Linguistic diversity in child language acquisition research
Seminar
An adequate theory of child language acquisition presupposes an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s languages. However, despite a proud history of crosslinguistic research, the field has barely scratched the surface when it comes to language…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - March
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength…
Episcopal petitions to the emperor: norm, practice and representation
Seminar
Join us for the first ANU Classics Centre Research Seminar for the year, presented by Dr Fabian Schulz. This presentation runs for one hour in the AD Hope Conference Room (Room #128). A reception will follow in the Classics Museum. All welcome! Abstract Thirty years after the…
Cross-dialectal convergence in L1 and L2 speakers
Seminar
This study asks whether first and second language speakers would converge equally across dialect boundaries. To investigate this I ran a shadowing task in which first (American and Australian) and second (Russian) language speakers of English repeated isolated words after an American and Australian…
Painted Walls and Tiled Floors from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Beyond
Lecture
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to the Annual General Meeting and talk, Painted walls and tiled floors from Pompeii, Herculaneum and beyond. Presented by Dr Estelle Lazer, Honorary Research Associate in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Held in the RSSS…
Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care
Seminar
How can we understand the practices of everyday readers in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I present a dynamic theoretical model of contemporary reading based on qualitative research with readers, in order to drive forward debates about the significance of recreational reading. I argue…
Corpus Linguistics Workshop by Lancaster University’s Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS)
Workshop
This free workshop, arranged jointly by the Australian National University and Lancaster University’s Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, offers a series of sessions on topics in corpus linguistics and the application of corpus techniques in discourse studies and the study of health(…