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See the schedule for our linguistics seminars
The Department of Linguistics hosts research seminars regularly throughout the year.
You can hear from experts on a wide variety of topics. Join us on campus or online.
Seminars usually take place:
- on Fridays
- from 4pm to 5pm
- in the Delbridge Room (Room 558), 12 Second Way – unless otherwise specified.
Seminars will be presented both on campus and online. Join us using Zoom. Password: 798325
Upcoming seminars
See our upcoming 2024 seminars below.
| Date | Speaker/s | Seminar title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July – download abstract | Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz) | From the Grimms’ fairy tales to Star Wars: How linguistics investigates the language of popular culture with corpora | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 9 Aug | Caroline de Dear | Questions with gender | |
| 16 Aug | Mike Proctor | ||
| 23 Aug | Nan Xu/Rebecca Holt | Beyond Speech: Towards better communication for children with hearing loss | |
| 30 Aug** | Mark Johnson | ||
| 6 Sept | Lauren Reed | A pragmatic typological survey of backchannelling in sociolinguistically diverse sign languages | |
| 13 Sept** | Greig de Zubicaray (Queensland University of Technology) | ||
| 20 Sept | Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) | ||
| 27 Sept** | Raphaël Millière | ||
| 4 Oct | Richard Savery | Robotic Musicianship | |
| 18 Oct | Joe Blythe | ||
| 1 Nov | Xin Wang and Junjie Wu | Tonal Bilingualism? | |
| 15 Nov** | Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt University) | Phonaesthetics of fictional languages |
*Co-hosted by Language on the Move. **Co-hosted with CLaS.
Past seminars
See some of our previous seminars below.
2024
| Date | Speaker/s | Seminar title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Feb – download abstract | Samantha Rarrick (Griffith University) | Eyeblinks, prosody, and mobilizing sign language documentation | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 5 Apr – download abstract* | James McElvenny (Universität Siegen) | Linguistic relativity and translation | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 3 May – download abstract | Rod Gardner (University of Queensland) | How to subvert the turn-taking rules of conversation | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 10 May – download abstract** | Charles Chang (Boston University) | Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 24 May – download abstract | Camilla Di Biase-Dyson | Colour, emotion and the universality/relativity debate. A perspective from languages of the Ancient Near East | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 7 June – download abstract** | Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal) | Multisensory integration in speech production and perception: the case of French-speaking children and adults | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 14 June – download abstract* | Sari Pietikäinen (University of Jyväskylä) | Connecting discursive and material elements in the heating Arctic: A critical assemblage analysis | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 21 June – download abstract** | Marco Santello (University of Turin) | On decoupling migrants' individual resourcefulness and communicate success: questions from the field | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 5 July – download abstract* | Liesa Rühlmann (Bielefeld University) | Linguistic racism and speaker positionality in Germany’s schools | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 12 July* | Book Launch | Life in a new language | T1 Lecture Theatre, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue |
*Co-hosted by Language on the Move. **Co-hosted with CLaS.
2023
| Date | Speaker/s | Seminar title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar – download abstract* | Jean Cho | No vegemite and toast for breakfast: cultural and linguistic challenges in healthcare interpreting | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 31 Mar – download abstract* | Ingrid Piller and Agi Bodis | Language testing in university admission procedures | 25WW Rm602-3/Zoom |
| 21 Apr – download abstract* | Alice Duan | Mutilingual abilities and poverty in Southwest China | 25WW Rm602-3/Zoom |
| 28 Apr – download abstract | Mike Proctor | The truth is out there, but you might not find it: multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 12 May – download abstract | Jessie Chen | Touches in Mandarin-speaking interaction: Managing participation and sequence organisation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 19 May – download abstract | Andreea Deleanu (University of Surrey) | Improving access to audiovisual narratives for cognitively diverse audiences | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 26 May – download abstract | Nick Williams (University of Potsdam) | Grammar and Interaction in Indonesian: state of the art and prospects | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 9 June – download abstract | Dariush Izadi (Western Sydney University) | Exploring the phenomenology of shopping as social practice: An inquiry into the multimodal and linguistic repertoires in markets in Sydney | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 16 June – download abstract | Ashleigh Jones (HDR candidate) | The Multiple Worlds of Enactment in Cross-modal Auslan and English interactions | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 23 June – download abstract** | Erich Round (UQ/Surrey) | From a split second in the mind to millennia of persistence: How conjugation classes and declensions emerge and survive | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 28 July – download abstract | Stafford Lumsden (University of Sydney) | Social Semiotic Approaches to Examining Online Learning Environments | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 4 Aug – download abstract** | Adina Camelia Bleotu & Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest) | Insights into scales and relevance from disjunction in child Romanian | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 11 Aug – download abstract | Mitchell Browne & Tom Ennever | The functions of the locative case in Pama-Nyungan languages | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 1 Sept – download abstract | Harvey Dillon | Separating the causes of listening difficulty in children | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 15 Sept – download abstract | Yeong-Ju Lee (HDR Candidate) | Language learners’ creative uses of TikTok for informal language learning (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 22 Sept – download abstract* | Hanna Torsh | Ten years on: how has family language policy changed between 2012 and 2022? | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 29 Sept – download abstract** | Aude Noiray | How does phonological awareness impact on the development of spoken and reading fluency? | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 6 Oct – download abstract | Amir Sheikhan (University of Queensland) | Conversational humour in intercultural interactions: Bridging interactional and cognitive perspectives | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 13 Oct – download abstract | Peter Collins (UNSW) | Exploring World Englishes with GloWbE | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 20 Oct – download abstract | Lisa Petersen (HDR candidate, Griffith University) | Documenting and analysing phonology and variation in HSL | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 27 Oct – download abstract | Michael Haugh (University of Queensland) | Analysing the unsaid in social interaction | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 10 Nov – download abstract | Josh Penney | Ladz in the hood: Features of Pasifika English in drill rappers from Western Sydney? | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
*Co-hosted by Language on the Move. **Co-hosted with CLaS.
2022
| Date | Speaker/s | Seminar title |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb – download abstract | Alex Walker (James Cook University) | Building a Bridge: Creating a Pidgin for Indigenous Language Revitalisation |
| 4 Mar – download abstract | Gearóidín McEvoy (Birmingham Law School) | The Créatúr and the Slíbhín: Tropes about Irish speakers and Deaf people in the Criminal Justice System |
| 25 Mar – download abstract | Chavalin Svetanant, Jasna Novak Milic and Patricia Koromvokis | Multilingual Challenges: Building bridges between classrooms and communities |
| 1 Apr – download abstract | Tom Ennever (Monash University) | One nose walking: Semantic and morphosyntactic aspects of body part terms in two languages of the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia |
| 22 Apr – download abstract | Phil Benson | Assemblage theory and language mobility: How come some languages can’t keep still, while others barely move at all? |
| 29 Apr – download abstract | William Forshaw (University of Melbourne) | Prosodic Licensing of Early Verbs in Murrinhpatha |
| 6 May – download abstract | Adam Smith | Attitudes to immigration in Australian Hansard: 1970-2020 |
| 13 May – download abstract | Mike Proctor | Pealing lips and leaping pills: new insights into lateral approximants |
| 20 May – download abstract | Rob Mailhammer (Western Sydney University) | Variation and grammar: natural enemies? Lessons from Croker Island |
| 27 May – download abstract | Lila San Roque (University of Sydney) | I smell the salt lovely: Talking about olfactory experience with children |
| 17 Jun – download abstract | Sue Ollerhead | What can Australian classrooms learn from Ubuntu translanguaging? Enhancing epistemic access for multilingual students |
| 24 Jun – download abstract | Li Sheng | The fine-grained effects of bilingualism on children’s lexical-semantic development |
| 8 Jul – download abstract | Patrick Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | Predicting Individual Differences in Language Learning Across Populations |
| 5 Aug – download abstract | Samuel Calder | Morphosyntax and the Efficacy of Explicit Intervention for Children with Developmental Language Disorder |
| 12 Aug – download abstract | Peter Roger | Telehealth Interactions in General Practice: An interdisciplinary approach |
| 19 Aug | Luke Alexander | ‘HR-speak’ and ‘ticking boxes’: Using metalanguage to analyse workplace discourse |
| 26 Aug – download abstract | Pieter Siemund (University of Hamburg) | The impact of heritage language proficiency on English as an additional language: Disentangling language and cognition |
| 9 Sep – download abstract | Bob McMurray (University of Iowa) | The Slow Development of Real Time Spoken and Written Word Recognition |
| 30 Sep – download abstract | Robyn Moloney and The Very Reverend Dr Fr Shenouda Mansour | The languages of religion/spirituality supporting community well-being |
| 14 Oct – download abstract | Alice Chik | Developing Language-inclusion index |
| 4 Nov – download abstract | Felicity Cox, Joshua Penney and Andy Gibson | Towards a unified and inclusive model of Australian English |
| 11 Nov – download abstract | Trinidad Fernandez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) | An Online Multilingualised Dictionary of Terms in Building Construction: ArchiTermFinder |
| 25 Nov – download abstract | Keith Axelbaum (University of Iowa) | Continuity in Speech Perception: Moving Away from Tasks that Assume Categorical Perception |
| 9 Dec – download abstract | Senne M Van Hoecke | Subtitles and asynchronous, online education: The impact on the student and what to consider as a lecturer |
Seminar organisers
Adam Smith
Ashleigh Jones