SSRC: our seminars & talks
Speech and Communication Research
Seminars on Wednesdays, usually at 12.15pm. (bring your lunch!)
<LINK TO CURRENT PROGRAMME>
Staff and postgraduate students from all subject areas are welcome. SHS 4th year students and GDip students and
visitors are welcome. The seminars are informal and are often an opportunity to hear about new research ongoing at the university. When dates are still available for presentations
your suggestions are especially welcome, so please e-mail Ian Finlayson oe. (Speech and Hearing Sciences) or Stephen Darling (Psychology)
We also have internal research seminars for SSRC staff
- AAA Workshop (Mondays at 1.15) - all ultrasound/EPG/EMA researchers welcome - seminar organiser Tanja Kocjančič.
2009 Seminars & Talks
- 07.05.09 Voice SIG - Presentation of lingWAVES voice analysis software by Propeller Multimedia Ltd and Ingolfe Francke, Wevosys, Germany. There is a limited number of 30 attendees. Contact Jocelynne Watson for further information on jwatson@qmu.ac.uk
- 13.05.09 Scottish Hearing Impairment SIG - further details to follow. Contact Jocelynne Watson for further information on jwatson@qmu.ac.uk
- 27.05.09 Prof Bruce Tomblin (Iowa) "Exploring the borders of communication competence: Outcomes from a childhood of poor language skill" [Note:
Lecture Theatre at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. You don't have to register for this - just turn up!
] THere will be a seminar session prior to this, organised by the SLI SIG.
Previously in 2009:
- 16.02.09 Prof. Jim Scobbie "ESPF, the Edinburgh Speech Production Facility: an overview of our new dual-EMA/EPG laboratory and the initial discourse corpus" Room 3163 at 1.15pm.
- 09.02.09 Joanne Cleland "Speech in Down's Syndrome Project: Feedback Session". This is for families and professional who have been involved in some way with the Electropalatography and Down's Syndrome project at Queen Margaret University. The Boardroom, QMU at 6pm to 7.30pm.
- 19.01.09 Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury "Coronal stop deletion revisited" Room 64 at 2.15pm.
- 09.02.09 Martine Verheul "3D Movement Analysis of Prosody in British Sign Language: About real elephants and fake quirrels." Room 56 at 1.15pm.
Previously in 2008:
- 11.02.08 (wk23) Marko Liker "Lingual coarticulation index using EPG: voiced vs. voiceless"
- 18.02.08 (wk24) Esther de Leeuw - Title tbc
- 25.02.08 (wk25) 3rd year / 4th year honours project liaison
- 03.03.08 (wk26) Jim Scobbie AAA workshop with focus on annotation and measurement
- 10.03.08 (wk27) Dr Natasha Zharkova, Dr Sonja Schaeffler, Prof Fiona Gibbon "Who grasps the crisps? An EPG study of consonant clusters"
- 17.03.08 (wk28) Catherine Dickie - "The phonological deficit in dyslexia: are representations really impaired?"
- 07.04.08 (wk31) Jim Scobbie Articulate Assistant Advanced Workshop
- 14.04.08 (wk32) Jim Scobbie (2147 = lab) Articulate Assistant Advanced Workshop
- 21.04.08 (wk33) Robin Lickley Commercialisation Plans [SHS staff only]
- Tuesday 12.15 13.05.08 (wk36) Christoph Draxler and Felix Scheffler "High Quality Distributed Speech Recordings via the Internet - the VOYS Project". [abstract]
- postponed Sonja Schaeffler and Jim Scobbie Articulatory Setting detection in bilinguals.
- 15.09.08 Tricia McCabe, (Sydney) "Using the principles of motor learning to treat Childhood Apraxia of Speech (dyspraxia). Some recent research"
- 20.10.08 Mariam Hartinger (ZAS Berlin) " Neuronal representation of speech in Parkinson’s disease. Preparatory work for an fMRI study." - Room 64.
- 24.11.08 Helen Muir (QMU) "e-Research and library services." Room 55.
- 26.11.08 Nigel Hewlett (QMU) "My Swansong: Easy ways to analyse AAA ultrasound data" Room 2170 at 13.15.
- 03.12.08 Natalia Zharkova, Nigel Hewlett, William J. Hardcastle (QMU) "Acquisition of coarticulation in typically developing children: ultrasound evidence." Room 2170 at 13.00.
- 08.12.08 Christine de Placido (QMU) "Experiencing hearing loss: A qualitative study." Room 64.
2007 Seminars & Talks
- 05.02.07 Martine Verheul
(U. of Edinburgh) "Movement analysis in British Sign Language"
- 12.02.07 James M Scobbie
and Marianne Pouplier "EPG analysis of /l/"
- 19.02.07 Sue Peppé
"How far have we come with prosody assessment in atypical
populations?"
- 19.03.07 Natalia Zharkova
"Ultrasound evidence for degrees of articulatory constraint
in consonants and vowels"
- 26.03.07 Room 464 Svenja Wurm (Heriot Watt) "Literacy
=> written language? Creating a space for signed languages
in the discussion of literacy" Note
room
- 02.04.07 Mariam Hartinger
"Results from an EMMA study on cluttering"
- 09.04.07 subject meeting
- 16.04.07 Per Alm (Stockholm)
"The dual premotor model: a neurological framework for speech
initiation (focus on stuttering)"
- 23.04.07 Mark Jones (Cambridge
U.) "Covert contrast and the acoustic character of 'labiodental'
/r/"
- 30.04.07 Pauline Campbell
"Audiological abnormalities in Lysosomal Storage Diseases"
- 21.05.07 Alan Gilloran
- research strategy
- 11.06.07 Rachael Wilkie
from Wiley Publishers
Wednesday
Research Bakery (Informal discussion of reseach
and other topics - - Location/time announced in emails, but usually
1.15 in 116 or 120)
- 14.03.07 Knowledge Transfer
- 21.03.07 EPG annotation , closure measure
- Miriam Hartinger
- 28.03.07 EPG annotation, fricatives - Sonja
Biersack
- 18.05.07 Research at Umeå - Jan van
Doorn (Umeå University Sweden) title tba
- 13.06.07 ADHD - Wael Dakroury
1st semester 2006/2007
- 4.09.05 - Dr Christiane Ulbrich, University
of Ulster "Intonation and pitch range in German dialects"
Open to all
- 23.10.06 - Dr Anette Lohmander
- 30.10.06 - [room 309] Prof Graham
Turner, Heriot Watt "We're all doomed!' - Is
the renaissance of BSL over before it's begun?"
- 06.11.06 - Dr Felix Schaeffler "Synchronic
variation and diachronic change of phonological length in Swedish."
- 13.11.06 - Dr Robin Lickley "Hesitation"
- 20.11.06 - [room 309] Prof Martin
Pickering (Edinburgh) "New research on alignment
in dialogue"
- 27.11.06 - Jo Edwards "An Introduction
to Cochlear Implants and Implications for Child Language Development"
- 04.12.06 - subject meeting (SHS staff only)
- 06.12.06 - [3-4pm, room 465] [note
unusual day & time ] Elina Tripoliti
(City University, London) "The effects of deep brain stimulation
on speech in Parkinson’disease"
- 11.12.06 - Prof April McMahon and Warren Maguire
(Edinburgh) "Comparing the sounds of varieties of English:
A quantitative approach"
Wednesday Research Bakery
(Informal discussion of reseach and other topics - - Location/time
announced in emails, but usually 1.15 in 116 or 120)
- 13 sep - contract research staff and role
evaluation
- 20 sep - new campus move (led by Steve
Cowen)
- 04 oct - The VOYS corpus - how to record
300 Scottish pupils (Felix Schaeffer)
In addition we have other visitors,
talks and discussions at more irregular times and locations. See
Research News for info about visitors.
Old Talks
- 09.01.06 - - -
- 16.01.06 Jim Scobbie reporting back on
QM's professional doctorate in health and social science
- 23.01.06 Alice Lee - - - "Effect of
linguistic background on perceptual judgements of hypernasality"
- 06.02.06 Subject Area meeting
- 13.02.06 Ivan Yuen - - - "Declination
and supralaryngeal articulation in Cantonese "
- 20.02.06 Ben Matthews - - - "Deafness,
Literacy, and ‘plain English’"
- 27.02.06 Alice Lee & Ivan Yuen - -
- "Clicks and other unusual articulations in two children
with velocardiofacial syndrome"
- 06.03.06 Subject Area meeting
- 13.03.06 Rachel Smith (Cambridge) - - -
Specificity and abstractness in word segmentation
- 20.03.06 free
- 27.03.06 Programme Committee
- 03.04.06 BAAP runthroughs
- 10.04.06 BAAP
- 17.04.06 Nigel Hewlett & Yolanda Vazquez
Alvarez - - - Ultrasound measurement techniques for Dysarthria
- 24.04.06 Anne O'Hare (Edinburgh) - Computer
Based Intervention Using Acoustically Modified Speech (Fastforword-language)
in Receptive Language Impairment Outcomes From a Randomised Controlled
Trial
- 01.05.06 Christos Salis - "Sentence
comprehension and task effects in aphasia"
- 08.05.06 Yolanda Vazquez Alvarez "Cross-linguistic
study of closure-related tongue perturbations"
- 15.05.06 Sharynne McLeod (Australia) -
- - "Perspectives on speech production"
- 22.05.06 tba
- 29.05.06 Merle Mahon (England) - - - "Moving
on to spoken words: interactions between young deaf children and
their teachers"
title tbc
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