Motion events in bilingual first language acquisition: the impact of typology on crosslinguistic interactions

Helen Engemann, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 16:00-17:30

Looking at Language Acquisition XII - Structuring temporal information in early and advanced L2 discourse

Norbert Vanek, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-03, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17:20-18:00

Looking at Language Acquisition XII - Aspect markers in Brunei Malay

Aznah Suhaimi, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-03, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:40-17:20

Looking at Language Acquisition XII - Why some (but not all) adults compute scalar implicatures

Kyriakos Antoniou, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-03, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 16:00-16:40

Clitic (Mis)Placement in Early Grammars: Evidence from Cypriot Greek

Theoni Neokleous, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 16:00-17:30

Anticipation as a strategy during simultaneous interpreting from German into English

Ena Hodzik, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 16:00-17:30

Robust language acquisition – It just Zipf’s right along

Nick Ellis, English Language Institute, University of Michigan.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 16:00-17:30

Linguistic complexity as optimal grammar length: An information-theoretic approach

Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique & Institut Rhône-Alpin des Systèmes Complexes, Lyon.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 16:00-17:30

Semantic implicit learning

Albertyna Paciorek, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

Existential quantifiers and polarity in L2 interlanguage: applying the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis

Kook-hee Gil and Heather Marsden, University of Sheffield.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

On automatically analyzing learner language: Interpreting form and meaning in context

Detmar Meurers, Department of Linguistics, University of Tubingen.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 08 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

From time to time: structuring temporality in advanced L2 discourse

Norbert Vanek, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:30

Cross-language implementation of pitch range and its consequences for L2 speech learning: the case of English and German

Ineke Mennen, University of Bangor.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 16:00-17:30

Residual optionality in L1 syntax: effects of delayed onset of acquisition

Juergen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg / University of Calgary.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 16:00-17:30

Assigning prosodic prominence in the English 'noun-noun'

Melanie Bell, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:00-17:30

The benefits of a multidimensional approach to dialogue modelling

Harry Bunt, University of Tilburg.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 16:00-17:30

Regular change and lexical diffusion in phonological development

Mits Ota, University of Edinburgh.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 16:00-17:30

The role of psychometrics in the assessment of speech and language difficulties

John Rust, University of Cambridge, Director - The Psychometrics Centre.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Statistical pitfalls in corpus research

Toni Rietveld, Radboud University Nijmegen.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Prosody and Language-Speech Pathology

Toni Rietveld, Radboud University Nijmegen.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Can you see what I'm thinking? Eye-tracking research on Theory of Mind

Paula Rubio-Fernandez, University College London / Princeton University.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:00-17:30

Morphosyntactic and pragmatic abilities in different populations of language learners

Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca.

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 14:00-15:30

Learning semantic roles from child-directed data: insights from a probabilistic model of early language learning

Afra Alishahi, Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:00-17:30

Speech segmentation: On the processing of accents and boundaries

Kai Alter, University of Newcastle, Institute of Neuroscience.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Time and causality in language comprehension

Dr Silvia Gennari, University of York, Department of Psychology.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 02 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

Too much information? Hearer sensitivity to over-informativeness in referring expressions

Cat Davies, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

A multisystemic model of rhythm development: Disentangling phonology and prosody in a cross-linguistic study

Brechtje Post, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 16 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

The first hours of second language acquisition: How do French native speakers perceive, comprehend and parse the Polish speech stream?

Rebekah Rast, American University of Paris and UMR 7023 (CNRS & Université Paris 8).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Japanese two year olds use morphosyntax to learn verb meanings

Dr Ayumi Matsuo, University of Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

Incidental learning of word order regularities: How abstract and how implicit?

Dr John Williams, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:00-17:30

The origin of new words in Khmer

Dr John Haiman, Linguistics Programme, Macalester College, St Paul's, Minnesota.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:00-17:30

Cognition and spatial representations beyond language use

Efstathia Soroli and Maya Hickmann, Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage, CNRS and Universite de Paris 8.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 08 December 2009, 16:00-17:30

On-line processing of articles and clitics by Greek children with SLI

Theo Marinis, School of Psychology and Clinical Language, University of Reading.

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:30

Discrete elements: The essence of language? Notes on the neural side of words and rules

Friedemann Pulvermuller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

"Great anchor" or "grey tanker"? Speaker and listener variability in speech segmentation

Laurence White, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

Constructions as the Basis of Syntactic Explanation

Laura Michaelis-Cummings, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

How to sound intelligent: The sociophonetics of non-native speaker accents of English

Bettina Beinhoff, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-17:30

POSTPONED - Computation, Cognition and Language at RCEAL

Jim Blevins, Paula Buttery, Jeroen Geertzen, Andrew Thwaites and Chris Veysey, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 16:00-17:30

Adults' Expression of Voluntary and Caused Motion Events in Chinese and in English

Henriette Hendriks and Yinglin Ji, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 20 October 2009, 16:00-17:30

The Pragmatics of Numerically Quantified Expressions

Chris Cummins, RCEAL.

GR-04, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:00-17:30

Neurophysiological indices of morphosyntactic processing in native speakers and bilinguals

Jeffrey Hanna, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 09 June 2009, 16:00-17:30

Semantic Knowledge of Living and Nonliving Things

Carrie Ankerstein, Department of English, Universitaet des Saarlandes; and Department of Human Communication Sciences, the University of Sheffield..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 02 June 2009, 16:00-17:30

RCEAL occasional seminars

Linguistic annotation and learner corpora

Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, CNRS - UMR 7110 / Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Université Paris-Diderot.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Theoretical Syntax and Practical Parsing

Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

A subject-based approach to impersonal constructions

Anna Kibort, University of Surrey.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée - Language variability: a major challenge for natural language applications

Thierry Poibeau, LIPN-CNRS, Paris; RCEAL affiliated lecturer.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 16:00-17:30

Morphological Contrasts in German Child Language and Child Directed Speech

Sonja Eisenbeiss, University of Essex.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:00-17:30

Acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface in English and Russian speakers’ L2 Chinese wh-questions

Esuna Dugarova, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 16:00-17:30

Vanishing Voices and the Politics of Language Policy: Reflections on long-term fieldwork in the Himalayas

Mark Turin, University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2009, 16:00-17:30

Categories and gradience in intonation

Brechtje Post, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

The second language acquisition of tense and aspect: a bidirectional study of L2 English and L2 Japanese

Tae Yamazaki-Hasegawa, RCEAL (PhD student).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Performance-grammar correspondences and the typology of complex sentences

Karsten Schmidtke, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany and RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Gesture, language and thought

Sotaro Kita, University of Birmingham, UK.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:00-17:30

Aspects of prosody and language in autism

Sue Peppe, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:00-17:30

Interference effects in the production of wh-questions in early Italian

Teresa Guasti, Universita di Milano Bicocca.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Production and processing of tense morphology in English successive bilingual children

Vicky Chondrogianni, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 18 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

Fundamental Frequency and the Production of Intonation in SSBE

Meg Zellers, RCEAL, University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

A study of specific language impairment and autistic spectrum disorders : a linguistic continuum or discrete conditions?

Sheila Thomas, The Open University.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

The Typology of Noun Phrase Structure from a Processing Perspective

Prof. John Hawkins, RCEAL, University of Cambridge and University of California, Davis.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Minimal pragmatic content

NOTE CHANGE OF DATE.

Eleni Kriempardis (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 16:00-17:30

On referring and reference resolution in a second language

Danijela Trenkić (York University).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

Aspects of prosody and language in autism

Sue Peppé (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

You talking to me? Auxiliary realisation in spoken and written British English

Andrew Caines (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 16:00-17:30

Experimental evidence for preschoolers’ mastery of topics

Cecile de Cat (Leeds University).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:00-17:30

Features disambiguation in the comprehension and production of children's complex structure

CANCELLED

Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano Bicocca).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 22 April 2008, 16:00-17:30

Accent and identity in `English as a lingua franca'-communication

Bettina Beinhoff, University of Cambridge, RCEAL PhD student..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 16:00-17:30

The earliest stages of second language acquisition and the adult capacity for learning

Marianne Gullberg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 16:00-17:30

The abstractness effect: Abstract words have a processing advantage over concrete words

Stavroula Kousta, University College London.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 16:00-17:30

L1 and L2 Comprehension of Enriched Composition: Evidence from offline and online processing.

Sacha De Velle, ESOL Research and Validation Group.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 16:00-17:30

Noun noun constructions in English

Melanie Bell, RCEAL.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 16:00-17:30

What can developmental language impairment tell us about genetic bases of syntax?

Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Neural foundations of spoken language: word learning and ambiguity resolution

Matt Davis, University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Voice quality and forensic speaker identification

Professor Francis Nolan, Department of Linguistics.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 15 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

On some segmental and prosodic intricacies of `foreign accent'

Professor Conxita Lleó. University of Hamburg..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 16:00-17:30

An efficiency theory of complexity and related phenomena

Professor John Hawkins, University of Cambridge, RCEAL and University of California, Davis..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

Optimal Ambiguity Resolution

Professor Ted Briscoe. University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

How English Native Speakers Learn to Express Caused Motion in French

Dr Henriёtte Hendriks, RCEAL University of Cambridge.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

A Computational Model of Infant Speech Development

Dr Ian Howard. University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 06 November 2007, 16:00-17:30

On the distribution of reflexive and reciprocal markers in Italian, Serbian and English

Ms Maja Miličević. RCEAL PhD Student..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

Phonological Acquisition and Theory Construction

Dr Bert Vaux. University of Cambridge, Department of Linguistics..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

Acquiring Verb Argument Structure from the Input Distribution: An Artificial Language Study

Dr Elizabeth Wonnacott, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

Implicit and explicit learning of syntactic rules

Patrick Rebuschat (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 29 May 2007, 16:00-17:30

Syntactic nuts, Core and Periphery, and Universal Grammar

Peter Culicover, The Ohio State University and Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 16:00-17:30

Perceiving grammatical regularities

Doug Saddy (University of Reading).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 16:00-17:30

Automatic Lexical Acquisition from the CHILDES Database

Paula Buttery and Anna Korhonen (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 24 April 2007, 16:00-17:30

The influence of verb semantics on children’s acquisition of verbal inflections in Tamil

Lavanya Sankaran (RCEAL).

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 13 March 2007, 16:00-17:30

Later language development: How literacy impacts grammar

Note change of venue

Professor Harriet Jisa (Lyon).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 16:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Dr Paula Buttery& Dr Anna Korhonen (RCEAL).

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Melanie Bell (RCEAL).

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 20 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

The role of frequency in morphological systems

Change of venue to GR-06/07

Gorazd Kert (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

Having a closer look at Multiword Expressions

CANCELLED

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and University of Bath).

GR-05, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 16:00-17:30

Behaviours of wh-words in English speakers’ L2 Chinese wh-questions: variability at different L2 interfaces.

Room changed to GR-06/07

Dr Boping Yuan (Oriental Studies, Cambridge).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 16:00-17:30

The English Profile Project: upgrading the Cambridge Learner Corpus and future directions for research.

CHANGE OF VENUE TO GR06/07. This talk is a dry-run for a presentation to be given at the EPP annual meeting.

Professor John Hawkins, Professor Ted Briscoe, Dr Paula Buttery, Caroline Williams and Oeistein Andersen..

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 16:00-17:30

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Dr Richard Breheny (Department of Linguistics, UCL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 16:00-17:30

Experimental investigations on the interpretation of scalar terms

Napoleon Katsos (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 16:00-17:30

Transfer, innate mechanisms and input in L2 acquisition of Italian reflexive and reciprocal constructions

Maja Milicevic (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 16:00-17:30

Language and the Flow of Information

Professor Torben Thrane (Aarhus School of Business).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2006, 16:00-17:30

Instability and age effects at the lexicon-syntax interface

Tihana Kras (RCEAL).

GR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

Tuesday 10 October 2006, 16:00-17:30