Departmental Seminars 2012
Usual Time: 3.30pm on Tuesdays in room 4418 (unless otherwise indicated below)
The following seminars are held by SOAS' Department of Linguistics at the main SOAS campus in Russell Square, Bloomsbury, near the British Museum ...SOAS maps.
Coming seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| 31st January 2012 | "Speech Prosody: Theories, mechanisms, models and tools"
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Yi Xu, University College London |
FRIDAY
3rd February 2012
2-4pm
*Room 116* | "Direct Lexical Elicitation: Notes from the Field"
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Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA |
| 7th February 2012 |
Descriptive and theoretical linguistics without linguistic analysis – causative and ditransitive case studies
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Martin Haspelmath, MPI Leipzig, Germany |
| 21nd February 2012 | "Intonation in tonal new Englishes"
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Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, The Netherlands |
| 28st February 2012 | "Correlating Transfer Patterns in the Boundaries of Borrowing: a cross-linguistic perspective"
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Anthony Grant
Edge Hill University, UK
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| 6th March 2012 | "The relationship between spoken Burmese and Yangon Sign Language"
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Justin Watkins, SOAS |
| 13th March 2012 | "Open Acess: Transforming Science"
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Dieter Stein, Heinrich Heine Universitaet of Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 20nd March 2012 | "Language: The Cultural Tool"
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| Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA |
Previous seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| 10th January 2012 |
The redundancy of recursion and infinity for natural language and arithmetic processing
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Erkki Luuk and Hendrik Luuk
University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Düsseldorf, Germany
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| 17th January 2012
| "Computational Grammar Development: What is it good for?"
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Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany |
| 24th January 2012 | "What do paradigms look like (and why care anyway)"
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Greville Corbett, University of Surrey |
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