Linguistics Department Colloquium: Samantha Beaver (founder, Memra Language Services; UWM Linguistics class of 2015) Re-framing Language as a Technology; Re-framing the Linguist as a Tech-expert Memra Language Services is a learning and analytics laboratory that brings sociolinguistic research techniques into […]

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Linguistics Department Colloquium: Allyson Ettinger (University of Chicago)

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Linguistics Department Colloquium: Cassandra Jacobs (UW-Madison)

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Joseph Siegel (Stockholm University) Development and Variation in Academic Listening and Notetaking Listening in academic contexts entails high-stakes situations in which accurate aural comprehension of gist and detail is crucial for learning. Traditionally conceived as one-way listening […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Travis Major (USC) "Say"-complementation: re-analyzing Lubukusu complementizer agreement In this talk, I extend the analysis of "say" complementation structures in Major (2021a, 2021b) of Uyghur (Turkic) and Avatime (Kwa) to Lubukusu (Bantu). "Say" complementation (schematically "I told […]

Colloquium talk by Dr. Sonia Barnes of Marquette University “Language attitudes and stereotypes condition the processing of contact-induced linguistic variants”

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Suzi Loosen, "Why every high school student should study linguistics" Please join us: Friday, March 10, 3pm, Merrill 315

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Paul Goeden (UWM Linguistics MA) "How Linguistics is part of my job at Amazon (and the future of careers in artificial intelligence)" Friday, February 9 at 3:00pm in Merrill Hall 316