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Language and Linguistic Science events

Upcoming events

Thu
27
Mar

Con(s)t(r)aining heterogeneous plurals: towards a comprehensive analysis of associative and similative plurals

Heterogeneous plurality is an umbrella term for plurals that don't "add up" tokens of the same type (these are additive or homogeneous plurals), but instead combine with a nominal stem ‘X' and produce a plural set whose members are not all tokens of 'X'.

Thu
27
Mar

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Mis padres y mis hijos

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Wed
2
Apr

Le Page Lecture 2025: Decision-making by speakers of English as a second language: Insights from the criminal justice system

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York welcomes you to join us for the Annual Le Page lecture.

Thu
8
May

The waitress that the customer served: Disentangling two accounts of verb processing when nouns have unexpected thematic roles

The N400 brain potential is usually large at unexpected words in a sentence. The N400 semantic illusion arises in sentences such as “the waitress that the customer served”, where the N400 at “served” is small despite it being unexpected that a customer would serve a waitress.

 

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