Departmental Seminars

Our departmental seminars provide an opportunity for staff, researchers, students and clinicians to find out about some of the most cutting edge research into language and communication, from researchers and clinicians in the UK and beyond.

Departmental seminars take place on Thursdays from 4:15 - 5.30pm, in the Department of Language and Communication Science, Social Sciences Building, 32-35 Whiskin Street, London, EC1V 0HB (corner of Whiskin and St John's Street). Please check the room number next to each talk in the table below. Talks are 50 minutes long followed by discussion, and a drink at The Boadicea Clerkenwell on St John Street for those who would like to join us.

 

**APOLOGIES - WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL ELISE DE BREE'S SEMINAR ON 11th MARCH**

   
All welcome - no fee - no need to book. We look forward to seeing you!

 

Please contact Chloe Marshall with any queries. 

 

  

Date Speaker and Title

Thursday 28th January

Room DLG19

Rachael-Anne Knight (City University London)

"Factors affecting transcription accuracy: Towards a model of phonetic transcription"

Thursday 4th February

Room DLG19

Debbie Sell (GOSH, UCL & City University London)

"National and international perspectives of cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction in 2010: The good, the bad and the challenges!"

Thursday 18th February

Room DLG19

Dermot Bowler (City University London)

"Memory in Autism Spectrum Conditions: Achievements of the past and prospects for the future"

Thursday 25th February

Room C118

Fabrizio Pizzioli (Université Catholique de Louvain & Birkbeck)

"Neurocognitive correlates of sentence comprehension in children with SLI"

Thursday 4th March

Room DLG19

Jessie Ricketts (University of Warwick)

"Growth in vocabulary and its relation to reading skill"

Thursday 11th March

Room DLG19

Elise de Bree (University of Utrecht)

"Infants' category formation in phonology and grammar"

**CANCELLED**

Thursday 25th March

Room DLG19

Victoria Joffe (City University London)

"Narrative and vocabulary intervention in secondary school-aged students with language impairments"