multi-day
Computational Linguistics Reading Group
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This group meets every other week to read recent papers in computational linguistics, and all are welcome to join. This...
Past Events
Below we list past events hosted specifically by the Linguistics Department. To see the interdisciplinary past events on campus, go to the calendar.
multi-day
Racial Justice in Linguistics reading group
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This group meets every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. For more information please contact Annette D'Onofrio.
multi-day
Computational Linguistics Reading Group
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This group meets weekly to read recent papers in computational linguistics, and all are welcome to join. For more information...
Apr
16
2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Nicole Holliday - Kamala Harris and the Construction of Ethnolinguistic Political Identity
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Over the past 50 years, sociolinguistic studies on black Americans have expanded in both theoretical and technical scope, and newer...
Apr
2
2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio - My life as a linguist: Advancing research and uplifting communities
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This presentation features my individual and collaborative scholarship along two distinct lines of linguistic inquiry. One strand attends to language...
Mar
12
2021
Distinguished Lecturer in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Dr. Ortega’s main area of research is in second language acquisition, particularly socio-cognitive and educational dimensions in adult classroom settings....
Feb
26
2021
Prospective graduate students visit 2021
All day, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Prospective Graduate Students Visit: Virtual tour of Linguistics labs and campus; Individual meetings with faculty and current grads.
Jan
29
2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Erica Britt - Oral History and the Discursive Construction of Identity in Urban Spaces
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This talk provides a description of the Vehicle City Voices (VCV) project, an oral history and linguistic survey of Flint,...
Nov
13
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jennifer Cabrelli - The role of a learner’s background languages in the acquisition of a third language
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The recent growth of research on third language (L3) acquisition is due in great part to an increase in recognition...
Oct
30
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Shiri Lev-Ari - Language from a social networks perspective
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Language is created and used by networks of people. In this talk I will show how the structure of the...
Oct
9
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ellen Lau - Sequences, syntax, and scenes: towards the neural underpinnings of working memory for language comprehension
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
As linguists, one thing many of us would love to get from neuroscience studies of language is some insight into...
Sep
9
2020
Incoming Graduate Students Department Orientation
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Department Orientation for new graduate students
Jun
5
2020
Linguistics QP Fest 2020
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Presentation of qualifying paper research by graduate students.
Jun
3
2020
Virtual Talk: Joseph C.Y. Lau (Infant and Child Development Center, NU)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Details TBA
Jun
3
2020
Undergraduate Research Forum and Award Ceremony
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics undergraduate students will present their honors thesis research. The forum will be followed by the Demoz Prize Awards Ceremony
May
29
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Heidi Harley - Relative nominals and event nominals in Hiaki
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Hiaki (Yaqui) exhibits an interesting formal overlap between nominalizations which create relative-clause like structures and nominalizations which create event nominals....
May
20
2020
Phonatics Online: Melissa Baese-Berk (UOregon)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Title & Abstract TBA
May
13
2020
Phonatics Online: Jeffrey Lamontagne (McGill)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Online edition of PHONATICS. Zoom link to be sent via mailing list.
May
8
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Allyson Ettinger - "Understanding" and prediction in language: perspectives from AI and human cognition
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
When we talk about language in humans and in machines, prediction is a common thread: much evidence indicates that human...