Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) 17 – canceled
7191 HCW 7191 Helen C. White HallWIGL 17, our annual graduate student conference, will feature invited speaker Jacee Cho and themes of syntax, semantics, and second language acquisition.
SLA Talk – Undoing White Supremacy by Mary Bucholtz
OnlineUndoing 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: Lares – Acoustic Disambiguation
OnlineAcoustic Cues and Idiomatic Disambiguation Erwin Lares PhD Student, UW-Madison (Spanish)
Linguistics Fridays: Buxó-Lugo – Intonational prosody
OnlineAndrés 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
OnlineGlenn 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
OnlineJosh 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
OnlineOn 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: Koranda – Word selection and recent utterances
OnlineThe probability of saying a word depends on form properties of recent utterances Mark Koranda, UW-Madison Graduate Student, Psychology
Linguistics Fridays: Holmstrom & Vanhecke – Glottalization in WI English
Onlineis the new : On glottalization in Wisconsin English. Sarah Holmstrom & Charlotte Vanhecke UW-Madison, Linguistics PhD program Online - contact rashields@wisc.edu for the link. While /t/-glottalization has been a well-attested phenomenon since the 1940s, …
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 …