| Date and Time | Title | Abstract | Speaker | Location | Type |
|---|
| 11:00 16/7/2012 |
Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure |
The relation between qualitative phonological organization and continuous phonetics is a
fundamental problem in spoken language. A specific instance of this problem can be found in the
relation between syllable structure and temporal-stability base... [click for full text] |
Jason Shaw (Marcs Institute, Sydney) |
G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 14:30 12/7/2012 |
Sequential speech segregation in cochlear implants |
Sequential and simultaneous segregation are basic mechanisms of auditory scene analysis. The distinction is interesting because the two mechanisms are differently affected by poor spectral resolution (like in cochlear implants). I will review what we... [click for full text] |
Etienne Gaudrain (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) |
Rm 118, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 16/5/2012 |
Speech perception in noise and auditory attention in SLI |
|
Csaba Redey-Nagy (SHAPS) |
G15 |
Talk |
| 16:00 9/5/2012 |
Effectiveness of electronic voice disguise between friends |
Three experiments were conducted into the identification of speakers from their voices after electronic disguise using pitch scaling and vocal tract length scaling. A cohort of undergraduate students was used as a source of both speakers and listener... [click for full text] |
Mark Huckvale (SHAPS) |
G10 |
Talk |
| 16:00 14/3/2012 |
Child development of speech sounds: Testing a "mirroring" mechanism and considering its implications |
For many years, it has been assumed that young children develop their pronunciation of L1 speech sounds by imitation, i.e. by a self-supervised process of auditory matching using self-developed criteria of sound similarity (e.g. Fry 1968, Kuhl 2000).... [click for full text] |
Piers Messum |
Rm B01, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 7/3/2012 |
Articulatory motor regions in degraded speech comprehension |
An increasing number of neuroimaging studies show that regions of left pre-motor cortex are activated when listening to speech.
The exact role of speech production areas in speech perception is controversial. Some authors argue that they are only ... [click for full text] |
Alexis Hervais-Adelman (University of Geneva) |
Room G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/2/2012 |
Feedback and motor learning |
|
Prof. Peter Howell (CPB, UCL) |
Room G15, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 15/12/2011 |
Rhythm as entrainment: A dynamical, post-cognitivist case study |
Classical Cognitive Science holds dear to a model of the autonomous individual that serves some purposes, but fails in many cases. I here discuss two ways of viewing rhythm and synchronization: the classical model, which leans heavily on the notion ... [click for full text] |
Fred Cummins (University College Dublin) |
G15, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 1/12/2011 |
Speech Rate, Pause, and Language Variation: Explorations through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project |
Speech rate and silent pause are ubiquitous features of every utterance made by every speaker of every language. Psycholinguistic research has shown that sequential temporal features, like speech rate and pause, yield insight into processes of cognit... [click for full text] |
Tyler Kendall |
Rm118, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:30 - 16:00, 9/11/2011 |
Topicalisation, quantification and resumption in Arabic |
Syntax Reading Group
|
Abdraba "Jad" Gad-Alla (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Room 3.20 Arts Two Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS |
Other |
| 10:00 - 13:00, 31/10/2011 |
Supporting Multilingual and Multicultural Children: Seminar and E-discussion |
Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research & Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University
Organiser: Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research & Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
What is it about
How to support young children to develop their bilingual and multilingual skills? ... [click for full text] |
Prof Marjorie Lorch (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Charmian Kenner (Goldsmiths, University of London) |
Camden Town Hall, Council Chamber, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE |
Seminar |
| 16:00 28/10/2011 |
Temporal and spectral masking release in the low- and mid-frequency range |
|
Agnes Leger (Equipe Audition, LPP-DEC(ENS)-CNRS) |
118, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 26/10/2011 |
Electrophysiological perspectives on the normalisation of regional and foreign accented speech |
|
Jeremy Goslin (Plymouth University) |
G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 5/10/2011 |
The role of stress and phonotactics in speech segmentation: Pilot data |
|
Katrin Skoruppa |
G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 15:00 5/8/2011 |
Speech Science Forum: Is statistical learning affected by perceptual reorganization? Dutch infants' sensitivity to lexical tone discrimination |
|
Liquan Liu (Utrecht University) |
Chandler House, room 116 |
Talk |
| 9:30 16/6/2011 to 17/6/2011 |
LOCI workshop II |
Type Dependency, Type Theory with Records, and Natural-Language Flexibility : LOCI workshop II
This is a workshop exploring the formal modelling of natural language
flexibility, covering lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects. Speakers
include:
Robin Cooper, Aarne Ranta, Jonathan Ginzburg, Shalom Lappin, Staffan
Larsson, Tim Fernando, ... [click for full text] |
Various Speakers |
Informatics Teaching Lab building, QMUL (close by the Computer Science building) |
Workshop |
| 9:00 - 17:00, 4/6/2011 |
4th Bloomsbury Student Conference in Applied Linguistics |
4th Bloomsbury Student Conference in Applied Linguistics
Registration
You can register for this event here. |
Professor Jonathan A Smith (Birkbeck, University of London) |
Venue: Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX |
Conference |
| 16:00 25/5/2011 |
Speech perception in older listeners: Contributions of changes in audition and cognition |
|
Christian Füllgrabe (MRC Institute of Hearing Research) |
TBA |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 19/5/2011 |
Capturing Thematic Uniqueness |
Queen Mary, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series Spring 2011
|
Ash Asudeh (University of Oxford) |
Room: Arts 1.25, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS |
Seminar |
| 16:00 18/5/2011 |
Modelling speech prosody based on communicative function and articulatory dynamics |
|
Santitham Prom-On (SHaPS) |
G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 12/5/2011 |
Craics and Gegs: The linguistic heritage of Ulster |
Linguistics Seminar Series
Directions to Queen Mary and a campus map can be found here:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html
|
Karen Corrigan (Newcastle) |
Arts Building, Room 1.25 (Mile End Campus) |
Seminar |
| 16:00 4/5/2011 |
Investigating the role of auditory feedback in speech production using de-d-delayed auditory f-ff-feedback |
|
Zarinah Agnew (ICN) |
G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 9:00 28/4/2011 |
West African Phonology Day |
The London Phonology Seminar
|
Francis Olugbemiga Oyebade/Taiwo Opeyemi Agoyi/Eno-Abasi Essien Urua |
To be confirmed |
Seminar |
| 14:00 27/4/2011 |
The acquisition of Spanish as L2 at the interface crossroad |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (University of Plymouth) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 13:00 6/4/2011 |
Relationships between actors. Mimesis: A Girardian perspective on language learning and learner autonomy |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
Alison Stewart (GaKushuin University) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 0:00 30/3/2011 to 31/3/2011 |
Incrementality in Linguistic and Musical Interaction |
Dynamics of Conversational Dialogue Project (DynDial) Workshops
The workshop has limited attendance.
Please contact :
Dr. Eleni Gregoromichelaki (eleni.gregor@kcl.ac.uk )
or Peter Sutton
(peter.sutton@kcl.ac.uk) if you
would like to ... [click for full text] |
Various |
Room 2.42, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King's College London |
Workshop |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 24/3/2011 |
Changing dialects, changing representations? Testing phonological theory with second dialect data |
Queen Mary Seminar Series
|
Jennifer Nycz (University of York) |
Room 1.28 of the Arts Building, (Mile End Campust) Queen Mary, University of London |
Seminar |
| 16:00 16/3/2011 |
Speech Science Forum: Functional imaging of sensorimotor control while speaking a foreign language |
Oral motor movements necessary for producing native speech sounds are highly over-learned and automatic. In contrast, those necessary for non-native phonemes are unfamiliar and require greater engagement of sensorimotor neural feedback systems. Our w... [click for full text] |
Anna Simmonds (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College) |
Room B02, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 10/3/2011 |
TBA |
|
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) |
Arts G02 (ground floor of the Arts Building), Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 17/2/2011 |
Language as a Communication Technology: A New General Linguistic Theory and its Implications for Language Change |
Queen Mary, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series Spring 2011
|
Daniel Dor (Tel Aviv University) |
Arts G02 (ground floor of the Arts Building), Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 10/2/2011 |
TBA |
Queen Mary, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series
|
Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex) |
Arts G02 (ground floor of the Arts Building), Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 27/1/2011 |
Coreference vs. bound variable anaphora with time arguments |
Queen Mary, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series Spring 2011
Directions to Queen Mary and a campus map can be found here:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html
|
Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes) |
Arts Building, Room G.02 (Mile End Campus) |
Talk |
| 14:00 19/1/2011 |
Experiments in Language Archiving |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
Edward Garrett (SOAS) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 16:00 18/1/2011 |
Functional data analysis of speech signals |
Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences seminar series
Functional Data Analysis (FDA) constitutes a set of analytical tools to explore patterns and variability in signals obtained from observations of a repeated physical process. A distinctive technique of FDA is nonlinear time warping to bring a set of... [click for full text] |
Prof Jorge Lucero (University of Brasilia) |
26 Bedford Way, Room 305 |
Talk |
| 16:00 24/11/2010 |
Investigating the effects of regional accent background on phonetic alignment in spontaneous speech |
Speech Science Forum
Previous research has demonstrated that speech communication is a highly interactive process in which speakers actively seek to align themselves with their interlocutors (Pickering and Garrod, 2006). Alignment between speakers and listeners is though... [click for full text] |
Bronwen Evans (SHAPS, UCL) |
Room B01, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 23/11/2010 |
As time goes by: neural systems for tracking connected speech |
Linguistics Seminars
|
Dr Matt Davis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge) |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 14:00 22/11/2010 |
Processing Instruction and transfer-of-training effects |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
James Lee (University of New South Wales, Sydney) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 14:00 10/11/2010 |
The role played by formulaic language in emergent L2 grammars |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
Florence Myles (University of Newcastle) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 28/10/2010 |
A quantitative analysis of case variation in a sociolinguistic corpus of Danish |
Queen Mary, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series 2010
|
Jeffrey Parrott (LANCHART Center, University of Copenhagen) |
Arts G02 (ground floor of the Arts Building, Mile End campus) |
Seminar |
| 14:00 27/10/2010 |
Linguistics in the computer industry |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics
|
Filippo Beghelli (Inquira) |
Lecture Theatre "Queen Ann 280", Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 10:00 - 20:00, 27/10/2010 |
Inference in Dialogue Workshop |
Queen Mary University of London
All welcome, but please notify Chris Howes on chrizba@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
if you would like to join us for supper (local, Indian).
|
Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg), Ellen Breitholtz (Gothenburg), Paul Piwek (Open University), Robin Cooper (Gothenburg), Alain Lec |
EE 203 (EE=Electronic Engineering), Queen Mary College University of London |
Workshop |
| 15:00 21/10/2010 |
Audience design as an incremental achievement |
|
Dr Dale Barr (University of Glasgow) |
Room 414, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 7/10/2010 |
Emotional word processing in bilinguals: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence |
Queen Mary College, University of London Linguistics Seminar Series 2010
|
Tiina Eilola (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Arts G02 (ground floor of the Arts Building, Mile End campus) |
Seminar |
| 9:00 9/8/2010 to 20/8/2010 |
Summer Course in English Phonetics |
Study Phonetics in London! Come and spend two weeks in London this summer, studying English Phonetics at University College London (UCL). |
Michael Ashby and others |
UCL |
Other |
| 9:30 24/6/2010 - 17:00 25/6/2010 |
The multiple faces of multilingualism |
Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
Registration fee: £ 55 per person. A reduced fee of £ 35 for students and the unemployed, subject to proof of status.
Online registration form is available at: http:// www2.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/
|
Larissa Aronin (University of Haifa) & Muiris Ó Laoire, (Institute of Technology, Tralee); Raphaele Berthele (University of Fr |
Room B04, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, London WC1 |
Other |
| 9:00 - 17:00, 5/6/2010 |
3rd Bloomsbury Student Conference in Applied Linguistics |
3rd Bloomsbury Student Conference in Applied Linguistics
BCALS is proud to host the 3rd Bloomsbury Student Conference in Applied
Linguistics. This conference is designed for students from all levels of study who wishto share their work and gain conference presenting experience. Students may submit abstrac... [click for full text] |
Dr. Barbara Pizziconi (SOAS, University of London) Dr. Li Wei (Birkbeck, University of London) |
Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX |
Conference |
| 17:00 27/5/2010 |
Inconsistency |
Fifth Memorial A. R. Jonckheere Lecture
|
Professor Philip Johnson-Laird (Princeton University) |
A.V.Hill Lecture Theatre (Medical Sciences) |
Talk |
| 10:00 - 16:00, 24/5/2010 |
Palatography workshop |
Palatography workshop - SOAS
Palatography is a technique in phonetic research to determine the place and manner of articulation of speech sounds. It involves painting the tongue or palate with a non-toxic paint such as a paste of charcoal powder and vegetable oil, pronouncing a ... [click for full text] |
Various |
Room 4418, SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK |
Workshop |
| 14:00 28/4/2010 |
The role played by formulaic language in emergent L2 grammars |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
|
Florence Myles (University of Newcastle) |
Stephen Lawrence Building 011, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 9:00 25/3/2010 - 17:15 26/3/2010 |
Elements of Prosodic Structure - A workshop on tones and prosodic constituents |
Organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics of the University of Oxford University and the Department of Linguistics & Phonetics of University College London. |
Various Speakers:Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley), Cathy Bartram (SOAS), Emmanuel Makasso (CNRS, Paris), Frans Plank (U Konstanz) & A |
Room: 602 G O Jones and Room: Laws 2.07 |
Workshop |
| 10:00 - 13:00, 19/3/2010 |
Bringing up bilingual and multilingual children |
Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
The event is free to attend. No booking required. |
Professor Antonella Sorace, Professor Barbara Dodd, Dr Carol Stow, Dr Sean Pert, Professor Li Wei, Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele |
Camden Town Hall, Council Chamber, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE |
Talk |
| 12:00 4/3/2010 |
Language Acquisition of Internationally-Adopted Children: A special case of SLA |
|
Professor Fred Genesee (McGill University, Canada) |
Room 403, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 18/2/2010 |
What you think you hear is not always what you hear |
QM Linguistics Seminars
|
Professor Aditi Lahiri (Oxford) |
QMUL, Arts Building room G.02 |
Seminar |
| 14:00 17/2/2010 |
Can people really lose their first language?: language attrition and language change in two different bilingual settings |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
|
Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton) |
Stephen Lawrence Building 011, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 21/1/2010 |
Perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar accented speech: The long and the short of it |
QM Linguistics Seminars
|
Dr Bronwen Evans (UCL) |
QMUL, Arts Building room G.02 |
Seminar |
| 18:00 21/1/2010 |
Results from the Linguistics Survey of Sikkim |
China in Context: Languages and Cultures of China and its neighbours
|
Mark Turin (Cambridge University) |
Room 116, SOAS |
Talk |
| 11:00 - 12:00, 14/1/2010 |
Discourse Representation Theory, Dynamic Syntax, and the ongoing debate in psycholinguistics about whether "mutual knowledge"/ "grounding" |
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics Seminars
|
Wilfried Meyer-Viol, Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki (King's College London) |
Room 306, Basement, KCL Philosophy Department |
Seminar |
| 14:00 13/1/2010 |
Multiple Englishes, multiple attainments, and the multilingual mind |
Research Seminars in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
|
Chris Hall (University of York St John) |
Stepen Lawrence Building 011, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS |
Seminar |
| 13:00 11/1/2010 |
Socially strategic stylisation and the (in)significance of social class |
QM Linguistics Seminars
|
Dr Julia Snell (Institute of Education) |
QMUL, Arts Building room G.02 |
Seminar |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 17/12/2009 |
Phonology Clinic |
The London Phonology Seminar is pleased to announce its inaugural "Phonology Clinic". If you are working on a language, don't really want to focus all your concentration on the phonetics/phonology of this language but still have some puzzles that puz... [click for full text] |
|
Room 386, SOAS main building |
Talk |
| 11:00 - 18:00, 15/12/2009 |
What's Proper? Dialectal-Societal Variation and Notions of Propriety in Hungary, Finland, and Finno-Ugric Languages |
What's Proper? - A Workshop
This one-day international studies day with participants from Finland, Hungary, and the UK, explores dialectal and societal language variation and
perceptions of this variation by native speakers of, mostly, Finnish, Sámi, and Hungarian.
Partici... [click for full text] |
Daniel Abondolo, Eszter Tarsoly, and Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi (UCL) |
11am - 1pm UCL Roberts Building 110; 2pm - 6pm UCL Roberts Building 105a, Torrington Place, LONDON, WC1E 7JE |
Workshop |
| 16:00 14/12/2009 |
Ethological factors shaping language |
Centre for Human Communication
|
John Ohala (Berkeley) |
Room G10 Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 10/12/2009 |
Dis 'n' dat: th-stopping across three generations of speakers in Lerwick, Shetland |
|
Dr Jennifer Smith (Queen Mary) |
Room 1.28, Arts, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Campus |
Seminar |
| 18:00 10/12/2009 |
Disharmony and derived transparency in Uyghur vowel harmony |
China in Context: Languages and Cultures of China and its neighbours
|
Bert Vaux, (Cambridge University) |
Room 116, SOAS |
Talk |
| 15:00 9/12/2009 |
Micro-Foundations of Pragmatic Inference: Language as Communication, and Language as Action |
Language serves as both a form of communication, conveying information
from a speaker to a hearer; but also as a type of action, by which the
speaker may attempt to influence the hearer. But communicative and
action-based perspectives on language ... [click for full text] |
Nick Chater (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences) |
Rm 118, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 9/12/2009 |
'Language is part of culture' and its implications |
Language serves as both a form of communication, conveying information
from a speaker to a hearer; but also as a type of action, by which the
speaker may attempt to influence the hearer. But communicative and
action-based perspectives on language ... [click for full text] |
Robert Port (Indiana) |
Rm 118, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 26/11/2009 |
Vowel Harmony and Tonal Permutations in Igbo |
London Phonology Seminar
|
Prof Clara Ikekeonwu (Institute for Nigerian languages, University of Nigeria, Aba) |
Room 386, SOAS main building |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 19/11/2009 |
Smuggling derivations and the Final over Final constraint |
|
Professor Ian Roberts (Queen Mary) |
Room 1.28, Arts, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Campus |
Seminar |
| 13:00 17/11/2009 |
Phonological Universals: where did they come from and where do they reside now? |
London Phonology Seminar
|
John Ohala (Berkeley) |
SOAS |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 16:30, 5/11/2009 |
Countering urban fetishism in variationist sociolinguistics |
|
Dr David Britain (Queen Mary) |
Room 1.28, Arts, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Campus |
Seminar |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 29/10/2009 |
CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS |
CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS
|
CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS |
Room 1.28, Arts, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Campus |
Seminar |
| 16:00 28/10/2009 |
Inferences by exclusion in word learning and beyond |
Linguistics Departmental Seminars
Young children learn some object labels by exclusion. That is, when they
hear a novel word they exclude as referents objects for which they already
know a name. Explanations for this effect focus on children's assumptions
about object categories (... [click for full text] |
Susanne Grassman (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology ) |
Chandler House G10 |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 30/9/2009 |
Incomplete descriptions and sloppy identity |
|
Dr Paul Elbourne (Queen Mary) |
Room 1.28 Arts, Queen Mary College, Mile End Campus |
Seminar |
| 16:00 - 17:00, 30/9/2009 |
"Age" effects on second language acquisition |
Centre for Human Communication
Many people have experience of the difficulties of learning a second
language (L2) at secondary school or in later life. Research has, in
fact, shown that for immigrants to a new country, L2 acquisition is
easier when individuals begin to learn at... [click for full text] |
James Flege, Professor Emeritus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 22/9/2009 |
Sign Language Processing under Adverse Conditions |
Local tube station, Mile End, The Arts Building is 5 minutes walk westwards from the tube station, turn left out of the tube walk under bridge and the Arts Building is the first university building thereafter on the RHS of the road. For detailed dir... [click for full text] |
Professor Susan Fischer (University of California, San Diego) |
Room 1.28 Arts Building Mile End Campus. See QMUL website for directions |
Seminar |
| 10:30 9/9/2009 |
Talk by Cathi Best (MARCS and Haskins |
Cathi will talk onher recent research work on cross-dialect perception in infants and toddlers. |
Cathi Best |
Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 16:30 24/6/2009 |
The Development of Temporal Integration Within the Nervous System |
Memory & Communication Seminar Series at the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, ICH
|
Dr Simon Farmer (UCL Institute of Neurology/Imperial College London) |
Room E, 2nd Floor Wellcome Trust Building, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH |
Talk |
| 16:00 3/6/2009 |
The effect of experience on the perception and representation of dialect variants |
Speech Science Forum
|
Bronwen Evans (University College London) |
Room B01, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 16:30 22/5/2009 |
Measuring Change in Neurodegeneration: 4D MRI |
Memory & Communication Seminar Series
|
Professor Nick Fox, (UCL Institute of Neurology) |
Room A, 2nd Floor Wellcome Trust Building, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Talk |
| 16:00 21/5/2009 |
A child language case study "Tom" |
|
Siv Fossnaug |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square, University College London. |
Talk |
| 13:00 18/5/2009 |
Measuring Change in Neurodegeneration: 4D MRI |
Memory & Communication Seminar Series
|
Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology) |
Room A, 2nd Floor Wellcome Trust Building, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Talk |
| 16:00 14/5/2009 |
Pointing in a Deaf Child |
|
Fanny Limousin (Paris 8 University) |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square, University College London. |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 14/5/2009 |
Mum's like "Why do you say that?": The production and perception of 'like' at Selwyn Girls' High |
QMUL Linguistics Seminar Series
|
Katie Drager (University of Hawaii at Manoa) |
Arts Building room 2.07, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS |
Talk |
| 16:00 13/5/2009 |
Incremental prediction in naturalistic language processing: An fMRI study |
Speech Science Forum
Our study examined brain activation in a naturalistic language processing task, with a particular focus on the temporal dynamics inherent to this complex cognitive task.
Sentence processing, in particular in the auditory modality, is incremental. Th... [click for full text] |
Asaf Bachrach (MIT) |
Room G10, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 0:00 6/5/2009 |
Everything is relative: main clause phenomena and adverbial clauses. |
|
Liliane Haegeman (Department of English, University of Ghent) |
Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 16:00 30/4/2009 |
Backchannel feedback and turn-taking in Tactile French Sign Language |
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Sandrine Schwartz (Paris 8 University) |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square, University College London. |
Talk |
| 16:00 29/4/2009 |
ACORNS: towards a computational model of language acquisition - learning words. |
Speech Science Forum
In order to learn a language, young infants must learn how to discover words from continuous speech input. The discovery of words by young infants involves two interrelated processes: (a) the detection of recurrent word-like acoustic patterns in the ... [click for full text] |
Louis Ten Bosch (Dept of Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
Rm B01, Chandler House. |
Talk |
| 16:00 29/4/2009 |
Ellipsis and accommodation: the (morphological) case of sluicing |
Speech Science Forum
In this talk I examine instances of sluicing whereby the ellipsis site is not structurally isomorphic to its antecedent. The data are presented in three incremental steps: (1) copular clauses can be used in sluicing to circumvent preposition strandin... [click for full text] |
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, (Hogeschool-Universiteit, Brussel) |
G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, University College London, WC1N 2 |
Other |
| 12:30 - 14:00, 28/4/2009 |
Darwin, Compassion and the Dalai Lama |
Paul Ekman, editor of Darwin's THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND
ANIMALS, will be giving a talk at the Institute of Philosophy, School of
Advanced Study |
Paul Ekman |
Room N336, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London |
Talk |
| 16:30 22/4/2009 |
Brain structure and language processing: individual differences and expertise-related plasticity |
Memory & Communication Seminar Series
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Dr Narly Golestani (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) |
Levinsky Room, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Seminar |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 22/4/2009 |
The Subset Principle vs. Bandwidth Maximization in Phonological Acquisition |
London Phonology Seminar
Are the phonological generalisations formed by language learners upon exposure to underdetermined data sets (i) maximally broad (dictated by maximal representational efficiency, as in rule-based phonology of the SPE tradition), (ii) maximally specifi... [click for full text] |
Bert Vaux (King's College, Cambridge) |
Room 101, Chandler House, UCL, 2 Wakefield Street. |
Seminar |
| 16:00 16/4/2009 |
Perspectives on L1, L2 and Bilingual acquisition of ASL |
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Dr Deborah Chen Pichler (Department of Linguistics, Gallaudet University) |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square, University College London. |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/4/2009 |
Speaker differentiation as acoustic computation or cognitive evaluation? |
Speech Science Forum
Differentiating between speakers is inherently tied to distinguishing between speaker-specific physiological characteristics like vocal fold size and vocal tract size. Males are easily identified from females because they generally have larger vocal... [click for full text] |
Nicolas Abreu (Speech Communication group at the ICN) |
Room B01 of Chandler House, University College London, Wakefield Street, London |
Talk |
| 10:00 30/3/2009 - 12:00 2/4/2009 |
Phonology of Intonation |
Four Day Seminar
Monday 30 March
The autosegmental model - including brief comparisons with the British
tradition, IPO grammar, Pike. Phonetics of pitch, phonetic implementation.
Ch 1, ch 7 of Gussenhoven (2004). The Phonology of Tone and Intonation.
Cambr... [click for full text] |
Carlos Gussenhoven (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London). |
Room G.34, Arts Building, QMUL, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London |
Seminar |
| 16:00 26/3/2009 |
Deafhood on the Lifeline of Mumbai |
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Annelies Kusters (Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol University) |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 25/3/2009 |
Scandinavian Object Shift, Remnant VP-topicalisation, and Optimality Theory |
Go to url to download Abstract:
http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/publications/abstract-vikner.doc |
Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus, Denmark) |
Room G10, Chandler House, University College London, 2 Wakefield Street, London |
Talk |
| 16:00 18/3/2009 |
Syntactic impairments in agrammatic aphasia, syntactic SLI, and hearing impairment: they only look similar |
Syntactic impairments characterize the language of children with syntactic SLI, orally-trained children with hearing impairment, and individuals with agrammatic aphasia. In all three groups, the syntactic deficit manifests itself in the comprehens... [click for full text] |
Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University) |
Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London |
Talk |
| 16:30 11/3/2009 |
Neural mechanisms of sequence learning |
Special Memory & Communication Seminar Series at the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, ICH
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Dr Bruno Averbeck (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology) |
Room A, 2nd floor Wellcome Trust Building, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Seminar |
| 16:30 11/2/2009 |
The neural basis of speech perception - the roles of streams of processing and hemispheric asymmetries |
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, ICH
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Sophie Scott (UCL) |
Levinsky Room, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Talk |
| 18:15 3/2/2009 |
Language, Religion and Identity in Israel |
UCL Institute of Jewish Studies
Institute of Jewish Studies: Tel. 020 7679 3520; Fax 020 7209 1026
E-mail ijs@ucl.ac.uk
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Prof. Ghil'ad Zuckermann (The University of Queensland, Australia) |
GUSTAVE TUCK Theatre, University College Main Entrance, Gower Street, London WC1 |
Talk |
| 14:00 - 16:30, 23/1/2009 |
Towards Natural Voice Synthesis |
Institute of Acoustics, Speech and Hearing Group, AGM and lecture
To assist with catering please let Linda Canty at the I of A know if you're
planning to attend. linda.canty@ioa.org.uk
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David Howard, University of York |
WSP Acoustics, WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1AF |
Talk |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 5/1/2009 |
Dynamic Syntax |
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Lutz Marten and Ruth Kempson |
Room 392, SOAS |
Talk |
| 12:00 - 13:00, 9/12/2008 |
Measuring bilingual competence and language dominance |
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Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of the West of England, Bristol) |
Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck College, Torrington Square. |
Talk |
| 15:15 9/12/2008 |
The maintenance of small-language identities: sedentism and mobility as key factors |
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Peter Sutton (MPI) |
Room G52, SOAS Russell Square, Bloomsbury near the British Museum |
Talk |
| 16:00 3/12/2008 |
At the syntax-pragmatics interface: the dynamics of dialogue interaction |
In this talk, I address the challenges posed by the modelling of ellipsis in dialogue. On the one hand, in standard frameworks, ellipsis is treated as irreducibly heterogeneous, part syntax, part semantics, part pragmatics, with little or no attenti... [click for full text] |
Ruth Kempson (King's College, London) |
Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 14:00 3/12/2008 |
Cantonese, Mayan and Vietnamese Vowel length in 'Closed Syllables' and the Han Template: even after Strict-CV we cannot live wi |
London Phonology Seminars
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Shanti Úlfsbjörninn (SOAS) |
Chandler House (room details to be confirmed) |
Talk |
| 12:00 - 13:00, 2/12/2008 |
The Zone of Proximal Development: Does it exist? |
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Paul Seedhouse ( Newcastle University) |
Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck College, Torrington Square. |
Talk |
| 15:15 2/12/2008 |
Araxes-Iran linguistic area |
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Don Stilo (MPI) |
Room G52, SOAS Russell Square, Bloomsbury near the British Museum |
Talk |
| 16:00 27/11/2008 |
Diachrony and Deficiency |
Abstract: In this talk I will outline a general approach to the phenomenon of cliticisation qua head-movement, allowed only under highly restrictive conditions. The approach predicts two clausal landing sites for clitics: C and v, and two types of no... [click for full text] |
Professor Ian Roberts, (Cambridge University) |
Room 306 , KCL Philosophy Department Basement |
Talk |
| 12:00 25/11/2008 |
Language ideologies in media discourse: The case of ethnolectal German |
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Jannis Androutsopolous (King's College London) |
Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck College, Torrington Square. |
Talk |
| 9:00 - 18:00, 22/11/2008 |
'Writing systems: Analysis, Acquisition and Use' Workshop |
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Benedetta Bassetti (Institute of Education, University of London) |
Room 642, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL |
Workshop |
| 14:00 19/11/2008 |
Tonal melodies on nouns - does it work for Ikaan? |
London Phonology Seminars
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Sophie Salffner (SOAS) |
Chandler House (room details to be confirmed) |
Talk |
| 12:00 - 13:00, 18/11/2008 |
Events and Practices: revisiting key constructs in the New Literacy Studies |
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Mike Baynham (Birkbeck College) |
Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck College, Torrington Square. |
Talk |
| 17:00 17/11/2008 |
Linking Dopamine and Psychosis - a feasible project or yet another delusion? |
UCL ICN Monday Seminars
For further details please contact Rosalyn Lawrence
Tel: 020 7679 1164 |
Professor Shitlj Kapur (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) |
Seminar Room (B10), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR |
Seminar |
| 16:00 12/11/2008 |
Capturing linguistic interaction in a grammar: a method for empirically evaluating the grammar of a parsed corpus |
Survey Seminar Series
‘Parsing’ is the process of applying a linguistic tree analysis to sentences. The problem is: which grammar should linguists use? Not only is there little agreement about grammars among linguists, but there is no agreed methodology for demonstrat... [click for full text] |
Sean Wallis (UCL, English) |
Foster Court Room 235 |
Talk |
| 16:00 12/11/2008 |
Music and Autism |
Whitehead lecture series
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by difficulties in social and communicative domains. However, a striking feature of the disorder is that many individuals possess unusually good
abilities within the domains of music and art. My ... [click for full text] |
Pamela Heaton (Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London). |
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College |
Talk |
| 16:00 5/11/2008 |
Arrows, Pizza and Language: Grammar as a Cultural Tool |
CHC Talk
One hears of language as innate or as instinctual so frequently these days that it might be surprising to hear that there are many researchers who think that it is nothing of the kind. There are various alternative views of the nature of human langua... [click for full text] |
Professor Daniel Everett (Illinois State University) |
Lower Ground Lecture Theatre LG04, Bedford Way Building, 26, Bedford Way, UCL |
Talk |
| 12:00 - 13:00, 4/11/2008 |
Social Class and sociolinguistics |
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Ben Rampton (King's College London) |
Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck College, Torrington Square. |
Talk |
| 14:00 29/10/2008 |
Double Downstep in Mao |
London Phonology Seminars |
Mary Pearce (University College London and SOAS) |
Room 201Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street. WC1N |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/10/2008 |
TBC |
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Øystein Nilsen (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / Queen Mary College, London) |
Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 9:00 11/8/2008 - 15:00 22/8/2008 |
Summer Course in English Phonetics |
For further details go to the Summer Course webpages |
Various |
UCL |
Workshop |
| 15:00 28/7/2008 |
Lost in virtual space: How the body and the environment influence spatial memory and spatial orientation |
Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Summer Seminar Series |
Jonathan Kelly |
Room 305BW, 3rd Floor, 26 Bedford Way |
Seminar |
| 16:00 18/7/2008 |
Spanish speakers’ perception and pronunciation of the English /i/–// vowel contrast |
People who learn a second language often speak that language with a foreign accent. Problems with
perceiving the sounds of the new language have been posited as a major cause of foreign accented speech.
First-language (L1) Spanish learners of Engli... [click for full text] |
Dr Geoff Morrison, School of Language Studies, Australian National University |
Rm 118, Chandler House (Lecture Theatre) |
Talk |
| 16:00 24/6/2008 |
Assessing the relationship among culture, cognition and language: the Piraha |
A foundational assumption of many researchers investigating the universals of human language is that many properties of language are independent of the cultural context and the non-linguistic cognitive abilities of the(ir) speakers. But it's not cle... [click for full text] |
Edward Gibson (MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences) |
Ground floor lecture theatre G10, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 9:30 - 16:30, 10/6/2008 |
Behavioural Issues and Feeding Problems: the Speech and Language Therapist’s Perspective Part 1 |
This course gives a practical overview of children with feeding problems of a behavioural nature which arise from a number of causes. It is targeted at those working, or who wish to work, with this client group.
For further details please contact:... [click for full text] |
Sue Strudwick (UCL) |
Chandler House (exact room TBA) |
Other |
| 11:00 4/6/2008 |
Grounding Affect Recognition in a Low-Level Description of Body Posture |
How people experience affect and emotion, both in conveyance and recognition, at least
partially determines how they interact with others, how they perform in their jobs, as
well as how they carry out general day-to-day activities. Technology is ... [click for full text] |
Andrea Kleinsmith (UCLIC PhD student) |
Room 313, Department of Psychology, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP |
Talk |
| 17:00 29/5/2008 |
Language as Kluge |
In fields ranging from reasoning to linguistics, the idea of humans as
perfect, rational, optimal creatures is making a comeback °© but should
it be? Hamlet’s musings that the mind was “noble in reason ...infinite
in faculty” have their... [click for full text] |
Gary Marcus, New York University |
Room B, 2nd floor, Wellcome Trust Building at ICH |
Talk |
| 11:00 28/5/2008 |
The structure of design decision making: Retaining the benefits of analogies while mitigating the caveats |
It has been shown that the use of analogies forms an important part of Design Decision Making (DDM). Using an analogy allows designers to quickly narrow down the potential vast solution space from a series of infinite solutions to a more manageable n... [click for full text] |
Stephen Hassard (UCLIC PhD student) |
Room 313, Department of Psychology, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP |
Talk |
| 16:00 21/5/2008 |
Towards a prolific theory of focus particles |
In this talk, I develop a theory of focus particles like /only/ or /even/ that is richer than competing approaches. First, an association-with-focus pattern of focus marking (AwF) is distinguished from a partition pattern. Second, some focus particle... [click for full text] |
Daniel Hole (Universität Potsdam) |
Room 118, First Floor, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF |
Talk |
| 16:00 7/5/2008 |
Mind and Memory: Evidence from a Polyglot /Savant/ |
Christopher (C) is a polyglot /savant/ who lives in sheltered accommodation because he cannot look after himself. He is mildly autistic, severely apraxic, cannot master noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) or find his way around, but he can speak, under... [click for full text] |
Neil Smith, Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, UCL |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:30 6/5/2008 |
Modules, genes and evolution: a view from developmental cognitive neuroscience |
The Third Memorial A.R. Jonckheere Lecture
Followed by a reception in the common room (3rd floor, room 308) from 5.30pm |
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck) |
Lower ground lecture theatre, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAP |
Talk |
| 13:30 30/4/2008 |
PhD day presentations |
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Displays |
Room 1.03, Engineering Building, Malet Place |
Workshop |
| 0: 25/4/2008 to 26/4/2008 |
Pragmatics and Social Cognition Workshop |
Detailed information including the Call for Posters can be found on the the conference website.
Speakers:
Tanya Behne (University of Manchester)
Gergely Csibra... [click for full text] |
Organised by Richard Breheny and Robyn Carston |
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre |
Workshop |
| 11:00 21/4/2008 - 17:30 25/4/2008 |
ACTL Spring School |
http://www.actl.ucl.ac.uk/spring_school.html |
Gereon Müller (University of Leipzig), Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & Institut Jean-Nicod), and Alan Yu (Unive |
Harrie Massey LT, 25 Gordon Street |
Other |
| 9:00 - 17:00, 28/3/2008 |
Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm |
For more information and updates please check the Conference Website
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/rhythm2008/index.html
enquiries to: rhythm2008@phon.ucl.ac.uk |
Francis Nolan (Cambridge) - keynote speaker
Fred Cummins (UCD)
Volker Dellwo (UCL)
Klaus Kohl |
Haldane Room/Wilkins |
Workshop |
| 16:30 18/3/2008 |
Response learning in priming: positive, negative and subliminal |
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Dr Rik Henson MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 17:00 12/3/2008 |
Constraints on VP structure in Mandarin Chinese |
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Peter Sells (SOAS, University of London) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:30 4/3/2008 |
Whichever way you look at it: investigating the nature of representation in |
One view of the ventral processing stream is that it extracts invariant properties of stimuli, yielding representations appropriate for memory. Some properties of the environment are transient, others are stable. The stable properties of the environm... [click for full text] |
Dr Tom Hartley (Department of Psychology, University of York) |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 16:00 27/2/2008 |
Germanic possession and the clitic-affix distinction |
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Kersti Borjars (University of Manchester) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:30 19/2/2008 |
How past learning affects future learning: Learned predictiveness and cue processing in |
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Dr Mike Le Pelley Cardiff University |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way, Department of Psychology, University College London |
Talk |
| 16:30 11/2/2008 |
The neural basis of speech perception - the roles of streams of processing and hemispheric asymmetries |
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, ICH
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Sophie Scott (UCL) |
Levinsky Room, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street |
Talk |
| 16:00 6/2/2008 |
Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: Beyond sensory representation. |
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Frank Eisner UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
Wolfson House |
Talk |
| 16:00 30/1/2008 |
The prosody-syntax interface: Relative Clauses and tonal interaction in Bemba |
ABSTRACT: This talk investigates the relation between boundary tone and relative clauses in the Bantu language Bemba. The interaction reveals three issues of interest; (i) the presence of the boundary tone implies a restrictive interpretation of the ... [click for full text] |
Nancy Kula (University of Essex) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:30 29/1/2008 |
Form and Motion in Action Perception: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Studies |
Neural resources that underlie action understanding have been of intense interest, especially in the decade since the discovery of mirror neurons in the monkey brain (cells that are active during both action production and action perception). A large... [click for full text] |
Dr Ayse Pinar Saygin ICN and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way, Department of Psychology, University College London |
Talk |
| 16:15 22/1/2008 |
Modularity and relevance in cultural evolution |
Last lecture of a series of five Leverhulme lectures on "COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE"
Abstract:
In Explaining Culture (1996) I outlined an ‘epidemiological’ approach to culture, described in terms of the causal c... [click for full text] |
Prof. Dan Sperber, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL, London |
Roberts Building, Room 106, Malet Place |
Talk |
| 16:00 16/1/2008 |
Contrastive Topic: Reductionism revisited |
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Uli Sauerland (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology and Universals Research (ZAS)) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:15 15/1/2008 |
Relevance in communication |
Fourth lecture of a series of five Leverhulme lectures on "COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE"
Abstract:
In this lecture, entirely based on work done with Deirdre Wilson, I outline the basic tenets and some recent developm... [click for full text] |
Prof. Dan Sperber, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL, London |
Room 106 in the Roberts Building, Malet Place. |
Talk |
| 16:00 9/1/2008 |
On the nature of the inverse scope: Methodological remarks on the study of LF properties |
A fundamental hypothesis pursued in generative grammar is that there exists autonomously a computational system (often referred to as language faculty) that combines the items taken from the lexicon of a given language (i.e., the items in a numeratio... [click for full text] |
Ringe Hayashishita University of Otago, New Zealand |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:30 8/1/2008 |
Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control |
Tea is served from 4pm in the Common Room |
Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Seminar |
| 16:00 12/12/2007 |
Using functional imaging studies to explore the Linguistics of British Sign Language |
Research on language and communication has increasingly begun to recognise the need to integrate neurobiological, cognitive, social and evolutionary approaches. In relation to linguistic theory, notions of modularity require neurobiological validatio... [click for full text] |
Bencie Woll DCAL, UCL |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 14:00 12/12/2007 |
The dynamic range of speech: its contribution to speech intelligibility in noise revisited. |
The Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) (ANSI, 1997) is a calculation scheme to determine the intelligibility of speech in concurrent noise. It represents the proportion of speech dynamics available to a listener. In SII calculation, speech dynamics o... [click for full text] |
Gaston Hilkhuysen |
Speech Sciences Lab, Wolfson House |
Talk |
| 16:30 4/12/2007 |
Supramodal Responses in the Inferior Frontal Cortex |
The left inferior frontal cortex has been widely associated with language processing,including the basic components of the grammar of natural languages. A fundamental question is whether the computational mechanisms subserved by the left inferior fro... [click for full text] |
Marco Tettamanti (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy). |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 16:00 28/11/2007 |
So what does the brain suggest about pragmatics? |
The typical neuroimaging experiment on language comprehension is one in which readers get a bunch of unrelated and completely decontextualized single sentences. For some questions, this is just fine. However, if we want to use neuroimaging to furthe... [click for full text] |
Jos van Berkum Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:15 - 18:00, 27/11/2007 |
The evolution of metarepresentations, communication and trust |
Third lecture of a series of five Leverhulme lectures on "COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE"
Abstract:
Humans have a metarepresentational ability: that is, an ability to represent representations. One form of this ability,... [click for full text] |
Prof. Dan Sperber, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL, London |
Psychology LG04 in 26, Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 16:30 27/11/2007 |
Deciding when to decide |
Decision making in an uncertain world is a hard problem: do we make a decision now based on what we know, or do we wait and gather more information? Both have their costs, and the (hard) computational problem for the brain is to find the right balanc... [click for full text] |
Dr Peter Latham UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way, Department of Psychology, University College London |
Talk |
| 16:15 - 18:00, 20/11/2007 |
Relevance in cognition |
Second lecture of a series of five Leverhulme lectures on "COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND CULTURE"
Abstract:
In our book Relevance: Communication and Cognition (2nd edition 1995) and many papers, Deirdre Wilson and I have put ... [click for full text] |
Prof. Dan Sperber, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL, London |
Psychology LG04 in 26, Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 13:00 15/11/2007 |
Behavioural and electrophysiological measures of cochlear nonlinearity |
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Professor Christopher Plack Lancaster University |
CAR seminar room, UCL Ear Institute |
Talk |
| 16:30 13/11/2007 |
Overconfidence in visuo-motor coordination |
Visual perception can be seen as an inference problem: what are the best scene attributes that would explain my retinal images? With this attitude, the Bayesian framework offers a number of powerful concepts such as the prior knowledge and the decisi... [click for full text] |
Dr Pascal Mamassian CNRS & Université Paris Descartes, France |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 16:30 30/10/2007 |
What has behavioral genetics done for us lately? Social mechanisms of gene expression and preventive intention |
No tickets necessary |
David Reiss, MD (Visiting Professor, Yale University) |
Room 305, 26, Bedford Way, |
Talk |
| 9:45 - 17:15, 27/10/2007 |
Interface with Linguistics |
A one day conference showcasing ways in which linguistics interacts with education, organised by the University of Westminster. See http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-2124 for more details.
R... [click for full text] |
Richard Hudson and John Wells (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London) |
The Portland Hall, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, W11 7UW |
Other |
| 16:00 24/10/2007 |
Meaning, Content and What Is Said |
I will defend the view on which lexical meaning is all there is to the semantic content. In particular, this leads to rejecting the widespread assumption that the semantic contribution of demonstrative and indexical pronouns is their reference, rathe... [click for full text] |
Isidora Stojanovic Institut Jean Nicod, Paris |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 19/10/2007 |
Reading group on meaning and intonation |
Richard Breheny will talk about focus, especially about the relations between intonation and focus interpretation. The meeting is meant as a semantic counterpart to the first meeting lead by Yi Xu. Details can be found below.
For the coming presen... [click for full text] |
Richard Breheny |
Rm 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Seminar |
| 15:00 - 17:00, 12/10/2007 |
Reading group on meaning and intonation |
The first meeting of the interdisciplinary reading group on meaning and intonation. The meeting is meant as a warm-up for the coming meetings and will concentrate on the phonetic side of the issue. The discussion will be lead by Yi Xu. |
Yi Xu |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Seminar |
| 0: 24/8/2007 to 26/8/2007 |
Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference |
Online payments and registration now open |
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Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL University of London |
Other |
| 0: 13/8/2007 to 24/8/2007 |
Summer Course in English Phonetics |
Come and spend two weeks in London this summer, studying English phonetics at University College London (a part of London University).
Summer School webpages
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Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL University of London |
Workshop |
| 0: 28/6/2007 to 29/6/2007 |
DCAL SUMMER SCHOOL: Deaf Studies and Sign Language Research |
Researching language and communication in another modality
To apply:
The application form can be downloaded here. Complete and return the form by e-mail to dcal@ucl.ac.uk. The referee’s form should b... [click for full text] |
TBC |
118 Tottenham Courrt Road, University College London |
Workshop |
| 0:00 21/6/2007 to 22/6/2007 |
Workshop on Machine Learning and Cognitive Science of Language Acquisition |
A PASCAL core event
see here for more details:http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/alexc/
Guest Speakers
John Goldsmith (Linguistics and Computer Science, University o... [click for full text] |
See listings |
The room is Bedford Way LG04, Department of Psychology, UCL, London |
Workshop |
| 16:00 12/6/2007 |
Music and Lyrics: the tone-melody correspondence in Cantonese and Thai pop songs |
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Vincie Ho (University of Hong Kong) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 17:15 7/6/2007 |
Auditory function and sensitivity in connective tissue disorders |
The Purpose of this research was to obtain tympanometry, audiometric thresholds, and distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAEs) in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS, n=50) and nonsyndromic supravalvar aortic stenosis (SVAS, n=10). WS is a ... [click for full text] |
Dr Jeffery Marler, Associate Professor, Dept of Communication Sciences & Disorders James Madison University, USA |
123 - 126 Grays Inn Road, London WC1, Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Science |
Seminar |
| 16:00 6/6/2007 |
(Simplification of)2 Disjunctive Antecedents |
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Nathan Klinedinst (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Seminar |
| 16:00 31/5/2007 |
A lexical analysis of signs from Icelandic Sign Language and its identity as a distinct language |
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Russ Aldersson – MA Applied Linguistics, Birbeck College |
DCAL library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 14:00 23/5/2007 |
Ergativity, Transitivity and Case Locality |
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Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Watson Lecture Theatre, Medawar Building, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:00 23/5/2007 |
Getting to Optimality |
This talk will examine a modification of Optimality Theory that incorporates something analogous to the derivations of rule-based phonology. Classic OT's operational component GEN and its evaluative component EVAL do not interact: GEN applies its ope... [click for full text] |
John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Watson Lecture Theatre, Medawar Building, UCL |
Talk |
| 17:30 17/5/2007 |
Cortical Mechanisms of Seeing and Hearing Speech |
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Dr Riikka Mottonen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxfor |
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Floor Seminar room, 123-126 Grays Inn Road, London WC |
Talk |
| 0:00 16/5/2007 |
QF, HIRC, the DE and the Mathematical Theory of Intersective Determiners |
TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED |
S-Y Kuroda (UC San Diego and IIAS, Kyoto) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:00 15/5/2007 |
Theory of Mind |
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Dr Cyril Courtin – University of Paris V – CNRS, Laboratory of Cognition and Communication |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:00, 15/5/2007 |
The Origin of Concepts |
The Second Inaugural A.R.Jonkheere
Lecture
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Professor Susan Carey Harvard University |
Lower ground lecture theatre, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAP |
Talk |
| 14:00 - 18:00, 11/5/2007 |
Field methods workshop |
The workshop will cover both ethics and techniques for working with language informants/consultants, especially Deaf, and will involve demonstrations. Since one of the things that will be emphasised is the advantage of working in pairs or groups, pa... [click for full text] |
Professor Susan Fischer |
DCAL library, 49 Gordon Square |
Workshop |
| 16:00 10/5/2007 |
Possession in Ugandan and Tanzanian Sign Language: a comparative study |
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Sam Lutalo-Kiingi – Assistant Researcher, ISlanDs, Preston University |
DCAL library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 13:30 - 17:00, 9/5/2007 |
CHC workshop on Second-language learning and cross-language perception. |
May 9th, 1.30 – 5pm. Wolfson House, UCL.
Speakers
Volker Dellwo, UCL
Valerie Hazan, UCL
John Ingram, Queensland
Paul Iverson, UCL
Maria Uther, Brunel
Patrick Wong, Northwestern |
Go to Workshop page to see abstracts. |
Wolfson House, UCL |
Workshop |
| 17:15 9/5/2007 |
Sign Language Surprises: Things we thought were true about all sign languages but it turns out they aren’t, or at least not nec |
DEAF AWARENESS WEEK: PUBLIC LECTURE
Until quite recently, most research on sign languages has been on those sign languages based originally in Europe, such as American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan, the sign languages o... [click for full text] |
Professor Susan Fischer |
Anatomy J Z Young Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London |
Talk |
| 16:00 0/5/2007 |
Exploring voice-hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia |
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Dr Joanna Atkinson – Research Psychologist & Clinical psychologist, DCAL |
DCAL library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 25/4/2007 |
Syntax of Giveness |
Download abstract here |
Ivona Kucerova (MIT) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Seminar |
| 10:30 12/4/2007 |
One-day Meeting for Young Speech Researchers |
A one-day meeting for graduate research students working in Speech Science and Technology, or for young researchers from industry. Call for papers can be found at: http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~... [click for full text] |
Organised by UKSpeech.org.uk and CHC |
Wolfson House |
Workshop |
| 16:00 4/4/2007 |
Writing Profiles for Deaf Children |
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Dr Diane Burman - Researcher, Teacher of the Deaf, Oxford Brookes University |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 22/3/2007 |
Deaf translators and hearing interpreters - a linguistic and enthnographic exploration of a Deaf translation norm |
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Dr Chris Stone – Postdoctoral researcher, DCAL |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 21/3/2007 |
Illusory Vowels in Language Contact Phonology |
Abstract can be downloaded here |
Ellen Broselow (SUNY Stony Brook) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Seminar |
| 11:00 17/3/2007 |
The great baby signing debate |
DEBATE run by DCAL
For more information and a printable poster to display see: http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/baby_sign.pdf
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Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre |
Other |
| 17:00 16/3/2007 |
Input and Biology in the Acquisition of Complex Language: Insights from Sign Language |
For more information see: http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/rachel_mayberry.html
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Dr Rachel Mayberry, (Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego) |
Chadwick Lecture Theatre, DCAL |
Talk |
| 16:00 14/3/2007 |
Three Challenges to a Derivational Theory of Binding |
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John Bailyn (SUNY Stony Brook) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:15 14/3/2007 |
Speech Science Forum presents: Modern speech and voice diagnostic, documentation and biofeedback in the field of speech ther |
www.lingcom.com
Abstract:
There is no doubt that subjective auditory evaluation of voice and speech are important diagnostics in speech therapy. However, there is also a growing demand for objective di... [click for full text] |
Ingolf Franke (LingCom GmbH/Germany) |
Room G6 Wolfson House |
Talk |
| 17:00 12/3/2007 |
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language: What can we Learn from a New Language? |
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) first appeared, without any apparent outside influence, about seventy years ago among an initially very small number of deaf people in a socially isolated community in the Negev Desert. The number of deaf people... [click for full text] |
Mark Aronoff (SUNY Stony Brook) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 14:00 - 16:00, 9/3/2007 |
Layered Derivations |
The idea I would like to explore in this talk is that syntactic (and morphological) derivations are layered objects consisting of a resource (a set of elements to be merged, sometimes called 'numeration') and a simple procedure (merge) establishing r... [click for full text] |
Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen) |
Medawar Watson Lecture Theatre |
Talk |
| 16:00 7/3/2007 |
The Psycholinguistics of Gricean Inferences |
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Lewis Bott (Cardiff University) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:00 28/2/2007 |
Arguments as Relations |
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John Bowers (Cornell University) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Seminar |
| 16:30 27/2/2007 |
Causal models in learning and reasoning |
Causal models play a central role in cognition, allowing prediction, control and explanation of the world around us. How do people acquire and represent this causal knowledge, and how do they use it for subsequent reasoning? The first part of this ta... [click for full text] |
Dr Dave Lagnado Department of Psychology, UCL |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 9:30 22/2/2007 |
Syntax Talks 2 |
Talks by applicants for syntax lecturer post.
See: Programme.
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Klaus Abels, Justin Fitzpatrick, Phoevos Panagiotidis, Benjamin Bruening |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 9:30 21/2/2007 |
Syntax Talks 1 |
Talks by applicants for syntax lecturer post.
See: Programme.
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Øystein Nilsen, Peter Ackema, Dora Alexopoulou, Vieri Samek-Lodovici |
Council Room, South Wing |
Talk |
| 16:00 14/2/2007 |
Metaphor in BSL poetry - An exploration of Dorothy Miles' poem "Trio” |
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Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence - Senior Lecturer in Deaf Studies, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 14/2/2007 |
Title to be announced |
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Dr Olivier Pascalis (University of Sheffield) |
Dept of Communication Science, Remax House, 32, Alfred Place |
Seminar |
| 12:30 9/2/2007 |
Early sign interaction - the development of turntaking |
Chair for Psycholinguistics, Language pathology and Sign
Linguistics, Holland
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Prof Anne Baker (Linguistics, University of Amsterdam) |
Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 7/2/2007 |
Get-passives, raising and control |
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Jonny Butler (Institute of English Linguistics, University of Stuttgart |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Seminar |
| 0: 0/2/2007 |
Perception, auditory processing in disordered populations |
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TBC |
TBC |
Talk |
| 17:00 30/1/2007 |
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS |
Speech perception sensitivities established in the first year of life provide infants with categories and biases that allow them to break into language, ultimately acquiring the words and rules of their native language. Infants who grow up bilingual ... [click for full text] |
Janet Werker, University of British Columbia |
Gustave Tuck LT |
Talk |
| 16:00 3/11/2006 |
Investigating polarity constructions using ERP's |
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Professor Douglas Saddy, (University of Reading) |
Ground floor lecture theatre, Psychology Dept, Bedford Way G03 |
Talk |
| 16:00 2/11/2006 |
Visuospatial neglect in a right-hemisphere damaged signer following stroke |
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Oceane Buckhardt |
DCAL library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 26/10/2006 |
About the Speaker: On the Syntactic Representation of Indexicality |
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Alessandra Giorgi (Universita Ca' Foscari, Venice) |
Room SB3, 188 Tottenham Court Road, |
Talk |
| 14:00 25/10/2006 |
On the Analysis of Mirror Principle Order Violations |
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Hilda Koopman (UCLA) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 25/10/2006 |
Cyclic Full Interpretation |
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Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:00 11/10/2006 |
Split Antecedents in Ellipsis |
Abstract: This talk analyzes three phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns cannot possibly be bound; cases where the antecedent of ellipsis does itself contain ... [click for full text] |
Paul Elbourne (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Seminar |
| 9:00 - 18:00, 6/10/2006 |
Prosody-Syntax Interface Workshop |
Registration required
Click here for details |
Ferreira, Dehé, Samek-Lodovici, Hellmuth, Steedman, Cheng, Downing, Trückenbrodt, Selkirk |
Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, UCL |
Workshop |
| 16:00 4/10/2006 |
Nativisation of fingerspelling in one-handed vs two-handed fingerspelling systems |
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Dr Kearsy Cormier – Senior Researcher, DCAL & Dr Adam Schembri – Senior Research Fellow, DCAL |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 19:00, 20/9/2006 |
Neil Smith Farewell Event |
Go to the webpage for further details:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/research/nsretirement.html |
Valerie Hazan, David Barton, Barbara Dodd, Ianthi Tsimpli, Karen Froud, Michael Brody, Geoff Pullum, Deirdre Wilson, Jack Mapan |
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL |
Other |
| 16:00 14/9/2006 |
The genetics of stuttering |
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Dr. Dennis Drayna, National Institute of Health, Maryland |
Ground Floor lecture theatre, Psychology Department, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 16:00 13/9/2006 |
Assessing American Sign Language (ASL) Proficiency in School-Age Deaf students using Web-Based Test of ASL (TASL) |
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Professor Philip Prinz - San Francisco State University & Dr Christian Rathmann - Assistant Professor, The Ohio State Universit |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 12/9/2006 |
Bimodal bilingualism: Insights into language processing, co-speech gesture, and neural representation |
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Professor Karen Emmorey (Professor in the School of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 17:00 16/8/2006 |
Modelling syntactic parameter setting: Implications for SLI research |
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Professor Janet Dean Fodor (PhD Program in Linguistics, City University of New York) |
Room TBA |
Talk |
| 14:00 - 18:00, 4/8/2006 |
John Wells' Retirement Day |
For further details of guest speakers, see webpage:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/research/jwretirement.html |
Extensive programme of visiting speakers |
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL |
Talk |
| 16:00 3/8/2006 |
Action in three sign languages: Is it obligatory? |
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Dr Kearsy Cormier – Senior Researcher, DCAL, UCL & Dr David Quinto-Pozos, University of Illinois |
DCAL |
Talk |
| 16:00 27/6/2006 |
Language-specificity and Speech intelligibilty |
Ever since the early days of modern speech research, overall speech intelligibility assessment and prediction have been challenged by the complex interactions of multiple factors that underlie variability in speech intelligibility. In addition to th... [click for full text] |
Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 22/6/2006 |
Deaf children's language fluencies: what we know and what we only think we know |
For further details contact Tyron Woolfe - t.woolfe@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Marc Marschark - Professor and Director of the Centre for Education Research Partnerships at the Technical Institut |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 22/6/2006 |
Deaf Children's Language Fluencies: What We Know and What We Only Think We Know |
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Prof. Marc Marschark - Professor and Director of the Centre for Education Research Partnerships at the National Technical Insti |
DCAL |
Talk |
| 9:00 - 17:00, 16/6/2006 |
Word Learning in SLI: Theory, diagnosis and therapy. |
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Event run by DLDCN Centre. Click here for details. |
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Workshop |
| 16:00 9/6/2006 |
Plasticity and non-plasticity in second language acquisition |
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Emmanuel Dupoux, CNRS |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chanlder House |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/6/2006 |
Linguistics expression of motion events in Deaf signers with focal lesions |
For further details contact Tyron Woolfe - t.woolfe@ucl.ac.uk |
Professor Diane Brentari - Professor, Department of Speech at Purdue University |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/6/2006 |
Linguistic expression of motion events in Deaf signers with focal lesions |
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Prof. Diane Brentari - Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Professor, Linguistics Program. Profe |
DCAL |
Talk |
| 16:00 7/6/2006 |
Interpretive Asymmetries at the Edge |
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Marc Richards (University of Cambridge) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 24/5/2006 |
Cluster Spilittability and Phonetic Knowledge: Corpus and Survey Evidence from Tagalog |
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Kie Zuraw (UCLA) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 19/5/2006 |
Learning language from positive evidence: Analysis of an ‘ideal’ learner |
Theories of language acquisition have often had difficulties with understanding how children can learn language from only positive input. They observe what sentences can occur, but seem fairly insensitive to information about what sentences cannot oc... [click for full text] |
Nick Chater |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 18/5/2006 |
When will morphology be special? |
There are two views about morphology, the language component concerned with the internal structure of words and how they are formed. One view holds that morphology is a domain of knowledge with an independent level of representation like other domain... [click for full text] |
Dr Sami Boudelaa (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge) |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 3:30 15/5/2006 |
A Functional ontology of working memory in speech and sign |
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Jerker Ronnberg and Mary Rudner (University of Linkoping, Sweden) |
DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 10/5/2006 |
Probabilistic Phonology |
"This talk with address the following questions:
1) How can we use probabilistic grammars in phonology?
2) Are they any use?
3) Are they psychologically reasonable?
In particular, I'll argue that probabilistic grammars are good for syllabific... [click for full text] |
John Coleman (University of Oxford) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 11:00 - 18:00, 5/5/2006 |
An introduction to Connectionist modelling of development; cognition, language and language impairments |
Click here for details. |
Philip Quinlan (York), Fiona Richardson (Birkbeck), Michael Thomas (Birkbeck) |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Workshop |
| 14:00 - 16:00, 28/4/2006 |
Symmetry in Syntax |
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Michael Brody (UCL/Budapest) |
Room 1.03, 20 Malet Place. |
Talk |
| 10:00 - 18:00, 27/4/2006 |
PHD OPEN DAY |
Some of the topics discussed include:
Evidence against voicing spread in Kera
Are there unarticulated constituents of the proposition expressed? |
Piers Messum, Barbara Loveridge, Eirini Sanoudaki, Eric Carlson, Mary Pearce, Alison Hall, Hiroyuki Uchida, Robert Truswell, Ma |
Haldane Lecture theatre |
Talk |
| 12:30 27/4/2006 |
Network Analyses of Auditory and Language Processing |
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Prof. Barry Horwitz, National Institutes of Health, USA |
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square (Ground |
Talk |
| 16:00 24/4/2006 |
Development, Adaptation and Evaluation of a Computer-based Receptive Skills Test for German Sign Language for Deaf Children Age |
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Tobias Haug Ed.M - co-director sign language interpreter program, Zurich |
DCAL |
Talk |
| 16:00 4/4/2006 |
Sentence processing: Interactions between top-down and bottom-up information |
In this talk I will provide evidence relevant to discovering (a) the nature
of the syntactic information that people use in sentence processing and (b)
how this information interacts with other information sources, in
particular, lexical informati... [click for full text] |
Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:30 29/3/2006 |
A Computational Model of Infant Speech Acquisition |
We present a computational model of speech acquisition which treats speech production and perception as separate processes, and assumes no innate link between them. We first describe the relationship of the infant with his environment in terms of sig... [click for full text] |
Ian Howard |
Phonetics Lab at Wolfson House |
Talk |
| 16:00 22/3/2006 |
Romanian Declension and the Toggle Morpheme Hypothesis (or how to express several marked values when only one exponent is avail |
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Alain Kihm (Paris 8) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 17/3/2006 |
Paraphrase Choice and Predictability |
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Tom Wasow (Stanford) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 15/3/2006 |
Corpus Evidence on the English Resultative Family |
In the original construction-based approach to argument-structure constructions, Goldberg (1995) proposes a distinction between caused-motion and resultative constructions in English; i.e. between such complex-transitive constructions in English that... [click for full text] |
Beate Hampe (Jena) and Doris Schönefeld (Bochum) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 16:00 8/3/2006 |
Rational Ways of Speaking |
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Herbert Clark (Stanford) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 14:30 - 18:00, 3/3/2006 |
Hearing Things |
A series of presentations will be given by artists and those working in the arts whose work is concerned with sound and hearing. This event will hopefully provide an interesting introduction to the work of several art practitioners whose work relates... [click for full text] |
Various |
Seminar Room, EAR Institute |
Workshop |
| 10:00 - 16:39, 3/3/2006 |
Workshop on Accent, Variation and Change |
PDF available from Bronwyn Evans |
John Wells, Carlos Gussenhoven, Esther Grabe, Bronwen Evans and others |
Wolfson House |
Workshop |
| 9:30 - 17:00, 3/3/2006 |
Workshop on Accent, variation and change. |
Note that there is a regisration fee of $10 (£5 for students) payable on the day.
Programme Details.
Please register... [click for full text] |
Gerry Docherty (Newcastle), Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen), Esther Grabe (Oxford), Paul Iverson (UCL), Mark Huckvale (UCL), Bron |
Room G9 Chandler House |
Workshop |
| 16:00 22/2/2006 |
Information Structure and Secondary Agreement |
Conditions on verb agreement are often assumed to be definable in purely syntactic terms. In some languages, however, agreement depends on information structure role: the verb agrees with topical arguments, and not with nontopics. We will explore the... [click for full text] |
Mary Dalrymple (Oxford) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 22/2/2006 |
The development of language comprehension and production in typically developing and language impaired school age children: evi |
In this talk we'll discuss a couple of fMRI studies conducted at UC-San Diego. The first compared school-age children's and young adults BOLD activation when listening to auditorily presented sentences or overtly naming pictures. The second compared ... [click for full text] |
Maria Cristina Saccuman & Fred Dick |
Lecture Theatre G1 Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 17/2/2006 |
Doing things together by speaking, placing and pointing |
It takes coordination to do things together, and it takes communication to manage this coordination. In everyday settings, people communicate not only by speaking to each other, but by placing and pointing at things for each other, in flexible combin... [click for full text] |
Professor Herb Clark, Stanford University |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:30 8/2/2006 |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Speech Science Forum: Acoustic correlates of speech rhythm. |
See website for more information on the Speech Science Forum. |
Volker DELLWO - UCL. |
Phonetics Lab, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE. |
Other |
| 13:00 8/2/2006 |
A differential diagnosis of the speech phenotype in the KE family |
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Dr Angela Morgan, Institute of Child Health |
Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 3/2/2006 |
The Processing of British Sign Language: evidence from functional imaging and studies of signers with stroke |
Establishing which neural systems support processing of signed languages informs a number of important neuroscience and linguistic questions. Firstly, what constitutes the 'core language system' - what areas of the brain are involved in language proc... [click for full text] |
Professor Bencie Woll, UCL. |
Room 101, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:30 2/2/2006 |
What ERPs reveal about the functional architecture of language processing |
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Prof. Peter Hagoort, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information |
Room G1, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 16:00 1/2/2006 |
Feature Interactions |
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Greville Corbett (Surrey) |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square |
Talk |
| 13:00 23/1/2006 |
SLI over time: Evidence from the production of wh-questions and relative clauses |
The question of whether children with Specific Language Impairment show persistent difficulties with language acquisition over time has been raised by few studies (Cipriani, Bottari, Chilosi, & Pfanner 1998; Rice, Wexler, & Hershberger 1998) and so l... [click for full text] |
Stavroula Stavrakaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
G1, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 13:00 18/1/2006 |
Developing language skills through dialogic discourse |
We know very little about the processes of language learning in the SLI classroom. Oral language lessons were video-taped and analysed according to the procedures used by conversation analysts (topic and repair). Collaborative topic generation was a... [click for full text] |
Dr Julie Radford |
Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 - 18:30, 18/1/2006 |
Thinking and speaking: How we express meaning in language |
Prof. Vigliocco's Inaugral Lecture is the second lecture in this presentation |
Gabriella Vigliocco, UCL |
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre |
Talk |
| 17:00 16/1/2006 |
Electrical Stimulation of the Human Cochlea, Auditory Brainstem and Auditory Midbrain: Implications for Speech Processing |
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Professor Bob Shannon from House Ear Institute, Los Angeles. |
Haldane Lecture Theatre, Wolfson House |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 7/12/2005 |
Early sign language development: critical periods and abilities |
In this talk I outline some motivations for studying children's development of signed languages as windows onto child development in general. The two areas I describe are children's first attempts at producing signs and the simplification processes t... [click for full text] |
Dr. Gary Morgan, Department of Language and Communication Science, City University. |
Department of Human Communication Science, Chandler House (Lecture Theatre G1). |
Talk |
| 16:30 7/12/2005 |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Speech Science Forum: presentation. |
Despite the impressive improvements of automatic speech recognition (ASR) during the last two decades, ASR falls short of human performance of speech recognition. Well-known weaknesses of ASR are the assumption of independence of acoustic events, the... [click for full text] |
Louis TEN BOSCH - Dept of Language and Speech, Radboud University, Nijmegen. |
Phonetics Lab, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE. |
Other |
| 16:00 7/12/2005 |
Derived Environment Effects and Consistency of Exponence |
Linguistics Seminar Series. Read Abstract here |
Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute). |
Room 5, 20 Gordon Square. |
Seminar |
| 16:00 2/12/2005 |
Speaker perspective, lexical choice, and acquisition |
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Professor Eve Clark, Stanford University. |
Room 101, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 30/11/2005 |
Rethinking agrammatism: Some findings from conversation and language testing. |
This talk reports a study that applied Conversation Analysis (CA) to the phenomenon of agrammatism, a particular type of aphasia which is characterised by grammatical impairment. Although mainstream research has done much to characterise the nature ... [click for full text] |
Dr. Suzanne Beeke, Department of Human Communication Science. |
Department of Human Communication Science, Chandler House (Lecture Theatre G1). |
Talk |
| 16:30 30/11/2005 |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Speech Science Forum: Perceptual adaptation to a binaurally-mismatched frequency-to-place map. |
See website for more information on the Speech Science Forum. |
Catherine SICILIANO- UCL. |
Phonetics Lab, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE. |
Other |
| 17:00 24/11/2005 |
Language and striatum |
Talk organised by the Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience |
Dr Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi. |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1. |
Talk |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 23/11/2005 |
An introduction to the work of the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre - DCAL. |
DCAL a new research centre at UCL, funded by ESRC, will open its doors in January 2006. The research questions and research themes which inform DCAL and describes some of the proposed research projects will be outlined, and the
presentation will off... [click for full text] |
Prof. Bencie Woll, Department of Human Communication Science – UCL. |
Department of Human Communication Science, Chandler House (Lecture Theatre G1). |
Talk |
| 16:30 23/11/2005 |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Speech Science Forum: How young children learn speech sounds: their production, your perception. |
See website for more information on the Speech Science Forum. |
Piers MESSUM- UCL. |
Phonetics Lab, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE. |
Other |
| 14:00 23/11/2005 |
Phonological illusions as a window into early language acquisition |
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Emmanuel Dupoux, Director of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP), at the École des Hautes Etud |
20 Gordon Square, Room 5 |
Talk |
| 16:00 23/11/2005 |
Be Articulate! Programmatic Remarks on Formal Theories of Presupposition |
Linguistics Seminar Series
A preparatory reading group may be held, probably on the afternoon of Tuesday 22nd, ahead of this talk. The
suggested paper is Heim, I. (1983) 'On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions', reprinted in S. Davis, ed.... [click for full text] |
Philippe Schlenker (UCLA/Institut). |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Room 5, 20 Gordon Square. |
Seminar |
| 17:00 16/11/2005 |
New insight into phonological processing: anatomical and neuropsychological data |
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Dr Charlotte Jacquemot |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House |
Talk |
| 13:00 16/11/2005 |
HCS Seminar: Provision of communication aids for children. |
A DfES funded evaluation study. |
Dr Jannet Wright, Dr Mike Clarke and Dr Caroline Newton, Dept. of Human Communication Science |
Lecture Theatre G1, Dept. of Human Communication Science, Chandler House. |
Seminar |
| 9:00 7/11/2005 |
Workshop in Language, reasoning and development. |
Workshop in Language, reasoning and development. All day workshop.
For more information please click HERE.
REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED.
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Workshop in Language, reasoning and development. |
G1 Chandler House |
Workshop |
| 17:00 3/11/2005 |
UCL linguistics seminar series: 'Pragmatic meaning and exhaustive interpretation.' |
In terms of Groenendijk & Stokhof's (1984) formalization of exhaustive interpretation, many conversational implicatures can be accounted for. In this talk we justify and generalize this approach. Our justification proceeds by relating their account v... [click for full text] |
Robert van Rooij (Universiteit van Amsterdam). |
South Wing Council Room |
Talk |
| 14:30 28/10/2005 |
Using experimental paradigms to explore linguistic constructs: recovery patterns in aphasia |
Centre for Human Communication talk, followed by workshop on single case design for intervention studies |
Professor Cindy Thompson, Northwestern University. |
G1 Chandler House |
Talk |
| 17:00 24/10/2005 |
The Faculty of Language: Uniquely Human and Uniquely Linguistic |
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Professor Marc Hauser |
Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Ground Floor), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1 |
Talk |
| 16:00 19/10/2005 |
UCL Linguistics Seminar series: Antecedents to conventional plural marking in language acquisition. |
The talk will last 1 hour, followed by discussion and refreshments. |
Eve Clark (Stanford University). |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Room 5, 20 Gordon Square. |
Talk |
| 16:00 14/10/2005 |
Disfluencies, performance, and prosody in language production |
Abstract: Disfluencies link the study of production and comprehension,syntax and prosody, and competence and performance. In this presentation, I will argue that it is critical to distinguish disfluencies and other performance-related phenomena from ... [click for full text] |
Prof Fernanda Ferreira, Michigan State University. |
Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, 26 Bedford Way |
Talk |
| 17:30 14/10/2005 |
Centre for Human Communication: 'Welcome party'. |
The Centre for Human Communication, 2005/2006, 'Welcome party': with wine and cheese. All those who are new to UCL this year will join us are encouraged to attend. Please pass this invitation on to your new colleagues and research students. If you ca... [click for full text] |
Not applicable. |
Psychology Dept., 26 Bedford Way. |
Other |
| 16:30 12/10/2005 |
Articulatory mechanisms of tone and intonation - from theory to quantitative modeling. |
Part of the Speech Science Forum. |
Speech Science Forum Talk: Yi Xu (UCL) and San Prom-on (UCL). |
Dept. phonetics & Linguistics: Phonetics Lab, Wolfson House. |
Talk |
| 0:00 30/9/2005 |
ICN Workshop on The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Human Voice. |
See
ICN Seminar and workshop details. |
All day workshop - see programme details. |
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. |
Workshop |
| 17:30 29/9/2005 |
ICN Seminar: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Human Voice. |
The seminar is open to all and requires no registration.
See
ICN Seminar and workshop details.
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Professor Pascal Belin, Universite de Montreal. |
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery , Queen Square, |
Seminar |
| 0:00 16/9/2005 to 18/9/2005 |
International Workshop on word meaning, concepts and communication. |
See Lexical Pragmatics’ website for further details. |
See website for details. |
Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2HP. |
Workshop |
| 14:00 15/9/2005 |
Are Tones Phones? Implications for Speech Perception, Language Acquisition, and Modularity |
Professor Denis Burnham of MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney will be visiting UCL on September 15 with a view to establishing links with the CHC. He will be visiting various labs at UCL, and giving a talk about his research.[click for full text] |
Professor Denis Burnham, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney. |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Chandler House. |
Talk |
| 12:30 13/9/2005 |
Multi-time resolution analysis of speech. |
Contact Rosalyn Lawrence, ICN (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) Secretary, Tel: 020 7679 1164 for more details. |
Dr Maria Chait, University of Maryland, USA. |
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Basement Seminar Room (B10), ICN, Alexandra House, Queen Square. |
Talk |
| 8:30 1/8/2005 to 12/8/2005 |
Summer Course in English Phonetics 2005. |
See Summer course 2005 website for full details. |
Summer Course in English Phonetics 2005. |
UCL: See website for full details of venues. |
Other |
| 17:00 1/8/2005 |
The early processing of gender and number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: implications for the study of SLI |
Full address: -
The Lab,
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience,
Department of Human Communication Science,
University College London,
Chandler House,
2 Wakefield Street,
London WC1N 1PF. |
Prof. Letícia Sicuro Correa, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro. |
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience. |
Seminar |
| 12:00 28/7/2005 |
Feature-Feature Causal Relations and Statistical Co-occurrences in Object Concepts |
Both correlations among features of objects (such as the fact that things in the world that have feathers also tend to have a beak) and causal relations among features (such as the fact that something must be sharp if it is going to be used for cutti... [click for full text] |
Prof Ken McRae (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada) |
Room 305, Department of Psychology, UCL, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAP. |
Seminar |
| 12:00 27/7/2005 to 30/7/2005 |
PTLC2005 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference |
A workshop on teaching and learning in
- general phonetics
- pronunciation for EFL and other languages
- phonetics for clinical purposes, including audiology and speech and language therapy
- phonetics for the performing arts
- phonetics for spe... [click for full text] |
See website for further details |
University College London |
Workshop |
| 13:00 - 14:00, 29/6/2005 |
Using event related potentials (ERPs) research to investigate language processing. |
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Dr. Elisabeth Fonteneau (Human Communication Science) |
Lecture Theatre G1, Department of Human Communication Science, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1. |
Seminar |
| 9:00 - 18:00, 27/6/2005 |
The Characteristics and Assessment of Stuttered Speech |
A workshop reporting and comparing analyses of stuttered speech from UCL's Archive of Stuttered Speech. Registration will take place from December.
UCL Psychology Speech Group WWW site - for more info... [click for full text] |
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Dept. of Psychology, 26 Bedford Way |
Workshop |
| 9:00 15/6/2005 to 17/6/2005 |
ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception |
For more information, visit www.psp2005.org.uk
Organisers: Valerie Hazan and Paul Iverson |
various: visit www.psp2005.org.uk |
Senate House |
Workshop |
| 16:30 9/6/2005 |
Working Memory for Sign, Speech, Music, and Space: The Role of Stimulus Imitability. |
Abstract: Stimuli that can be copied with one's own body result in "covert imitation," wherein the brain plans, but does not execute, movement analogous to that of the stimulus. Several proposals have been advanced regarding the function or function... [click for full text] |
Dr Meg Wilson, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA. |
Lecture theatre G1, Department of Human Communication Science, UCL |
Talk |
| 15:30 9/6/2005 |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Postgraduate Student 'Short' Talks. |
Matt Smith - Perceptual adaptation by normally-hearing listeners to a simulated 'hole' in hearing;
Frank Shu Zhang - The aging voice: a case study of Alastair Cooke;
Alan Giles - MSc project plan: recognition of focus;
Christin... [click for full text] |
Matt Smith; Frank Shu Zhang; Alan Giles; Christina Wong. |
Speech Sciences Laboratory, Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics. |
Talk |
| 17:00 8/6/2005 |
The mismatch negativity (MMN) - contribution to clinical research. |
See the Centre for Developmental Language Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience website for details on the seminar series. |
Risto Näätänen, Academy Professor, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki. |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Department of Human Communication Science Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street. |
Seminar |
| 14:00 25/5/2005 |
Stochastic Phonological Knowledge: General Constraints, Gradient Ranking. |
Recent research has documented an ability of language learners to project statistical knowledge from the lexicon. Where the language contains competing morphological patterns (for example ~ vs. X ~ Xd past tenses in... [click for full text] |
Bruce Hayes, UCLA. |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Departmental Seminar, Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, London. |
Talk |
| 16:00 25/5/2005 |
Diachrony proposes, synchrony disposes: Evidence from Prosody. See abstract for further details. |
See abstract for further details. |
Prof Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley). |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Departmental Seminar, Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, London. |
Talk |
| 13:15 - 17:30, 24/5/2005 |
Making Sense of Prosody (link to poster). |
SEE PROGRAMME.
Topic: Making Sense of Prosody (an open workshop): how we can solve apparently intractable descriptive problems in the tone and intonation of languages ... [click for full text] |
Larry Hyman, Sam Hellmuth, Yi Xu, Justin Watkins, Carlos Gussenhoven, Moira Yip |
Room B102, Brunei Gallery (First Floor), SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. |
Workshop |
| 16:00 6/5/2005 |
Are tones aligned with articulatory events? Evidence from Italian and French. |
Abstract:
Alignment of tonal targets relative to segmental “anchors” might be governed by principles of synchrony and stability (Arvaniti et al 1998, Ladd et al. 1999, inter alia). However, a number of discrepancies have emerged in the cr... [click for full text] |
Mariapaola D'Imperio: Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Universite de Provence. |
Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics, Departmental Seminar, Room 5, 20 Gordon Square, London. |
Seminar |
| 10:00 - 18:00, 28/4/2005 |
PhD Day 2005, Department of Phonetics & Linguistics. |
Please see programme for full details. |
M. Smith, D. Pearce, M. Tjalve, P. Messum, M. Pearce, E. Sanoudaki, A. Hall, R. Truswell, D. Bury & H. Uchida. |
Haldane Lecture Theatre (Wolfson House), Dept. Phonetics & Linguistics. |
Workshop |
| 13:00 21/4/2005 |
Child language and child logic: Hidden units in child grammars. |
Full location details for seminar: -
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Human Communication Science, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF.
For further details please visit the ... [click for full text] |
Professor Stephen Crain (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science). |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Centre for DLDCN, Dept. of Human Communication Science, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London. |
Seminar |
| 14:00 - 18:00, 15/4/2005 |
Modelling the language faculty: Optimality Theory |
Powerpoint presentations from the workshop: -
FOR PRESENTATION: BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO OPTIMALITY THEORY by Moira Yip click HERE.
FOR PRESENTATION: GRAMMAR AS C... [click for full text] |
Alan Prince (Rutgers University), Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL), Hubert Truckenbrodt (Universitat Tubingen), Moira Yip (UCL) |
G1, Chandler House, Reception to follow in G23 |
Workshop |
| 10:00 - 17:00, 14/4/2005 |
One-day meeting for young speech researchers - the third in a series of one-day meetings for graduate research students from UK |
For more details on the meeting, please see, One Day Meeting for Young Speech Researchers webpage.
For the UK Speech wbsite, please see www.ukspeec... [click for full text] |
Please see full programme. |
Haldane Theatre, Wolfson House |
Workshop |
| 17:00 17/3/2005 |
Wh-pied-piping, wh-doubling, and wh-splitting in Japanese L2 learners' |
Full location details for seminar: -
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Human Communication Science, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF.
For further details please visit the C... [click for full text] |
Andrew Radford, University of Essex |
G1 Lecture Theatre, Centre for DLDCN, Dept. of Human Communication Science, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London. |
Seminar |
| 17:00 20/1/2005 |
Wh-pied-piping, wh-doubling, and wh-splitting in Japanese L2 learners English |
Full location details for seminar: -
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. of Human Communication Science, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF.
For further details please visit the ... [click for full text] |
Professor Andrew Radford, University of Essex |
Apologies: this seminar has been cancelled. Details regarding a re-scheduled date will be published short |
Seminar |
| 10:00 - 11:00, 0/0/0000 |
The Tone Reading Group |
The Tone Reading Group
The Tone Reading Group is a weekly meeting of PhD students and staff
interested in tone. We read articles or book chapters and discuss data from
our own research. We've been reading for around a year now but if new people
are interested we're happ... [click for full text] |
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Every Wednesday, Room R201 in SOAS |
Other |
