Ling Fridays: Reaser on language awareness
OnlineEducating the educated: Raising language awareness on campus Linguistics Fridays Colloquia talk Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State University In 2014, the Language and Life Project (LLP) at NC State University initiated the nation’s first dialect …
Dubois on Irish Folklore
In person and onlineExploring Irish Folklore of the 1930s using the Meitheal Dúchas Schools Collection Professor Thomas Dubois, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ In person in 2335 Sterling Hall, and online (advanced registration required for online attendance). …
Ó Dochartaigh on Irish language revitalization
In person and onlineOideas Gael: a social enterprise model for language revitalization Rónán Ó Dochartaigh, Oideas Gael In person in 120 Ingraham Hall, and online (advanced registration required for online attendance). Watch the recording here (Note: you need …
CSD Proseminar with Erika Skoe
B62 Goodnight HallEnvironmental influences on hearing: Insights from wearable technologies and blood-based biomarkers Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Proseminar with: Erika Skoe, Associate Professor and UW-Madison Linguistics alum! Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Director …
Biggam on color semantics
399 Van HiseAn introduction to color semantics Carole Biggam, University of Glasgow In person Most people rarely question the principal color terms of their language, for example, red, blue, green in English. However, around the world, languages …
Ling Fridays Colloquia: Drake on disrupting linguistic bias
OnlineDisrupting linguistic bias through experiential learning in an introductory linguistics class Veronika Drake, Saginaw Valley State University Abstract: Prejudice about groups of people simply based on their dialect (Baker-Bell, 2020; Lippi-Green, 2012) is not only very …
Ling Fridays Colloquia: Keating on Quechua pseudo-reflexives
201 Van HiseAn analysis of Quechua’s pseudo-reflexive morphemes Cailie Keating, undergraduate Linguistics and Spanish major, will present her Hilldale research project that she is completing with Professor Grant Armstrong. In person Reflexivity can generally be defined as …
Ling Fridays Colloquia: Sampson on the copular SELF in ASL
OnlineThe use of the copular SELF with adjectives in ASL Tory Sampson, PhD student, University of California-San Diego online Nonverbal predication has not been adequately described in American Sign Language. Contrary to previous claims that …
Muslims on the Margins: Book Talk by Katrina Daly Thompson
Religious Studies Brown Bag for the launch of a book by new Language Sciences faculty member Katrina Daly Thompson: Muslims on the Margins - Creating Queer Religious Community in North America. Professor Daly Thompson will …
Ling Fridays Colloquia: Pato on variation in Spanish
201 Van HiseOn Vernacular Universals and Grammatical Variation in Spanish Enrique Pato, Université de Montréal In person Enrique Pato is Full Professor in the Hispanic Studies section of the Department of World Literatures and Languages at the …