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
DateVenueSpeakerTitle
5 November 2009, 5.15pmHumanities Research InstituteDr. Sabine Stoll (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)Child-directed speech in Russian, German, English and Chintang
17 December 2009, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteProfessor 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, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteJane Woodin (MLTC, SOMLAL)Towards a research approach for intercultural communication
(postponed to 2010-2011)tbaDr. Roel Vismans (Germanic Studies)The study of linguistic politeness across languages
25 February 2010, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteProf. Mick Perkins & Dr Sara Howard (HCS)Clinical linguistics
11 March 2010, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteProfessor Rosemary Varley (HCS)A cognitive neuroscience perspective on language: a strange case of neologistic dysgraphia.
15 April 2010, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteProf. 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, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteDr Dagmar Divjak (Russian & Slavonic Studies)The Corpus Revolution?
13 May 2010, 12-2pmHumanities Research InstituteProf. Rob Gaizauskas (Computer Science)Theory and Practice in Computational Language Processing
27 May 2010, 12-2pm
Jessop West, G.03Professor Roger Moore (Computer Science)Progress & Prospects in Spoken Language Processing