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2023 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/timeSpeaker Title & Link to AbstractVenue
23 June 2023, 4-5pm* Erich Round From a split second in the mind to millennia of persistence: How conjugation classes and declensions emerge and surviveOnline & AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room
4 August 2023, 4-5pm* Adina Camelia Bleotu & Mara Panaitescu Insights into scales and relevance from disjunction in child RomanianOnline & AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room
31 August 2023, 4-5pm Joey Stanley Enriching our understanding of language change with vowel formant trajectories
Password: 612574
29 September 2023, 4-5pm* Aude Noiray Towards an integrative interactive approach to the development of spoken language fluencyOnline & Delbridge Room (12SW, 558)
19 October 2023, 1:30-2:30pm Anna Desjardins An Introduction to LanguageLift AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room & Online 
Password: 612574
16 November 2023, 11am-12pm Sameer ud Dowla Khan Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise
Password: 612574
27 November 2023, 10-11am Amalia Arvaniti The role and sources of individual variability in the production and processing of prominence and intonation AHH 1.602 Seminar Room & Online
Password: 612574

*Co-hosted with the Department of Linguistics.

2023 Workshops/Conferences/Guest Lectures

Date Invited Keynote Speakers Title and link to further information/registrationVenue
26-30 June 2023 Co-hosted by Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS)
International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14)
Hybrid
14 August 2023
Kathryn Crowe (University of Iceland)
Mark Guiberson (University of Wyoming)
Mridula Sharma (Macquarie University)
Beyond Speech Workshop 2023
Program and more information
Online
27 November 2023, 1-3pm Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud University) Workshop on Intonation AHH 3.610 Marri Meeting Room & Online
Password: 612574
13-14 December 2023 Led by Serje Robidoux CLaS Stats Workshop: PCA and Factor Analysis Hybrid

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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