Department of Linguistics and Translation

Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal
Speaker: Dr. Joel Snyder
Date: 30 May 2025 (Fri)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Easy-to-Understand Language: Accessible Communication for All
Speaker: Prof. Anna Matamala
Date: 3 Jun 2025 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Research in Audio Description
Speaker: Prof. Anna Matamala
Date: 2 Jun 2025 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Code-Mixing, Complexity and Translanguaging in Bilingual Children
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Stephen Matthews
Date: 26 May 2025 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Language, Perception, and Attention: Shared Representations & Cross-Domain Interplay
Speaker: Prof. Andriy Myachykov
Date: 20 May 2025 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Phonological Processing of Chinese Characters during Sentence Reading
Speaker: Dr. Jinger PAN
Date: 18 Mar 2025 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

How can it be so simple? Predicting the F0-contours of Mandarin words in spontaneous speech from their corresponding contextualized embeddings with linear mappings
Speaker: Prof. Harald Baayen
Date: 13 Mar 2025 (Thu)
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am

AI and Language Learning
Speaker: Prof. Brian MacWhinney
Date: 20 Feb 2025 (Thu)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Spoken Word Production of Mandarin Speakers: Monolinguals, Bilinguals and Children with Cochlear Implants
Speaker: Prof. Man WANG
Date: 23 Jan 2025 (Thu)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Fascinating Aspects of Language Computation Methods: Five Examples
Speaker: Prof. Qibin RAN
Date: 20 Jan 2025 (Mon)
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Discourse, Interaction and Language Learners
Speaker: Prof. Tony McEnery
Date: 7 Jan 2025 (Tue)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon

Assessing the linguistic abilities and language acquisition in large language models
Speaker: Dr. Hai HU
Date: 29 Nov 2024 (Fri)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Contrasting clippings in English and French: A constructional perspective
Speaker: Prof. Martin Hilpert
Date: 28 Oct 2024 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Usage-Based Lexical and Constructional Semantics. Operationalising emergent grammar through the analysis of behavioural profiles
Speaker: Prof. Dylan Glynn
Date: 4 Nov 2024 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
(Re)Thinking the Power of Translation at the National Level: Developing a New Framework and Assessment Method
Speaker: Prof. Wen Ren
Date: 21 Jun 2024 (Fri)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire
Speaker: Prof. Charles B. Chang
Date: 18 Jun 2024 (Tue)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Toward An Experimental Approach to Language and Health Communication
Speaker: Prof. JIA Mian James
Date: 19 Jun 2024 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Emotional Words: Faster than Thought
Speaker: Prof. Christian Dobel
Date: 5 Jun 2024 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
In search of meaning in the (bilingual) lexicon
Speaker: Dr. Adel Chaouch-Orozco
Date: 12 Jun 2024 (Wed)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
RIDE - a method for the decomposition of ERPs based on latency variability across single trials: principles and applications
Speaker: Prof. Changsong ZHOU
Date: 4 Jun 2024 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Bridging Brains and Bytes: Large Language Models as Windows into Language Processing of the Brain
Speaker: Dr. Jingyuan SUN
Date: 7 May 2024 (Tue)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sociolinguistic variant identification under uncertainty
Speaker: Dr. Aini Li
Date: 7 May 2024 (Tue)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
The language of correction: Neo-homophobic discourses in Singapore
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Pak
Date: 6 May 2024 (Mon)
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Word Representation and Combinatorial Processing in Language Understanding for Machines and Humans
Speaker: Dr. Shaonan Wang
Date: 6 May 2024 (Mon)
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Neural Facilitation in Visual Word Processing: EEG Evidence From Parafoveal Preview and Repetition Priming
Speaker: Dr. Urs Maurer
Date: 29 Apr 2024 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm