Jun
10
2022
Linguistics Seniors Send-Off event
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
At this casual brunch we will recognize our seniors and wish them well as they finish up their time at...
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.
Jun
3
2022
Linguistics QP & Thesis Fest 2022
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Presentation of qualifying paper research by graduate students and BA/MA thesis project by undergraduate students.Â
Jun
2
2022
Julie Sedivy, Distinguished Lecturer in Multilingualism and Language Learning
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
2021-22 Distinguished Lecturer in Multilingualism and Language Learning Julie Sedivy Writer and Language Scientist Author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language...
May
13
2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Eric Acton - Definites, alternatives, and generalized pragmatic inference
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Pragmatic research has shown that enrichments to utterances’ semantic meaning can often be derived from comparing a given utterance to...
Apr
29
2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Bob Frank - Linguistic Productivity in Neural Networks: Representation and Inductive Bias
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
A fundamental fact about human language is its productivity: speakers are able to understand and produce forms different from those...
Feb
25
2022
Prospective graduate students visit 2022
All day, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Open House 2022: Virtual tour of Linguistics labs and campus; Individual meetings with faculty and current grads.
Jan
28
2022
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jessi Grieser - What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
In this talk, I'll discuss the Big-D discourses of gentrification and the ways they serve as a form of abstract...
Nov
12
2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ming Xiang - Semantic convention and pragmatic reasoning in sentence comprehension
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
There is a growing body of psycholinguistics work arguing how comprehenders are capable of integrating interlocutor-based pragmatic reasoning into sentence...
Oct
8
2021
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Rachel Theodore - Listener sensitivity to structured phonetic variation
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
If we can learn anything from binge-watching Law and Order, it is that eye-witness testimony is very unreliable. This is...
Oct
1
2021
Back-to-School Mixer
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Department Fall kick-off meeting for faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff to catch up and welcome our incoming grads.
Sep
14
2021
Incoming Graduate Students Department Orientation
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Department and ELP Orientation for new graduate students
Sep
3
2021
Public PhD Dissertation Defense: Peter Baumann - Incremental Structure Building and Islands
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding...