Past Events
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May 4Carter Prelim defense
1251 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Chase Carter will defend the Prelim 1 “Origins of Southern English in Oklahoma”
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Apr 29LSO Movie night
1418 Van Hise
The Linguistics Student Org will be holding a movie night on Wednesday (4/29) at 6pm in 1418 Van Hise. The movie we’ll be watching is The Linguists, which is a documentary about linguistics. Please come join us and enjoy some pre-finals de-stressing + snacks!!
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Apr 22Deng Prelim defense
1151 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Yongjia Deng will defend the 1st Prelim “A New Perspective for Analyzing Deictic Verbs”
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Apr 21Badgers Sign UW’s 2nd Birthday Celebration474 Van Hise
BSUW celebrates 2 years as a registered student org this week! Join them for a party to reflect on how it all began and where the group is now. Next year’s leadership will also be selected. Please note that this is a voice off event
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Apr 17Ling Fridays: Gupton on Galician intonationMorgridge Hall B2556
Intonation and convergence in Galicia: Comparing bilingual Galician and Galician Spanish Timothy Gupton, University of Georgia For Castro (2003: 43), “nothing is more noticeable than the special intonation” of Spanish in Galicia, and for Ramallo (2007: 25), “pitch accent…sets a Spanish speaker in Galicia apart”. In this presentation, I report on collaborative research conducted with …
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Apr 10Ling Fridays: Sims on ideologies of race
1418 Van Hise and online
“Not ghetto! Normal or Spanish”: Ideologies of race reflected in the speech of pre-adolescents Nandi Sims, Stanford University Using ethnographic methods, this paper shows how 6th graders at South Florida middle school reproduce and reimagine racial hierarchy and reinforce and reflect related raciolinguistic ideologies via their language use and attitudes. A physical descriptor like lightskinned …
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Mar 24Weller dissertation defense
1418 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Jae Weller defends the dissertation “Breaking the Rules: A Tour of Non-Regularity in Turkish Phonology.” Audience members welcome.
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Mar 20Ling Fridays: Zhang on intonation1335 Sterling Hall
Sentence intonation: a dynamical gestural approach Yubin Zhang, UW–Madison The phonology of sentence types or speech acts—such as declaratives versus interrogatives—has often been analyzed as sequential symbolic tones, like pitch accents and boundary tones. But this approach cannot capture the rich temporal and multidimensional structure of sentence intonation or sentence type prosody in speech production. …
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Mar 19
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Mar 19Redding Prelim defense
1151 Van Hise
Linguistics PhD student Gavin Redding will defend the Prelim 1 “A Survey of Algonquian Palatalization”