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2025

Galea, L. ‘Metaphors in Ocean Vuong’s poetry’; oral presentation at PALA, University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., July. 

Galea, L. ‘A preliminary discussion on coda clusters in Maltese’, oral presentation at GHILM, University of Dusseldorf, Germany, September.

Galea, L., & Ussishkin, A. ‘The acoustic properties of the [ɪ]-vowel in the definite article’, oral presentation at GHILM, University of Dusseldorf, Germany, September.

2023

Ellul, L., & Galea, L. ‘When “lately” becomes “too late”: a case study of a children’s nature-based book in a barren landscape’; oral presentation at PALA, Bertinoro, Italy, July. 

2017 

Galea, L., & Ellul, L. ‘Revisiting the definite article in Maltese’; oral presentation at the 6th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics 2017, University of Bratislava, Slovakia, 7th – 8th June. 

2016

Vella, A., Galea, L., & Grech, S. ‘Continuation rises in Maltese English and influence from Maltese’; oral presentation at Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE) 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 1-3rd September.

Galea, L. ‘Not-initial word-initial geminates’; poster presentation at 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 26th – 28th May, 2016. Download it from here.

2015

Galea, L., Grice, M., Hermes, A., & Gatt, A. ‘Cues to gemination in Maltese’; oral presentation at 18^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Glasgow (10 -14 August).

Galea, L., Grice, M., & Hermes, A. ‘Word-initial insertions in Maltese’; poster presentation at at PaPE, University of Cambridge, 28-30 June.

Galea, L. ‘Word-initial Geminates in Maltese’; oral presentation at 5^th International Conference of Maltese Linguistics, Torino, 24-26 June.

Paggio, A., Galea, L., & Vella, A. ‘Prosodic and gestural marking of topicalised constructions in Maltese’; oral presentation at 5^th International Conference of Maltese Linguistics, Torino, 24-26 June.

Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., Wedel, A., & Wray, S., ‘Maltese templates and vocalic melodies are phonological: evidence from auditory priming’ oral presentation at 5^th International Conference of Maltese Linguistics, Torino, 24-26 June.

Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., Wray, S., ‘Phonology vs. morphology: How auditory lexical decision in Maltese resolves the conflict’ poster presentation at 23^rd Manchester Phonology Meeting, 28-30 May.

Ussishkin, A., Galea, L., Wedel, A., & Wray, S., ‘The phonological status of Maltese word patterns’; oral presentation at 89th LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, 8-11 January.

2014

Galea, L., Grice, M., Hermes, A., & Muecke, D., ‘Lexical and surface geminates in Maltese poster presentation at 10^th International Seminar of Speech Production, Cologne, 5-8 May.

2013

Paggio, A., Galea, L., & Vella, A. ‘MAMCO: a Maltese Multimodal Corpus’; oral presentation at 4^th International Conference of Maltese Linguistics, Lyon.

Ussishkin, A., Wray, S., Wedel, A., & Galea, L., ‘When visual and auditory processing diverge: evidence from Maltese’; oral presentation at 4^th International Conference of Maltese Linguistics, Lyon.