Events
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Nov 13Ling Fridays: Sprenger on individual variationAnna-Marie Sprenger
250 Van Hise
Beyond Gay /s/: Speaker-Level Variation in a Queer Romanian Community Anna-Marie Sprenger, Chicago What does it mean to sound queer in a place where queerness itself is precarious and unevenly legible? This talk examines /s/ production among queer speakers in Iași, Romania, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and 12,574 /s/ tokens from 15 …
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Nov 20Syntax Circle
1120 Van Hise
SynC is a space to discuss all things syntax, including syntax documentation, description, and theoretical work, especially related to under-described and under-represented languages, and topics relevant to syntacticians. This month the circle will hear an LSA practice talk by our Linguistics PhD student Yongjia Deng. Contact organizers Grant Armstrong and Wesley dos Santos with questions.
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Dec 4Ling Fridays: Pennington and Wright on Taboo language
TBD
Things You Can’t Say Matthew Pennington and Kelly Wright
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Dec 10