Past Event Category: Talk
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Oct 16Ling Fridays: Brown on Pennsylvania Dutch
Josh Brown UW-Eau Claire Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch Online As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its functional orientation from communicative to symbolic. This stage in the life of a language is termed the postvernacular. This presentation explores how Pennsylvania Dutch is used among non-sectarians in the last decades of the twentieth century and …
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Oct 9Ling Fridays: Starr on scalar implicature processing
Glenn Starr UW–Madison The Shallow Structure Hypothesis: L1 vs. L2 Processing of Scalar Implicatures Online A considerable amount of research has emerged recently concerning second language (L2) learner sensitivity to various information types. From this, Clahsen and Felser proposed the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) to account for increased learner sensitivity to certain kinds of non-structural …
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Oct 2Ling Fridays: Buxó-Lugo on prosody
Andrés Buxó-Lugo University of Maryland Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody Online Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. However, how listeners use the prosodic signal to arrive at the intended meaning remains to be understood. Prosodic cues vary across talkers and speaking conditions, creating ambiguity in …
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Sep 25Ling Fridays: Lares on Acoustic cues in Spanish
Acoustic Cues and Idiomatic Disambiguation Erwin Lares PhD Student, UW–Madison (Spanish)
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Mar 12Rouvier on language reclamation
“My language saved my life”: Identity, Wellbeing, and Language Reclamation Ruth Rouvier University of California-Berkeley Language loss and reclamation is inextricably linked to broader issues impacting speakers and communities, ranging from physical, mental and social wellbeing, to identity and self-determination. In this talk I introduce a multidisciplinary, collaborative working group of researchers and practitioners which …
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Mar 9Henke on indigenous language acquisition
Opening Doors Through Language: Acquisition, Documentation, and Revitalization Ryan Henke University of Hawaii-Manoa This talk overviews my work in language acquisition, documentation, and revitalization to illustrate how such work addresses language-related issues of access, disparity, and equity in Indigenous communities in North America. For example, the efforts of language science in child language development and …
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Mar 5Rodríguez-Ordóñez on Basque new speakers
Variation in Basque new speakers’ multilingual repertoires: implications for sociolinguistic theory Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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Feb 25Meyer on Ojibwe Noun categories
Noun Categorization in Ojibwe: The Link between Gender and Classifiers Cherry Meyer Ph.D. student, University of Chicago Gender assignment in Ojibwe is relatively straightforward, i.e. nouns with notionally animate referents are assigned to the ANIMATE gender (1), while nouns with notionally inanimate referents are assigned to the INANIMATE gender (2). There are exceptions to this …
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Feb 24Kocab on Nicaraguan Sign Language
The Origins of Language: Evidence from Nicaraguan Sign Language and the Lab Annemarie Kocab, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Harvard University All societies have languages capable of expressing the richness of human thought. How much of this achievement is an historical accomplishment, similar to mathematics or science? To what extent does …
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Feb 17Occhino on iconicity in signed languages
Signed Languages as Visual Languages: Iconicity and Experience in Language Processing Corrine Occhino, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology In this talk, Dr. Occhino will describe two important factors at the center of understanding the ways in which iconicity influences the structure and processing of signed …