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June 2023
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| 08 Jun |
PPLS Poster Forum 2023 |
| 26 - 28 |
- Conference (external website)
- United Kingdom Language Variation & Change 14
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| 28 Jun |
- Seminar
- Language re-learning in post-stroke aphasia: evidence from structural priming
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| 29 - 30 |
- Conference
- Language and New Media SIG Conference: New Dialogues and Frontiers
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May 2023
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| 02 May |
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| 03 May |
- Inaugural Lecture
- Professor Jennifer Culbertson (Language is shaped by Human Cognition)
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| 09 May |
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| 12 May |
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| 15 May |
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| 16 May |
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| 22 May |
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| 23 May |
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| 24 May |
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| 25 May |
PPLS Research Day |
| 29 May |
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| 31 May |
- Conference (external website)
- Challenges of Teaching Linguistics: Focus Group (English Teachers)
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April 2023
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| 03 Apr |
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| 07 Apr |
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| 18 Apr |
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| 25 Apr |
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| 28 Apr |
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March 2023
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| 06 Mar |
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| 07 Mar |
- Language evolution seminar
- A theory of morphological productivity is essential in characterizing noun classes: Corpus and experimental evidence from Bantu (Patrick Kanampiu)
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| 10 Mar |
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| 13 Mar |
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| 14 Mar |
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| 23 Mar |
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| 24 Mar |
PPLS Three Minute Thesis Competition (external website) |
| 27 Mar |
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| 28 Mar |
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| 30 Mar |
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February 2023
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| 06 Feb |
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| 07 Feb |
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| 13 Feb |
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| 16 Feb |
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| 17 Feb |
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| 20 Feb |
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| 27 Feb |
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| 28 Feb |
- Language evolution seminar
- The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study (Kenny Smith (with Clem Ashton and Helen Sims-Williams))
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January 2023
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| 19 Jan |
- Linguistic Circle
- Is Child-Directed Speech Tailored to Aid Language Development? (Vera Kempe)
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| 17 Jan |
- Language evolution seminar
- A thousand families, each alike in terminology: understanding the origins of crosslinguistic variation in kinship terminology (Maisy Hallam)
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| 24 Jan |
- Language evolution seminar
- The production, processing, planning and acquisition of syntactic variation – in search of the forces behind word order regularization (Björn Lundquist)
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- The syntax and semantics of biased questions: insights from child acquisition of English (Rebecca Woods)
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| 30 Jan |
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| 31 Jan |
- Language evolution seminar
- Not all cross-linguistic generalizations are driven by universal cognitive biases... but some are (Jennifer Culbertson)
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December 2022
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| 02 Dec |
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| 05 Dec |
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| 06 Dec |
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| 08 Dec |
- Research seminar (external website)
- Linguistic appropriation and the construction of gay identity (Christian Ilbury)
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| 12 Dec |
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| 13 Dec |
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November 2022
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| 01 Nov |
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- Given-before-new, and then what? Information structure and sentence structure influence processing and expectations (Hans Wilke)
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| 02 Nov |
- Linguistic Circle
- The SignMorph Project: Issues and challenges in studying lexical variation, morphological ‘complexity’, and sociolinguistic typology (Adam Schembri - online)
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| 07 Nov |
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| 08 Nov |
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| 10 Nov |
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| 14 Nov |
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| 15 Nov |
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| 16 Nov |
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| 21 Nov |
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| 23 Nov |
- How do we work on Buddism at PPLS? (external website)
- Join the Edinburgh Buddhist Studies Group for a discussion of how Buddhism has and might be researched and taught within the School of PPLS
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| 29 Nov |
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October 2022
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| 03 Oct |
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| 04 Oct |
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| 07 Oct |
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| 10 Oct |
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| 11 Oct |
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| 13 Oct |
- Linguistic Circle
- Could Language Development Look Different in Different Cultures? (Erika Hoff)
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| 17 Oct |
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| 18 Oct |
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| 24 Oct |
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| 31 Oct |
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September 2022
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| 15 Sep |
- Linguistic Circle
- From connotation to intensification: the semantics/pragmatics of deadjectival intensifiers (Rick Nouwen - hybrid format (in-person & online via MS Teams))
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| 26 Sep |
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| 27 Sep |
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| 29 Sep |
- Linguistic Circle
- Beyond hegemonic binaries: English and the Indian ‘vernaculars’ in post-liberalization India (Javed Majeed (in-person & online via MS Teams))
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August 2022
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| 12 Aug |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Constructionalization and panchronic mapping of the [MóX] informality and intensification construction (Roberto de Freitas - online)
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| 26 Aug |
- Language in context seminar
- First editions of two talks by Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu and Lauren Hall-Lew to be given at the BAAL conference in Bristol the following week.
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July 2022
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| 22 Jul |
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June 2022
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| 06-08 |
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| 07 Jun |
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| 10 Jun |
- Language in context seminar
- “…more copious and elegant than expected from an uncivilized people”: Admiration and othering in colonial descriptions of Mapudungun (Benjamin Molineaux - online)
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| 13 Jun |
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| 17 Jun |
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| 24 Jun |
- Language in context seminar
- Countering government’s low-intensity language policies on the ground: Family language policies in Castilian-Spanish dominated Galicia (Anik Nandi - online)
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| 28 Jun |
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May 2022
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| 03 May |
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| 06 May |
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| 10 May |
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| 13 May |
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| 16 May |
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| 17 May |
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- Presupposition variation by embedding environment and its consequences for criminal justice contexts (Elizabeth Allyn Smith)
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| 20 May |
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| 24 May |
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| 30 May |
- Bilingualism research group
- Exploring the influence of gender on classroom interaction and language speaking anxiety: a case study in the Basque Autonomous Community (Uxue Diez-Guiral - online)
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April 2022
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| 01 Apr |
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| 04 Apr |
- Bilingualism research group
- The relationship between second language acquisition and first language change: Discussing data from English learners of Italian (Mattia Zingaretti - online)
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| 07 Apr |
- Linguistic Circle
- Mapping the spread of Multicultural London English in Twitter data (Christian Ilbury - hybrid format (in-person or online via MS Teams))
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| 08 Apr |
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| 22 Apr |
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| 29 Apr |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation
- Language in context seminar
- Fictional sociologists: speaking the visual language of fear to analyze society (or: How learning English encouraged me to become a horror movie geek) (Jeanne Ferrier - online)
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March 2022
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| 04 Mar |
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| 07 Mar |
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| 08 Mar |
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| 10 Mar |
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| 11 Mar |
- Cognitive linguistics seminar
- Tracking constructional change: the development of now then as a discourse marker (Graeme Trousdale & Lorenzo Moretti - online)
- Language in context seminar
- The Empire Writes Back: Epistolary English-Gaelic Code-Switching in the Eighteenth-Century (Paedar Ó Muircheartaigh - online)
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| 15 Mar |
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| 17 Mar |
- Linguistic Circle
- Let’s talk about patterns! The use and meaning of generic sentences (Katrin Schulz - online)
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| 18 Mar |
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| 24 Mar |
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| 28 Mar |
- Bilingualism research group
- Exploring the effects of amount and length of L2 exposure on the cognitive and social development of children from monolingual homes attending Bilingual Education (Gloria Chamorro - online)
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| 29 Mar |
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| 31 Mar |
- Language variation and change
- Disability and Sociophonetic Variation among Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Speakers of Taiwan Mandarin (Tsung-Lun Alan Wan - online & in-person)
- Linguistic Circle
- Suppositional devices and their domain-restricting effects (Dan Lassiter - online)
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February 2022
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| 04 Feb |
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| 07 Feb |
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| 08 Feb |
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10 Feb
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- Sociolinguistics reading group
- Narrating the intersection: body, time, space and transition in one queer life (online discussion)
- Linguistic Circle
- The search for universal great ape gestures in chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans (Pritty Patel-Grosz - online)
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| 11 Feb |
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| 24 Feb |
- Linguistic Circle
- On the variable status of partial control (Michelle Sheehan - online)
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| 25 Feb |
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January 2022
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| 27 Jan |
- Linguistic Circle
- Investigating grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity (Hannah Gibson & Teresa Poeta - online)
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| 28 Jan |
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December 2021
|
| 02 Dec |
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| 03 Dec |
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| 06 Dec |
|
| 09 Dec |
- Linguistic Circle
- Multimodality as a design feature of human language capacity (Asli Ozyurek - online)
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| 10 Dec |
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| 14 Dec |
- Language evolution seminar
- Naturalness and systematicity in the emergence of linguistic structure (Yasamin Motamedi-Mousavi - online)
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| 16 Dec |
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| 17 Dec |
- Language in context seminar
- ‘he neither eat nor sleeped but watched my sleepless hours’ - Verbal inflection patterns in the private writings of Mary AnnWodrow Archbald (Nora Dörnbrack - online)
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November 2021
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| 01 Nov |
- Bilingualism research group
- The status of the ‘language’ concept and how languages are differentiated in the mind (Mike Sharwood Smith - online)
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| 02 Nov |
- Meaning and grammar seminar
- Internalist Investigations of Representation and Reference: Copredication as a Case Study (Elliot Murphy - online)
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| 04 Nov |
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| 05 Nov |
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| 08 Nov |
- Bilingualism research group
- From individual to generational attrition: Language change through communicative interaction (Yajun Liu - online)
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| 11 Nov |
- Linguistic Circle
- Semantics, pragmatics, and social statistics: How to build a flexible and stable communication system in the first decade and beyond (Yi Ting Huang - online)
|
| 12 Nov |
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| 16 Nov |
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| 17 Nov |
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| 18 Nov |
- Sociolinguistics reading group
- Racializing language, regimenting Latinas/os: Chronotope, social tense, and American raciolinguistic futures (online discussion)
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| 19 Nov |
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| 22 Nov |
- Bilingualism research group
- A comparative study on definitions of mental verbs in English and Chinese learner’s dictionaries: a local grammar approach (Qiao Zhou - online)
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| 25 Nov |
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| 26 Nov |
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| 30 Nov |
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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)
|
| 22 Oct |
|
| 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)
|
| 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
|
| 01 Jun |
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| 04 Jun |
|
| 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
|
| 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)
|
| 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
|
| 01 Apr |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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)
|
| 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
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 13 Oct |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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)
|
| 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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