The programme for the CLR's 2006-7 guest seminars series is now available here.

seminar series, spring 2006

Guest seminar
Celtic & Gaelic in association with the Centre for Language Policy & Planning

Migration, Family and Community: Gaelic Policies in Research Perspective
Tuesday 9th May, 5.00pm
New King's 14

date and venue	speaker	title
23rd February 5.15 - 6.15 Taylor A36	Patrick Honeybone School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh	When is an 'f' not an 'f' - and how did it become a 'v'? The diachronic description and development of fricatives in English
23rd March 5.15 - 6.15 New King's NK3	Andrea Everitt Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen	Early identification of Specific Language Impairment
26th April 4.00 - 5.00 Taylor A26	Natalie Braber School of Arts, Communication & Culture, Nottingham Trent University	The changing language of Glasgow
11th May 5.00 - 6.00 New King's NK3	Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo Department of English, Edge Hill College of Higher Education	Variation and change in Sunderland English
The date, time and venue of the upcoming talk by Catherine Sangster (BBC Pronunciation Unit) has yet to be confirmed but will appear on the above list in due course. Click here to join our mailing list for news of future Centre for Linguistic Research events. Contact Dom Watt or Carmen Llamas for further information.
Seminars that took place in autumn/winter 2005 are listed below.
26th October 4.00 - 5.00 Taylor A26	Sandra Williams Natural Language Generation Research Group, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen	Constructing readable language: how well can a computer create documents for people with poor reading skills? abstract (.pdf)
9th November 5.00 - 6.00 Taylor A26	Mark Garner Centre for Linguistic Research, University of Aberdeen	Operational communication: (applied) linguistics at work
17th November 4.00 - 5.00 Humanity Manse G1	James Christie School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University	An outline of how computer power may assist with author attribution abstract (.pdf)
8th December 4.30 - 5.30 Taylor A36	Kevin Watson Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University	Phonetic variation from the bottom up: evidence from Liverpool English plosives abstract (.pdf) presentation (.ppt)
15th December 4.00 - 5.00 Taylor A36	Karen Corrigan School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne	The 'art of making the best use of bad data': mining the Murphy Corpus of South Armagh English for evidence of real-time syntactic variation and change abstract (.doc)

seminar series, spring semester 2005

other seminars of interest

Language On-line: introducing the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS)
24th May, 7.30 - 9 pm (Marischal Museum, Marischal College)
Dr. John Corbett, University of Glasgow
Admission £2 including refreshments
Organised by the Elphinstone Institute

Do languages make borders or do borders make languages?
10th May, 3 - 4 pm (Humanity Manse G6)
Professor Brigitta Busch, Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt
Organised by the Centre for Austrian Studies

Chomsky talk in Edinburgh, 22.3.05
Video recordings (in Windows Media and Real Player formats) of Noam Chomsky's lecture The Fateful Triangle: the US, Israel and the Palestinians
given at the University of Edinburgh on 22nd March are available to view online : click here.

seminar series, autumn semester 2004-5

 

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recent guest speakers

Prof. Joshua Fishman, Yeshiva University, New York

Profs. James and Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan

Prof. Rudolf de Cillia, University of Vienna

 

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