The Centre for Language and Linguistics (CLL) connects us to researchers in a wide range of academic and applied disciplines with an interest in the study of language at Kent. CLL is run by ELL, but its members come both from the School of European Culture and Languages and other units within the University, such as Psychology and Anthropology. The CLL schedule for the 2015/2016 academic year includes the following presentations:

  • Wednesday 30th September 2015, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Tony Bex (University of Kent)
    Title: Toward a Theory of Parody (and why such a theory may not be possible)
  • Wednesday 14th October 2015, 2:30-4 pm (Linguistics Lab, Rutherford W3.S7-8)
    Speaker: Dr Caitlin Light (University of York)
    Title: Workshop on Automated Syntactic Parsing of Linguistic Corpora
  • Wednesday 14th October 2015, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Caitlin Light (University of York)
    Title: Syntax in Big Data
  • Wednesday 11th November 2015, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Anja Kuschman (Strathclyde University)
    Title: Speech and Language Disorders
  • Wednesday 25th November 2015, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr John Patridge (University of Kent)
    Title: “Worrow, mate”, “He, Kumpel”  “Hi, darlin’”and “Na, Schätzchen”: how to make – and lose – friends in English and German
  • Wednesday  9th December 2015, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
    Title: Vowel and consonant identification at high pitch: The acoustics of soprano unintelligibility
  • Wednesday  20th January 2016, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Billy Clark (Middlesex University)
    Title: Pragmatics and ‘texture’: everyday communication, binge-watching and literary interpretation
  • Wednesday  3rd February 2016, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Sandra Jansen (University of Brighton)
    Title: Categorising a global sound change: The case of GOOSE-fronting
  • Wednesday  17th February 2016, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Adrian Leemann (University of Cambridge)
    Title: The dialect app
  • Wednesday  2nd March 2016, 5-6:30 pm (DLT2)
    Speaker: Dr Krista  Szendroi (University College London)
    Title: TBA