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Congratulations to Professor Janet C.E. Watson, who has received an AHRC Network grant to investigate the symbiotic relationship between local languages and nature in Southern & Eastern Arabia through a multidisciplinary network of ecosystem and humanities scholars from the UK, North America, Russia, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia, and representatives from local social groups in Southern...
Congratulations to Dr Cat Davies, who has been awarded 2000USD from the Association of Psychological Sciences to join the international project ManyBabies. Cat will examine babies’ preference for infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech by eye-tracking twenty 12-15 month-olds later this year. The project’s main aims are to assess reproducibility of key findings in this area, to...
The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics will be hosted by the Centre for Language Education Research, University of Leeds, on 31 August - 2 September 2017. The theme of the conference focuses on the notion of diversity within the field of Applied Linguistics in a diversifying world. Keynote Speakers will be:...
Congratulations to Dr Leendert Plug, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant of about £190,000 to support the three-year project ‘Speech tempo perception and missing sounds’. The project continues Leendert’s research collaboration with Dr Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow), which is currently supported by a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant....
Language at Leeds colleagues will contribute to a review of Arabic teaching in UK schools.
Serge Sharoff and Janet Watson will be presenting: 'Visiting close relatives: Exploiting similarities between related languages' at the LHRI on 22nd January from 2-3pm. Abstract: Typological relationships between the languages have been studied for a long time, covering their morphology, grammar and lexicons. In this presentation our primary focus is the corpus link, presenting...
A final few places are available for the Linguistic Ethnography data workshops (15-16 January, in Leeds, UK). The fee is only £20 for ECRs and free to current PhDs, and the final deadline is 14 December. You are warmly invited to join fellow PhD students and ECRs to explore different perspectives on and approaches to ethnographic...
The next Centre for Language Education Research seminar at University of Leeds will take place on Wednesday 2 December, 1-2, in the Coach House at Hillary Place. Martin Lamb from University of Leeds will be talking about Desire for English in the semiotics of an Indonesian product leaflet (abstract below). Seminars are free and open to all, and we look forward to welcoming...
TIME AND DATE: Thursday 3 December, 1-2pm VENUE: School of Computing Active Learning Lab, EC Stoner room 9.30a (off Staircase 2). SPEAKER: Muhannad Al-Omari, School of Computing, Leeds **Connecting Language and Vision: Autonomous, Incremental Learning and Grounding of Natural Language Descriptions to Perceptual Features** Language is a powerful modality that enables humans to interact with...
You are invited to a talk on Wednesday 2 December by Jennifer Rodd, UCL, who will present a talk entitled "How do listeners use their past experience to improve access to word meanings?". Date: 2 December 2015 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Venue: Baines Wing 2.10 With coffee/tea and cake in the Linguistics foyer after the talk. Abstract: To...