University of Northumbria |
Nov 2 |
Dr. Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham |
Nov 16 |
Professor Mike Hammond |
Nov 23 |
Dr. Helen Fraser |
Nov 23 |
Dr. John Williams, University of Cambridge |
Dec 7 |
Dr. Christopher Shank, Bangor University |
2012 |
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Feb 15 |
Prof. David Crystal, Bangor University |
March 7 |
Dr. Eirini Sanoudaki, Bangor University |
March 21 |
Dr. Marija Omazic, Osijek University |
April 18 |
Dr. Patrick Rebuschat, Bangor University |
April 25 |
Dr. Cristina Dye (Newcastle University) |
May 2 |
Vassiliki Rentoumi, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and University of the Aegean |
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