1418 Van Hise and online @ 3:30 pm
“Not ghetto! Normal or Spanish”: Ideologies of race reflected in the speech of pre-adolescents Nandi Sims, Stanford University Register here Using ethnographic methods, this paper shows how 6th graders at South Florida middle school reproduce …
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.
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 …
1418 Van Hise @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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1151 Van Hise @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Linguistics PhD student Gavin Redding will defend the Prelim 1 “A Survey of Algonquian Palatalization”
Online @ 3:30 pm
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 …
1335 Sterling Hall @ 3:30 pm
Language shift and speakerhood Maya Abtahian, University of Rochester In this talk I will examine different scenarios of language shift and consider what it means to be a speaker and the concept of speakerhood in …
Online @ 3:30 pm
Quantifiers, wh-questions, and predication in Chuj Justin Royer, University of Montreal (joint work with Cristina Buenrostro and Rodrigo Ranero) This paper examines the syntax of quantificational expressions and wh-questions in Chuj, a Mayan language spoken …
254 Van Hise @ 3:30 pm
Verticalization and Language Shift in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin Rachyl Hietpas, Language Sciences In my talk, I examine the shift from Dutch to English in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin, an area …
