The University of Sheffield
Centre for Linguistic Research

Thursday Taster Series Schedule

This lecture series is open to all Centre members, as well as to all interested members of the university, staff and students alike: postgraduate students in all related disciplines are especially welcome!

Schedule
Date Venue Speaker Title
5 November 2009, 5.15pm Humanities Research Institute Dr. Sabine Stoll (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) Child-directed speech in Russian, German, English and Chintang
17 December 2009, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Professor Andrew Linn (English) The life cycle of linguistics: studying the history of the discipline
21st January 2010, 12-2pm (postponed from 14th) Jessop West, G01b (Exhibition Space) Professor Nigel Duffield (English) Sapir-Whorf redux: what might just be right about Linguistic Relativity
28 January 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Jane Woodin (MLTC, SOMLAL) Towards a research approach for intercultural communication
(postponed to 2010-2011) tba Dr. Roel Vismans (Germanic Studies) The study of linguistic politeness across languages
25 February 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Prof. Mick Perkins & Dr Sara Howard (HCS) Clinical linguistics
11 March 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Professor Rosemary Varley (HCS) A cognitive neuroscience perspective on language: a strange case of neologistic dysgraphia.
15 April 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Prof. Neil Bermel and Ludek Knittl (Russian & Slavonic Studies) Constructing and Running a Comparative Study of Case Forms: Corpus Frequency vs. Acceptability to Speakers
29 April 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Dr Dagmar Divjak (Russian & Slavonic Studies) The Corpus Revolution?
13 May 2010, 12-2pm Humanities Research Institute Prof. Rob Gaizauskas (Computer Science) Theory and Practice in Computational Language Processing
10th June 2010, 12-2pm
Humanities Research Institute Professor Roger Moore (Computer Science) Progress & Prospects in Spoken Language Processing