Research Seminar Series 2024
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2024 SCHEDULE
Note: Seminars usually take place on Friday afternoons from 4pm to 5pm, unless otherwise noted, and will be presented both on campus and online wherever possible. The on-campus venue is the Delbridge Room (Room 558) in 12 Second Way. The Zoom link is always https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88546604589?pwd=cFVqbmdCb2hvT04yRTliN1B6VVJtUT09
Password: 798325
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(Organisers: Adam Smith, Ashleigh Jones)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb-23 | Samantha Rarrick (Griffith University) | Eyeblinks, prosody, and mobilizing sign language documentation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| April-5* | James McElvenny (Universität Siegen) | Linguistic relativity and translation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 3-May | Rod Gardner (University of Queensland) | How to subvert the turn-taking rules of conversation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 10-May** | Charles Chang (Berkeley) | Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire (Abstract) | |
| 24-May | Camilla Di Biase-Dyson | Colour, emotion and the universality/relativity debate. A perspective from languages of the Ancient Near East | |
| 14-June* | Sari Pietikainen (University of Jyväskylä) | ||
| 21-June* | Marco Santello (University of Turin) | ||
| 12-July* | Book Launch | Life in a new language | |
| 2-August | Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz) | ||
| 9-August | Caroline de Dear | Questions with gender | |
| 16-August | MIke Proctor | ||
| 23-August | Nan Xu/Rebecca Holt | Beyond Speech: Towards better communication for children with hearing loss | |
| 6-September | Lauren Reed | A pragmatic typological survey of backchannelling in sociolinguistically diverse sign languages | |
| 4-October | Richard Savery | Robotic Musicianship | |
| 18-October | |||
| 1-November | Xin Wang & Junjie Wu | Tonal Bilingualism? | |
| 15-November** | Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt University) |
*co-hosted with Language on the Move
**co-hosted with CLaS