News and events

CLaS hosts seminars, workshops and conferences in areas relevant to linguistics, language acquisition, phonology, computational linguistics, hearing and speech production disorders. Local and overseas authorities present papers for discussion during these meetings, allowing centre members and students to interact with authorities in their research fields.

2023 Colloquium Series

For presentations hosted by CLaS, the Zoom link is https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/85483422574?pwd=TGM3dWxqVWJOdWlPSWVwWnVxRXNKQT09 Password: 612574

For presentations co-hosted by the Department of Linguistics (*), the Zoom link is https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88546604589?pwd=cFVqbmdCb2hvT04yRTliN1B6VVJtUT09 Password: 798325

Date/time	Speaker	Title & Link to Abstract	Venue
23 June 2023, 4-5pm*	Erich Round	From a split second in the mind to millennia of persistence: How conjugation classes and declensions emerge and survive	Online & AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room
4 August 2023, 4-5pm*	Adina Camelia Bleotu & Mara Panaitescu	Insights into scales and relevance from disjunction in child Romanian	Online & AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room
31 August 2023, 4-5pm	Joey Stanley	Enriching our understanding of language change with vowel formant trajectories	Online Password: 612574
29 September 2023, 4-5pm*	Aude Noiray	Towards an integrative interactive approach to the development of spoken language fluency	Online & Delbridge Room (12SW, 558)
19 October 2023, 1:30-2:30pm	Anna Desjardins	An Introduction to LanguageLift	AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room & Online Password: 612574
16 November 2023, 11am-12pm	Sameer ud Dowla Khan	Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise	Online Password: 612574
27 November 2023, 10-11am	Amalia Arvaniti	The role and sources of individual variability in the production and processing of prominence and intonation	AHH 1.602 Seminar Room & Online Password: 612574

*Co-hosted with the Department of Linguistics.

2023 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

Date	Invited Keynote Speakers	Title and link to further information/registration	Venue
26-30 June 2023	Co-hosted by Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS)	International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14) Program and more information	Hybrid
14 August 2023	Kathryn Crowe (University of Iceland) Mark Guiberson (University of Wyoming) Mridula Sharma (Macquarie University)	Beyond Speech Workshop 2023 Program and more information	Online
27 November 2023, 1-3pm	Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University)	Workshop on Intonation	AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room & Online Password: 612574
13-14 December 2023	Led by Serje Robidoux	CLaS Stats Workshop: PCA and Factor Analysis	Hybrid