Invited by the Centre for the Study of Mankind and Society and the Institute of Phonetics, Paul Boersma and Silke Hamann will give two talks: 24. 5. – prof. dr. Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam): Phonological category emergence in deep bidirectional neural networks, 15:00–16:30 25. 5. – dr. Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam): The help and […]

Institute of East Asian Studies cordially invites you to the guest talk by Mutsumi Imai: “The role of iconicity in language acquisition”. When: Tuesday, April 30, 2.00-3.45 pm Where: room 104, Faculty of Arts’ main building Abstract: The role of iconicity in language acquisition Mutsumi Imai Keio University, Japan Language is a system of abstract symbols. […]

Date: 25-Apr-2019 – 27-Apr-2019 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Web Site: http://linguisticsprague.ff.cuni.cz/ Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to the third international edition of the conference Linguistics Prague (formerly Lingvistika Praha). Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at early career researchers in linguistics and related fields. Successfully running since 2013, the conference will […]

Faculty of Arts, Charles University invites to the Gesture-Sign Workshop Prague 2019 that will take place on 16-17 May 2019. The workshop is organized by the Empirical Perspectives on Communication and Cognition research group and the Czech Association for Language and Cognition with support of the European Regional Development Fund-Project “Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions […]

Invited by the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, Zoltán Kövecses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) will give a talk in the lecture series Medieval Conflicts and Contrasts: Metaphors. The lecture Issues in diachronic study of metaphors will take place on Wednesday, 31 October, 17:30-19:00, room no. 104.

A guest lecturer of the KREAS project, prof. Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University) will give a talk titled The linguistic and social functions of prosody (abstract) on Wednesday, 24 October (10 am) at the Sweerts-Sporck Palace (3 Hybernská st., room H303).

On Tuesday, 5 Dec. prof. Hilde Hasselgård (invited by the Department of English and ELT Methodology) will give a talk entitled “Corpus-based contrastive analysis: some methodological issues and a talking case study”; 5:30 pm, room no. 300. (abstract)

On Thursday, 30 Nov, Dr R. Love (Lancaster University), invited by the Department of English and ELT Methodology, will give a lecture “The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language” (room 131, 3:50 pm) (abstract)

Invited by the Institute of Czech National Corpus, Michael Ramscar (Tübingen) will give two lectures in Prague: The discriminative nature of human communication (Monday, November 27th 2017, 6 pm) and The information structure of discriminative human communication systems (Tuesday, November 28th 2017, 1 pm) (flyer)

Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. Successfully running since 2013, the conference will be opened to international audience for the second time in 2018 with English as the language of the conference. Date: 26–28 April 2018, Abstract submission deadline: TBA