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.
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
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...
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...
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...
Apr
10
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro (POSTPONED)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Description TBA
Apr
1
2020
Mar
4
2020
Phonatics: Matt Goldrick
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Modeling Liaison using Gradient Symbolic Representations (Joint work with Paul Smolensky and Eric Rosen, Johns Hopkins University & Microsoft Research) The Gradient...
Feb
21
2020
Prospective graduate students visit 2020
All day, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Prospective Graduate Students Visit: Tour of Linguistics labs and campus; Individual meetings with faculty, reception
Feb
5
2020
Feb
3
2020
12h Annual Linguistics Department Affiliated Faculty Honoree Luncheon with Angela Roberts (CSD)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The main purposes of this event are to recognize Angela's affiliation with our department and to give the whole department...
Jan
31
2020
Linguistics Colloquium Series: John Goldsmith - Battle in the Mind Fields
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Bernard Laks and I published Battle in the Mind Fields in 2019 with several aims in mind. Our understanding of...
Jan
23
2020
Computational Linguistics Olympiad
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
Jan
15
2020
Phonatics: Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Abstract TBA
Jan
8
2020
Phonatics: Anne Pycha (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Categoricity of segment representations depends upon word context Exemplar theories versus rule-based theories often make opposing predictions about the nature of...
Dec
2
2019
Distinguished Lecturer in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Erika Hoff, Florida Atlantic University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Lessons from the Study of Early Bilingual Development for Parents, Practitioners, and Language Scientists This lecture will present findings from two...
Nov
20
2019
PHONATICS: Timo Roettger (NU Linguistics)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Topic TBA
Nov
1
2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Abby Walker
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Expecting the unexpected: How long-term exposure to dialectal variation may change listening strategies. In this talk I discuss three studies that...
Oct
30
2019
PHONATICS: Kasia Hitczenko
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
How context can help in learning sounds from naturalistic speech Infants learn the sound categories of their language and adults successfully...
Oct
18
2019
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Michael Wagner - Toward a Bestiary of the Intonational Tunes of English
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
What is the inventory of tunes of North American English? What do particular tunes contribute to the pragmatic and semantic...
Oct
2
2019
Public PhD Dissertation Defense: Samantha Heidenreich - Disjunctive Questions: Experimental Evidence in Prosody and Discourse
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
A disjunctive interrogative has two different semantic interpretations: as an alternative (Alt.) question, or yes-no (Y/N)...
Sep
26
2019
Back-to-School Mixer
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff are welcome to mingle and enjoy light snacks and beverages and welcome our incoming students to...
Sep
19
2019
Graduate Event: LING Graduate Student Orientation
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Department orientation for incoming graduate students
Sep
19
2019
New TA Conference
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The conference provides a full day of events for all graduate students with teaching assignments at Northwestern in the fall,...