Linguistics events this week (Apr 11-18, 2025)

April 11, 2025

In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:

  • Linguistics Department Colloquium - Monday Apr 14 - Dwinelle 370 and Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) - 3:10-4:30pm
    Yi Ting Huang (Maryland): "Learning language, fast and slow: How to overcome sparse data and signal degradation during real-time processing and development"
  • Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group and Language Revitalization Working Group - Wednesday Apr 16 - Dwinelle 3335 - 3-4pm, followed by a light Passover-friendly reception
    Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College): "Language Endangerment and Reclamation in Jewish Communities Today"
  • Phorum - Friday Apr 11 - Dwinelle 1229 - 4-5pm
    Yi Ting Huang (Maryland): "Measuring trust in research participation: A case study on SES variation in language development"
  • Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley - Monday Apr 14 - Dwinelle 5125 and Zoom - 2-3pm
    Talk by Marguerite Morlan
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Location TBA - 11am-12:30pm
    Practice talks for WCCFL:
    - "Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex" (Peter Jenks)
    - "Perceptual adaptation in Spanish: Implications for vowel-specific factors in the learning of novel accents" (Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta)
    - "Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond" (Kang Franco Liu)
  • Syntax and Semantics Circle - Friday Apr 18 - Dwinelle 1303 - 3-4:30pm
    Katherine Johnson (Stanford): "Focus and clefts in Tiriki: Evidence for hyperactivity"