| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
| 10th January 2012 |
The redundancy of recursion and infinity for natural language and arithmetic processing
...abstract
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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?"
...abstract |
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany |
| 24th January 2012 | What do paradigms look like (and why care anyway)"
...abstract |
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey |
| 31st January 2012
| "Speech Prosody: Theories, mechanisms, models and tools"
...abstract |
Yi Xu, University College London |
FRIDAY
3rd February 2012
2-4pm
*Room 116*
| "Direct Lexical Elicitation: Notes from the Field"
...abstract |
Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA |
| 7th February 2012 | "How many =Hoan body parts are there?: Exploring lexical typology"
...abstract
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Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA |
| 21nd February 2012 | "Intonation in tonal new Englishes"
...abstract
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Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, The Netherlands |
28st February 2012
*Room: 4418* | "On the temporal nature of universals"
...abstract
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Frans Plank, University of Konstanz, Germany
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29th February 2012
5-6:30pm
*Room L67* | "Correlating Transfer Patterns in the Boundaries of Borrowing: a cross-linguistic perspective"
...abstract
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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"
...abstract
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Justin Watkins, SOAS |
| 13th March 2012 | "Open Acess: Transforming Science"
...abstract
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Dieter Stein, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 20nd March 2012 | "Language: The Cultural Tool"
...abstract
| Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA |
20nd March 2012
5pm - 6pm
*G2* | Film Showing
"Grammar of happiness"
...more info
| Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA |
22nd March 2012
3pm - 5pm
*B211 (Brunei Gallery second floor)*
| "The linguistics of temperature: an integrated lexical-typological approach"
...abstract
| Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 23nd March 2012
11am-1pm
*Room 116*
| Round table discussion "Are there no language universals?" with Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Tania Kouteva, Friederike Luepke (moderator Peter Austin) ...abstract
| Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm,
Tania Kouteva,
Friederike Luepke |