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UK LinguisticsOlympiadRound2UniversityofHuddersfield
18-20March2016
Contents
Welcome! 2
Usefulinformationandemergencycontacts 3
Maps 4Huddersfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4CampusmapfortheQueensgateCampus, UniversityofHuddersfield . . . . . . 5Accommodation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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People 9Tutors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Invitedspeaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Organisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Listofparticipants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ReadingonLinguistics 12
Linguisticsmiscellanea 14
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Welcome!Welcometoround2oftheUK LinguisticsOlympiad!
Thesepageswillgiveyousomeinformationaboutwhatwillbehappening, whoyouwillmeetandwhereyoucangotofindoutmoreaboutlanguageandlinguistics.
Tokeeppractising, takealookatthepastproblemsandexerciseslistedat:www.uklo.org/example-questions
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Useful information and emergency contactsEmergencycontactnumberNeilSheldon: 07725022621
UniversityaddressUniversityofHuddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, WestYorkshire, HD13DH,UK
AccommodationPremierInn, HuddersfieldCentralAddress: StAndrew’sRd, HuddersfieldHD16SB
MealsBreakfast, lunchanddinnerwillbeprovided. Pleaseseetimetable 1 fortimesandlocations.
UniversitywebsitesDepartmentofEnglishandLinguistics: http://www.hud.ac.uk/research/englishandlinguistics/
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Accommodation: Premier Inn, Huddersfield Central
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Timetable
Friday 18th March
Time DetailsFrom16:00onwards ArrivalatPremierInn17:30 MeetinPremierInnlobby
WalktoUniversityofHuddersfield, QueensgateCampus18:00-19:00 Dinner
UniversityCatering, Room?19:00-19:30 Welcomeandintroductions
NeilSheldonRoom?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus
19:30-21:00 GuestLecture, LinguisticsQ&ARoom?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus
Saturday 19th March
Time Details8:00-8:30 Breakfast
PremierInn9:00-10:30 PracticebasedonIOL 2016individualcontest
NeilSheldonRoom?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus
10:30-11:00 BreakwithrefreshmentsRoom?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus
11:00-12:30 PracticeforteamtestTutortbcRoom?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus
12:30-13:00 LunchUniversityCatering, Room?
13:00-13:30 Break/freetime13:30-15:00 Strategiesforansweringindividualquestions
Tutortbc15:00-15:30 Breakwithrefreshments
Room?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus15:30-17:00 Techniquesandexplanations
OllieSayeed17:00-18:00 Break/freetime18:00-19:00 Dinner
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Restaurant, tbc19:30onwards Socialouting note: probablybowling
Sunday 20th March
Time Details
Pleasecheckoutbeforebreakfastandbringluggagetotheuniversity.8:00-8:30 Breakfast
PremierInn9:00-12:00 SelectiontestfortheInternationalLinguisticsOlympiad
Room?, HuddersfieldQueensgateCampus12:30-13:00 Lunch
UniversityCatering, Room?13:00-13:30 Feedbackandfarewells
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People
BelowisalistoftheacademicswhoorganisedRound2. Somewillbeattheeventinperson(we’veincludedtheirphototohelpyourecognisethem), andallofusareveryhappytobecontactedwithanyquestionsyoumighthaveabouttheUK LinguisticsOlympiad, language,Linguistics, andapplyingtouniversities. Dogetintouch! Emailaddressesareprovidedbeloweachname.
Tutors
NeilSheldon
Email: [email protected]
NeilworkedatManchesterGrammarSchoolforover40years, teach-ingstatistics, mathematics, philosophyandcomputerscience. Hisinterestinlinguisticsgoesbacktouniversitydayswithaspecialin-terestinthephilosophyoflanguage. NeilbecameinvolvedinLin-guisticsOlympiadsin2009. SincethenhehasbeenatutoratRound2oftheUK LinguisticsOlympiadandtheUK teamleaderattheIn-ternationalLinguisticsOlympiad.SinceretiringhehasbeenelectedVicePresidentoftheRoyalStatis-ticalSocietywithresponsibilityforeducationandstatisticalliteracy.Andhealsohashisownshow(playing1920sjazz)oninternetradio.
Oliver(Ollie)Sayeed
Email: [email protected]
OlliewasintheUK teamattheIOL inManchester(2013)andBeijing(2014), andtutoredatRound2lastyearinOx-ford. Ollieisnowinhissecondyearatuniversity, readingLinguisticsatChrist’sCollege, Cambridge.
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Invited speaker at Friday lecturetbc
Organisers
FortheUniversityofHuddersfield:
LesleyJeffriesEmail: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]
FortheUK LinguisticsOlympiad:
JessicaBrownEmail: [email protected]: [email protected]
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Reading on LinguisticsNote: thisistheLinguisticsreadinglistthatwasincludedatthe2015UKLO TrainingCourseheldinCambridge. IsthereasimilarsortoflistfromoneoftheundergraduateprogrammesatHuddersfieldthatwecouldreplaceitwith?Belowisalistofbooksunder30poundsontheCambridgeBA Linguisticsreadinglistforfirstyearundergraduates. Thefullreadinglistscanbefoundontheundergraduatecoursepagesat: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal/undergraduates
SoundsandWords
Crystal, D.1997. TheCambridgeEncyclopediaofLanguage(Chapters27-29, 40). Cam-bridgeUniversityPress.Ashby, M.&Maidment, J.2005. IntroducingPhoneticScience. CambridgeUniversityPress.Davenport, M.&Hannahs, S.J.2005. IntroducingPhoneticsandPhonology. HodderEdu-cation.
StructuresandMeanings
Aitchison, J.2003. Words in themind: Anintroductiontothemental lexicon. Oxford:Blackwell. Thirdedition.Baker, M.2001. AtomsofLanguage. Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress.Elbourne, P.2011. Meaning: aslimguidetosemantics. Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress.Larson, R.2010. GrammarasScienceCambridge. Mass.: MIT Press.Levinson, S.C.1983. Pragmatics. Cambridge, UK:CambridgeUniversityPressPinker, S.2007. TheStuffofThought: LanguageasaWindowintoHumanNature. NewYork: VikingTallerman, M.1998/2005. Understandingsyntax. London: Arnold.
Language, BrainandSociety
Crystal, D.2004. ThestoriesofEnglish. London: AllenLane(PenguinBooks).Mesthrie, R., Swann, J., Deumert, A., &Leap, W.L.2000. Introducingsociolinguistics.Edinburgh: EdinburghUniversityPress.Pinker, S.1995. Thelanguageinstinct. Penguin.Smith, N.&Tsimpli, I.M.1995. Themindofasavant: Languagelearningandmodularity.Oxford: Blackwell.
HistoryandVarietiesofEnglish
Crystal, D.2002. TheEnglishlanguage. London: Penguin.Denison, D., &Hogg, Richard. 2006. A historyoftheEnglishlanguage. Cambridge: CUP.Hughes, A., Trudgill, P.&Watt, D.2005. Englishaccentsanddialects. London: HodderArnold.
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Kortmann, B.&Upton, C.2008. VarietiesofEnglish: TheBritishIsles. Berlin: MoutondeGruyter.
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Linguistics miscellanea
Linguistics Olympiad websitesUK LinguisticsOlympiad: www.uklo.org/InternationalLinguisticsOlympiad: www.ioling.org/
Languages and linguistics in the worldWordAtlasofLanguageStructures: wals.info/LinguistListinformationforlinguists: www.linguistlist.org/
Blogs and magazinesLanguageLog: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/PhD comicsontopicsinacademia: phdcomics.com/comics.phpBabel: www.babelzine.com/
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