Summer School

Speakers and programme to be announced. 

Programme: 

09.45-09.55 Registration and Welcome
09.55-10.00 Opening from the LAGBPSC Chair: Gianluca Porta (Ulster University)

10.00-11.00 State of the Field Address 1:  Evaluating Large Language Models as Linguists - Dr Itamar Kastner (Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh)

11.00-11.15 Break

11.15-12.00 Company Deep-Dive: Meaning and Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence - George Lodge (Language Engineer) and Nancy Palumbo (Language Engineer) from Unlikely AI

12.00-12.15 Break
12.15-13.15 State of the Field Address 2: Social Meaning and Identity Construction in Game-Theoretic Pragmatics - Dr Heather Burnett (Research Director, Formal Linguistics Laboratory, Paris Diderot University)

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Comparing Approaches: Perspectives in Language Acquisition - Prof Silvina Montrul (Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Prof Ben Ambridge (Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester)

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-17.00 Skills Workshop: Inferential Statistics for Linguists: Revealing Underlying Mechanisms and Making Them Work for You - Dr Lauren Ackerman (Research Associate and LingLab Manager, Newcastle University)

17.00-17.15 Break

17.15-18.30 Careers Talks: (1) A Career After Linguistics: Perspectives from graduates - Dr Ben Naismith (Senior Assessment Scientist from Duolingo), Noriyasu Li (Principal Product Manager from Moderna), and Tynisha Brice (Assistant Director for International Career Development from Davidson College) 

(2) Getting Career Opportunities as a Linguistics Student - Dr. Abdesalam Soudi (Project Manager of Humanities @ Work in the Community, Health & Tech Industries from University of Pittsburgh)

18.30-on Informal social gathering

Programme: 

Chair: Gianluca Porta (Ulster University)

10.00-11.00 Talk 1: Sounds and meaning in constructed languages - Dr. Bettina Beinhoff (ARU)

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 Workshop 1: Academic publishing: One bottle, many necks? - Dr. Yuni Kim

12.30-12.50 JoULAB presentation: Núria Bosch Masip (University of Cambridge)

13.00-14.00 Lunch (provided)

14.00-15.00 Talk 2: Deficit, difficulty, difference: alternative perspectives into  autistic people’s pragmatic skills - Prof. Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)

15.00-15.15 Break

15.15-16.15 Workshop 2: Formulating and Testing Hypotheses in Historical Syntax - Dr. Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad (University of Oxford)

16.15-16.45 Break

16.45-17.45 Talk 3:  Direct/Inverse systems in a Cyclic Agree approach from a broader  typological perspective: Successes, challenges and potential extensions - Prof. Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)

17.45- Informal social gathering