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October 2021
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| 07 Oct |
- Sociolinguistics reading group
- The sociolinguistic functions of codeswitching between Standard Arabic and Dialectal Arabic (online discussion)
- Linguistic Circle
- Multimodality and Linguistics. Or, A sequel to what does the selfie got to do with linguistics? (Sumin Zhao - online)
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| 08 Oct |
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| 11 Oct |
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| 14 Oct |
- Linguistic Circle
- Word-medial strengthening in Mixtecan languages (Christian DiCanio - online)
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| 15 Oct |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Salience, attention, and perception. In Entrenchment and the psychology of language learning: How we reorganize and adapt linguistic knowledge (online discussion)
- Language in context seminar
- "Hey Siri, why don't you understand me?" Speech and Language Technologies, Language Variation & Algorithmic Bias (Nina Markl - online)
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| 19 Oct |
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| 21 Oct |
- Sociolinguistics reading group
- Emoticons as a medium for channeling politeness within American and Japanese online blogging communities (online discussion)
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| 22 Oct |
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| 25-26 |
Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2021 (external website) |
| 26 Oct |
- Language evolution seminar
- Cultural evolutionary pragmatics: Investigating the co-evolution of language and social cognition (Paula Rubio-Fernandez - online)
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| 28 Oct |
- Linguistic Circle
- Connecting representations and learning using Minimum Description Length (Roni Katzir - online)
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| 29 Oct |
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September 2021
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| 28 Sep |
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August 2021
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| 04-06 |
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| 06 Aug |
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| 09 Aug |
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| 13 Aug |
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| 23 Aug |
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July 2021
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| 05 Jul |
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| 09 Jul |
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| 16 Jul |
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| 23 Jul |
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| 30 Jul |
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June 2021
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| 01 Jun |
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| 04 Jun |
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| 08 Jun |
- Language evolution seminar
- Showing and seeing: enactment in British Sign Language conversations (Gabrielle Hodge & Sannah Gulamani - online)
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- LrFG: Implementing realizational morphosyntax in a constraint-based framework (Paul Melchin, Ash Asudeh, Michael Everdell & Daniel Siddiqi - online)
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| 10-12 |
- International linguistics conference
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| 14 Jun |
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| 15 Jun |
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| 18 Jun |
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| 22 Jun |
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- Where does that come from? A Model for the Development of Declarative Complementizers in Indo-European (Danny Bate - online)
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| 25 Jun |
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| 28 Jun |
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| 29 Jun |
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May 2021
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| 03 May |
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| 04 May |
- Language evolution seminar
- Differential argument marking and efficiency: New typological and experimental evidence (Natalia Levshina - online)
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| 07 May |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Discussing: Schemas and the frequency/acceptability mismatch: Corpus distribution predicts sentence judgments (online)
- Language in context seminar
- The impact of the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 on deaf children and young people’s education (Rob Wilks & Rachel O’Neill - online)
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| 11 May |
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| 14 May |
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| 17 May |
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| 18 May |
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| 21 May |
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| 25 May |
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| 31 May |
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April 2021
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| 01 Apr |
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| 02 Apr |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Can Conceptual Blending Theory help to explain meaning representation in bilinguals? (Monika Terlecka - online)
- Language in context seminar
- Language choice and code-switching in English and Arabic in the informal written practices of students (Ali Almuhayya - online)
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| 07 Apr |
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| 16 Apr |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Discussing: Unidirectionality as a cycle of convention and innovation. Micro-changes in the grammaticalization of [be going to INF] - online
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| 19 Apr |
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| 20 Apr |
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| 23 Apr |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Some metaphors are more equal than others: Extending the debate on metaphor to verbs (Claudia Raihert - online)
- Language in context seminar
- Mål means språk: Nynorsk activism and discourses of solidarity/allyship with Norway's Indigenous communities (James Puchowski - online)
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| 27 Apr |
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March 2021
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| 02 Mar |
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| 04 Mar |
- Linguistic Circle
- Autosegmental Metrical Phonology - Unpacking the Boxes (Martine Grice - online)
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| 05 Mar |
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| 08 Mar |
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| 09 Mar |
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| 16 Mar |
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| 18 Mar |
- Linguistic Circle
- Invocations, Slurs, and Social Meaning (Elin McCready and Christopher Davis - online)
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| 19 Mar |
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| 22 Mar |
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| 23 Mar |
- Language evolution seminar
- The social modulation of learning and communicative pressures in the cultural evolution of language (Gareth Roberts - online)
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| 24 Mar |
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| 25 Mar |
- Linguistic Circle
- Languages and Cultural Justice: Tentative steps towards a third age of common heritage of humankind (Alison Phipps - online)
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| 26 Mar |
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| 29 Mar |
- Bilingualism research group
- Comparing voices across languages: An acoustic and forensic exploration of sibilant /s/ in English and French (Justin Lo - online)
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| 30 Mar |
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February 2021
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| 01 Feb |
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| 02 Feb |
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| 05 Feb |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Emergentism II (contemporary approaches)
- Language in context seminar
- Speaking Citizens: Historical and sociolinguistic perspectives on oracy, multiculturalism and bilingual development in UK schools (Stuart Dunmore, Tom F. Wright & Arlene Holmes-Henderson - online)
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| 08 Feb |
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| 09 Feb |
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| 11 Feb |
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| 12 Feb |
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| 19 Feb |
- Language in context seminar
- Language Ideology and Inequality in Education Policy: Language Ideology and beliefs amongst North Koreans Living in South Korea (Ye-jin Shin - online)
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| 22 Feb |
- Sociolinguistics reading group
- Interpretations of "Chinglish": Native speakers, language learners and the enregisterment of a stigmatized code
- Bilingualism research group
- Heritage-bilingual Linguistic Proficiency in their Native Grammar: Predictive processing of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese heritage speakers using eye-tracking via internet (Maki Kubota - online)
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| 23 Feb |
- Language evolution seminar
- Regularisation, naturalness, and harmony in emerging word order conventions (Yasamin Motamedi & Simon Kirby - online)
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| 25 Feb |
- Linguistic Circle
- Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London (Paul Kerswill - online)
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January 2021
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| 11 Jan |
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| 15 Jan |
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| 19 Jan |
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| 22 Jan |
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| 25 Jan |
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| 26 Jan |
- Language evolution seminar
- Cultural evolution creates duality of patterning: the role of population structure in the simplicity/expressivity trade-off (Simon Kirby - online)
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| 29 Jan |
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December 2020
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| 01 Dec |
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| 04 Dec |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Reanalysis, Reintegration, Reinforcement? Re-examining the origins of the German PPPC
- Language in context seminar
- “Feeling disabled”: Vowel qualities, auditory deprivation and deaf and hard-of-hearing speakers of Taiwan Mandarin (Tsung-Lun Alan Wan - online)
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| 10 Dec |
- Linguistic Circle
- Southern Multilingualisms: towards a decolonization of African sociolinguistics (Sinfree Makoni - online)
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| 11 Dec |
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| 14 Dec |
- Bilingualism research group
- Sentence Processing and Individual Differences in Non-Native Comprehension: Evidence From Garden-Paths (Ian Cunnings online)
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| 15 Dec |
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November 2020
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| 02 Nov |
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| 03 Nov |
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| 06 Nov |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Change from dynamic modality to conditionality and the meanings of the conditional protasis
- Language in context seminar
- Sociolinguistics in 2020: The Lothian Diary Project (Lauren Hall-Lew, Claire Cowie, Catherine Lai, Nina Markl & Stephen McNulty - online)
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| 10 Nov |
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| 12 Nov |
- Linguistic Circle
- The impact of attentional centering on ergative marking in Tima (Gertrud Schneider-Blum - online)
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| 13 Nov |
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| 16 Nov |
- Bilingualism research group
- Bilingualism as a neuroprotective factor in ageing: Insights from healthy and clinical populations (Toms Voits online)
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| 17 Nov |
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| 20 Nov |
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| 23 Nov |
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| 24 Nov |
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| 26 Nov |
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| 27 Nov |
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| 30 Nov |
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October 2020
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| 01 Oct |
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| 02 Oct |
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| 05 Oct |
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| 06 Oct |
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| 09 Oct |
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| 13 Oct |
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| 15 Oct |
- Linguistic Circle
- Language as an instrument of thought and communication. Evidence from interactional language. (Martina Wiltschko)
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| 16 Oct |
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| 19 Oct |
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| 20 Oct |
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| 23 Oct |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Working memory and its implications for language evolution
- Language in context seminar
- A Stornoway cove and a Broch quine – thoughts on regional voices, identity and attitudes to language in Ian Stephen’s novel A Book of Death and Fish (Karin Bosshard - online)
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| 27 Oct |
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| 29 Oct |
- Language evolution seminar
- Competition, selection and communicative need in language change: an investigation using corpora, computational modelling and experimentation
- Linguistic Circle
- Calle Börstell, "Isn't it iconic? (Don't you think?)"
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| 30 Oct |
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September 2020
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| 29 Sep |
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August 2020
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| 06 Aug |
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July 2020
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| 03 Jul |
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| 09 Jul |
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| 17 Jul |
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| 23 Jul |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Analogy as relational priming: A developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill
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June 2020
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| 02 Jun |
- Language evolution seminar
- Linguistic Prescription, Ideological Structure and the Actuation of Linguistic Changes: Grammatical Gender in French Parliamentary Debates
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| 09 Jun |
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| 11 Jun |
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| 16 Jun |
- Language evolution seminar
- Assessing integrative complexity as a predictor of morphological learning in the presence of phonological cues
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| 23 Jun |
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| 30 Jun |
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May 2020
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| 04 May |
- Bilingualism research group
- Exploring the impact of a Swiss bilingual program (French/German) on L2 and mathematics learning through a mixed method design (Emile Jenny - online)
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| 14 May |
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| 19 May |
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| 26 May |
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| 28 May |
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April 2020
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| 03 Apr |
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| 16-17 Apr |
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| 20 Apr |
- Bilingualism research group
- The Impact of Bilingualism on the Executive Functions of Autistic Children: A Study of English-Arabic Children (Shereen Sharaan - online)
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| 21 Apr |
- Centre for Language Evolution
- Acquisition of grammatical and sociolinguistic variation: Evidence from artificial language learning (Betsy Sneller - online)
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| 24 Apr |
- Language in context seminar
- No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Towards a materialist account of context and social change (Tom Bartlett - online)
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| 30 Apr |
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March 2020
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| 04 Mar |
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| 05 Mar |
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| 12 Mar |
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| 17 Mar |
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| 18 Mar |
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| 20 Mar |
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| 26 Mar |
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| 27 Mar |
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| 31 Mar |
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February 2020
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| 04 Feb |
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| 05 Feb |
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| 07 Feb |
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| 10 Feb |
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| 12 Feb |
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| 13 Feb |
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| 14 Feb |
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| 18 Feb |
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| 19 Feb |
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| 20 Feb |
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| 27 Feb |
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| 28 Feb |
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January 2020
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| 16 Jan |
- Linguistic Circle
- Lexically restricted phonological alternation: the case for via-rules (Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero)
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| 21 Jan |
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| 22 Jan |
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| 23 Jan |
- Language in context seminar
- Migration to Scotland: translanguaging practices, semiotic repertoires and identities at a Turkish barber’s (Betül Seda)
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| 24 Jan |
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| 27 Jan |
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| 28 Jan |
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| 30 Jan |
- Linguistic Circle
- Real crosslinguistic research: Focussing on the similarities, not the differences (Ben Ambridge)
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| 31 Jan |
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