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
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.
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...
Jun
4
2021
Linguistics QP Fest 2021 (Session 2)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Presentation of graduate student qualifying paper research and undergraduate student honors thesis research
Jun
2
2021
Linguistics QP Fest 2021 (Session 1)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Presentations of qualifying paper research by graduate students.
May
6
2021
Public PhD Dissertation Defense: Kathleen Hall - Relations and Structure: A View from Dependency Resolution
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and...
May
3
2021
Public PhD Dissertation Defense: Yunyan Duan - Word Identification and Eye Movement Control in Reading as Rational Decision Making
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
This dissertation provides evidence that reading is best explained as rational gathering of visual information to identify words efficiently. Although...
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...