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The final LEL seminar this semester will feature Peter Milin (Birmingham), who will speak on “Computational models of language learning at the intersection of linguistics and psychology”. The talk will be on Tuesday, 16th May at 4.10pm, in Simon Building 2.61 or online on zoom. The in-person attendees will be rewarded with a wine reception […]
May 2, 2023 by manling
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Today, 2nd May 2023, we’ll be welcoming Daniel Altshuler (Oxford) to the LEL seminar. He will speak on “Clause-internal coherence: A look at deverbal adjectives”. The talk will take place at the usual time, 4.10 pm in Simon 2.61, and it’ll be live-streamed on Zoom. All are welcome! Clause-internal coherence: A look at deverbal adjectives Daniel Altshuler (Joint work with Kelsey Sasaki) Oxford University Hobbs (2010) introduced ‘clause-internal coherence’ (CIC) […]
April 17, 2023 by manling
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This Tuesday, 18th April 2023, we will welcome Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester) to the LEL seminar series. His talk will be on the syntax and semantics of Persian modals. The talk will take place online on zoom, starting at 4pm. The syntax and semantics of Persian modality and perception Ash Asudeh (Joint work with Setayesh […]
March 6, 2023 by manling
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This week, we will welcome Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge) to the LEL seminar series. He will speak on “Exploring the Parameters of Microvariation: Evidence from the Romance Clause.” The talk will be in Simon Building 2.61 on 7th March, 2023 at 4.10pm. All are welcome!
February 20, 2023 by manling
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This week, we will welcome Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (Freiburg) to the LEL seminar. The talk is titled “Is our language processing style attuned to the typology of our language(s)?”, and will take place on Zoom on Tuesday 21st February at 4pm. The talk will be streamed in Simon Building 2.61 for those of us who are on campus. […]
February 6, 2023 by manling
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At this week’s seminar (Tuesday 7th Feb.), we’ll have not one but two talks. The speakers will be Seppo Kittilä on “New typologies of evidentiality” and Sonja Dahlgren on “A phonetic typology of five languages“. Each of the talks will be ca. 30 minutes, starting at 4:10pm. The talks will be in Simon Building 2.61. All […]
December 9, 2022 by manling
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On Tuesday 13th December 2022, we’ll have our last LEL seminar of the term. The speaker will be Cecile de Cat from the University of Leeds. The seminar will take place at 4pm, in Simon Building 1.34 or via zoom, https://zoom.us/j/8379113954. The title and abstract are below: Reading comprehension in socio-economically deprived adolescents from diverse […]
November 28, 2022 by manling
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This week’s seminar speaker will be LEL’s newest colleague, Leigh Harrington. She will speak to us about her research on language and power, social justice, debt and poverty (see abstract below). The talk will take place in Simon Building 1.34, on 29/11/2022 at 4.20pm. All are welcome! Heat or eat? Public discourses of food and fuel poverty from […]
November 7, 2022 by manling
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This week, we will welcome LEL’s own Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero at our departmental seminar. Ricardo will speak on Lexically restricted phonological alternation: the case for via-rules (abstract below). The talk will take place on Tuesday, 8th November in Simon1.34 starting at 4pm. All are welcome! Featured photo is from Ricardo’s website Lexically restricted phonological alternation: the case […]
October 14, 2022 by manling
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Next week’s LEL seminar will feature LEL’s own Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, who will talk about the importance of distinguishing hearer and speaker meaning. The title and abstract are below. The talk will take place next Tuesday 18th October Simon Building 1.34, starting at 4.30 which is a bit later than usual. All are welcome! A […]
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May 15, 2023 by manling
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