Past Event Category: Talk
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Sep 24Davis on gesture in African American signed and spoken language
“Okaaay Sis!”: African American Language, Multimodality, and Black Women’s Gesture Sovoya Davis Linguistics PhD Candidate University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Language Sciences Colloquium Series See the event page for registration and full details
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Sep 17Barrett on Maya language ideologies
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Language ideologies and cultural continuity in the Maya renaissance Rusty Barrett, University of Kentucky This talk discusses current trends in visual art, poetry, and (hip hop) music in Maya communities in Guatemala. I argue that contemporary forms of expression are related to pre-Columbian Maya culture through an assemblage of language ideologies found among speakers of …
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May 3Ling Fridays: Robinson on dictionary use in L2 learning
486 Van Hise
Dictionary Proficiency: A Cornerstone in Evidence-Based Language Learning Shawn Anthony Robinson, Research Affiliate – Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB), University of Wisconsin Madison This presentation (working paper) highlights the essential role of dictionary skills in evidence-based language proficiency, particularly in the context of both adolescent and adult literacy. It centers on a specialized Word …
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Apr 5Ling Fridays: Obert on motion verbs in AmazoniaOnline
Language in motion: terrain-based motion verbs and on the move documentation in Northwestern Amazonia Karolin Obert, Lund University Mobility is of central concern to the humanities. This is because mobility is everywhere: It is a ubiquitous part of human existence, and it is a constant context for actions to happen and concepts to unfold. Mobility …
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Mar 22Ling Fridays: Singerman on recursion in TuparíOnline
Quotation and syntactic recursion in Tuparí Adam Singerman, Syracuse University For over two decades there has been heated debate about whether recursion is a universal property of human language. Indigenous languages of the Amazon Basin have played a surprisingly large role in this debate, although the various claims put forward about Amazonian languages — both …
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Mar 15Ling Fridays: Chen on artificial language learning
215 Van Hise
Children’s acquisition of grammatical variations: evidence from the artificial language learning paradigm Yiran Chen, Postdoc, UW–Madison Dept of Psychology There is abundant and systematic variation in language. For example, speakers sometimes pronounce words ending in -ing with -in’ (e.g., pronouns working as workin’) depending on linguistic (e.g.,more -in’ in progressives like ‘working’ than in nouns …
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Mar 8Ling Fridays: Awai-Jennings on Pidgin use in Hawai`iOnline
Da Kine Tawk: Identity and Social Meaning Through the Use of Basilectal Pidgin in Hawai`i Clint Awai-Jennings, Ohio State University In the State of Hawai`i, there are over 600,000 speakers of Hawai`i Creole English, known to its speakers as Pidgin. Pidgin emerged from the sugarcane plantations in the Hawaiian Kingdom during the last part of …
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Mar 8Lang Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination: Hill on Black ASL
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Lessons to Learn: Looking through the Intersectional Lens on the Study of Black ASL in Sign Language Studies Joseph Hill Associate Professor, Department of ASL and Interpreting Education Associate Director, Center on Culture and Language National Technical Institutes for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology See the Event page for more information and registration link! …
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Mar 1Ling Fridays: Goetze on teacher well-being
215 Van Hise
The role of individual differences in teachers’ sense of health and well-being in (post)pandemic language classrooms Julia Goetze, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic + Teaching is a stressful profession and language teaching is no exception. Even before the COVID19 pandemic, teaching had some of the highest global stress and burnout rates (McIntyre …
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Jan 26Ling Fridays: Skilton on documenting interaction
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Fieldwork on language in interaction: Benefits and barriers Amalia Horan Skilton, Cornell University Includes joint work with Claire Bowern (Yale), Sophie Pierson (UT Austin), and Sunny Ananthanarayan (U. Washington) This talk examines the role of data from informal social interaction, such as conversation and child-caregiver interaction, in language documentation. Although interactional data can …