Languages of the World Day

Union South

Language Sciences will be leading a session on sounds of the world's languages and the International Phonetic Alphabet at this outreach program for Wisconsin high school students. See the Event website for more information.

Ó Dochartaigh on Irish language revitalization

In person and online

Oideas 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 …

LSO Pizza Study Night

1151 Van Hise

Come join the Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) & the Applied Linguistics Students Association (ALSA) for pizza and studying on Monday, March 6th, from 5pm-6:30pm at 1151 Van Hise Hall. Be there or be square! (Like …

Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) 17

1221 Humanities Building

Schedule Posted See the Conference website for current schedule and registration information! WiGL 17 Conference website Call for Papers The University of Wisconsin-Madison Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) invites submissions for papers to be presented at …

CSD Proseminar with Erika Skoe

B62 Goodnight Hall

Environmental 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 Hise

An 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

Online

Disrupting 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 Hise

An 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 …

LSO and ALSA Game and Craft night

1151 Van Hise

Join both the Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) and Applied Linguistics Student Association (ALSA) for a crafting & game night on Monday April 17th, from 4pm - 5:30 in 1151 Van Hise Hall. There will be …

Ling Fridays Colloquia: Sampson on the copular SELF in ASL

Online

The 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 …