Centre for Linguistic Research seminars, first half-session 2006-7

seminar series, spring 2007

date and venue

speaker

title

18th April
KCF22, 4.30 - 5.30pm Dr Mark Jones
Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge

The history of English /r/: implications from a cross-linguistic survey of variability in trills

abstract

2nd May
MacRobert MR266, 4.30 - 5.30pm

Dr Bronwen Evans
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London

Accent change in young adults: evidence for a link between production and perception

abstract | presentation (.pps)

Date, time, venue TBC Dr Jennifer Smith
Department of English Language, University of Glasgow
Title TBC

Date, time, venue TBC
Dr José Antonio Flores Farfán
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico City

Nahuatl: language maintenance and revitalization

seminar series, autumn 2006


date and venue	speaker	title
2nd October Taylor A31, 5.00-6.00pm	Thorsten Brato Department of English, Gießen Graduate School for the Humanities, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen	'Our pupils do NOT speak Doric, they speak Aberdonian!': First impressions of a sociophonetic study of adolescents in Aberdeen abstract \| presentation (.ppt)

18th October venue TBC	Remco Knooihuizen Linguistics & English Language, University of Edinburgh	So how bad is bad data really? Some examples from historical language death research

26th October KCG5, 5.00-6.00pm	Professor Joan Beal National Centre for English Cultural Tradition University of Sheffield	Shamed by your English? The market value of a 'good pronunciation' abstract

8th November MacRobert 268, 5.00-6.00pm	Dr Catherine Sangster BBC Pronunciation Research Unit	Pronunciation and the BBC details \| presentation (.ppt)

22nd November Taylor A21, 5.00-6.00pm	Tanja Pullwitt Industrial Psychology Research Centre, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen	'I could have saved a life that day, but I chose to look the other way': an investigation of safety conversations held offshore abstract

postponed until second half-session	Dr José Antonio Flores Farfán Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico City	Nahuatl: language maintenance and revitalization

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