• Oct 16
    Ling Fridays: ELAN Workshop

    Wesley dos Santos

    254 Van Hise

    Introduction to ELAN Assistant Professor Wesley dos Santos, Language Sciences Program In this session, I will introduce ELAN, one of the most standard software tools used in language documentation and other linguistics projects. ELAN is described as: “an annotation tool for audio and video recordings. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of textual …

  • Nov 13
    Ling Fridays: Sprenger on individual variation

    Anna Marie Sprenger

    TBD

    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 …