Linguistic Circle
Spring 2010
Unless otherwise stated below, talks are on a Thursday at 4.00 p.m. in Room 3.10/11, Dugald Stewart Building.
| 14 Jan | Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow) | Style and stance in the influence of television on sound change |
| 21 Jan | Chung-Hye Han (Simon Fraser) | Paucity of input and grammar competition in the acquisition of verb placement in Korean |
| 28 Jan | Thom Scott-Phillips (LEL) | Metarepresentations and the evolution of linguistic communication |
| 4 Feb | Aditi Lahiri (Oxford) | Asymmetries in language systems |
| 11 Feb | LEL job talks; no Linguistic Circle. | |
| 18 Feb | Klaus Abels (UCL) | Your talk may last exactly 60 minutes |
| 25 Feb | Tania Kuteva (Düsseldorf/SOAS) | On the semantics of grammatical categories |
| 4 Mar | Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen (Fródskaparsetur Føroya) | Attitudes to English import words in Faroese |
| 11 Mar | Frank Keller (Informatics) | Prediction in language processing |
| 18 Mar | Willem Hollmann (Lancaster) | Word classes in structuralist/generative and cognitive linguistics: Phonological evidence falling on deaf ears? |
| 25 Mar | Christian Uffmann (Sussex) | Posh girls like to move it: Vowel shifts and phonological theory |
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