May 2012 Events
1st May 2012
Short Events
Language Evolution and Computation
1 May 2012 11:00 – 12:30
Discussion: Nisbett, R. E. & Miyamoto, Y. (2005). The influence of culture: holistic versus...
Philosophy Work-in-Progress
1 May 2012 13:30 – 16:00
Speaker: Dr Guy Bennett-Hunter (IASH Postdoctoral Fellow)
Title: "Certain Doubts: On the...
2nd May 2012
Short Events
Syntax and Semantics Research Group
2 May 2012 15:00 – 16:30
Speaker: Antonella Sorace
Topic: "Grammaticality judgments in experimental linguistics: what's...
Epistemology Research Group
2 May 2012 15:30 – 17:30
Speaker: Corine Besson (Birkbeck College)
Title: The Epistemology of Logic: The Case for...
4th May 2012
Short Events
Developmental Linguistics
4 May 2012 13:00 – 14:00
Speaker: John Pate
Topic: Paper discussion of "Amanda Seidl (2007). Infants' use and weighting of...
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
4 May 2012 16:00 – 17:00
Speaker: Suvarna Alladi
Topic: "Culture, language and literacy in cognitive testing"
Abstract:...
8th May 2012
Short Events
Language Evolution & Computation/P-workshop
8 May 2012 11:00 – 12:30
Presenter: Morgan Sonderegger
Topic: Longitudinal phonetic and phonological dynamics on reality...
Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group
8 May 2012 12:00 – 13:00
"Do we have independent visual streams for perception and action?" by Thomas Schenka and Robert...
9th May 2012
Short Events
Language In Context Research Group
9 May 2012 15:30 – 16:30
Speaker: Du Yi
Title: "Analysis of four Chinese EFL classrooms: The use of L1 and L2".
Abstract...
11th May 2012
Short Events
Developmental Linguistics
11 May 2012 13:00 – 14:00
Speaker: John-Sebastian Schutter
Topic: Testing for residual V2 word order at the syntax-lexicon...
Differential Club: If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?
11 May 2012 14:00 – 15:00
The predictive power of childhood intelligence on subjective well-being in...
>Human Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
11 May 2012 16:00 – 17:00
Speaker: Prof Adrian Danek (University of Munich)
Topic: "The tower of Hanoi task, past and...
14th May 2012
All Day Events
Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference
14 – 16 May 2012
The Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference is an annual event where...
Short Events
Gillian Birrell Memorial Lecture
14 May 2012 17:15 – 18:15
Speaker: Professor Daniel Freeman (MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Clinical...
15th May 2012
All Day Events
Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference
14 – 16 May 2012
The Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference is an annual event where...
16th May 2012
All Day Events
Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference
14 – 16 May 2012
The Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference is an annual event where...
Short Events
Epistemology Research Group
16 May 2012 15:30 – 17:30
Speaker: Igal Kvart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: The Pragmatics of Knowledge and...
17th May 2012
All Day Events
Dementia: Diagnosis and Beyond
17 May 2012
This one day event is for staff, volunteers and carers who are:
- supporting a person with... >
Short Events
Reading Group on LVC and Statistics
17 May 2012 11:00 – 12:00
Reading: Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay. 2012. Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in...
18th May 2012
Short Events
Visiting Speaker Philosophy Seminar
18 May 2012 16:00 – 18:00
Speaker: Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University)
Title: Logical Relations -- Traditional and...
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
18 May 2012 16:00 – 17:00
Speaker 1: Mark Horne (University of Edinburgh)
Topic: "The effects of interference tasks on...
21st May 2012
Short Events
Sociolinguistics Reading Group
21 May 2012 12:00 – 14:00
Reading: Bakhtin, M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination. Translated by C. Emerson and M....
22nd May 2012
Short Events
Language Evolution and Computation
22 May 2012 11:00 – 12:30
Speaker: Tessa Verhoef (University of Amsterdam)
Topic: "Does iconicity influence the emergence...
Philosophy and Neuroscience Reading Group
22 May 2012 12:00 – 13:00
"Two neural correlates of consciousness" by Ned Block
Presenter: Alfredo Martinez
23rd May 2012
Short Events
Syntax and Semantics Research Group
23 May 2012 15:00 – 16:30
Speaker: Steve Franks
Topic: Spell-Out Domains, Large and Small
Abstract: Taking "Spell-out" as...
Epistemology Research Group
23 May 2012 15:30 – 17:00
Speaker: Andrew McGonigal (University of Leeds)
Title: "Believing in each other: Rational belief...
Language In Context Research Group
23 May 2012 15:30 – 16:30
Speaker: Paul Seedhouse (Newcastle University)
Title: "A Pervasive Language Learning Environment:...
24th May 2012
Short Events
Postgraduate Workshop on Inquiry and Cognition
24 May 2012 10:00 – 16:00
An informal workshop in advance of the conference on The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition.
All are...
25th May 2012
All Day Events
The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition
25 – 26 May 2012
An international conference on teleology in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. For...
Short Events
Language Evolution and Computation
25 May 2012 11:00 – 12:00
Speaker: Doug Martin (University of Aberdeen)
Topic: "On the origin of stereotypes"
Developmental Linguistics
25 May 2012 13:00 – 14:00
Speaker: Gloria Chamorro Galan
Topic: Selectivity of L1 attrition and effects of recent L1...
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar
25 May 2012 16:00 – 17:00
Speakers: Francesca Filiaci and Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)
Topic: "First...
26th May 2012
All Day Events
The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition
25 – 26 May 2012
An international conference on teleology in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. For...
28th May 2012
All Day Events
Edinburgh Ethics Fest
28 May 2012
An informal workshop featuring talks from postgraduates working on Ethics in the broadest sense....
Short Events
Sociolinguistics Reading Group
28 May 2012 12:00 – 14:00
Reading: Bakhtin, M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination. Translated by C. Emerson and M....
29th May 2012
Short Events
Language Evolution and Computation
29 May 2012 11:00 – 12:30
Speaker: Dan Silverman (San José State University)
Topic: "Evolution of the speech code:...
30th May 2012
Short Events
Psycholinguistics Coffee
30 May 2012 11:00 – 12:30
Speaker: Holly Joseph
Title: Children's higher-level processing during reading: Using eye...
Language In Context Research Group
30 May 2012 14:00 – 15:00
Speaker: Tope Omoniyi (University of Roehampton)
Title: "Indigenous Language Capital and...
Developmental Linguistics
30 May 2012 15:00 – 16:00
Speaker: Henriette Hendriks
Topic: Lexicalization patterns in the expression of motion across...
Epistemology Research Group
30 May 2012 15:30 – 17:00
Speaker: Ram Neta (University of North Carolina)
Title: 'The Epistemic "Ought"'
Abstract: In...