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.

2024 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
10 May, 4-5pm*	Charles Chang (Boston University)	Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
7 June, 4-5pm*	Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal)	Multisensory integration in speech production and perception: the case of French-speaking children and adults (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
8 July, 4-5pm	Jane Stuart Smith & James Tanner, (University of Glasgow)	The dynamics of English vowels (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
30 August, 4-5pm*	Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)	Large Language Models and the Changing Face of Computational Linguistics (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
13 September, 4-5pm*	Greig de Zubicaray (Queensland University of Technology)	Revisiting the arbitrariness of the sign (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
11 October, 4-5pm*	Raphaël Millière (Macquarie University)	A Philosophical Introduction to LLMs (Abstract)	AHH 3.610/Zoom
25 October, 10-11am	Lisa Davidson (New York University)	Glottal stops in Hawaiian
15 November, 4-5pm*	Cristine Mooshammer (Humboldt University)	Phonaesthetics of fictional languages