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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: The psychological validity of non-adjacent collocations
Having recently completed my PhD in CASS, I am really excited to announce that I have been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for the upcoming academic year. My research focuses on finding neurophysiological evidence for the existence of collocations, i.e. sequences of two or more words where the words are statistically highly likely to occur…
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Change of Leadership in CASS
Andrew Hardie is delighted to announce that he has handed over his role of CASS Centre Director to Elena Semino. Elena has been Head of Department for Lancaster’s Department of Linguistics and English Language for 6 years, and has published widely in the areas of stylistics, metaphor theory, and medical humanities/health communication. In Elena’s own…
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New CASS PhD student!
CASS is delighted to welcome new PhD student Andressa Gomide to the centre, where she will be working on data visualization in corpus linguistics. Continue reading to find out more about Andressa! I am in the first year of a my PhD in Linguistics, which is focused on data visualizations for corpus tools. Being a…
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Birmingham ERP Boot Camp
Last week I attended a 5-day ERP Boot Camp at the University of Birmingham, and this was an incredible opportunity for me to learn from ERP experts and get specific advice for running my next ERP experiments. The workshop was led by two of the most renowned ERP researchers in the world, namely Professor Steven…
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Participants needed for psycholinguistic experiment!
My PhD research combines methods from corpus linguistics and psychology in order to find out more about how language is processed in the brain. The method that I use from psychology is known as electroencephalography (EEG), and this involves placing electrodes across a participant’s scalp in order to detect some of the electrical activity of…
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Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics Seminar
On the afternoon of Thursday 19th May 2016, CASS held its first ever psycholinguistics seminar which brought together researchers from both linguistics and psychology. The theme of the seminar was “Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics”, with a particular focus on experimental psycholinguistics. The afternoon consisted of four 40-minute presentations which covered a range of different experimental…
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Upcoming CASS Psycholinguistics Seminar
CASS is excited to announce an upcoming half-day research seminar on the theme of “Corpus Data and Psycholinguistics”. The event will take place on Thursday 19th May 2016 at 1-5pm in Furness Lecture Theatre 3. The aim of the event is to bring together researchers with an interest in combining methods from corpus linguistics and…
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Participants needed for EEG experiment!
For my PhD I am trying to find out how language is processed in the brain by combining methods from corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics. Specifically, I have extracted real language data from the British National Corpus and modified this data so that it can be presented to participants in an electroencephalography (EEG) experiment. In EEG…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.