Linguistics Fridays: Kepler – Prepositions in Relative Clauses
OnlinePreposition Placement in Wh-Relative Clauses Among Speakers of American English Grady Kepler UW-Madison, English This study investigates acceptability judgements of native speakers of American English, specifically examining the preposition placement in wh-relative clauses. In wh-relative …
Linguistics Fridays: Armstrong – Verbs in Yucatec Maya
OnlineBuilding verbs in Yucatec Maya out of lexical roots from Spanish: The role of form and meaning Grant Armstrong UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese The goal of this talk is to contribute to our understanding of …
Linguistics Fridays: Phonology Reading Group
OnlineThis week the Phonology Reading Group will meet to discuss the following paper: Nikolaev & Grossman (2020) "Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle" Phonology. Contact Becky Shields to be added to our mailing list …
Linguistics Fridays: Jin & Koenig – Expletive Negation
OnlineWhen interference in language production gets lexicalized: The case of expletive negation Yanwei Jin & Jean-Pierre Koenig University at Buffalo In this talk, we explore this hypothesis that expletive negation (EN) is caused by general …
Linguistics Fridays: Leonard – Native American Linguistics
OnlineAspects of the Theory of Native American Linguistics Wesley Leonard Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, University of California-Riverside Despite increased focus on Native American language community needs and values in the discipline of Linguistics, an ongoing …
Linguistics Fridays: Goldrick – Speech Production
OnlineLanguage control and cross-language interactions in speech production Matt Goldrick Linguistics, Northwestern University Bilingual speakers have the amazing ability to efficiently manage the parallel activation of multiple linguistic systems during speech. What is the nature …
Indigenous Languages of Wisconsin: Reclaiming Past, Present, and Future
OnlineMonica Macaulay, Brian McInnes, and Omar Poler will give a brief overview of the Indigenous languages of Wisconsin in both historical and current context, focusing on their reclamation and revitalization by the Native Nations of …
Linguistics Fridays: Francis – Acceptability Judgments
OnlineInterpreting gradient acceptability judgments: evidence from word order alternations in English Elaine Francis English & Linguistics, Purdue University What conclusions can we draw from gradient patterns of acceptability judgments about speakers’ implicit grammatical knowledge? In …
Linguistics Fridays: Román, Pastor, Ward
OnlineTensions between Bilingual Teacher Identities and Monoglossic Ideologies in Spanish-English Bilingual Programs Diego Román Curriculum & Instruction, UW-Madison Alberto Pastor Spanish, Southern Methodist University Katherine Ward Spanish, UW-Madison The identities of bilingual teachers working in …
Linguistics Fridays: Zhang
OnlineFlipping those pages, swiping that screen: A corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register Lynn Zhang English, UW-Madison This talk discusses the digital transformation of newspapers and the linguistic changes resulting for …