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While the Linguistics Research Seminars feature more formal presentations with external speakers, the Lab Talks provide a forum for staff and students to share work in progress for feedback in an informal setting. Sessions normally take place on Wednesdays at 1pm.

For more information on the Linguistics Lab Talks, please contact Juliana Gerard.

Previous Talks

2026
  • 18 June — Show & Tell session
  • 22 April — Balthazar Lauzon (Acquisition of the unaccusative/unergative distinction in English)
  • 25 March — Victoria Singer (Using the Dynamic Assessment of Late Talkers’ Word-Learning)
  • 4 March — Maria Andrea Carboni (Competing again constructions in the history of Italian)
  • 11 February — Seán Ó Catháin (Framing the Legacy of our Irish and Scottish Heritage)
  • 4 February — Bayan Natsheh (Scoping review of ELT and AI literacy)
  • 28 January — Duygu Buga (Performance on the Word Maze Task)
2025
  • 10 December — Catherine Turner (The invocation of multiparity)
  • 3 December — Show & Tell session
  • 19 November — Christina Sevdali (Possessor raising and possessor passivisation in the history of Greek)
  • 5 November — Morgan Macleod (Mood in early Germanic languages)
  • 15 October — Bayan Natsheh (Assessing the Construct Validity of the Cambridge English Placement Test (CEPT) in the Palestinian Context)
  • 8 October — Juliana Gerard (In control or not? Acquisition of non-finite adjunct clauses in Romanian vs. English)
  • 1 October — Duygu Buga (Building a grammatical distractor generator for the Word Maze Task)
  • 21 May — Bayan Natsheh (The impact of accessibility challenges on the psychological state and performance of Palestinian IELTS test-takers)
  • 14 May — Gianluca Porta (The rationale of rationale clauses)
  • 09 April — Morgan Macleod (Seem at the syntax–semantics interface)
  • 26 March — Catherine Turner (I know: Affiliating with negative affective stance)
  • 05 March — Nevena Klobucar (Cross-linguistic reference resolution in child acquisition and adult processing)
  • 12 February — Juliana Gerard & Morgan Macleod (Newcomers in Northern Ireland: Plans and preliminary analyses)
  • 29 January — Balthazar Lauzon (A looking-time approach to study child acquisition of auxiliary selection)
2024
  • 11 December — Nevena Klobucar (Reference resolution in German-speaking children and adults)
  • 27 November — Richard Stockwell (Warner's Generalization and the domain of matching in sluicing)
  • 06 November — Gianluca Porta (Ne-cliticization and the DP/PP distinction)
  • 16 October — Catherine Turner (A problem in search of a methodology: Reflections on conducting interdisciplinary research)
  • 02 October — Juliana Gerard (Newcomers in Northern Ireland: A secondary data analysis with the Education Outcomes Linkage dataset)