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The Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc) aims to bring together members of the university with an interest in language. We meet every other week during term time, attracting speakers from a variety of departments and institutions both inside and outside Cambridge.

Meetings are held on Thursday afternoons and start at 16.30. During the 2021-2022 academic year, we are suspending in-person meetings and we will be hosting all of our talks exclusively online. Participants are encouraged to ask questions following each talk.

We are a student-led initiative and are largely dependent on membership fees to organise our talks and events. We encourage people to support LingSoc by becoming a member via our website.

We look forward to welcoming you!

https://philarion.mml.cam.ac.uk/CamLingSoc/

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0 upcoming talks and 161 talks in the archive.

[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.

UserChristopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

HouseOnline.

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

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

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

HouseOnline.

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

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

UserDr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

HouseOnline.

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

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

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

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

HouseOnline.

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

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

UserDr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

HouseOnline.

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

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

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

UserPatrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

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

HouseOnline.

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

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

UserPavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

UserAntonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

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

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

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

HouseOnline.

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

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

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

UserDr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

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

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

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

UserDr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

HouseOnline.

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

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Focus Association with ONLY

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Bilingual Brains

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

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

UserDr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

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

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

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

UserProfessor Robyn Carston, UCL.

HouseOnline.

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

[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.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseOnline.

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

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

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

UserProf Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

HouseTBC.

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

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

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

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

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

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

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

HouseOnline.

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

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.

UserProf Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

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

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.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

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

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

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

UserProf. Federico Federici (University College London).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

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.

UserKriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

UserCatherine Travis (The Australian National University).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms

User Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University).

HouseGR05, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

TBC

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

User Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

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

UserProf Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

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

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

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

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

UserDavid Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

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

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

UserDr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

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

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

UserProf Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language

UserJohan Bolhuis (Utrecht University).

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

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

Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English

UserJulia Kolkmann (University of York).

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

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

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

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

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

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

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

UserAdrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

HouseGR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

UserProf Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

HouseRoom B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

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

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

UserDr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

UserDr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

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/)

UserBruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

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

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

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

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

UserManuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

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

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

UserLaurence White (Plymouth University).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

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

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

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

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The language of higher-order uncertainty

UserDan Lassiter, Stanford University.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Language variation and change within the individual

UserLaurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek

UserJames Clackson, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Reconceptualising conditionals

UserChi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic

UserJoe Eska, Virginia Tech.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Eliminating A/A'-positions

UserCoppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Phonetics from blog to book

UserJohn Wells, UCL.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The neural correlates of intonation

UserBrechtje Post, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The Cultural Origins of Structure

UserSimon Kirby, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions

UserMalte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

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

The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora

UserFlorence Myles, University of Essex.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

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

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

UserJenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

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

Phylogenetic approaches to language history and diversity

UserAnnemarie Verkerk, University of Reading.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Disjunction at prosodic boundaries

UserSam Hellmuth, University of York.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

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

Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical splits

UserGrev Corbett, University of Surrey.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized participles

UserDag Haug, University of Oslo.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG19.

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

Towards empiricist models of language acquisition

UserAlexander Clark (King's College London).

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG19.

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

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

UserSylvia Adamson, University of Sheffield.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

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

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

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

Which take which?

UserRichard Holton, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

Language Learning and the brain

UserMatt Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

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

UserMirjana Bozic Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

The onset of borrowing: Somali and English

UserJeanette Sakel, University of the West of England.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change

UserDavid Willis (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

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

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

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

The Domain of Content

UserHagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

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

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

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

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

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

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

UserGeoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

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

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

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

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

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

Title to be confirmed

UserAnn Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

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

UserDanielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

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

Backward control of adjuncts in Ancient Greek

UserDag Haug (University of Oslo).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Title to be confirmed

UserBonnie Schwartz (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

Which factors influence sentence continuation in children?

UserMaria Teresa Guasti (University of Milan Bicocca).

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Working memory, language, and classroom learning

UserSusan Gathercole (MRC CBU/University of York).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

Phonetics vs. phonology in Huave consonant-vowel interactions

UserYuni Kim (University of Manchester).

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

UserBarbara Schmiedtová (Universität Heidelberg).

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Resumption and the Design of Grammar

UserAsh Asudeh (University of Oxford & Carleton University).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

The Syntax of Meteorology

UserJohn Collins (University of East Anglia).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

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

Understanding and believing

UserDeirdre Wilson (UCL).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The semantics of numerical classifiers in Indonesian

UserMary Dalrymple (University of Oxford).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

Phases and semantics

UserWolfram Hinzen (University of Durham).

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

On historical language dictionaries and language boundaries

UserDr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

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

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

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

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

Language change and language evolution in the lab

UserKenny Smith (University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseB16, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Against PP extraposition in nominals

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

HouseG24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

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

Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The pragmatic bases of musical meaning

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Loan Word Typology

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Asymmetries in the intonation system of the Maastricht dialect of Limburgian

UserProf Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University, Nijmegen).

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Optimization over violable constraints in linguistic performance

UserProf. Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

"Reslicing the Clitic/Affix Distinction"

UserAndrew Nevins (Harvard University).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Variation in British Sign Language

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Language as a Window Into Human Nature

OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door

UserProfessor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard.

HouseThe Cambridge Union.

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

How to learn and use a language

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

What goes wrong when speakers stutter?

UserProf Peter Howell (Department of Psychology, UCL).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Referential intentions and minimal semantics

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

change of time

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

*back to usual venue*

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Inflectional Economy

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserDr James Blevins (RCEAL, University of Cambridge).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

The fascinating first year

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Why are humans the only species to have language?

UserProf Robin Dunbar FBA (University of Liverpool).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Title to be confirmed

UserProf Peter Howell, UCL.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Inference about inference: pragmatics and stylistic analysis

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Compounding in English and the nature of attribution

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic

*Back to usual venue*

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

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

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Problems with phonemes

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

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

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children

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

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

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

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