Linguistics Fridays: Goldrick – Speech Production
OnlineLanguage control and cross-language interactions in speech production Matt Goldrick Linguistics, Northwestern University Bilingual speakers have the amazing ability to efficiently manage the parallel activation of multiple linguistic systems during speech. What is the nature …
Linguistics Fridays: Leonard – Native American Linguistics
OnlineAspects of the Theory of Native American Linguistics Wesley Leonard Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, University of California-Riverside Despite increased focus on Native American language community needs and values in the discipline of Linguistics, an ongoing …
Language & Linguistics Alumni Panel
OnlineLearn from recent UW-Madison alumni using their language and linguistic skills across industries domestically and abroad (research, publishing, communications, government, education). Gain insight into exploring post-grad plans that suit your language skills and interests. This …
Linguistics Fridays: Jin & Koenig – Expletive Negation
OnlineWhen interference in language production gets lexicalized: The case of expletive negation Yanwei Jin & Jean-Pierre Koenig University at Buffalo In this talk, we explore this hypothesis that expletive negation (EN) is caused by general …
Linguistics Fridays: Phonology Reading Group
OnlineThis week the Phonology Reading Group will meet to discuss the following paper: Nikolaev & Grossman (2020) "Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle" Phonology. Contact Becky Shields to be added to our mailing list …
Linguistics Fridays: Armstrong – Verbs in Yucatec Maya
OnlineBuilding verbs in Yucatec Maya out of lexical roots from Spanish: The role of form and meaning Grant Armstrong UW-Madison, Spanish & Portuguese The goal of this talk is to contribute to our understanding of …
Linguistics Fridays: Kepler – Prepositions in Relative Clauses
OnlinePreposition Placement in Wh-Relative Clauses Among Speakers of American English Grady Kepler UW-Madison, English This study investigates acceptability judgements of native speakers of American English, specifically examining the preposition placement in wh-relative clauses. In wh-relative …
Linguistics Fridays: Holmstrom & Vanhecke – Glottalization in WI English
Onlineis the new : On glottalization in Wisconsin English. Sarah Holmstrom & Charlotte Vanhecke UW-Madison, Linguistics PhD program Online - contact rashields@wisc.edu for the link. While /t/-glottalization has been a well-attested phenomenon since the 1940s, …
Linguistics Fridays: Koranda – Word selection and recent utterances
OnlineThe probability of saying a word depends on form properties of recent utterances Mark Koranda, UW-Madison Graduate Student, Psychology
Language & Linguistics Alumni Panel
OnlineA panel of recent alumni in languages and linguistics will share their experiences working in various career fields, including technology, marketing, government, and education. See panelist info! Sponsored by the Language Institute For more information …