Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Linguistics MLK Colloquium: Uneven success: racial bias in automatic speech recognition (January 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80032 80032-20548976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Dr. Wassink is Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory and an associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She will give a talk titled "Uneven success: racial bias in automatic speech recognition."

The event will take place on Zoom and is open to the public. A reception will follow (see separate link).

ABSTRACT
Racial bias in automatic speech recognition is an emerging area of concern in fields associated with human-computer interaction. Research to date suggests that sociolinguistic variation, namely systematic sources of sociophonetic variation, has yet to be extensively exploited in Acoustic Model architectures. This talk reports a study that evaluates the performance of one ASR system for a multi-ethnic sample of speakers from the American Pacific Northwest (including Native American, African American, European American and ChicanX speakers). Using a sociophonetic approach to characterizing vocalic and consonantal variation, I ask which dialect features appear to be most challenging for our ASR system. We also ask which error types are particular to the four ethnic dialects sampled. Recordings of both conversational and read speech were coded for a common set of 18 sociophonetic variables with distinct phonetic profiles. Automatic transcription was achieved using CLOx, a custom-built ASR system created in the University of Washington Sociolinguistics Laboratory. Normalized error frequency rates (Nf) are compared across ethnic group samples to evaluate CLOx performance. Nf error rates demonstrate clear differential performance in the ASR system, pointing to racial bias in system output. Specific predictions are made regarding approaches that might be taken to leverage sociophonetic knowledge to improve sociolect-recognition accuracy in ASR systems.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:02:21 -0500 2021-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Alicia Beckford Wassink
Phondi Discussion Group (February 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (February 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81212 81212-20872037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

U-M professor Ben Fortson will give a survey presentation on languages of the Baltic subbranch of Indo-European.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:46:10 -0500 2021-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium (virtual): "Bilingual language control, or how bilinguals manage to stick to one language error-free" (February 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81471 81471-20895799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Dr. Ivanova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso, will present "Bilingual language control, or how bilinguals manage to stick to one language error-free."

ABSTRACT
Bilinguals are mental jugglers, and skilled ones, too: They easily switch languages when they want to but accurately keep to the same language when their other language may not be understood. To avoid saying something in the wrong language by mistake, bilinguals need to engage language control mechanisms (in the most widely accepted view, inhibition of the non-target language: Green, 1998). Understanding language control is necessary to understand the potential sources of the widely-discussed bilingual mental and neural adaptations (aka “the bilingual advantage”), but currently there are a lot of open questions. In this talk, I will examine whether language control mechanisms are specific to bilinguals or are wider-application mechanisms for interference resolution; whether language control is applied only once after a language switch or all the time; and whether it is limited to lexico-semantic information or also functions over structural representations. Finally, I will present work showing for the first time how language control manifests in spontaneous connected speech, and will discuss how such work can help constrain theories of bilingual “mental juggling”.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:00:59 -0500 2021-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Iva Ivanova
SynSem Discussion Group (February 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (February 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (February 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81354 81354-20887828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Bill Baxter and Ben Fortson will give presentations on developments in historical linguistics, mainly 19th-century developments and their political influences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:59:56 -0500 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (February 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Distinguished University Professorships (March 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81694 81694-20943443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University and Development Events

President Mark S. Schlissel and Provost Susan M. Collins
invite you to join them online to honor and celebrate three
Distinguished University Professorship awardees as they present
on their career work in our 2021 lecture series.

Moderated by Michael Solomon, Dean and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, the spring 2021 event features Distinguished University Professors Paul Courant (Economics and Public Policy), Deborah Goldberg (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), and Judith Irvine (Linguistic Anthropology).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:42:38 -0500 2021-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Spring 2021 Distinguished University Professorship awardees and lecturers
Phondi Discussion Group (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81355 81355-20887829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Bruce Mannheim will lead a discussion on major developments in historical linguistics in the 20th century and into the 21st century.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:03:00 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (March 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-03-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81356 81356-20887830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Bill Baxter will give a presentation on Weirdnesses in Mandarin pronunciation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:05:40 -0500 2021-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (March 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81357 81357-20887831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Savi Namboodiripad and Sally Thomason will give a survey presentation on Dravidian languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:08:09 -0500 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (April 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 9, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81349 81349-20887818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Please note, the zoom link is password protected. The password will be provided in SoConDi email communications. If you are not on the SoConDi email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Alex Kramer (arkram@umich.edu) or Lauretta Cheng (lspcheng@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:54:36 -0500 2021-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (April 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82615 82615-21145765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics graduate students Jian Zhu and Yourdanis Sedarous will present their research.

Jian Zhu will present "The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical change"

ABSTRACT
New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a community's lexicon. Among all factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on the understudied effect of social networks. We conduct a large-scale analysis of over 80k neologisms in 4420 online communities across a decade. Using Poisson regression and survival analysis, our study demonstrates that the community's network structure plays a significant role in lexical change. Apart from overall size, properties including dense connections, the lack of local clusters, and more external contacts promote lexical innovation and retention. Unlike offline communities, these topic-based communities do not experience strong lexical leveling despite increased contact but accommodate more niche words. Our work provides support for a sociolinguistic hypothesis that the lexical change is partially shaped by the structure of the underlying network but also uncovers findings specific to online communities.

Yourdanis will present "Investigating the extent of shared syntactic structures in the grammar of bilinguals"

ABSTRACT
The present study investigates to what extent syntactic and semantic representations are shared between a bilingual’s languages, specifically when these structures overlap in varying degrees across those languages. In this talk, I focus on the bilingual knowledge and use of long-distance dependencies (e.g constituent questions) in Egyptian Arabic-English bilinguals. The results of a bilingual corpus analysis suggest that some structures of English trigger repetition of the same structure in the switch to Egyptian Arabic, while the results of an acceptability judgement task investigating code-switched LDDs suggest that speakers’ dominance of their two or more languages affects their sensitivity to illicit sentences in partially convergent structures. A third experiment is proposed to further test to what extent structures are shared.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Apr 2021 13:25:54 -0400 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81340 81340-20887802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:28:46 -0500 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group: "The Quechua-Aymara contact relationship: where are we, and what's next?" (April 16, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81358 81358-20887832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:41:35 -0400 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (April 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81351 81351-20887825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:32:27 -0500 2021-04-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
2021 Linguistics Virtual Graduation (April 30, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83682 83682-21454204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Join us for a virtual commencement ceremony celebrating the Linguistics Class of 2021. The Linguistics Department invites our graduating students, families, and friends to tune in to the department website on Friday, April 30, at 2 pm, to watch a special commencement video.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:54:14 -0400 2021-04-30T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Livestream / Virtual Virtual graduation promo graphic with balloons
Prosody Discussion Group (September 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-03T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (September 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86334 86334-21632741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. The first meeting of the semester will be an organizational meeting to discuss ideas for presenters and topics.

All meetings will be held virtually. For more information, email thomason@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:13:34 -0400 2021-09-10T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (September 10, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85984 85984-21630642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:26:33 -0400 2021-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (September 17, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (September 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86337 86337-21632748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:24:20 -0400 2021-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (September 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87230 87230-21640552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

Meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information about Psycholinguistics, email psycholing-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:46:07 -0400 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (September 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87225 87225-21640544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

This week's topic is the historical phonology of Chinese loanwords in neighboring languages. The three presenters will be Gou Wu on Sino-Korean, Bill Baxter on Sino-Vietnamese, and Mathew Kramer on Sino-Japanese. They'll be showing how these are related to Middle Chinese (from which they were borrowed) and to Mandarin and Cantonese.

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator, but no formal presentation.

All meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:55:44 -0400 2021-09-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (September 24, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
LingAMod Discussion Group (October 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87219 87219-21640538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:21:31 -0400 2021-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Sign language & multimodal communication lab logo
Prosody Discussion Group (October 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium: "Are there broken Languages for broken people?"" (October 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85980 85980-21630638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Guest speaker Dr. Jonathan Henner (UNC Greensboro) will give a talk titled "Are there broken languages for broken people?"

ASL interpreters and CART captioning will be available.

ABSTRACT
Variationist sociolinguistics has examined linguistic variation based on geography, age, gender, and more recently race. The goal behind this field of linguistics is to support the notion that language variation is natural and good. Yet, even within variationist studies, there is still limited discussion on disability as a category for variation. The impact of disability on languaging is still often framed as atypical and deviant, with research focused either on identifying the deviancy (e.g. is it an SLI), or repairing it. From this perspective, that means not all variation is good. The purpose of this colloquium is to discuss the role of disability in language variation and to examine if variation caused by disability should be an acceptable facet of languaging.

About Jonathan Henner: My work thus far has taken three strands: a) I examine how different factors impact the development of language and cognitive skills in deaf and hard of hearing, b) I look at how to best assess and measure the language skills of deaf and hard of hearing populations, and c) I examine how frameworks that linguists and other scientists use contribute to ableist perspectives on language use

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:13:53 -0400 2021-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jon Henner
HistLing Discussion Group (October 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87227 87227-21640546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Iman Sheydaei Baghdadeh will give a talk titled "A diachronic analysis of Persian vowels: from Early New Persian to the three contemporary national dialects."

ABSTRACT

This presentation will take a trans-national-dialect approach to provide a diachronic account of the vowel systems in the three national varieties of Persian. This account will explain the development of Early New Persian (ca. 10th – 13th century) vowels into the vowels of Dari, Iranian Persian, and Tajik. In doing so, Oxford’s (2015) model of contrast and sound change and Avery and Idsardi’s (2001) phonological representation model have been adopted and combined to provide feature hierarchies at the dimension level for the vowels in the three national dialects of Persian.

For more information about the HistLing discussion group, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:33:35 -0400 2021-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (October 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
LingAMod Discussion Group (October 15, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87220 87220-21640539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:31:11 -0400 2021-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (October 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 15, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (October 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88096 88096-21650289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

Meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information about Psycholinguistics, email psycholing-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:42:22 -0400 2021-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Artificial Neural Networks (October 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88424 88424-21653870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Compositionality---the principle that the meaning of a complex expression is built from the meanings of its constituent parts---is considered a central property of human language. The key benefit of compositionality is compositional generalization, which enables the production and comprehension of novel expressions analyzed as new compositions of familiar parts. In this presentation, I discuss my work on developing a test for compositional generalization for artificial neural networks based on human generalization patterns discussed in existing linguistic and developmental studies, and applying this test to several instantiations of Transformer (Vaswani et al. 2017) and Long Short-Term Memory (Hochreiter & Schmidhuber 1997)) models to better characterize their learning biases.

CSC Speaker Event: Najoung Kim
Date: Thursday (10/21) 6-7pm (ET)
Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98135198767

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:41:28 -0400 2021-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
HistLing Discussion Group (October 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88092 88092-21650285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ben Fortson will present "The Mysteries of the Armenian Aorist Imperative."

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator, but no formal presentation.

All meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:55:31 -0400 2021-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (October 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium (October 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85981 85981-21630640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department welcomes Tracy Conner, Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Northwestern University. She will present "Investigating the Language of Gaslighting."

ABSTRACT
Gaslighting has been defined as “a type of psychological abuse aimed at making victims seem or feel ‘crazy,’ creating a ‘surreal’ interpersonal environment” (Sweet 2019:1). The concept has gained popularity in the public sphere through online articles and videos, though the bulk of the research on the topic has come from the field of Psychology, and Sociology only more recently. Though gaslighting can take many forms from action to inaction, one primary vehicle relates to a particular type of manipulative language use. In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Goffman argues that in order to participate in face-to-face talk, we make inferences about what people mean in interactions (1959:2–3). Based on a Gricean paradigm, the inferences we make to attribute meaning to utterances are based on the assumption that our interlocutor’s intent is to be maximally cooperative (Grice, 1975). In gaslighting, we know that speakers are crucially not being cooperative, but this is generally only interpretable by the victim of the abuse. What makes gaslighting so difficult to identify, and what can linguistic tools help us uncover to lead us closer to understanding this phenomenon? I argue that in some forms of gaslighting, utterances appear cooperative and follow Gricean maxims through the exploitation of linguistic ambiguity and the difference between logical form and illocutionary force. Ultimately, the damaging effects for victims of gaslighting are rooted in issues of language and power.

This talk seeks to establish a unifying definition of gaslighting examining our notion of who we researchers deem experts in the discussion. Furthermore, the talk evaluates data collected through convenience sampling from online sources, emails, and audio recordings to identify the linguistic and pragmatic discursive strategies employed. I make the case that one salient pragmatic strategy in gaslighting is systematic and repetitive avoidance of the Question Under Discussion (QUD) which I define as topic shift. I make the case that topic shift contributes to why victims frequently feel “crazy” as accepting the new topic in conversation forces them to agree with realities that are not germane or true for them, and any attempt to reintroduce the original QUD makes the victim appear uncooperative.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:50:40 -0400 2021-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Tracy Conner
LingAMod Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87221 87221-21640540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:32:58 -0400 2021-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85975 85975-21630628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

On Friday, October 29, Mairym Lloréns Monteserín of the University of Southern California will present "Co-speech vocal tics produced by adults with Tourette syndrome are sensitive to prosodic structure."

ABSTRACT
Speech planning and production takes place in a body beset by urges. An urge to x is a sensation of discomfort that worsens until x is performed. It is common for talkers to experience urges to cough/yawn/etc. while they are speaking but very little is known about how these two fundamentally different modes of control over vocal behavior interact. My research is currently focused on understanding if and how urge-based systems that have the potential to wrest control over vocal-respiratory articulators are coordinated with co-occurring speech at different time-scales/levels of prosodic hierarchy. The vocal tics produced by adults living with the neurological condition Tourette syndrome provide a unique opportunity to investigate this topic because they occur frequently. Vocal tic noises, words and phrases are produced in order to satisfy an urge and they are completely unrelated to a ticcer-talker's linguistic and communicative goals. For my dissertation, I collected a corpus of acoustic recordings of adults performing a battery of speech tasks while ticcing freely, that is, while refraining from suppressing their own tics. By removing the need for active suppression, tic and speech motor systems are free to coordinate or compete in a naturalistic fashion. In this talk I will present an analysis of the relationship between prosodic structure and the timing of co-speech tic events. The distribution of tic events shows that tics are sensitive to prosodic structure at the level of intonational phrases (at least). I interpret these results to suggest that a higher-level task coordinates tic utterances with phrase boundaries. Implications for our understanding of speech planning in light of such “meta-prosody” are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:30 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 29, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (November 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88093 88093-21650286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator, but no formal presentation.

All meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:33:15 -0400 2021-11-05T14:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (November 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-11-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Department Colloquium (November 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85982 85982-21630641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department welcomes Emily M. Bender, professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and faculty director of the Professional Masters in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) program. Her research interests include the interaction of linguistics and NLP, computational semantics, multilingual NLP, and the societal impact of language technology. She will present "Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology."

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact lingadmin@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

ABSTRACT
Humans make sense of language in context, bringing to bear their own understanding of the world including their model of their interlocutor's understanding of the world. In this talk, I will explore various potential risks that arise when we as humans bring this sense-making capacity to interactions with artificial interlocutors. That is, I will ask what happens in conversations where one party has no (or extremely limited) access to meaning and all of the interpretative work rests with the other, and briefly explore what this entails for the design of language technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:22:56 -0400 2021-11-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Emily M. Bender
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (November 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88097 88097-21650290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

Meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information about Psycholinguistics, email psycholing-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:44:12 -0400 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
LingAMod Discussion Group (November 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87222 87222-21640541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:34:29 -0400 2021-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (November 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88597 88597-21656087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:37:20 -0400 2021-11-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88098 88098-21650291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

Meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information about Psycholinguistics, email psycholing-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:46:23 -0400 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (November 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88094 88094-21650287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator, but no formal presentation.

All meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:07:33 -0500 2021-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (November 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group: "Historical Linguistics, 1924-2014" (December 3, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88095 88095-21650288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator, but no formal presentation.

All meetings will be held virtually this semester. For more information, please email Sally Thomason (thomason@umich.edu).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:03:07 -0500 2021-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (December 3, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87229 87229-21640551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

Meetings will be virtual. Zoom access information will be shared via the SoConDi listserv. For more information, please email: so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:28:00 -0400 2021-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
LingAMod Discussion Group (December 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87223 87223-21640542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The language across modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication -- speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

Please email Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for Zoom access information.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:36:48 -0400 2021-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Sign Language & Multi-modal communication lab logo
Prosody Discussion Group (December 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88598 88598-21656088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Prosody Group consists of researchers interested in any aspect of prosody. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to present work in progress, read papers, and practice for upcoming presentations. Please join us if this sounds interesting to you!

Meetings this semester will be virtual. For Zoom access information, or to be added to the Prosody discussion group list, please email:
prosody-contact@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:39:34 -0400 2021-12-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (December 10, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86332 86332-21632737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Syntax-Semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Meetings will be held virtually. Zoom access information will be shared via the SynSem email list. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:40:44 -0400 2021-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics MLK Colloquium: "Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice" (January 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88619 88619-21656207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Join us virtually for a presentation by Anne H. Charity Hudley, PhD, Professor of Education at Stanford University. She will present "Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice."

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact lingadmin@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

ABSTRACT
Critical knowledge about language and culture is an integral part of the quest for educational equity and empowerment, not only in PreK-12 but also in higher education. As Black students transition from high school to college, they seek to add their voices and perspectives to academic discourse and to the scholarly community in a way that is both advantageous and authentic.

The Talking College Project is a Black student and Black studies centered way to learn more about the particular linguistic choices of Black students while empowering them to be proud of their cultural and linguistic heritage. Black students took introductory educational linguistics courses that examined the role of language in the Black college experience and collected information from college students through both interviews and ethnography. We valued the perspectives of undergraduates from a range of disciplinary backgrounds as researchers, and we had a special focus on how our findings can immediately improve their own educational and linguistic experiences.

One key question of The Talking College Project was: how does the acquisition of different varieties of Black language and culture overlap with identity development, particularly intersectional racial identity development? To answer this question, we used a community-based participatory research methodology to conduct over 100 interviews with Black students at numerous Minority-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges, and Predominantly White Universities across the U.S. We also conducted ethnographic research on over 10 college campuses. Based on information collected from the interviews and our ethnographies, it is evident that Black students often face linguistic bias and may need additional support and guidance as they navigate the linguistic terrain of higher education. In this presentation, I present themes and examples from the interviews that illustrate the linguistic pathways that students choose, largely without direct sociolinguistic support that could help guide their decisions.

To address the greater need to share information about Black language with students, I highlight our findings from interviews with Black students who have taken courses in educational linguistics to demonstrate the impact of education about Black language and culture on Black students’ academic opportunities and social lives. We have a focus on how this information particularly influenced those who went on to be educators. These findings serve to help us create an equity-based model of assessment for what educational linguistic information Black students need in order to be successful in higher education and how faculty can help to establish opportunities for students to access content about language, culture, and education within the college curriculum. I address the work we need to do as educators and linguists to provide more Black college students with information that both empowers them raciolinguistically AND respects their developing identity choices.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Jan 2022 10:05:04 -0500 2022-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Anne H. Charity Hudley