Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics General Linguistics Seminar Hilary Term 2018 The following seminars will be given at 5:15 pm on Mondays Weeks 1 – 8 Taylorian Institute Room 2 ALL WELCOME *Please note the Seminar in 2 nd week will be held in the Main Hall 1st Wk: 15 th January Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario) QuasiFactives and Cognitive Efficiency *2nd Wk: 22 nd January Jaap Maat (University of Amsterdam) John Wallis (16161703) on teaching language to a boy born deaf 3rd Wk: 29 th January Heinz Giegerich (University of Edinburgh) Compounds in noman’s land 4th Wk: 5 th February David Poeppel (MPI Frankfurt) Speech is special and language is structured 5th Wk: 12 th February Hanne Eckhoff (University of Oxford) Aorists, delimitatives and ingressives in early Slavic 6th Wk: 19 th February John Hale (Cornell University) Modeling fMRI time courses with syntactic structure 7th Wk: 26 th February Zoe Schlueter (University of Edinburgh) Children’s deviating word productions: Speech production under construction 8th Wk: 5 th March Rebecca Woods (University of Huddersfield) Nonadult questions in child language: a syntactic window onto pragmatic development Conveners: Profs. Aditi Lahiri Ash Asudeh Wolfgang de Melo