Online @ 9:00 am
Linguistics PhD candidate Emily Utz defends her first Prelim paper, “Embedded inversion in American English varieties: A sociolinguistic survey”
Past Events Category: Talk
Holmstrom dissertation proposal
Online @ 10:00 am
Linguistics PhD student Sarah Holmstrom will defend her dissertation prospectus.
Holmstrom Prelim defense
Online @ 12:00 pm
Linguistics PhD student Sarah Holmstrom will present and defend her second prelim paper “Glottalization in American English and its implications for theories of sound change”. Audience members are welcome!
Hietpas Prelim Defense
1151 Van Hise @ 8:00 am
Linguistics PhD student Rachyl Hietpas will present and defend her second prelim paper “Determiner and Adjective Gender Agreement Over Time in Wisconsin Heritage and Immigrant Dutch.” Audience members are welcome and encouraged!
Jung, Ahn, & Cho on motion events in Korean and Russian
367 Van Hise @ 4:00 pm
L1 and L2 conceptualization and expression of motion events: the case of Korean and Russian Hakyung Jung (Professor, Department of Russian, Seoul National University, Korea) Hyug Ahn (Associate Professor, Department of Russian, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) …
Somers on early German Syntax
367 Van Hise @ 4:00 pm
The literization approach to early German syntax Katerina Somers, Department of German, Nordic, & Slavic+ In this talk I present a new approach to the study of early German syntax that focuses on each …
Panel: Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition
online @ 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Professor Kelly Wright will be participating in an online panel discussion of issues surrounding bias regarding African American Speech in automatic speech recognition systems. Learn more and register Organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics
Bernales on L2 and L3 Eye-tracking Research
367 Van Hise @ 4:00 pm
Using eye-movement data to investigate lexical and syntactic processing in L2 and L3 learning Carolina Bernales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Over the last decade, online methods, such as eye-tracking, have been increasingly used …
Romero on Maya standardization
online @ 4:00 pm
Language standardization and colonialism in Guatemala Sergio Romero, University of Texas-Austin In this presentation I examine the tensions between the linguistic purism driving the standardization of Mayan languages in Guatemala, and the social meaning of …
Kim on Heritage accent
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room, 3rd floor East wing @ 4:00 pm
Taking a holistic approach to characterizing heritage accent Ji Young Kim, UCLA The way we speak is a reflection of our language experience. While we all have an accent, accent is perceived when someone’s …