Past Lunches

The 67th Language Lunch

The 67th Language Lunch Date: 2019-04-11 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Modelling lexical interactions in diachronic corpora Andres Karjus; a.karjus@sms.ed.ac.uk Richard A. Blythe Simon Kirby Kenny,Smith Large diachronic text corpora enable a data-based approach to the study of language change dynamics. The development of unsupervised methods for the inference of semantic similarity, semantic change and polysemyContinue reading The 67th Language Lunch

The 66th Language Lunch

The 66th Language Lunch Date: 2019-02-14 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Quantitative Analysis of Political Change on Eighteenth-Century Scots Sarah van Eyndhoven; S1890120@sms.ed.ac.uk The Union of the Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707 seemed to signal the final blow for the Scots language (Murison, 1979), opening the doors for political and linguistic assimilation. YetContinue reading The 66th Language Lunch

The 65th Language Lunch

The 65th Language Lunch Date: 2018-12-13 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Why do-support in Scots is different Lisa Gotthard; s1242025@sms.ed.ac.uk Previous work on Scots syntax tends to assume that do-support follows the English pattern (e.g. Görlach, 2002) despite the fact that Scots exhibited variability between do-support and verb-raising for much longer than English (e.g. Jonas, 2002).Continue reading The 65th Language Lunch

The 64th Language Lunch

The 64th Language Lunch Date: 2018-10-25 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Check of the Linguistic Validity of Parts of Speech Features Used in Native Language Identification Tasks Shilin Gao; s.gao-14@sms.ed.ac.uk My research topic is Native Language Identification (NLI) where researchers attempt to tell the author’s first language in an anonymous English-as-a-second-language (ESL) text from differentContinue reading The 64th Language Lunch

The 63rd Language Lunch

The 63rd Language Lunch Date: 2018-06-21 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The Effects of Second Language Processing on Comprehension Coreference Preferences Carine,Abraham; carine.abraham@gmail.com In discourse, processing ambiguous pronouns is often instantaneous for adult native speakers. Recently, studies have found effects of verbal aspect, specifically whether events are completed or ongoing (perfective vs imperfective), on pronoun disambiguationContinue reading The 63rd Language Lunch

The 63rd Language Lunch

The 63rd Language Lunch Date: 2018-06-21 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The Effects of Second Language Processing on Comprehension Coreference Preferences Carine Abraham; c.abraham@ed.ac.uk In discourse, processing ambiguous pronouns is often instantaneous for adult native speakers. Recently, studies have found effects of verbal aspect, specifically whether events are completed or ongoing (perfective vs imperfective), on pronounContinue reading The 63rd Language Lunch

The 59th Language Lunch

The 59th Language Lunch Date: 2017-10-19 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum First language attrition at the interface among Chinese-English late bilingual speakers Wenjia,Cai; s1342561@sms.ed.ac.uk The current study aims to investigate L1 syntactic attrition effects among Chinese (mandarin)- English late bilinguals, with different patterns of language use and lengths of residence during online processing. Previous research hasContinue reading The 59th Language Lunch

The 58th Language Lunch

The 58th Language Lunch Date: 2017-06-22 Location: MF2 Informatics Forum The influence of temporal context on the production of temporal morphology in L2 speakers of English Qingyuan,Gardner; s1360390@sms.ed.ac.uk English temporal morphology is used to express tense (temporal location of events in relation to the time of speech). Mandarin does not have such a temporal systemContinue reading The 58th Language Lunch