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Spring term
 
Date (2012)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room

16th January

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c108

23rd January

Xin KangThe effect of verb semantics, entrenchment, and first language on Chinese-speaking learners’ acquisition of English causative alternation
c108

30th January

Yuval HarpazRight Hemisphere's contribution to ambiguity resolution. Split visual fields, hand differences, TMS and MEG
c108

6th February

Andy EllisDissociating semantic representation from semantic control areas in an fMRI study of word learning and semantic richness.
c108

13th February

Shekeila Palmer TBC
c108

20th February

--cancelled--

c108

27th February

Sam Hellmuth & Becky TaylorAre English listeners ‘stress-deaf’?
c108

5th March

James DaveySemantic control and representation
c108

12th March

Benedetta Bassetti (education) Counterfactual reasoning in Chinese speakers
c108


Autumn term
 
Date (2011)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room
13th Sept
Jenni Rodd
C003
10th October
 
 

17th October

Elaine Tham

Effects of sleep on knowledge integration and automaticity of processing

C108

 
24th October

cancelled

B002

31st October

Paolo Zandomeneghi


C108

7th November

cancelled

C108

14th November

Leah Roberts

Pronoun resolution in spoken German discourse: A visual-world eye-tracking study with native speakers and L2 learners

B002

21st November

Gareth Gaskell

 

Implicit phonotactic learning in speech production (and power-naps)

C108

28th November

Gitte Joergensen & Gerry Altmann


Cracking eggs; cracking nuts

B002

5th December

Markus van Ackeren

Towards a neuro-cognitive architecture for language understanding

C108

Autumn term
Date (2010)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room
11th Oct
Lisa Henderson
Surviving a PhD and starting a Postdoc: From ambiguity resolution to novel word learning in children A104
18th Oct
Dimitar Kazakov
Simulating the Benefits of Language C108
25th Oct
Alex Ried
Semantic memory consolidation over a 24 hour period C108
1st Nov



8th Nov


C108
15th Nov Silvia Gennari
Linking production and comprehension in the processing a relative clauses C108
22nd Nov Benedetta Bassetti Effects of removing morphemic information and adding interword spacing on Chinese adult and child readers C108
29th Nov
Meesha Warmington
Learning new words: applying the errorless learning paradigm C108
6th Dec Gerry Altmann
Language and the oculomotor system: language-mediation of saccadic and fixational eye movements C108
13th Dec

C108



Summer term
Date (2010)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room
 26th April
Hannah Gardner 
Semantic memory and executive control: evidence for multimodal impairments and lesion location differences
C108 
 3rd May
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 10th May
Multilingual Resources, Word Sense Disambiguation and Synonymy Detection. C108
 17th May
Explaining sentence complexity effects in children:  Similarity-interference and the role of animacy in comprehension. C108
 24th May


C108
 31st May
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 7th June
Sam Hellmuth  Why prosodic typology might matter: accents in Egyptian Arabic accents C108
 14th June
Liat Levita
A walk on the aversive side - the nucleus accumbens and other creatures.
A104
 21st June Ana Petrova Consistency effects in visual and auditory word recognition C108
 28th June Shekeila Palmer  The Consolidation of Recognition Memory over Time: An ERP Investigation into Vocabulary Learning. C108


Spring term
Date (2010)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room
 11th Jan
 
 
 
 18th Jan
Cross-linguistic effects in the perception of assimilated speech.
A104 
 25th Jan
C108 
 1st Feb
Episodic and lexical competition effects during word learning
C108 
 8th Feb
C108 
 15th Feb
Age of Acquisition Effects in Vocabulary Learning.
C108 
 22nd Feb
Silvia Gennari C108 
 1st Mar
Nora Zahrani
Prosodic marking of same-turn self-repair in Arabic conversation.
C108
 8th Mar
Paper discussion: Adelman et al (2006) Contextual Diversity, Not Word Frequency, Determines Word-Naming and Lexical Decision Times
C108 
 15th Mar
Audrey Bürki 
Phonological variation and lexical representations in speech production
A104 

Autumn term

 Date (2009)
Speaker 
Title 
 Room
 12th Oct
Novel word learning and memory consolidation: 
an examination of sleep architecture 
 C108
 19th Oct
Some staggering experiments on word learning
 C108
 26th Oct
 
 
 C108
 2nd Nov
Gitte Joergensen 
Anticipating moved objects: event-plausibility matters, but not always...
 C108
 9th Nov
*note time: 4.30*
 A202
at 4:30
 16th Nov
 C108
 23rd Nov
Kaj Nyman
Cues to Vowels in the Aperiodic Phase of 
English Plosives  
 C108
 30th Nov
Phonology and late talkers
 A203
 7th Dec
Chris Rowson
Combinatorial semantics in the visual world  C108
 14th Dec


 A104