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CRLD Seminar Series 2024

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars take place 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays in hybrid format (in person at HU2-431 and on Zoom).

• February 22: Corey Theatre (La Trobe University), "Case and Prepositions in the Mak Thang Language of Gippsland" (online only)
• February 29: Adam Levy (La Trobe University), "A Typology of Wordhood in Some Trans-Himalayan Languages"
• April 18: Rana Hosseinpoor (La Trobe University), "The Distinctive Role of Frication Duration and Voicing Duration in Persian Fricatives"
• May 9: Rui Wen (La Trobe University), "Understanding Reading Engagement Profiles of Tertiary L2 Chinese Learners in Australia"
• June 20: Bijun Ling (Tongji University), "How Does Prosody Distinguish wh-Interrogative from wh-Indefinite in Shanghai Chinese?"
• September 12: Dr Judith Bishop (La Trobe University), "Why Ethical AI Needs Linguists"

CRLD Seminar Series 2023

• February 23: Professor Xirui Liu (Henan University), "A Phonological Sketch of Khmu in China"
• March 2: Claire Ye (La Trobe University, "How Does Mobility Affect Linguistic Variation?"
• March 23: Meron Reda (University of Queensland), "Heritage Languages of African Refugee Youth & Settlement in Australia: are the languages acquired in ‘transit’ useful?"
• April 27: Dr Basile Roussel (University of Moncton at Shippagan), "In Search of Lost (Vernacular) French: A Real Time Look at Acadian French"
• May 11:  Rael Stanley (La Trobe University), "Phonetics of Northern Lisu"
• May 18:  Andrew Tanner (La Trobe University), "The Eastern Kulin languages"
• June 29: Carolin Krafzik (La Trobe University), "Swearing Ethnically? Comparing Anglo-Celtic, Chinese and Italian  Australians"
• July 6:  Professor Victor Friedman (University of Chicago/La Trobe University), "Obscenity Revisited: Historical and Ideological Considerations"
• August 3: Mohanad Al-Azzam (La Trobe University), "The Use of Emoji in Jordanian Discourse: A Culturally Specific Approach to CMC"
• August 31: Professor Ghil'ad Zuckerman (University of Adelaide), "Revivalistics: Language Reclamation and Aboriginal Wellbeing"
• September 7: Saeeda Alfaifi (La Trobe University), "The Use of Arabic Discourse Markers in Synchronous Voice-Based Computer-Mediated Communication (Twitter Spaces) among Saudi Twitter Users"
• October 19: Dr Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / La Trobe University),"Nyingarn: Exploring Manuscript Sources of Australian Languages"
• November 16: Dipjyoti Goswami (La Trobe University), "Navigating Challenges in Writing a Descriptive Grammar in Developing Insights"

CRLD Seminar Series 2022

• March 17: Professor David Deterding (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), "The Phonetics of Malay"
• March 24: Corey Theatre (La Trobe University), "Demonstratives and Pronouns in the Kanai Language"
• April 22: Dipjyoti Goswami (La Trobe University), "A Grammatical Description of Rera Tangsa - An Introductory Talk"
• May 5: Hoa Do (La Trobe University), "Linguistic Differentiation at Vietnamese Community Language Schools in Australia: Voices from Local Stakeholders"
• May 12: Andrew Tanner (La Trobe University), "The Eastern Kulin Languages: A Comprehensive Analysis of Archival Sources"
• June 2: Mohanad Al-Azzam (La Trobe University), "The Use of Emoji in Jordanian Discourse: A Culturally-Specific Approach to CMC"
• August 17: Dr John Mansfield (University of Melbourne), "Explaining Morphosyntactic Structure with Inter-predictability"
• October 5: Dr Howie Manns, Professor Kate Burridge, Dr Simon Musgrave (Monash University), "Truth, Truthiness and Public Science Discourse: Authority, Epistemicity and Affect in Interaction"
• October 27: Dr Timothy Brickell (La Trobe University / Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), "Sound Symbolism in Western Austronesian Languages" [ Data sheet ]
• November 25 (Friday): Dr Yoshiyuki Asahi (NINJAL), "Emergence of Multicultural Tokyo Japanese? Possibilities and Prospects"

CRLD Seminar Series 2021

• February 2 (Tuesday): Kirri Dangerfield (La Trobe University), "Team interpreting: Prompting further exploration on supporting the interpreted process"
• March 25: Hoa Do (La Trobe University), "Vietnamese as a Community Language in Australia: Parental Attitudes and Family Language Policy"
• April 15 (4:00 p.m.): Dr Laura Arnold (University of Edinburgh), "Highs and Lows: Tone Splits from Vowel Height in Raja Ampa"
• May 20: Dr Agnese Bresin (La Trobe University), "Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, Power and Distance in Italian Service Encounters"
• May 27: Dr Simon Musgrave (Monash University), "Language Data in Australia: Mapping a Conceptual Landscape"
• June 10: Rael Stanley (La Trobe University), "Voiceless Fricatives in Northern Lisu"
• July 22: Carolin Krafzik (La Trobe University), "Swearing in Multicultural Melbourne"
• September 2: Professor David Bradley (La Trobe University), "Lisu Deictics: Dialect and Genre"
• September 16: Professor Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan), "Patagonian Afrikaans: History and Identity in an Expatriate Speech Community"
• October 14: Dr Melanie Viljoen (La Trobe University), "Linguistic Signals of Discourse Topicality in Buwal and Gavar Expository Texts"

CRLD Seminar Series 2020

• April 9: Professor James Walker (La Trobe University), "Complementisers in eastern Caribbean English"
• April 23: Associate Professor Stephen Morey (La Trobe University), "Creating a new script: Bringing Tangsa language into the Facebook era"
• April 30: Dr Lauren Gawne (La Trobe University), "Emoji as digital gesture"
• May 21: Dr Adele Gregory (La Trobe University), "Regional vowel characteristics of northern Queensland speakers"
• May 28: Professor David Deterding (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), "Indigenous Languages and English in Brunei Darussalam in the globalized modern era"
• June 18: Carolin Krafzik (La Trobe University), "Fan-f*ckin-tastic: Student swearing in Sydney"
• July 9: Dr Jessica Birnie-Smith (La Trobe University): "Undoing Chineseness: The cultural politics of language and identity in globalizing China."
• July 30: Associate Professor Marc Brunelle (University of Ottawa): "The acoustics of onset voicing in Chrau, Chru and Jarai"
• August 27: Associate Professor Marc Garellek (University of California San Diego): "What Illustrations of the IPA can teach us about voicing and glottal sounds"
• September 17: Joshua Butler (La Trobe University): "A Digitised Middle Cornish Corpus: A Step Toward a New Grammar of Middle Cornish"
• October 8: Professor Matthew Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) and Professor Thiago Costa Chacon (University of Brasilia): "Lexical Tones, Intonation and Prosodic Units in Kubeo"
• November 19: Kelly Harper Berkson (Indiana University) and Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas): "The Chin Languages Research Project: Investigating typologically rare phenomena in Kuki-Chin languages in Indiana"
• December 3: Professor Alexei Kochetov (University of Toronto): "Acoustic Variation in Kalasha Laterals: Sound Change through Contrast Enhancement and Language Contact"
• December 10: Professor Marija Tabain (La Trobe University): "The Phonetics of Qaqet, a Language of Papua New Guinea"