Linguistics Fridays: Jacobson – Form and Content
OnlineOn the relationship between form and information content Cassandra Jacobs, UW-Madison Research Associate in Psychology Zipf (1949) famously demonstrated that longer words are typically less frequent. However, more recent work has suggested that word frequency …
52nd Algonquian Conference
OnlineUW-Madison will be hosting the 52nd Algonquian Conference October 23-25, 2020, virtually, of course. Program and registration details are available at the website. Registration is free for UW-Madison students, and is available for $10-40 for …
Linguistics Fridays: Brown – Pennsylvania Dutch
OnlineJosh Brown UW-Eau Claire Postvernacular Pennsylvania Dutch Online As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its functional orientation from communicative to symbolic. This stage in the life of a language is termed the …
Linguistics Fridays: Starr – L1/L2 Implicature processing
OnlineGlenn Starr UW-Madison The Shallow Structure Hypothesis: L1 vs. L2 Processing of Scalar Implicatures Online A considerable amount of research has emerged recently concerning second language (L2) learner sensitivity to various information types. From this, …
Linguistics Fridays: Buxó-Lugo – Intonational prosody
OnlineAndrés Buxó-Lugo University of Maryland Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody Online Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. However, how listeners use the prosodic signal …
Linguistics Fridays: Lares – Acoustic Disambiguation
OnlineAcoustic Cues and Idiomatic Disambiguation Erwin Lares PhD Student, UW-Madison (Spanish)
Working Group: Language Ideology and Linguistic Discrimination
OnlineThe newly formed Working Group on Language Ideology and Linguistic Discrimination will have its first meeting at noon on Friday September 25, and plans to meet every two weeks after that. If you’re interested in …
Linguistics Fridays: Discussion of Cohen & Gleason lenition paper
OnlineThe first Linguistics Friday meeting of the Fall semester will be an online discussion of a recent paper by Uriel Cohen and Emily Gleason: “The causal structure of lenition: A case for the causal precedence …
SLA Talk – Undoing White Supremacy by Mary Bucholtz
OnlineUndoing White Supremacy in the Language Disciplines Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, UC-Santa Barbara Part of the Second Language Acquisition PhD program's Talk Series. Location: Online. See the link below for description and attendance details. …
New Graduate Student Welcome
OnlineWelcome, orientation, and meet-and-greet for new graduate students will be held virtually this year. Current Grad Students and Faculty will receive an email invitation.