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Seminar Series

Semester 1, 2009

Semester 2, 2008

  • Monday 25th August – Professor Brian Byrne, Dr Liz Ellis, Dr Will Coventry and Dr Ines Anton-Mendez: Second Language Acquisition Twin Study (SLATS-Aus): A cross-disciplinary project in progress. more...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)
  • Friday 5th September – Professor Valerie Hazan: Clarifying the speech perception deficits of children and adults with dyslexia. more...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)
  • Tuesday 7th October – Professor Jeff Siegel: Pidgin English spoken by a Chinese miner in Victoria and the role of Language Transfer. more...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)
  • Monday 20th October – Professor Gisela Kaplan: Babbling may not be unique to human infants. An investigation into unguided vocal practice in humans and songbirds. more...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)
  • Monday 10th November – Helen Bromhead: Lakes, Karus, Creeks: Language, water and ethnogeography in a dry land. more...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)

Semester 1, 2008

  • Wednesday 26 March – Dr. Csaba Veres: Taxonomies in knowledge representation:
    The good, the bad and the not so ugly. more ...
    (Paul Barratt Lecture Theatre, 3.00pm)
  • Friday 23 May – Professor Cliff Goddard: Modal verbs and modal meanings: (must, should, have to, got to). more ...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)
  • Tuesday 10 June – Dr Dorothea Cogill-Koez: What is gesture and is everyone 'hardwired' to do it. more ...
    (Seminar Room 2, Psychology Building SO6, 12 noon)

Semester 1, 2007

  • 19 March – Prof William Noble: "One or Two Matters about Cochlear Implants"
    (Education Room 120, 12:00 pm) 
  • 3 April – Dr Joanne Arciuli: "Hemispheric Processing of Lexical Stress"
    (Psychology Seminar Room 2, 12:00 pm) 
  • 21 May - Prof. Brian Byrne: "What Difference do Teachers Make? Insights from a longitudinal twin study of literacy development"
    (Paul Barratt Lecture Theatre, 1.00 pm) 

Semester 2, 2006

Semester 1, 2006

  • 13 Feb - Dr Anton Benz: "Game theory and Gricean implicatures" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 6 & 7 Mar - Dr L. Andrew Coward: "A systems architecture approach to the brain: From neurons to consciousness" (Psychology Seminar Room 2 [*note different room], Monday, 6 March: 12.00 noon-2.00 pm, Tuesday, 7 March: 10.00 am-12.00 noon) ... more
  • 20 Mar - Dr Nicola Schutte: "A dimensional model of adaptive emotional functioning: Aspects of individual differences in emotional intelligence/emotional competency" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 3 Apr - Dr Graham Jamieson: Guided Tour of brain scanning equipment housed in the Psychophysiology Lab
    (Places are strictly limited to a total of six. To book, contact Dorothea Cogill-Koez on ext. 5147 or dcogill@une.edu.au.)
  • 8 May - Dr Tony Lynch: "On the strange application conditions of virtue and vice terms" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 22 May - A/Prof. Trevor Johnston: "Signed Language Linguistics" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 2, 2005

  • 8 Aug - A/Prof. Janet Wiles: "Language and Robots: Computational Models of the Evolution of Language" (Education 120, 12.00 noon) ... more
  •  29 Aug - Mark Moore: "Stone Tools and Cognition in Homo floresiensis" (Education 120, 12.00 noon)
  •  5 Sept - Prof John Pegg: The impact of a cognitive developmental framework on improving student learning outcomes (Education 120, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 10 Oct - Dr Don Hine: "The role of intuition and rational analysis in human judgment and decision making" (Education 120, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 24 Oct - Dr Bruce Stevenson: "Contribution of working memory to on-line language processes" (Education 120, 12.00 noon)
  • 7 Nov - Mark Moore: "Stone Tool Knapping Workshop" (SHES Knapping Pit, 12.00 noon)
  • 14 Nov - Dr Andrea Schalley: "Dynamic aspects of verbal meaning" (Education 120, 12.00 noon)
  • 28 Nov - Debi Roberson: The Colors of the Rainbow: relationships between culture, thought and colour language (Education 139, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 1, 2005

  • 28 Feb - Discussion Seminar (Education 108, 12.00 noon)
  • 7 Mar - Dr Drew Khlentzos: "What's In a Name?" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 14 Mar - Dr Helen Fraser: "Words for concepts, concepts of words" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 6 June - Dr Dorothea Cogill-Koez: "Homo floresiensis on Flores: some early implications for the evolution of language and cognition" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 20 June - Prof. Cliff Goddard: "The semantics of counting and numbers" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 2, 2004

  • 26 July - Business Meeting
  • 9 Aug - Dr Nicholas Reid: "Body and Grammar: how neuro-physiology shapes language" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 6 Sept - Dennis Alexander: "Would Gavagai by another name...: reflections on interdisciplinary untranslatability" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 4 Oct - Labour Day
  • 11 Oct - Prof. Lesley Rogers: "Evolution of brain lateralisation and the case against a single genetic event causing the evolution of language" (Education 108, 12.15 pm) ... more
  • 14 Oct - Prof. Andrew Cohen: "A Web-Based Approach to Strategic Learning of Speech Acts" (A2 Lecture Theatre, 5.00 pm) ... more
  • 25 Oct - Kerrie Grant: "Why chimps 'shout' at humans: a look at ape gestural communication" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 1, 2004

  • 1 Mar - Dr Margaret Sharpe: "Aspect, mood and tense and their 'prominence' in different languages" (Education 139, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 12 & 13 Mar - Dr Arcady Blinov: "Hintikka's philosophy of language" (Education 137, both days: 9.30am-12.30pm, 2.00pm-4.00pm)
  • 29 Mar - Prof. Jaakko Hintikka: "Epistemology without knowledge and without belief" (Footlights seminar room, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 17 May - Prof. Iain Davidson: "Stone tools and the uniqueness of human culture" (Education 108, 12 noon) ... more
  • 24 May - Business Meeting
  • 7 June - Cate Mitchell: "Perceptual Theories of Knowledge and the Question of Language Origins" (Education 108, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 2, 2003

Please note the venues: Footlights (in the Union building) and Rm 106 in Education.

  • 28 July - Prof. Cliff Goddard: "Re-thinking THINK: contrastive semantics of English and Swedish" (Footlights seminar room, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 11 Aug - Dr Arcady Blinov: "Models of vagueness" (Education Rm 106, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 25 Aug - Dr Helen Fraser: "Representing speech in practice and theory" (Footlights seminar room, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 8 Sept - Dr Andrea Schalley: "Cognitive structures and decompositional semantics" (Footlights seminar room, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 22 Sept - Dr Leila Behrens: "The interaction between lexical semantics and morphology: A cross-linguistics perspective" (Paul Barrett Lecture Theatre, 12.00 noon) ... more
  • 6 Oct - Labour Day
  • 20 Oct - Business Meeting
  • 3 Nov - Dr Bruce Stevenson: "Relationship between working memory and the access/use of semantic information" (Education Rm 137, 12.00 noon) ... more

Semester 1, 2003