Cambridge Language Sciences

1-minute talks by the poster presenters

Talk by Dr David Willis, Reader in Historical Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Keynote lecture by Saul Nassé, Chief Executive Officer, Cambridge Assessment English

Keynote lecture by Professor Steve Young (University of Cambridge Dept. of Engineering/Siri Development Team)

Professor Simon Fisher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Professor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory

Dr Nigel Collier, Co-Head of the Language Technology Lab, Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Professor Lorraine K. Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Dept. of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Inaugural lecture by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Professor of English and Applied Linguistics

In this talk, Professor Charles A. Nelson, Harvard University, discusses what happens to children whose experience after birth deviates from the norm; specifically, infants who experience profound early neglect. In the Bucharest Early Intervention Project three groups of Romanian children are being studied: infants abandoned to institutions and who remain in institutional care; infants abandoned to institutions but then placed in high quality foster care; and infants who have never been institutionalized. These three groups have been studied for the past 16 years and in this talk he discusses the findings from a variety of domains (including but not limited to IQ, attachment, and brain development). This work will be considered within the broader context of the 140 million parentless children around the world, 8 million of whom are being raised in institutional settings. This talk is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Research in neuroscience on how we extract meaningful structures in order to learn from experience and adapt to new situations

Linguistic patterns and trends identified as a result of the New York Times dialect quiz

Keynote lecture by guest speaker Prof. Stephen Levinson

Modelling linguistic sound changes to "bring back to life" languages from the past.

Asif Ghazanfar, Brechtje Post, Matt Davis, William Marslen-Wilson, Robert Foley, Q&A and panel discussion

Nicholas Asher, Richard Holton, Kasia Jaszczolt, Stephen Clark, Ann Copestake, Aurelie Herbelot, William Marslen-Wilson

John Williams, Elisabetta Ragagnin

Spike Gildea, Geoffrey Khan

Conference opening: Vice-Chancellor, Judith Kroll, Henriette Hendriks