SLA Talk – Undoing White Supremacy by Mary Bucholtz

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Undoing White Supremacy in the Language Disciplines Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, UC-Santa Barbara Part of the Second Language Acquisition PhD program's Talk Series. Location: Online. See the link below for description and attendance details. …

Linguistics Fridays: Buxó-Lugo – Intonational prosody

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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 …

Linguistics Fridays: Starr – L1/L2 Implicature processing

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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, …

Linguistics Fridays: Brown – Pennsylvania Dutch

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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 …

Linguistics Fridays: Jacobson – Form and Content

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On the relationship between form and information content Cassandra Jacobs, UW-Madison Research Associate in Psychology Zipf (1949) famously demonstrated that longer words are typically less frequent. However, more recent work has suggested that word frequency …

Linguistics Fridays: Kepler – Prepositions in Relative Clauses

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Preposition 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 …