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CLaS Workshops & Seminars

Seminars 2010
Date
Speaker
October 15

Coronal phonology and phonetic grounding

Speakers : Dr Mark Harvey, University of Newcastle & Dr Brett Baker, University of Melbourne
Date : 15th of Oct 2010, 12:00 Noon until 1:30 PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
October 12

World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and Second Language Acquisition: relationships and similarities

Speaker : Prof Edgar W. Schneider, University of Regensburg
Date : 12th of Oct 2010, 11:00 AM until 12:00 NOON
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
October 8

DEVELOPMENTAL/EXPERIMENTAL - For better or for worse? Exploring the source of differences between adult and child language acquisition

Speaker : Dr Amy Perfors, University of Adelaide
Date : 8th of Oct 2010, 10:00 AM until 11:45 AM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
October 7

COMPUTATIONAL/FORMAL - What shapes the structure of language? Exploring the role of world structure

Speaker : Dr Amy Perfors, University of Adelaide
Date : 7th of Oct 2010, 1:00 PM until 3:00PM
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
September 2

An international project in the terminology of sustainable architecture

Speaker : Dr Trinidad Fernandez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) & Emeritus Professor Pam Peters, Macquarie University (MQU)
Date : 2nd of Sept 2010, 12:00 noon until 2:00PM
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
August 26

Validity of a temporary threshold shift (TTS) detector for use
with portable listening devices

Speaker : Prof Chantal Laroche, University of Ottawa.
Date : 26th of August 2010, 12:00 noon until 1:00PM
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
August 19

Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us
about language acquisition?

Speaker : Reiko MAZUKA, Ph.D., Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Language Development, Riken Brain Science Institute.
Date : 19th of August 2010, 12:00 noon until 2:00PM
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
August 5

Looking at central auditory processing disorders from above
and below

Speaker : A/Prof Benoît Jutras, School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Montreal, Researcher at the Research Centre of the Pediatric Hospital CHU Sainte-Justine.
Date : 5th of August 2010, 12:00 noon until 1:00PM
Location : C5A 565, Macquarie University.
July 26

Using Linguistically-inspired Constraints to Guide Grammar Induction

Speaker : Prof Mark Johnson, Professor of Language Science (CORE) in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University (formerly from Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University).
Date : 26th of July 2010, 11:00AM
Location : C4A 315, Macquarie University.
May 11

Phonological Constraints on Morphological Development

Speaker : Prof Katherine Demuth, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University (formerly from Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University).
Date : 11th of May 2010, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498, Macquarie University.
May 10

Building natural language parsers

Speaker : Prof Mark Johnson, Professor of Language Science (CORE) in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University (formerly from Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University).
Date : 10th of May 2010, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : E6A202, Macquarie University.

April 21

Early word learning through communicative inference

Speaker : Professor Michael Frank, MIT/Stanford University
Date : 21st of April 2010, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : X5B 012, Macquarie University.

Flyer
April 21

An Articulatory Phonology Account of Preferred CV Combinations in Babbling

Speaker : Douglas Whalen, Haskins Laboratories, Yale University.
Date : 21st of April 2010, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : C5C498, Macquarie University.

Flyer
April 20

Head movement correlates with increased effort in an accelerating speech production task

Speaker : Mark Tiede, Haskins Laboratories, Yale University.
Date : 20th of April 2010, 12:00PM until 1:00PM
Location : C5A565, Macquarie University.
March 10

Macquarie 2010 HEARing CRC PhD Student Research Day

Speakers :Macquarie University HEARing CRC PhD Students
Date : 10th of March 2010, 9:30AM until 2:00PM
Location : X5B 012, Macquarie University.
Feb 18

Quantitative evaluation of competing syllable parses

Speakers :Jason Anthony Shaw, Haskins Laboratories, Yale University
Date : 18th of Feb 2010, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : X5B 012, Macquarie University.
Feb 8

Bayesian models of language acquisition or Where do the rules come from?

Speakers : Prof Mark Johnson, Professor of Language Science (CORE) in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University (formerly from Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University)
Date : 8th of Feb 2010, 11:00AM
Location : X5B 012, Macquarie University.
January 12

Psycho-semantics

Speaker : Tim Hunter, University of Maryland, College Park
Date : 12th of January 2010, 11:00AM until 12:30PM
Location : C5A Delbridge Room, Macquarie University.
Seminars 2009

Date
Speaker
 
MEG III Workshop: The design of the prototype 4-channel SQUID system

Participants : Prof Stephen Crain,(MQ), Prof Jim Piper (DVC Research), Jun Kawai, Gen Uehara, Masanori Higuchi, Hisashi Kado (KIT Engineering Team), John Watkins (CEO of Alzheimer's Australia), Jim Patrick (Cochlear), Harvey Dilon & Bram Van Dun (NAL), Cathy Foley (CSIRO), Dr Liqun Gao (BLCU), Catherine McMahon, Blake Johnson, MACCS PhD Students (MQ), .
Date : 7th to 11th of December 2009, 10:30AM until 1:30PM
Location : KIT-MQ Brain Research Lab, 299 Lane Cove Rd, Macquarie University.
 
Incomplete neutralization, fine phonetic detail, perception, phonological frequency

Speaker : Professor Jonathan Harrington from Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.
Date : 2nd of December 2009, 1:00PM
Location : W5C 221, Macquarie University.
 
Mandarin Fest

Speakers : Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee (HongKong University), Dr Liqun Gao (Beijing Language and Cultural University), Prof Daniel Kane (MQ), Dr Qiong-Peng (Autuman) Luo, Pei-shu Tsai, Yi (Esther) Su, Peng Zhou, Aijun Huang, Nobu Akagi,& Fran Ursini (MACCS).
Date : 17th of November 2009, 10:00AM until 4:30PM
Location : W5C 221, Macquarie University.

03 April 09

Venue - C5A 565

Workshop: Topic, focus and quantifiers in Hungarian

Dr Kriszta Szendroi, Department of Human Communication Science, University College, London. Workshop handout

11 Feb 09

Venue - C5C 498

Childes Workshop

Dr Claudia Oliveira, Center for Language Sciences, Macquarie University

ppt presentation

Seminars 2008

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