Past Event Category: Talk
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Jan 19Ling Fridays: Hutton on reconstructing Northern Biblical Hebrew
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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 in Classical Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew). Jeremy Hutton will identify the methodological difficulties of making this judgment on the basis of …
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Dec 8Linguistics Fridays: Hietpas, Howell and Moquin on English sound change
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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 English, final release of [ph], [th] and [kh] is optional, but in Norwegian, it is required. This study considers final …
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Nov 17Linguistics Fridays: Schuelke on Symmetrical-Voice languages
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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 per clause, called the pivot, which is privileged for extraction. Pivot and non-pivot marking are expressed through the same strategies …
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Nov 10Linguistics Fridays: Heaton on immersion and language revitalization
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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 language immersion classrooms with the aim of gaining a broader perspective on progress towards community goals of reversing language shift …
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Oct 27Linguistics Fridays: Thompson on language and gender in Tanzania
201 Van Hise
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 Nuur, a nondenominational Islamic radio station in Tanga, Tanzania. In this presentation, Thompson will describe the setting, their research questions …
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Oct 13Linguistics Fridays: Sheydaei on Dearborn English
201 Van Hise
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 Dearborn, MI. Previous research shows residents of Dearborn recognize their American English variety as a distinct variety which sounds “deeper”, …
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Sep 29Linguistics Fridays: Goodale on Montevideo Female Intonation
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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 a common history with Buenos Aires Spanish (BAS), there are some differences (Bertolotti, 2011; Moyna, 2017). The present study is …
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Sep 15Linguistics Fridays: Hawkins on Bayesian linguistics
201 Van Hise
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of linguistic conventions Robert Hawkins, Dept. of Psychology, UW–Madison
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Sep 8Linguistics Fridays: Wright on African American SociolinguisticsOnline - Advanced registration required Register here
Verticalization and African American Sociolinguistic Labor Part of the Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination lecture series Kelly Wright, Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English, Virginia Polytechnic University Metalinguistic awareness includes a language user’s knowledge about the relation of factors (like age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. …
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Apr 28Ling Fridays: Pato on Universals in Spanish
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On 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 University of Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Ph.D in Spanish Philology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2003), his field of research …