Linguistics PhD seminars


2006-11-01 16:15: Denying the irony: pragmatic ambiguities in corpora (Alyson Pitts (Linguistics Department))

2006-11-15 16:15: Is the category 'D(eterminer)' really part of the human language faculty? (Chris Lucas (Linguistics Department))

2006-11-29 16:15: Phonetic differences between function and content words affect intelligibility. (Rachel Baker (Linguistics Department))

2007-01-24 16:15: Phonetic differences between function and content words affect intelligibility. (Rachel Baker (Department of Linguistics))

2007-02-07 16:15: Eliminating encoded meaning: implications for a pragmatic theory of utterance processing. (Anna Sysoeva (Department of Linguistics))

2007-02-21 16:15: Syntactic Borrowing and the News Media: A Study of French Agency Dispatches (Mairi McLaughlin (Department of French))

2007-03-07 16:15: Verbal Nouns as a-categorial roots (Edward Wilford (Dept. of Linguistics))

2007-04-18 16:00: On the role of imitation in learning to pronounce (Piers Messum, University College London)

2007-05-02 16:15: Discussion with staff members: Job hunting; getting published (Staff of the Linguistics Department)

2007-05-16 16:15: Geminates and 'super-geminates' in Cypriot Greek (Spyros Armosti, Dept. of Linguistics)

2007-05-30 16:15: On one myth in Germanic linguistics: the origin of Germanic adjective declensions (Arturas Ratkus, Dept. of Linguistics)

2007-06-13 16:30: Social event: punting and picnic (Everyone)

2007-10-22 17:00: The Implications of a Split Lexicon for Grammaticalisation (and Lexicalisation) (Edward Wilford, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-29 17:00: The effect of syllable stress on adaptation to talker-specific characteristics (Katharine Barden, Department of Linguistics)

2007-11-05 17:15: The Distribution of Auxiliary 'to be' in an 'SLI' Child (9;11):  non target language captured by universal grammar (Shanti Ulfsbjörninn, Department of Linguistics)

2007-11-12 17:15: Vowel-lenition in Cypriot Greek and its implications for consonant-vowel coarticulation (Eftychia Eftychiou, Department of Linguistics)

2007-11-19 17:15: Metamessages of denial (Alyson Pitts, Department of Linguistics)

2007-11-26 17:15: How does contact lead to change?  The development of negation in three languages of North Africa (Chris Lucas, Department of Linguistics)

2008-01-28 17:15: Presentation of Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (Elliot Lash, Department of Linguistics)

2008-02-04 17:15: Presentation by past PhD students on the experience of completing a PhD in Cambridge (Various speakers, Department of Linguistics)

2008-02-11 17:15: Career opportunities for PhD students (Department staff, Department of Linguistics)

2008-02-18 17:15: Mock interview (Tom Rainsford, Department of Linguistics)

2008-02-25 17:15: A Probe-Goal Approach to Parametric Differences in Nominal Phrases (Yi-An Lin, Department of Linguistics)

2008-03-03 17:15: Practice presentations for BAAP meeting (Various speakers, Department of Linguistics)

2008-03-11 17:15: Practice presentations for BAAP meeting (Various speakers, Department of Linguistics)

2008-05-05 17:15: "Getting a job in Linguistics" (Rachel Smith)

2008-05-12 17:15: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-05-19 17:15: 'Functional Shifts, with Special Reference to the Substantivisation of Adjectives in Russian and Gothic' (Arturas Ratkus, Department of Linguistics)

2008-05-26 17:00: Supervision training (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-06-02 17:00: Supervision training (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-13 17:15: Why do a PhD? (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2008-10-20 17:00: Choosing and delimiting a research topic (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2008-10-27 17:00: The loss of grammatical gender in Cappadocian Greek (Petros Karatsareas, Department of Linguistics)

2008-11-03 17:00: Reconstructing syntactic change in a not recently written language:  the case of negation in Palestinian Arabic (Chris Lucas, Department of Linguistics)

2008-11-10 17:00: Interacting with your supervisor (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2008-11-17 17:00: Specificational Sentences in 7th Century Irish (Elliott Lash, Department of Linguistics)

2008-11-24 17:00: Supervising undergraduates (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2008-12-01 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Tom Rainsford, Department of Linguistics)

2009-01-19 17:00: Organising your thesis (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2009-01-26 17:00: Word Order in the NP in Earliest Germanic (Arturas Ratkus, Department of Linguistics)

2009-02-02 17:00: Giving conference talks (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2009-02-09 17:00: Open session (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2009-02-16 17:00: Job interviews (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2009-02-23 17:00: Cross-linguistic subjectivity:  the subject position reconsidered. (Alastair Appleton, Department of Linguistics)

2009-03-02 17:00: The viva (Prof Ian Roberts, Department of Linguistics)

2009-03-09 17:00: Variable Agreement in French:  A Study of Grammatical and Social Variation (Anna Tristram, Department of Linguistics)

2009-04-27 18:00: Fearful Symmetry:  Allomorphy, Synchrony, Diachrony (Emmon Bach, SOAS and University of Massachussetts, Amherst)

2009-05-04 17:00: Modelling speech perception:  mistakes and distrusts (Marco Piccolino-Boniforti (Department of Linguistics))

2009-05-11 17:00: Tense- and Aspect-Forms and Their Referents (Morgan Macleod - Department of Linguistics)

2009-05-18 17:00: The Surrey Morphology Group's Canonical Method (Arturas Ratkus, Department of Linguistics)

2009-05-25 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Erica Ross, Department of Linguistics)

2009-10-19 17:00: Talk A - A two-dimensional, cross-linguistic study of speech rhythm (Ruth Cumming, Department of Linguistics)

2009-10-19 17:00: Talk B - Processing costs of non-strict versus strict comparison (Chris Cummins (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-02 17:00: Talk A - Syntactic theory meets 'real' data: the challenge of syntactically tagged corpora (Thomas Rainsford, Department of Linguistics)

2009-11-02 17:00: Talk B - Over-informative children: Production/comprehension asymmetry, or tolerance to pragmatic violations? (Catherine Davies (University of Cambridge))

2009-11-16 17:00: Talk A - Perception of prosodic boundaries in Seoul Korean (Hae-Sung Jeon, Department of Linguistics)

2009-11-16 17:00: Talk B - Conceptualising and quantifying L2 syntactic proficiency (Jeff Hanna)

2009-11-30 17:00: Talk A - 'Neutering' nominal inflection in Asia Minor Greek (Petros Karatsareas, Department of Linguistics)

2009-11-30 17:00: Talk B - Variable agreement in French: investigating grammatical and social variation (Anna Tristram, Department of Linguistics)

2010-01-25 17:00: Talk A - Perceptual learning of phonetic detail conditioned by grammatical class (Katharine Barden, Department of Linguistics)

2010-01-25 17:00: Talk B - Evidence for the non-verbal nature of the Old Irish Copula (Elliott Lash, Department of Linguistics)

2010-02-08 17:00: Talk A - Theories of phonological acquisition and predictions for diachronic change (Erica Ross, Department of Linguistics)

2010-02-08 17:00: Talk B - French language societies: purist or moderate? (Olivia Walsh, Linguistics Department)

2010-02-22 17:00: Talk A - Drift, Markedness and the Final-Over-Final Constraint (Alastair Appleton, Department of Linguistics)

2010-02-22 17:00: Talk B - Listening to topic: perception of the prosody of discourse structure (Meg Zellers, University of Cambridge)

2010-03-08 17:00: Talk A - Unmasking the weaknesses of the implicature/explicature distinction: evidence from verbal irony (Eleni Kapogianni, Department of Linguistics)

2010-03-08 17:00: Generative and Usage-based Approaches for First Language Acquisition: Evidence from L1A of Cypriot-Greek clitics (Theoni Neokleous, (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-03 17:00: Talk A - Systematic Phonetic Detail: a Probabilistic Model for the Simulation of Perceptual Data (Marco Piccolino-Boniforti, Department of Linguistics)

2010-05-03 17:00: Talk B - Language-specific perspectives in reference to time (Norbert Vanek, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-14 17:00: Talk A - Register Variation and Its Effects on Historical Linguistic Data (Morgan Macleod - Department of Linguistics)

2010-06-14 17:00: Talk B - Reanalysis of the Latin gerundive (Marius L. Jøhndal (University of Cambridge))