Linguistics Fridays are back

Fridays @ 4:00

We continue our tradition of coming together each week for some stimulating linguistic discussion on Friday afternoons. Linguistics Fridays will be online this semester, but they will still be happening!

As in previous years, the program will include a mixture of colloquium talks and reading groups. Here is the schedule that has been confirmed to date – continue to check our Events page for updates as more talks are added throughout the semester.

9/18
Reading Group
Discussion of Cohen and Gleason: “The causal structure of lenition: A case for the causal precedence of durational shortening”
10/2 Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Univ. Maryland Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody
10/9  Glenn Starr, UW-Madison  The Shallow Structure Hypothesis: L1 vs. L2 Processing of Scalar Implicatures 
10/16  Josh Brown, UW-Eau Claire  Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch 

Links to join the events will be emailed in advance via our mailing lists. Contact Becky Shields if you are a UW-Madison community member who would like to be added to the LangSci informational email list.