Linguistics Colloquium Series
2025
May 30, 2025
April 11, 2025
March 7, 2025
January 31, 2025
2024
December 6, 2024
November 1, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kevin McGowan
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Topic: The listener as the source of invariance
May 24, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Meg Cychosz
Affiliation: UCLA
Topic: Harnessing children’s messy, naturalistic environments to understand speech development
April 26, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Lal Zimman
Affiliation: UC Santa Barbara
Topic: Toward an expansive theory of vocal gender: Trans approaches to the sociophonetics of gender
April 12, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kathryn Franich
Affiliation: Harvard University
Topic: Coordination and its Relationship to Acoustic and Articulatory Enhancement
February 16, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Georgia Zellou
Affiliation: UC Davis
Topic: Linguistic and social biases impact speech communication in human-computer interaction
January 26, 2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jonathan Brennan
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Topic: Grammatical dynamics and neural decoding with EEG
2023
November 10, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Anjalie Field
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Equity and NLP in High Stakes Domains
October 27, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Florian Schwarz
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Exploring the contrast between weak and strong definite articles experimentally
May 26, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Junyi Jessy Li
Affiliation: University of Texas Austin
Topic: Deciphering Emotional Dynamics on Social Media
April 14, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Mark Amengual
Affiliation: University of California Santa Cruz
Topic: Long-term and short-term phonetic interactions in bilingual and trilingual speech
March 10, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Sharese King
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Topic: Linguistic Prejudice on Trial: Examining the Othering of Black Speech in the Courtroom
February 24, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jason Bishop
Affiliation: City University of New York (CUNY)
Topic: Planning prosodic structure should give you pause (duration): Evidence from individual differences
January 20, 2023
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Vera Gribanova
Affiliation: Stanford University
Topic: Negative concord, genitive of negation, and case (dis-)connectivity in Russian ellipsis
2022
October 28, 2022
Affiliation: Indiana University
Topic: Relating pronunciation distance metrics to children and adults’ accent perception
May 13, 2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Eric Acton
Affiliation: Eastern Michigan University
Topic: Definites, alternatives, and generalized pragmatic inference
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
April 29, 2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Bob Frank
Affiliation: Yale University
Topic: Linguistic Productivity in Neural Networks: Representation and Inductive Bias
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
January 28, 2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jessi Grieser
Affiliation: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Topic: What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
2021
November 12, 2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ming Xiang
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Topic: Semantic convention and pragmatic reasoning in sentence comprehension
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
October 8, 2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Rachel Theodore
Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Topic: Listener sensitivity to structured phonetic variation
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
April 16, 2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Nicole Holliday
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Kamala Harris and the Construction of Ethnolinguistic Political Identity
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
April 2, 2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Topic: My life as a linguist: Advancing research and uplifting communities
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
January 29, 2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Erica Britt
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Topic: Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Urban Spaces
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
2020
November 13, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jennifer Cabrelli
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: The role of a learner’s background languages in the acquisition of a third language
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
October 30, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Shiri Lev-Ari
Affiliation: Royal Holloway University of London
Topic: Language from a social networks perspective
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
October 9, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ellen Lau
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Topic: Sequences, syntax, and scenes: towards the neural underpinnings of working memory for language comprehension
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
May 29, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Heidi Harley.
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Topic: Relative nominals and event nominals in Hiaki
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
May 8, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Allyson Ettinger.
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Topic: "Understanding" and prediction in language: perspectives from AI and human cognition
Recording of the talk is available upon request. Please contact Linguistics@northwestern.edu
April 10, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro. (POSTPONED)
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: TBA
January 31, 2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: John Goldsmith.
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Topic: Battle in the Mind Fields
2019
November 1, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Abby Walker.
Affiliation: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Topic: Expecting the unexpected: How long-term exposure to dialectal variation may change listening strategies.
October 18, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Michael Wagner.
Affiliation: McGill University
Topic: Toward a Bestiary of the Intonational Tunes of English.
June 7, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jordana Heller.
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Topic: Connecting better: Understanding linguistic representation and accommodation benefits business outcomes.
May 24, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Melinda Fricke.
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Topic: Costs and benefits: What corpus studies can tell us about the psycholinguistics of codeswitching.
May 10, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Suzanne Wagner.
Affiliation: Michigan State University
Topic: Michiganders think they sound normal: Is that turning out to be true?
April 19, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Andy Wedel.
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Topic: Signal evolution within the word.
April 12, 2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Charles Chang.
Affiliation: Boston University
Topic: Integration, change, and stability in bilingual speech perception.
2018
December 7, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Elsi Kaiser.
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Topic: Subjectivity and generalizability: Psycholinguistic investigations of predicates of personal taste.
October 12, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Norbert Hornstein.
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Topic: The Triumph of Minimalism.
June 8, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Meredith Tamminga.
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Are there leaders of language change?
June 1, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Morgan Sonderegger.
Affiliation: McGill University
Topic: Towards large(r)-scale cross-linguistic study of speech: prosodic case studies.
May 18. 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jeff Lidz.
Affiliation: University of Maryland
Topic: 2nd Year Syntax.
May 11, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jason Merchant.
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Topic: Stochastic resolution of ellipsis: Why the holy grail of a grand unified theory will never be found.
April 6, 2018
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Carlos Gallo.
Affiliation: Northwestern University
Topic: "Analyzing linguistic style in text messages for an HIV prevention program".
2017
December 1, 2017
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Melissa Baese-Berk.
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Topic: Expectation, Experience, and Word Segmentation.
November 10, 2017
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Donna Jo Napoli.
Affiliation: Swarthmore College
Topic: Influence of predicate sense on sign order: Intensional and extensional verbs.
April 14, 2017
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Sandy Chung.
Affiliation: University of California Santa Cruz
Topic: Competition among Pronouns in the Grammar and Processing of Chamorro.
April 3, 2017
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Patrick Sturt.
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Topic: Agreement attraction in English and Korean.
March 31, 2017
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Scott Grimm.
Affiliation: University of Rochester
Topic: Plurality and Referentiality.
2016
December 2, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Sarah Creel.
Affiliation: University of California San Diego
Topic: Hearing a who: How talker identity shapes language processing throughout development.
October 28, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Rick Lewis.
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Topic: Toward Computationally Rational Language Processing and Language Design.
October 7, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kristin Van Engen.
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Topic: The accent wall: listening effort and L2 speech.
October 2, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ann Bunger.
Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Topic: How children parse motion events.
May 20, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Dr. Jennifer Arnold.
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Topic: Psycholinguistics.
May 6, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Dr. Gina Kuperberg
Affiliation: Tufts University
Topic: Neuroscience of language.
April 8, 2016
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Dr. Brian Dillon.
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Topic: Sentence processing.
2015
May 29, 2015
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Rebecca Scarborough
Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder
Topic: Clarity and the Lexicon.
April 10, 2015
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Florian Schwarz
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Experimental comparisons of presuppositions and implicatures.
March 13, 2015
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Robert Daland
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: What we have learned about speech perception from loanword phonology: Native phonotactics in Korean loanword corpora and online adaptation.
February 20, 2015
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Giuli Dussias
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Topic: Using codeswitching data as a lens to study the link between production and comprehension.
January 23, 2015
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Noah Goodman
Affiliation: Stanford University
Topic: Uncertainty in language and thought.