Redding Prelim defense

1151 Van Hise
@ 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Linguistics PhD student Gavin Redding will defend the Prelim 1 “A Survey of Algonquian Palatalization”

Ling Fridays: Zhang on intonation

1335 Sterling Hall
@ 3:30 pm

Sentence intonation: a dynamical gestural approach Yubin Zhang, UW-Madison The phonology of sentence types or speech acts—such as declaratives versus interrogatives—has often been analyzed as sequential symbolic tones, like pitch accents and boundary tones. But …

Weller dissertation defense

1418 Van Hise
@ 3:00 pm

Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller defends the dissertation “Breaking the Rules: A Tour of Non-Regularity in Turkish Phonology.” Audience members welcome.

Ling Fridays: Sims on ideologies of race

1418 Van Hise
@ 3:30 pm

“Not ghetto! Normal or Spanish”: Ideologies of race reflected in the speech of pre-adolescents Nandi Sims, Stanford University Using ethnographic methods, this paper shows how 6th graders at South Florida middle school reproduce and reimagine …

Ling Fridays: Gupton

TBD
@ 3:30 pm

TBD Tim Gupton, University of Georgia Sponsored by Language Sciences and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese

47th Annual International Child Phonology Conference

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The Language Sciences Program & Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 47th Annual International Child Phonology Conference, to be held in-person May 27-29, 2026, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   The conference brings together researchers from …