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Previous years

2022 Colloquium Series

Date/timeSpeakerTitle & Link to AbstractVenue
11 Feb 2022, 3-4pm
Asst. Prof. Heeju HwangDiscourse relation and referential choiceOnline
15 Mar 2022, 1-2pmProfessor Penny PexmanIrony acquisitionOnline
1 Apr 2022, 10-11amProfessor Marc GarellekProblems of phonetic representation: the case of glottal statesOnline
29 Apr 2022, 3-4pm*Dr William ForshawProsodic Licensing of Early Verbs in MurrinhpathaOnline
24 Jun 2022, 3-4pm*Professor Li ShengThe fine-grained effects of bilingualism on children’s lexical-semantic developmentOnline
8 Jul 2022, 3-4pm*Professor Patrick WongPredicting Individual Differences in Language Learning Across PopulationsOnline
3 Aug 2022, 5-6pmDr Manuel BohnA computational theory of individual differences in pragmatic abilitiesOnline
9 Sep 2022, 3-4pm*Professor Bob McMurrayThe Slow Development of Real Time Spoken and Written Word RecognitionAHH Lecture Theatre & Online
4 Nov 2022, 3-4pm*Professor Felicity CoxTowards a unified and inclusive model of Australian EnglishOnline
18 Nov 2022, 10-11amProfessor Michael C. FrankBigger data about smaller people: Exploring language learning at scaleOnline

*Co-hosted with the Department of Linguistics.

2022 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

DateInvited Keynote SpeakersTitle and link to further information/registrationVenue
17 May 2022Hosted by Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) 
CLaS Eye-tracking Workshop 1: Eye-tracking methods and paradigms

Hybrid

16 June 2022, 1pm-2:30pmPresented by Professor Stephen Crain
Abstract Writing Workshop
Online
6 September 2022Samantha J. Gustafson (University of Utah)
Evelien Dirks (Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child)
Beyond Speech Workshop 2022
Program and more information
Online
8 September 2022, 1pm-2pmBob McMurray (University of Iowa)Interactive discussion and tutorial with Bob McMurray: An Insider’s Guide to the Methodological Craft and Lore of the Visual World ParadigmHybrid
8 September 2022, 2pm-5pmHosted by Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS)CLaS Eye-tracking Workshop 2: Data analysis and statistical approachesHybrid
7-8 December 2022Led by Serje Robidoux
CLaS Stats Workshop: Building, Coding, and Interpreting Multiple Regression/Mixed Effects Models
Hybrid

2021 Colloquium Series

Date/timeSpeakerTitle & Link to AbstractVenue
26 Mar 2021, 3-4pm*
Gretel McDonald, Ormay Nangala Gallagher & Otto Jungarrayi Sims"I don't only speak Warlpiri, I AM Warlpiri"Online
9 April 2021, 3-4pm*Professor Katherine DemuthThe acquisition of weak elements: lexical, morphological, and prosodic considerations09WW Tute Rm 133 & online
22 April 2021, 9-10amDr Elaine Kearney

Sensorimotor control of speech and voice production: Insights from experimental and modeling studies

Online
28 May 2021, 3-4pm*Professor Paola EscuderoLanguage learning research at a distance: data from adults and bilingual pre-schoolers09WW Tute Rm 133 & online
25 June 2021, 3-4pm*Professor Gillian WigglesworthDeveloping an early literacy app in Dhuwaya, a Yolŋu varietyOnline
9 July 2021, 3-4pm*Assoc. Prof. Tim HunterGeneralising active gap-fillingOnline
30 July 2021, 3-4pm*Assoc. Prof. Kiwako ItoSubject-Verb Agreement in L2 processing: L2 learners are sensitive to subject plurality but no to verb pluralityOnline
23 August 2021, 4-5pmAsst. Prof. Natalie Boll-AvetisyanLimits of variability in rhythm perceptionOnline
3 September 2021, 3-4pm*Dr Joe BlytheAre you my mother? Learning to discern who’s who within a universal kinship systemOnline
17 September 2021, 3-4pm*Dr Lynn ClarkWhat is the Southland accent?Online
1 October 2021, 3-4pm*Dr Rebecca HoltContext effects in spoken language processing among children with hearing lossOnline
12 November 2021, 9-10amProfessor Matt GoldrickThe relationship(s) between planning and articulation in multilingual speechOnline

*Co-hosted with the Department of Linguistics.

2021 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

DateInvited Keynote SpeakersTitle and link to further information/registrationVenue
19 February 2021Led by Andy Gibson, Rosanne Abrahamse and Nan Xu Rattanasone
Gorilla Workshop on creating online studies

2 SW (C5A), Rm 307 & online

14-15 October 2021Susan Nittrouer (University of Florida)
Catherine McMahon (Macquarie University)
Suzanne Purdy (University of Auckland)
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano (University of Colorado)
Beyond Speech Workshop
(CLaS/Child Language Lab workshop) 
Online
14-15 December 2021Led by Serje RobidouxCLaS Stats Workshop: Bayesian Statistical Methods for language sciencesHybrid

2020 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

DateInvited Keynote SpeakersTitle and link to further information/registrationVenue
20-21/8/20Dr Mary-Beth Brinson
Dr Teresa Ching
Dr Aleisha Davis
Ms Sam Harkus
Associate Prof Derek Houston
Dr Greg Leigh

Perspectives on language in children with hearing loss (CLaS/Child Language Lab workshop)

Online

2019 Colloquium Series

Date/timeSpeakerTitle & Link to AbstractVenue
21 Oct
2019
230pm-330pm
Dr Kiwako ItoSpeech input to children with ASD and their speech and social cue processingRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
30 Sept 2019
1pm - 2pm 
A/Prof Drew KhlentzosDetachment, possibility and the None From One puzzleRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
23 Sept
2019
230pm-330pm
Dr Traci FlynnSpeech and language development in children with hearing impairment: 0-12 years of ageRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
17 Sept
2019
2pm - 3pm
Dr Tamara RathckeWhen language hits the beat: synchronising movement to simple tonal and verbal stimuliRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
12 August 2019
2pm - 3pm
Prof Bryan GickCross-modal speech perception through (some of) the somatosensesRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
29 July 2019
2pm - 3pm
Prof Lucie MénardSpeech development in children with impaired articulatory or sensory systemsRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
29 July 2019
1130am - 1230pm
Prof Aditi Lahiri

What you think you hear may not be what has been said: Processing alternatives and asymmetry

Rm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
19 July 2019
1030am - 1130am
A/Prof Luisa MeroniHandling scope ambiguity: bilinguals do it betterRm 3.610
Level 3, AHH
Macquarie University
5 April 2019
11am - 12noon
Prof Sebastian MöllerQuality Engineering of Speech and Language ServicesRm 221 BD Blg
4 Research Park Dr
Macquarie University

2019 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

DateInvited Keynote SpeakersTitle and link to further information/registrationVenue
9/12/19
Prof Naama Friedmann
Prof Bob McMurray

CLaS Workshop on Language Acquisition in Children with Hearing Loss
Satellite Workshop of the Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2019

AHH Level 1 Lecture
Theatre

25/10/19
1-2pm
Prof Stephen Crain
CLaS HDR/ECR Workshop - Writing a Letter to the Editor of a Journal
AHH
Level 1
Rm 1.601
1/8/19-
2/8/19

A/Prof Núria Esteve-Gibert
Prof Bryan Gick
Prof Aditi Lahiri
Prof Lucie Ménard

Toward Modelling the Development of Speech Planning in ProductionAHH
Level 1
Lecture
Theatre
21/6/19Prof Stephen Crain
Dr Iain Giblin
CLaS Abstract Writing WorkshopAHH
Level 3
Rm 3.610
23/1/19- 25/1/19A/P Katie Drager
Dr Lynn Clark
Prof Katherine Demuth
4th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP4)17 Wallys Walk 
(C5C)

2018 Colloquium Series

Date/timeSpeaker Title & Link to AbstractVenue
30/1/2018
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Dr Gwendolyn Hyslop When “tone” is “voice” and “voice” is tone: tone and tonogenesis in Kurtöp AHH 3.610
26/2/2018 2.00pm - 3.00pm Dr Anna Eva Hallin Language processing and awareness in Swedish-speaking school-age children with and without developmental language disorder AHH 3.610
19/3/2018
11.00am - 12.30pm
Philip Schulz

Variational inference and deep generative models - Part 1

9 Wally's Walk, Room 357
20/3/2018
12.00pm - 1.30pm
Philip Schulz

Variational inference and deep generative models - Part 2

9 Wally's Walk, Room 357
4/6/2018
11.00am-12noon
Peter Anderson Language and vision using deep neural nets AHH 3.610
5/6/2018
2.00pm - 3.00pm
A/Prof Amanda Rysling Preferential early attribution in segmental perception and its consequences for phonology AHH 3.610
5/7/2018
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Prof Emily Bender Articulating how our NLP data and systems do and don't represent the world: Toward mitigating bias and enabling better science 9 Wally's Walk, Room 357
23/7/2018
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Prof Erika Hoff What bilingual children teach us about language development AHH 3.610
24/7/2018
12noon - 1.00pm
Prof Johanne Paradis Bilingual development in children with language and communication disorders from migrant families AHH 3.610
24/7/2018
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Prof Theo Marinis The development of phonological awareness and reading decoding in bilingual children: effects of bilingualism and language dominance AHH 3.610
30/7/2018
11.00am - 12noon
Prof Mark Steedman A formal universal of natural language grammar AHH 3.610
1/8/2018
2.30pm - 3.30pm
Prof Bonnie Webber Discourse coherence: Concurrent explicit and implicit relations AHH 3.610
11/9/2018
11.00am - 12noon
Dr James Grama, Dr Simón GonzálezExpanding the study of linguistic variation through forced alignmentAHH 3.610
26/9/2018
3.00pm - 4.00pm
Dr Alison HolmWhat do we know about speech sound disorders in bilingual children?AHH 3.610
16/10/2018
11.00am - 12noon
Prof Niels SchillerMorphological processing in speech production: The case of compoundingAHH 3.610
21/11/2018
11.00am- 12noon
Dr Vitória Piai Language and speech functioning through an electrophysiological lensAHH 3.610
17/12/2018
2.00pm - 3.00pm
E/Prof Tom WasowWhy are natural languages so ambiguous?AHH 3.610

2018 Workshops/Conferences

DateInvited SpeakersTitle and link to further information/registrationVenue
23/4/2018-24/4/2018

Prof Xu Hai Guangdong

Prof Rosemary Clerehan

Prof Lynda Yates

Medical Terms and their Contexts of UseDelbridge Room 558,
Level 5, SW12 (C5A)
26/7/2018-27/7/2018

Prof Erika Hoff

Prof Theo Marinis

Dr Carmel O'Shannessy

Prof Johanne Paradis

Prof Gillian Wigglesworth

Current Issues in Child Bilingual DevelopmentAHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre
12/9/2018Dr Simón González
Dr James Grama
Keeping up to date with forced alignment: the Montreal Forced AlignerAHH Level 3 
Room 3.610
3/12/2018Dr Martijn Wieling

CLaS-CCD Workshop on analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modelling

AHH Level 3
Room 3.610

2018 Public Lectures

DateSpeakerTitle and link to further informationVenue
24/4/2018
12noon - 1:00pm
Professor Scott Johnson
University of California Los Angeles
Mechanisms of statistical learning in infancyAHH Level 1 Lecture
Theatre
   

2017 Workshops/Conferences

Date/timeInvited Speakers Title & Link for further informationVenue
8/3/2017
  • Professor Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University)
  • Associate Professor Mridula Sharma (Macquarie University)
  • Professor Gillian Wigglesworth  (University of Melbourne)
  • Dr Anna Stephen (University of Melbourne)
The relationship between Indigenous children's ear health and phonological awareness in remote communitiesAHH 3.610
7/11/2017-8/11/2017
  • Dr Jill Duncan (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
  • Dr Megan Gilliver (National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney, Australia)
  • Dr Fiona Kyle (City University of London, UK)
  • Professor Amy R Lederberg (Georgia State University, USA)
  • Professor Greg Leigh (Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, Sydney, Australia)
Maximising the potential for proficient reading in young people with hearing loss: What does the evidence tell usAHH Level 1 Lecture Theatre
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