Events
Regular seminars and events
The regular departmental speaker series for Linguistics and English Language is the Linguistic Circle, on Thursday afternoons.
The Linguistics
&
English Language
Society
rides
again
"... for auld lang soc"
The first meeting is this Thursday (19/11/09) at 7.00pm, Native State.
In addition, many of the research groups run seminars, details of which can be found on their pages.
The P-workshop programme consists of talks seminars and discussions on subjects relating to phonetics, phonology and speech technology.
Every spring the postgraduate students in the department organise and participate in the Postgraduate Conference.
Throughout the year, postgraduates also participate in running the bi-monthly Language at Edinburgh Lunch.
There are a number of other speaker series that are of interest to members of the department, including the following:
Conferences and Workshops
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 2009)
- Summer School of Sociolinguistics (June 2009)
- The Sixth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP6 2009)
- International Research Training Group in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems (IRTG 2008)
- Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 23 (CGSW 2008)
- International Congress For The Study Of Child Language (IASCL 2008)
- the biennial International Conference on the Evolution of Language ( evolang 2008)
- The annual meeting of British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL 2007)
- NEW2 · 2nd Northern Englishes Workshop (2007)
- Children with Two Tongues (RSA 2007)
- NESS · Northeast Syntax Seminar (2006)
- ESRC seminar series on Evolutionary approaches to culture, cognition and communication (2006-2007)
- Language Evolution: Formal Modelling meets Empirical Data (2005)
- CSTR's 21st anniversary (CSTR 2 005)
- Trajectory models for speech processing - one day meeting (CSTR 2005)
- European Masters in Language and Speech summer school (EuroMasters 2005)
- International conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English ( 2005)
- BeST · Between Stress and Tone (IIAS 2005)
- mfm · Manchester Phonology Meeting (2007)
- 13th annual meeting of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 2003)
- 5th annual meeting of the GDR Phonologie in Montpellier ( 2003)
- Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages conference (2003)
- Toulouse Conference on English Phonology (2002)
- DiSS '01 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (2001)
- LMEC2 · Conference on the English Language in the Late Modern Period 1700-1900 (2001)
- HENRY SWEET SOCIETY (2000)
