News and Events

News and Events 2011 

NEWS
LMS Student Noel Ng Snags ciNE65 awards

Assistant Professor Alice Chan has been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant 

Homebound, a film directed by Linguistics and Multilingual Studies student Noel Ng has garnered six nominations in the ciNE65 film competition. Click here to watch his film and cast your vote.

Congratulations to our first Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Graduate


EVENTS

Seminar

Date

Time

Venue

Color Categories and Color Appearance
By Professor Paul Kay, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and Standford University

19 Dec 2011

2.00pm - 3.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 4
(HSS-01-09)

PACLIC 25
25th Pacific Asia Conference On Language, Information and Computation

16 -18 Dec 2011

 8.00am - 5.30pm

HSS Auditorium

'Positional verbs in Nen'
By Prof Nick Evans, Australian National University

10 Nov 2011

10.00am -11.30am

 

 



HSS Conference Room
(HSS-05-57)

 

'Endangered Languages in India: The Current Scenario'
By Assoc Prof Umarani Pappuswamy, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

9 Nov 2011

5.00pm - 6.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 6
(HSS-01-04)

'Explaining linguistics diversity: challenges for 21st century linguistics'
By Prof Nick Evans, Australian National University



8 Nov 2011

 

4.00pm - 5.30pm

HSS Conference Room
(HSS-05-57)

An Initial Phonology of Jowai-Pnar
By Hiram Ring, PhD Candidate,
Nanyang Technological University

4 Nov 2011

4.00pm - 5.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

'Expert-novice orientations: Native Speaker Power and the Didactic Voice in Online Intercultural Interaction'
By Prof Anthony Liddicoat and Dr Enza Tudini, University of South Australia

21 Oct 2011

4.00pm - 5.30pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)

'Adapting Parallel Corpora between Related Languages'
By Dr Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore

7 Oct 2011

 

3.00pm - 4.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)

'Officially Quadrilingual: Multilingualism in Singapore and Switzerland'
By Dr Jakob Leimgruber, University of Freiburg, Germany

9 Sep 2011

3.00pm - 4.00pm

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)


'
Multimodal neuroimaging methods reveal auditory midbrain plasticity to linguistic pitch patterns'
By Dr Bharath Chandrasekaran, The University of Texas at Austin


15 Aug 2011

10.00am -11.00am

HSS Seminar Room 3
(HSS-B1-10)


'Speech Comprehension as
Mediated by the Ventral Language
Pathway'
By Dr. Francis Wong, Northwestern University/
Nanyang Technological University

4 Aug 2011

4:00pm - 5:00pm

HSS Seminar Room 4
(HSS-B1-09)


'Someone else's job: Prospects for
reviving and maintaining Toratán'
By Dr. Anthony Jukes, La Trobe University

 



26 May 2011

4:00pm - 5:30pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)


'Grammatical Metaphors in Chinese
and English: Implications for
bridging L1 and L2 academic
literacies'
By Professor Angel Lin, University of Hong Kong



28 Apr 2011

2:00pm - 3:30pm

HSS Seminar Room 7
(HSS-01-06)

'Arguments for a Construction-
based Approach to the Analysis of
Sino-Tibetan and Austronesian
Languages'

By Professor Randy LaPolla, La Trobe University


08 Apr 2011

2:30pm - 4:00pm

HSS Meeting Room 1
(HSS-03-65)


LMS talk: "What do Linguists do?"
Come and listen to six exciting talks
from Linguists in NTU.
Come and listen to six exciting talks from
Linguists in NTU.

12 Mar 2011

11:00am - 4:00pm

HSS Seminar Room 6

'Future Directions For The Learning
of Languages in Universities:
Challenges and Opportunities'

By Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London


11 Mar 2011

2:00pm - 3:30pm

HSS Seminar Room 9
(HSS-B1-11)

'Influence of Classifiers on
Conceptual Structure in Children
and Adults'

By Dr Mutsumi Imai, Keio University

28 Feb 2011

11:30am - 1:00pm

HSS Seminar Room 8
(HSS-01-09)

'The Spontaneous Acquisition and
Use of Turkish by Non-Turkish
Adolescents in Germany'

By Professor Peter Auer, Freiburg Institute for
Advanced Studies, Germany


22 Feb 2011

4:00pm - 5:30pm

HSS Seminar Room 2
(HSS-B1-07)

'The Neural Network of Reading
Changes with Experiences:
Evidence from Cross-Linguistic
Studies'

By Dr Cao Fan, University of Pittsburg


11 Feb 2011

2:30pm - 3:30pm

HSS Seminar Room 9
(HSS-B1-11)

'Second Language Learning:
Predictors of Success and Optimal
Instructional Paradigms'
By Professor Patrick Wong, Northwestern University

08 Feb 2011

4:00pm - 5:00pm

HSS Seminar Room 2
(HSS-B1-07)

'Diversification and Diachronic
Change in Sinitic Classifier Systems:
The Cases of Waxiang (Xiangxi) and
Southern Min'

By Professor Hilary Chappell, Ecole Des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

 

25 Jan 2011

2:00pm - 3:00pm

HSS Seminar Room 5
(HSS-B1-12)