Past Event Category: Talk
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Oct 16Ling Fridays: ELAN WorkshopWesley 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 …
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Oct 9Ling Fridays: Litty on multilingualismSamantha Litty
254 Van Hise
Rules for thee, but not for me? Multilingualism and language policy in the Duchy of Schleswig Estates Assembly Samantha Litty, Europa-Universität Flensburg The former Duchy of Schleswig straddled what is now the border between Denmark and Germany, once occupying a territory approximately bordered by the Kongeå river in the north and the Eider in the …
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Oct 2
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Apr 17Ling Fridays: Gupton on Galician intonationMorgridge Hall B2556
Intonation and convergence in Galicia: Comparing bilingual Galician and Galician Spanish Timothy Gupton, University of Georgia For Castro (2003: 43), “nothing is more noticeable than the special intonation” of Spanish in Galicia, and for Ramallo (2007: 25), “pitch accent…sets a Spanish speaker in Galicia apart”. In this presentation, I report on collaborative research conducted with …
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Apr 10Ling Fridays: Sims on ideologies of race
1418 Van Hise and online
“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 racial hierarchy and reinforce and reflect related raciolinguistic ideologies via their language use and attitudes. A physical descriptor like lightskinned …
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Mar 24Weller dissertation defense
1418 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller defends the dissertation “Breaking the Rules: A Tour of Non-Regularity in Turkish Phonology.” Audience members welcome.
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Mar 20Ling Fridays: Zhang on intonation1335 Sterling Hall
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 this approach cannot capture the rich temporal and multidimensional structure of sentence intonation or sentence type prosody in speech production. …
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Mar 19
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Mar 19Redding Prelim defense
1151 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Gavin Redding will defend the Prelim 1 “A Survey of Algonquian Palatalization”
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Feb 27Ling Fridays: Davis on Salish cliticsOnline
Three Ways of Looking at a Salish Clitic Henry Davis, University of British Columbia presenting joint work with Marianne Huijsmans of the University of Alberta Salish languages are known for their extensive inventory of clause-level clitics, including force markers, subject agreement, modals, tense, and discourse particles. In the Central and Northern Interior branches of the …