Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task

Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

Prof Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

Lucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children

Dr Emma Nguyen (Newcastle University).

Lecture Room 3 - Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

Dr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Join the talk online here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87391346417?pwd=NnVUa0gydlFDNEFycmg2bUpFOGhTdz09

Prof Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

Join the talk online here: https://meet.google.com/ygt-zovb-wnp

Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

English Faculty, GR06/07.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.

Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

English Faculty, GR04.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

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Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

Dr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

Dr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice

Prof. Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University).

Online.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

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Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

Online.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact

Dr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English and Online.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Dynamics of multilingualism in language revitalisation and activism: Applied linguistic insights from Oaxaca, Mexico

Dr. Haley de Korne (University of Oslo).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

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Dr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change

Prof. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

Online: Zoom talk.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

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Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Morphophonological issues in the development of Huave language revitalisation materials

Dr. Yuni Kim (University of Essex).

Online - Registration link https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOysqTwjGdUcXMCelqJOBr_D4sZdUzFM.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Prof. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

Dr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

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Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

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Carmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

Online.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.

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Ashley Riggs (Université de Genève).

Online.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

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Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

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Adnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

Online.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents

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Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

Online.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

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Dr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London

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Paul Kerswill (University of York).

Online.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

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Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition

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Maki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).

Online.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

Professor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective

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Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin).

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

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Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

Online.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences

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Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University).

Online.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children

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Petra Hendriks (University of Groningen).

Online.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

Dr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts

Please register for this talk by NOON on Oct 15th

Chris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

Online.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

Professor Robyn Carston, UCL.

Online.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

Online.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

Online.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

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Prof David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Online.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

TBC.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

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Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

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Dr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure

To register for the online event, please follow the link below: https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=DszBy

Dr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

Online.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Dr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Danielle Turton (Lancaster University).

English Faculty Building, TBC.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Catherine Travis (The Australian National University).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Prof. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

English Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism

There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

Faculty of Divinity, Lecture Room 2.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature

Dr. Yasutada Sudo (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

An introduction to the COSMOS application: An online social-media analytic tool for collecting, analysing and visualising Twitter data

Dr Mohamed Mostafa, Cardiff University.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms

Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University).

GR05, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction between simplicity and naturalness in nominal word order typology

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh).

English Faculty Building, GR-05 (ground floor).

Thursday 25 April 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) .

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 14 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

Dr Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig).

Gr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison

Dr Dominic Watt (The University of York).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Syntactic Change in Postcolonial Englishes: Substrates and Input

Prof Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London).

English Faculty Building, 2nd Floor, Room 24, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)

Prof. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Monday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners

Teresa Bajo, Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, University of Granada.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account

Dr. Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

Jason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Using quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis to study the time course of the lexical processing of complex words

Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment

Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Languages adapt to minute differences in their speakers’ ecology

Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language

Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English

Julia Kolkmann (University of York).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

GR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular

Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London

Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?

Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

Laurence White (Plymouth University).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English

John Harris, UCL (in collaboration with Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale)).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The language of higher-order uncertainty

Dan Lassiter, Stanford University.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health

Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language variation and change within the individual

Laurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek

James Clackson, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Reconceptualising conditionals

Chi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic

Joe Eska, Virginia Tech.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eliminating A/A'-positions

Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Anaphora resolution in young and not-so-young adults: the role of language experience and cognitive skills

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetics from blog to book

John Wells, UCL.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The neural correlates of intonation

Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Cultural Origins of Structure

Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions

Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora

Florence Myles, University of Essex.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Negation and negative concord in Greek: evidence for a tripartite 'cycle' for negative indefinites

Geoff Horrocks, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phylogenetic approaches to language history and diversity

Annemarie Verkerk, University of Reading.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots

Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 November 2014, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disjunction at prosodic boundaries

Sam Hellmuth, University of York.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical splits

Grev Corbett, University of Surrey.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized participles

Dag Haug, University of Oslo.

Faculty of Law, Room LG19.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards empiricist models of language acquisition

Alexander Clark (King's College London).

Faculty of Law, Room LG19.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Change, Choice and Functional Ecology: The case of the historical present

Sylvia Adamson, University of Sheffield.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of semantic and structural constraints in ellipsis

Klaus Abels, UCL.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning

Harald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebing and University of Alberta.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Which take which?

Richard Holton, University of Cambridge.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language Learning and the brain

Matt Davies, University of Cambridge.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Distribution of processing capacities across bilateral and left-lateralised language networks

Mirjana Bozic Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sign language in Burma: Yangon Sign language and its relationship with spoken Burmese

Justin Watkins, SOAS.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The onset of borrowing: Somali and English

Jeanette Sakel, University of the West of England.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change

David Willis (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of dynamic pragmatics in negation processing

Richard Breheny (UCL).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Distinguishing two routes to silent meaning through hemodynamic and electrophysiological techniques

Matt Husband (University of Oxford).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Coordinate structures, morphosyntactic representations, and production experiments in Slovenian

Andrew Nevins (UCL).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Move in the Right Direction: What phonetic variation can tell us about phonological representations

Christian Uffmann (University of Sussex).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Domain of Content

Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development

Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?

The Erasmus Room is on the 1st Floor, and is marked no. 18 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process?

The Bowett Room is at no.7 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

William Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning to communicate: The development of reference from 9 months to 5 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Backward control of adjuncts in Ancient Greek

Dag Haug (University of Oslo).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

Bonnie Schwartz (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Reason, passion and genius in linguistic thought from the Neo-Epicureans to the Saussure brothers

John Joseph (University of Edinburgh).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Which factors influence sentence continuation in children?

Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Working memory, language, and classroom learning

Susan Gathercole (MRC CBU/University of York).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions

Yuni Kim (University of Manchester).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The effects of language contact on event construal: insights from language production of L1 and very advanced L2-speakers of German

Room changed. Tea beforehand will be on the third floor

Barbara Schmiedtová (Universität Heidelberg).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Resumption and the Design of Grammar

Ash Asudeh (University of Oxford & Carleton University).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Syntax of Meteorology

John Collins (University of East Anglia).

Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Understanding and believing

Deirdre Wilson (UCL).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Individual differences in native language attainment (with implications for language acquisition)

Ewa Dabrowska (Northumbria University).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The semantics of numerical classifiers in Indonesian

Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phases and semantics

Wolfram Hinzen (University of Durham).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Interpreting Early Middle English Spelling: Anachronism and historical orthography

Roger Lass (University of Edinburgh).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On historical language dictionaries and language boundaries

Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Is linguistics useful?: From Wittgenstein to meaning, brain, and questions about how to treat language-impaired stroke patients

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

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language change and language evolution in the lab

Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 18 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Morphosyntactic conditioning in phonology: the case of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Case of Giorgione: Indexicality, Logophoricity, and Non Truth-Conditional Meaning

Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham).

Latimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics

Prof. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Why _morning páper_, but _júry selection_? The variability of compound stress in English

Prof. Ingo Plag, Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Siegen.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ethnolinguistic identities and language revitalisation in small society: the case of the Faeroe Isles

Dr Stephen Leonard, University of Cambridge.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds

Prof. Gerry Altmann, Department of Psychology, University of York.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye get it! What eye-movements can tell us about language processing in autism spectrum disorder

Dr Courtenay Norbury, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 18 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Influence of r-resonance information on speech intelligibility for native and non-native English speakers of different ages

Dr Antje Heinrich, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

B16, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 11 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Accent of birth? Linking phonological variation to attitudes and identities on the Scottish/English border

Dr Dominic Watt, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

Prof. Marcel den Dikken, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards Understanding the Brain Basis of Developmental Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Approach

Prof. Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

See, say and remember: Motion events in witness interviews, translation and memory

Dr Luna Filipovic, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 29 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Against PP extraposition in nominals

Prof. David Adger, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London.

G24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 October 2009, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic

Dr Ghada Khattab (School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 11 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The pragmatic bases of musical meaning

Dr Ian Cross and Ghofur Woodruff (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Loan Word Typology

Prof Bernard Comrie (Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy

Prof Jean Aitchison (Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Asymmetries in the intonation system of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian

Prof Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University, Nijmegen).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome

Dr Diane Nelson (Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 05 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies

Prof Bob Borsley (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Optimization over violable constraints in linguistic performance

Prof. Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 11 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes

Dr. Warren Maguire (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

New wine in old bottles? Change and continuity in form-function relationships

John Charles Smith (Department of French, University of Oxford).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

"Reslicing the Clitic/Affix Distinction"

Andrew Nevins (Harvard University).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Variation in British Sign Language

Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

From morphology to syntax or the other way around: Re-thinking the directionality of change in historical syntax

Dr Chris Reintges (CNRS-Université Paris 7 and Leiden University Centre for Linguistics).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguistic approach to Theory of Mind

Dr Heather Ferguson, Department of Linguistics, University College London.

LG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language as a Window Into Human Nature

OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door

Professor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard.

The Cambridge Union.

Tuesday 10 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How to learn and use a language

Prof Richard Hudson (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 05 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing

Prof Sarah Hawkins (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Immanuel Kant’s Sparrow: High level acoustic communication in songbirds and humans

Dr Lucie Salwiczek, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

What goes wrong when speakers stutter?

Prof Peter Howell (Department of Psychology, UCL).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Referential intentions and minimal semantics

Prof Emma Borg (Department of Philosophy, University of Reading).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars

Prof Roger Hawkins (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Essex).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars

Prof Carlos Gussenhoven (Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'A fair knowledge of their tongue': Re-evaluating Missionary Linguistics

change of time

Dr Marcus Tomalin (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony

*back to usual venue*

Dr Patrick Honeybone (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 29 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Inflectional Economy

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

Dr James Blevins (RCEAL, University of Cambridge).

LG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change

Prof Terttu Nevalainen (Department of Linguistics, University of Helsinki).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The fascinating first year

Prof David Crystal (School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Wales, Bangor).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 18 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

“Cannot believe have not realised this before”: subject omission in present-day written English

Prof Liliane Haegeman (Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille III).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 May 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Why are humans the only species to have language?

Prof Robin Dunbar FBA (University of Liverpool).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that

Prof Jenny Cheshire (Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

Prof Peter Howell, UCL.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Inference about inference: pragmatics and stylistic analysis

Dr Billy Clark (School of Arts, Middlesex University).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Compounding in English and the nature of attribution

Dinner with speaker afterwards at Sala Thong (Thai); email apc38 if interested

Prof Heinz Giegerich (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic

*Back to usual venue*

Prof Geoffrey Khan (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

Prof Lorraine K Tyler (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

LG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Problems with phonemes

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

Dr John Coleman (Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford).

LG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Challenges and results of large-scale mapping of contemporary English dialects using online surveys

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

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children

Prof Andrew Radford (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 October 2006, 17:00-18:30