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Is It Possible to Reconstruct “Northern Biblical Hebrew”? Jeremy M. Hutton, Professor of Classical Hebrew Language and Biblical Literature University of Wisconsin-Madison Biblical scholars have long debated whether it is possible to isolate dialectal variation …
1151 Van Hise @ 2:00 pm
Linguistics PhD student Vivian Nash will defend her 1st Prelim paper, “Tense Evaluation in Ojibwe,” on Wednesday 12/20 at 2:00. Audience members are welcome.
201 Van Hise @ 3:00 pm
Preview presentation of their work to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, January 2024. Final stop aspiration: A Norwegian-English feature in Wisconsin English? Laura Moquin, Nordic PhD student, UW-Madison In …
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Disentangling Grammatical Relations in Symmetrical-Voice Languages Peter Schuelke, University of North Texas Symmetrical voice is a phenomenon in which a language displays more than one default transitive pattern. Each symmetrical voice selects a single argument …
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Immersion input and the future of revitalizing languages: Evidence from Kaqchikel and beyond Raina Heaton, University of Oklahoma This talk synthesizes the results of several streams of research on the linguistic input provided in Indigenous …
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Exploring Language, Gender, and Religion at an Islamic Radio Station in Tanzania Katrina Daly Thompson, UW-Madison Dept. of African Cultural Studies and Language Sciences Dr. Thompson spent July 2023 conducting linguistic ethnographic research at Radio …
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Exploring the local enregisterment of Dearborn English in southeastern Michigan Iman Sheydaei, ESL instructor, Dept. of English, UW-Madison This talk explores the local enregisterment (Agha 2003, 2007) of the variety of American English spoken in …
1151 Van Hise @ 2:30 pm
Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller will defend the first Prelim “Turkish Polar Questions: LF Movement & Intervention Effect Approaches”
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Clarity and Contrast: Attributes of Montevideo Female Intonation Brandon Goodale, PhD candidate in Spanish Linguistics, UW-Madison Abstract: Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, is home to nearly half of the country’s population of 3.5 million people. Despite sharing …
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From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of linguistic conventions Robert Hawkins, Dept. of Psychology, UW-Madison