Centre for Research in Linguistic and Language Sciences
Seminar Programme 2009-2010
Semester 1
Date
Time
Location
16:00 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
October
7th
Did our ancestors have a musical protolanguage?
Maggie Tallerman (Newcastle)
8th
16:00 -17:00
Bedson Teaching Centre, LG 35
Combining Processing Instruction with Coloured Typographical
Input Enhancement. A MOGUL Interpretation
Zoe Agiasophiti (Newcastle)
21st
16:30 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
On the grounding of syntax
Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle)
22nd
16:00- 17:00
Research Beehive
Language learners in the age of global English: L2 motivation in
distance and campus learners
Ursula Lanvers (Open)
November
2nd
16:00 – 17:00
CRiLLS, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Medium request: Talking language shift into being
Joseph Gafaranga (Edinburgh)
11th
16:00 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
The ass camouflage construction: So-called masks as parasitic
heads
Robert Levine (Ohio State)
18th
16:00 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Why prosodic typology might matter: Accents in Egyptian Arabic
accents
Sam Hellmuth (York)
19th
12:00 – 13:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Learning French from Ages 5, 7 and 11: An Investigation into
Starting Ages, Rates and Routes of Learning Amongst Early
Foreign Language Learners
Florence Myles and Annabelle David (Newcastle)
19th
16:00 – 17:00
Research Beehive, Room 2.22
Counterfeitness of Other Tunges: Metaphor and Early Modern
Linguistic Debate
David Cowling (Durham)
25th
16:00 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Special form and special meaning in literature
Nigel Fabb (Strathclyde)
26th
12:00 – 13:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Investigating the Development of a Developmental Disorder:
Mapping the Trajectory of Lexical Development in Specific
Language Impairment
Cristina McKean (Newcastle)
December
2nd
16:00 – 17:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
Exploring sociolinguistic variation and change from a usage-based
perspective
Lynn Clark (Edinburgh)
10th
12:00 – 13:00
CURDS Seminar Room, 4th Floor Claremont Bridge
The Development of Phonological Awareness in German-speaking
Preschool Children
Blanca Schaefer (Newcastle)