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Departmental Seminars 2012

DateTitleSpeaker(s)
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
17th January 2012 "Computational Grammar Development: What is it good for?"
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Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
24th January 2012What do paradigms look like (and why care anyway)"
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Greville Corbett, University of Surrey
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"How many =Hoan body parts are there?: Exploring lexical typology"
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Bonny Sands Northern Arizona University, USA
21nd February 2012"Intonation in tonal new Englishes"
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Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, The Netherlands
28st February 2012

*Room: 4418*
"On the temporal nature of universals"

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Frans Plank, University of Konstanz, Germany
29th February 2012

5-6:30pm

*Room L67*
"Correlating Transfer Patterns in the Boundaries of Borrowing: a cross-linguistic perspective"
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Anthony Grant
Edge Hill University, UK
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 University Duesseldorf, Germany
20nd March 2012"Language: The Cultural Tool"

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Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA
20nd March 2012
5pm - 6pm

*G2*
Film Showing
"Grammar of happiness"

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Daniel Everett, Bentley University, USA
22nd March 2012
3pm - 5pm *B211 (Brunei Gallery second floor)*
"The linguistics of temperature: an integrated lexical-typological approach"

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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)

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Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm,
Tania Kouteva,
Friederike Luepke