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Danielle Turton at LEL Seminar
The LEL Research Seminar series returns to its usual time and venue on Tue 12 Mar with a talk by Danielle Turton (Lancaster University): The phonetics and phonology of rhoticity in Lancashire: an articulatory, acoustic and auditory approach The towns of East Lancashire are amongst the few remaining rhotic areas of England, i.e., speakers retain […]
LEL papers in Languages, vol 9(2), 2024
February 27, 2024
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Our congratulations to Andrea Nini, Delia Bentley, and Simone De Cia whose articles appeared in the last volume of Languages:
Daniel Hershcovich at LEL Seminar (Online)
February 26, 2024
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This week the LEL Research Seminar series remains on Zoom and will feature a talk by Daniel Hershcovich (Københavns Universitet) titled ‘Cultural understanding and adaptation with AI’. NB an unusual day and time: Wednesday at 12.30pm. Cultural understanding and adaptation with AI In my talk, I address the critical intersection of language and culture within […]
Oliver Bott at LEL Seminar (Online)
February 15, 2024
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Next week the LEL Research Seminar series moves to Zoom for a talk by Oliver Bott (Universität Bielefeld; joint work with Maria Aloni, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Sonia Ramotowska and Tomasz Klochowicz): Empty-Set Effects in Quantifier Interpretation – Empty Restrictors, Empty Scope Sets and Beyond Empty-set effects have previously been reported in work on quantifier processing of empty scope […]
Joel Wallenberg at LEL seminar
February 1, 2024
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After the Christmas and New Year hiatus, the LEL Research Seminar series resumes on Tue 6 Feb with a talk by Joel Wallenberg (University of York): Syntactic Planning, Informational Risk, and the Information Threshold This talk picks up on work conducted with colleagues on the project ‘Constraints on the Adaptiveness of Information in Language (CAIL)’, which involved […]
Pets of LEL: Domi
December 15, 2023
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For the final post of 2023, Manchet has a special treat for you: a Very Good Boy, Domi. Domi is a furry friend and roommate of MA Linguistics student Xun Li, who’s been very kind to share some information about Domi’s irresistible personality and a glut of photographic evidence. Prepare for cuteness overload! Domi is […]
Villa-García at LEL seminar
December 11, 2023
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The final LEL seminar of the semester will feature our very own Julio Villa-García, who will speak on “Subordinate dislocations and complementisers in English and Spanish“. The talk will take place on Tuesday 12th December in Simon 3.44B starting at 4pm. All our welcome! Subordinate dislocations and complementisers in English and Spanish Julio Villa-García University […]
Rory Turnbull at LEL seminar
November 27, 2023
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This week’s LEL seminar will feature Rory Turnbull (Newcastle University), who will speak on “Network science and the phonological lexicon” (abstract below). The talk will be in Simon 3.44B and will begin at 4.00pm. All are welcome! Network science and the phonological lexicon Rory Turnbull In this talk, I outline a network-scientific approach to the […]
Marine Vuillermet at LEL seminar
November 13, 2023
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After the Reading Week hiatus, the LEL Research Seminar series resumes on Tue 14 Nov with a talk by Marine Vuillermet (Universität Zürich): Apprehensives crosslinguistically: A worldwide survey with a focus on the Americas Apprehensionals encompasses grammatical markers and constructions which conventionally encode that the situation described by the marked clause is both undesirable and possible. This presentation is a […]
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March 8, 2024
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