Cambridge Language Sciences

Xi Zhang, Faculty of Music, presents her poster on ‘Effect of Tone Sandhi on Singing in Chaozhou’ You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/618c29dada150629539daec9

Julia Schwarz, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, presents her poster for the Incubator Fund project PerMaSC: ‘Speech Perception through Face Masks by Children and Adults’ You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/61814b93ad7f7c616f522eaa

James Scott, Department of Psychology, presents his poster on ‘Proto-Language as a Structurer and Enhancer of Perception’. You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/6197b6f047f47d8e22a896f1

Andrew Caines, Computer Laboratory & ALTA Institute, presents his poster on ‘Listening practice for learners of English: towards an intelligent tutoring system’. You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/61929f082e10ad1a4d47e64b

Jonathan R. Goodman, Department of Archeology, presents his poster on ‘Accents as honest signals of in-group membership’. You can view the poster on Cambridge Open Engage at https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/619500df669d3921905630bf

A research dialogue between Geoffrey Khan (Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge) and Fridah Katushemererwe (Makerere University, Uganda) Chaired by Ioanna Sitaridou (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge)

A research dialogue between Maria Teresa Guasti (Università di Milano-Bicocca) and Duncan Astle (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge) chaired by Henriëtte Hendriks, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge. Chaired by Henriëtte Hendriks.

Talk by Dr Ahmed Zaidi, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge

Talk by Dr Barbara McGillivray, senior research associate at the University of Cambridge Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute

Talk by Dr Sarah Morgan, Accelerate Science Research Fellow at the Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Brain Mapping Unit, and Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute

Talk by Dr Margreet Vogelzang, postdoctoral researcher in the University of Cambridge section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

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Online talk at the 2020 Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium by Professor Josh Tenenbaum (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Chair: Dr Andrew Caines (Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge) Respondent: Dr Guy Emerson (Executive Director, Cambridge Language Sciences)

1-minute videos by the poster presenters

Talk by Dr Sebastian Ahnert, Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology (University of Cambridge) & Alan Turing Institute

Talk by Dr Heather Burnett, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS and Université de Paris

Short clip of interview footage from linguistic fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau

Short clip of interview footage from linguistic fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau

Short clip of interview footage from linguistic fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau

Short documentary about the complexity of language use and language choices in Guinea-Bissau.

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1-minute talks by the poster presenters on a range of topics

Keynote lecture by Prof. Kenny Smith, Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh

Talk by Dr Christian Bentz, Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen

Talk by Dr Marieke Meelen, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Keynote lecture by Prof. Monika S. Schmid, Dept. of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex

The second film we visit an English medium private school in Hyderabad which is modelled on the Waldorf Steiner approach. The teachers generally work with the same group of children over several years, moving with them as they progress up through the levels of school. The lessons typically have a relatively slow pace, with a focus on deep learning, reflection and discussion.

In this lesson, the teacher aims to focus on different festivals in India to support cross-cultural understanding of children who practise different religions.

Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Dept. of Politics & International Studies, University of Cambridge and Senior Advisor for Research & Innovation, Africa's Voices Foundation

Talk by Dr Jenny Gibson, Lecturer in Psychology & Education at the University of Cambridge, and Principal Investigator in the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL).

1-minute talks by the poster presenters

Keynote lecture by Courtenay Norbury. Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at University College London, and Director of the Literacy, Language and Communication (LiLAC) Lab.

NOTE: DATA IN THIS TALK IS PRELIMINARY AND UNPUBLISHED, AND THE RESEARCH IS ONGOING. Lecture at the University of Oxford as part of a special seminar series on the ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme (Oxford Comparative and International Seminar Series, Jan-March 2018). Filming and dissemination courtesy of The Impact Initiative.

1-minute talks by the poster presenters

Talk by Dr David Willis, Reader in Historical Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Keynote lecture by Saul Nassé, Chief Executive Officer, Cambridge Assessment English

Keynote lecture by Professor Steve Young (University of Cambridge Dept. of Engineering/Siri Development Team)

Professor Simon Fisher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Professor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory

Dr Nigel Collier, Co-Head of the Language Technology Lab, Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Professor Lorraine K. Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Inaugural lecture by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Professor of English and Applied Linguistics

In this talk, Professor Charles A. Nelson, Harvard University, discusses what happens to children whose experience after birth deviates from the norm; specifically, infants who experience profound early neglect. In the Bucharest Early Intervention Project three groups of Romanian children are being studied: infants abandoned to institutions and who remain in institutional care; infants abandoned to institutions but then placed in high quality foster care; and infants who have never been institutionalized. These three groups have been studied for the past 16 years and in this talk he discusses the findings from a variety of domains (including but not limited to IQ, attachment, and brain development). This work will be considered within the broader context of the 140 million parentless children around the world, 8 million of whom are being raised in institutional settings. This talk is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Research in neuroscience on how we extract meaningful structures in order to learn from experience and adapt to new situations

Linguistic patterns and trends identified as a result of the New York Times dialect quiz

Keynote lecture by guest speaker Prof. Stephen Levinson