Linguistics Department Colloquium: Timo B. Roettger (Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University) Does the tune shape phonology? Human speech has multiple information channels that can simultaneously signal different levels of meaning. One such channel consists of consonants and vowels […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Benjamin Campbell (Department of Anthropology, UWM) The Role of the Insula in the Emergence of Human Language Language is a hallmark of the human species and its evolutionary origins have long been the topic of speculation among […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (University of Warsaw) Have you ever wondered why English speakers refer to parts of a clock as a 'face' and 'hands'? Why does a committee have a 'head'? How do artichokes have 'hearts' and mountains […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Robert Englebretson (Rice University) Why Braille is not a Tactile ‘Code’ for Visual Print: Evidence from Sublexical Structure Previous research has overwhelmingly demonstrated that fluent reading (of visual print) relies heavily on the unconscious visual recognition of […]

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 […]