Current Colloquia
Dr. Charles B. Chang (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Boston University)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: The multilingual mind as a window onto linguistic knowledge
December 13th | 3:30pm | Harbour Centre, Room 2270
Past Colloquia
2024
Dr. Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Deconstructing authenticity/linguistic realism
September 19th | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
Dr. Carolyn Quam (Portland State University)
Annual Yvonne Becker Colloquium
Title: Bilingualism and developmental language disorder shape phonological aspects of word learning
May 30th | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
chuutsqa Layla Rorick
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: April 3rd
11:30硃鳥12:30梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;Indigenous language documentation and teaching practice in a 100-hour Hesquiaht language camp on Hesquiaht land
3:00梯鳥4:00梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;Hesquiaht guidance for Hesquiaht land based language instruction
Location: RCB 7402
Leah Meunier
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: April 2nd
11:30硃鳥12:30梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;sx妢x妢yem Stories of Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Traditional, Ecological, and Cultural Knowledges
3:00梯鳥4:00梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;x妢x妢yem Storying Traditional, Ecological, and Cultural Knowledges
Location: RCB 7402
Jaskwaan Amanda Bedard
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: March 28th
11:30硃鳥12:30梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;A Haida Research Framework for Strengthening Language Immersion
3:004:00梯鳥:&紳莉莽梯;Pedagogy of the Liberated: Shifting Narratives in Indigenous Language Education
Location: RCB 7402
Dr. Jozina Vander Klok (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: On the topic of the subject in Austronesian
March 14th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Daniel Goodhue (Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Speech Acts: Grammar, Prosody, and Pragmatics in Child Acquisition and Adult Competence
March 11th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Yining Nie (San Jose State University)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: The cross-linguistic expression of causation
March 4th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Steven Foley (University of Southern California)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Case, word order, and the comprehension of grammatical complexity in Georgian
February 29th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
2023
Ashley Farris-Trimble (間眅埶AV)
Inaugural Talk
Title: The acquisition of phonological opacity
Thursday, January 19 | 12:30 pm | Halpern 114
Christopher Hammerly (University of British Columbia)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: A unified model of person/animacy effects in incremental sentence comprehension.
Thursday, February 9 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Jeremy Calder (University of Colorado Boulder)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: What researching understudied populations can illuminate about social meaning.
Friday, March 3 | 4:30 pm | HC 2270 (Harbour Centre)
Yifang Yuan (間眅埶AV)
PhD Defence Proposal
Title: Asking questions in context: An elicitation study of questions in Mandarin Chinese conversation
Wednesday, March 8 | 2:00pm | RCB 7402
Nathan Sanders (University of Toronto)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Teaching linguistics with equity, diversity, and inclusion
Thursday, March 30 | 12:30pm | RCB 7402 and via Zoom
Teresa Pratt (San Francisco State University)
Annual Yvonne Becker Colloquium
Title: Affect and embodiment in sociolinguistics
Thursday, May 11 | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
Mary O'Brien (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: (Why) Does pronunciation matter?
Thursday, October 26 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Danielle Deng, (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Native and non-native English speakers' adaptation to non-native English accents
Thursday, November 9 | 1:00 pm | RCB 7402
Magda Ivok, (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Acoustic cues to production of English stress levels by non-native English speakers
Thursday, November 30 | 1:00 pm | RCB 7402
2022
Marina Tzakosta (University of Crete)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: 竄Die Hard罈: The three scales model as a tool of analysis of complex consonant clusters (Abstract)
Tuesday, November 29 | 12:45 pm | RCB 6152
Dawn M. Behne (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Linguistics / Cognitive Science Colloquium
Title: Audio-visual alignment in speech perception: Long- and short-term experience ()
Thursday, October 27 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Holliday (Pomona College)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: Sociophonetic variation and human interaction with digital voice assistants ()
Friday, October 21 | 4:30 pm | HC 2270 (Harbour Centre)
Henny Yeung (間眅埶AV)
Title: How should we sound when we talk to babies? ()
Thursday, September 29 | 12:30 pm | ASB 10900 |
Friedemann Vogel (Siegen University, Germany), Hongyin Tao (UCLA)
John Alderete, Nancy Hedberg (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, June 16 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Danica Reid, Andrew Cheng, Margaret Grant, Heather Bliss (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, June 2 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Chung-hye Han, Claudia Wong, Magdalena Ivok (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, May 19 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Panayiotis Pappas & Laurens Bosman, Jetic Gu, Leanne Bartley (間眅埶AV)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, May 5 | 12:30 pm | SWH 9095 & Remote
Ben Naismith (University of Pittsburgh)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Title: Teaching philosophy from a career in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Thursday, April 7 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Josef Fruehwald (University of Kentucky)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: What should we do when the formant track doesn't look like the IPA transcription?
Friday, April 1 | 3:30 pm | Remote |
Shahin Nematizadeh (Mount Allison University)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Title: Principles of My Teaching Philosophy
Thursday, March 31 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Claudia Wong (間眅埶AV)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Thursday, March 24 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Jennifer Hinnell (UBC)
Social Data Analytics Speaker Series
Title: What's in the hands? Analyzing speech and the body signal in spontaneous discourse
Wednesday, March 9 | 12:30 pm | Burnaby, Halpern 126
Patrick Baylis (UBC)
Social Data Analytics Speaker Series
Title: Assessing the impacts of environment hazards with text analysis
Tuesday, March 1 | 12:30 pm | Burnaby, Halpern 126
2021
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: Though these be exceptions, yet there is method in them
Friday, December 3 | 3:30 pm | Remote
Andrew Cheng (University of California, Irvine)
Title: What it means to "sound Asian American": Phonetic and sociolinguistic considerations
Thursday, July 15 | 12:30 pm | Remote |
Sarah Key-DeLyria (Portland State University)
Title: Observing Implicit Statistical Learning Over Time in Individuals with Aphasia
Thursday, April 8 | 12:30 pm | Remote |
Katie Carmichael (Virginia Tech)
Title: The intersection of race, place, and language change in post-Katrina New Orleans
Thursday, March 18 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Alexandra Frazer (Muhlenberg College)
Title: Sustained Attention in Phonological Preparation
Thursday, February 4 | 12:30 pm | Remote |
2020
Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham)
Title: Resolving Cases of Disputed Authorship through Linguistic Analysis
Thursday, October 29 | 9:30am | Remote |
Corrine Occhino and Jalon Begay (UBC Language Sciences Initiative)
Title: Comparing Classifier Constructions in ASL and Navajo
Thursday, October 1 | 2:00pm | Remote
Stephen Dollinger (UBC)
Title: The pluricentricity debate: Retrospect and prospect of Austrian German, Canadian English and other non-dominant standard varieties
Thursday, February 27 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Dennis Storoshenko (University of Calgary)
Title: "Most people only care about themselfs": Form and function variance in English th- reflexives
Wednesday, March 4 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Deh矇 (University of Konstanz)
Title: Prepositions and the relative vulnerability of lexicon and morpho-syntax in heritage Icelandic
Thursday, March 12 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Deh矇 (University of Konstanz)
Title: A cross-linguistic view on the prosody of rhetorical questions
Friday, March 13 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm | RCB 7402
2019
Megan Lukaniec (University of Victoria)
Title: Reclamation-based reconstruction: Using the tools of historical-comparative linguistics to reclaim Wendat language, culture, and history
Thursday, December 5 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Takahito Shinya (Otsuma Women's University)
Title: Effects of intonational contour and duration on the identification of lexical stress by Japanese listeners
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Anne Christophe (CNRS)
Title: Bootstrapping the syntactic bootstrapper
Friday, November 1, 2019 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm | HBC 1600
Peggy Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Title: The acquisition of lexical tone by Cantonese-speaking children
Thursday, June 20, 2019 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Saywell Hall (SWH) 10051
Dawn M. Behne NTNU (Norway)
Title: Does experience influence audio-visual alignment in speech perception?
Thursday, May 9, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Julian Brooke (UBC)
Title: Computational lexical stylistics for sociolinguistic analysis
Thursday, April 11, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Sound Change and Social Change
Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | SECB 1010
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Language Ideology and Linguistic Variation
Friday, March 15, 2019 | 4:30 - 5:30 | 7000 Earl & Jennie Lohn Policy Room (Harbour Centre)
Amanda Cardoso (UBC)
Title: Evaluating Theories on the Origins of Canadian Raising
Thursday, February 28, 2019 | 12:45 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
2018
Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
Title: Reinforced statistical learning for speech categories.
Friday, November 2, 2018 | 11:00 - 12:30 | RCB 7402
紼硃娶穩硃 de los ngeles G籀mez Gonz獺lez (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Title: Interacting through talk: Comparing and contrasting tag questions
Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Virginia Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong)
Title: The Child Heritage Chinese Corpus
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 6152
Molly Babel (UBC)
Title: Dimensions of phonetic variation in Cantonese-English bilinguals (Abstract)
Thursday, June 28, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Fatemeh Torabi Asr (間眅埶AV)
Title: News Text in the Hands of a Computational Linguist (Abstract)
Thursday, May 24, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
LinguisticsNOW Talk! Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon)
Title: Factors influencing non-native perception and learning
Friday, March 23, 2018 | 4:30-5:30 pm | Harbour Centre
Lila Daskalaki (University of Alberta)
Title: Input Effects across domains: The case of Subjects in Heritage Greek (Abstract)
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Maite Taboada (間眅埶AV) Inaugural Lecture
Title: From social media to rhetoric through discourse analysis
Thursday, January 25, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | Halpern 114 (new location, with refreshments provided)
2017
Katherina Ehret (間眅埶AV)
Title: Measuring variation in English and beyond ()
Thursday, November 30, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Claire Moore-Cantwell (間眅埶AV)
Title: Learning lexical idiosyncrasy in a probabilistic world (Abstract)
Thursday, October 26, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)
Title: Interrogative clauses in English and the social economics of questions
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Tania Zamuner (University of Ottawa) Title: The production and reverse production effect
Thursday, September 14, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Carla Hudson Kam (UBC) Title: 'Intake', and the Adult Language Learner
Thursday, May 25, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Akira Omaki (University of Washington)
Title: Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of filler-gap dependencies in children
Friday, March 24, 2017 | 3:30-4:30 pm | Harbour Centre 2270
Shin-ichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
Title: The Shape and Function of Phonology in Evolutionary Linguistics:
Why we can Explore Language Origin from Extant Languages, and How (Abstract)
Thursday, March 2, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Title: Parameter Change in Early Middle Chinese (Abstract)
Friday, February 3, 2017 | 2:30-3:30 pm | RCB 7402
2016
Maki Aoyagi (Dokkyo University)
Title: Perceptual Effects of Vowel Devoicing and Reduction Phonetic vs. Phonological (Abstract)
Thursday, November 17, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Tony Naro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Marta Scherre (Universidade Federal do Esp穩rito Santo and Universidade de Bras穩lia)
Title: Revisiting Sociolinguistic Trends in the Brazilian Speech Community (Abstract)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Manfred Stede (Applied Computational Linguistics, FSP Cognitive Science, Universit瓣t Potsdam)
Title: Argument mining: Manual and automatic annotation of short user-generated texts (Abstract)
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Cliff Goddard (Griffith University)
"So much from so little?": Semantic complexity and the NSM theory of semantic molecules (Abstract)
Thursday September 15, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nino Grillo (Humboldt University)
The Grammar of Parsing: Preference for events over entities in complements of perceptual verbs (Abstract)
Tuesday August 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Meg Grant (University of Toronto)
Processing ambiguous Input: Mechanisms and interaction with working memory (Abstract)
Thursday, June 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | AQ3153
Nathan Albury (University of Oslo)
The folk linguistics of language policy: Knowing, feeling and doing Mori language revitalisation (Abstract)
Monday, April 4, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Tracey Derwing (University of Alberta/間眅埶AV)
Social Factors Associated with An L2 Accent: A Synthesis (Abstract)
Thursday, March 24, 2016 | 12:30-2:00 pm | BLU 10081
Emily Elfner (UBC)
Phonological Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing: evidence from Connemara Irish
Thursday, February 25, 2016 | 12:30-2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (間眅埶AV)
Building beliefs and desires in Navajo
Thursday, January 28, 2016 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
2012 - 2015
What information is in the speech signal? Not quite enough. The role of real-time processes in the development of speech perception.
Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Dr. Keith Apfelbaum (The Ohio State University)
Surprising Evidence for Lexical Specificity in Selective Attention
Monday September 14 2015 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Anna Kypp繹 (University of Jyvaskyla)
Belarusian or Ukrainian? Slovak or Czech? Serbian or Croatian? Introduction to Slavic Languages and Cultures
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon)
The Production and Perception of Vowels in U.S. Regional Vowel Shifts
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:30 pm | RCB 6152
Dr. Thomas Cobb (Universit矇 du Qu矇bec Montr矇al)
Corpus Insights from Lextutor R&D that are too small to publish but too interesting to ignore
Thursday, March 12, 2015 | 11:30 am - 1:30pm | RCB 6152
Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota)
間眅埶AV Burnaby:
Adults' perception of children's speech and its role in phonological acquisition
Thursday, January 15, 2015 | 12:30 pm - 2:00pm | RCB 6152
間眅埶AV Vancouver:
Imputed gender and sibilant fricative perception, revisited
Friday, January 16, 2015 | 4:30 - 6:00pm | Harbour Centre 1600 Canfor Policy Room
2014
John Lyon (間眅埶AV/UBC)
Identifying Identificational Sentences in Okanagan Salish (Abstract)
Thursday, November 27, 2014 | 12:30 -1:30 pm | Saywell Hall 10051
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva)
The semantics-pragmatics interface: how it works, why we need it, and where it is? (Abstract)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Lawrence Mcallister (間眅埶AV)
Inaugural Lecture
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Halpern 114
Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland)
Semantic Framing: The Meaning of 'most'
This event is jointly hosted by Cognitive Science with Linguistics and Philosophy
Monday, June 23, 2014 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm | IRMACS Centre
Randi Reppen (Northern Arizona University)
Using Corpora to Inform Teaching Materials Development (Abstract)
Thursday, May 22, 2014 | 9:00 - 10:30 am | AQ6106
Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of Alberta)
How kids do and dont make U-turns: The nature of regressions in phonological acquisition (Abstract)
Thursday, May 1, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | AQ 6106
Cliff Goddard (Griffith University, Australia)
Endangered concepts: The challenge for linguistic fieldworkers (Abstract)
Thursday, April 24, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, UBC and 間眅埶AV)
In Defence of the Autonomy of Syntax (Abstract)
Thursday, March 27, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
John Alderete (間眅埶AV)
Inaugural Lecture
The phonology and morphology of Tahltan (Abstract)
Thursday, March 6, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Halpern 126
Heather Bliss (University of Victoria)
Investigating the Syntax of Blackfoots Demonstratives (Abstract)
Thursday, February 27, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
2013
Jozina Vander Klok (University of British Columbia)
On theoretically-informed fieldwork: A case study on the modal system in Javanese (Abstract)
Thursday, November 28, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Barbara Citko (University of Washington)
On Multiple (Coordinated) (Free) Relatives (Abstract)
Thursday, October 31, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Peter Jacobs (University of Victoria)
Control in Skwxwu7mesh: From Aspect to Control (Abstract)
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Kathleen Currie Hall (University of British Columbia)
Strategic Positions: A Communication-Based Approach to Phonological Prominence (Abstract)
Thursday, June 27, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Stella Tagnin (Universidade de S瓊o Paulo)
The CoMET Project at the University of S瓊o Paulo (Abstract)
Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)
Deriving Invariance by Integrating cues Computed Relative to Expectations (Abstract)
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Panos Pappas (間眅埶AV)
Inaugural Lecture
Structural Variation in Language (Abstract)
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Halpern 126
Michael Walsh (AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages)
Language is Like Food (Abstract)
Thursday, March 7, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Sandra Siok Lee (CSU, Fresno)
Integrating CALL and computer assessment with teacher instruction in college ESL writing: Its efficiency and effectiveness (Abstract)
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
2012
Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria)
Incrementing generational change: Men, women, and Labov (Abstract)
Thursday, November 22, 2012 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Catherine Caws (University of Victoria)
Web-based annotated corpora for language learning: harnessing their potential (Abstract)
Thursday, October 25, 2013 11:30 am - 1:00pm | RCB 6152