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Hohaus at AFLA 27
The 27th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association is coming up this week, featuring a talk by LEL’s Vera Hohaus on “Flavours of Samoan Modality: The Split between Epistemic and Root”. The conference is fully online and free to attend. Check out the programe here and if you’re tempted, you can reguster via […]
Cameron-Faulkner in “Child Development”
August 10, 2020
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LEL’s new professor (congratulations!) Thea Cameron-Faulkner has just published a paper in Child Development, in collaboration with Nivedita Malik, Circle Steele, Stefano Coretta, Ludovica Serratrice and Elena Lieven (at least one of these names should sound familiar to Manchet readers). The paper is titled ‘A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship […]
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Mancunians at UKCLC2020
July 29, 2020
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The UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 is happening this week “in Birmingham”, featuring two papers from LEL linguists. Andrea Nini, Michael Cameron and Colin Murphy are giving a paper titled “Is each person’s lexicogrammatical system unique? An experimental study on linguistic individuality”. The paper is based on Michael and Colin’s MA research targeting the same […]
Hanink in NLLT
July 27, 2020
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Congratulations to Emily Hanink on her new paper in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. The paper is on “DP structure and internally headed relatives in Washo”. The paper is truly impressive in scope – the number of endnotes alone (whopping 42) tells you that Emily thought about everything there is to think about on the […]
Mancunians at TripleA 7 Workshop
July 24, 2020
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The TripleA 7 Workshop is taking place this week online. The TripleA workshop series is a venue focused on semantics, fieldwork, and languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania. This could not scream “Manchester” louder if it was an indie band from the 80s singing dark lyrics to bright sound of guitars in an abandoned warehouse. […]
QStep dissertation award for Zihang Peng
July 22, 2020
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Congratulations to Zihang Peng on winning the QStep Award for the best quantitative dissertation in Linguistics and English Language 2019/20! Zihang is graduating with a BA (Hons) in Linguistics, and he plans to continue with a postgraduate study in the area of linguistics, computation and cognitive science. His dissertation, supervised by Ariadne Loutrari, is titled […]
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Strycharczuk et al.’s Frontiers paper sparks controversy
July 16, 2020
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LEL’s Pat Strycharczuk and colleagues: Manuel López-Ibáñez, Georgina Brown and Adrian Leemann have a new paper out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, titled “General Northern English. Investigating regional variation in the North of England with machine learning”. The paper’s barely been out for 24h, but it has already generated a lot of controversy, if 1.1k […]
Börjars elected to Academia Europaea
July 13, 2020
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Manchet reported last week’s on Maj-Britt’s election to Academia Europaea, only to find out that she will be joined by LEL’s Honorary Professor and former colleague, Kersti Börjars (now at St Catherine’s College Oxford). Many congratulations to Kersti on her election!
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LEL alumnus takes up position at UC Davis
July 10, 2020
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Manchet has followed the achievements of alumnus Masoud Jasbi over the years (see here and here). After graduating from LEL in 2012, Masoud completed a PhD at Stanford, and a postdoc at Harvard. He has now taken up a tenure track position in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis. Congratulations!
Mosegaard Hansen elected to Academia Europaea
July 9, 2020
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LEL’s Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen has been elected as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea. The Academy is a scholarly organisation who has among its aims promoting European research, advising governments and furthering research. Membership is by invitation, and it follows a rigorous nomination and evaluation procedure. Manchet congratulates!
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August 18, 2020
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