Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 7, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91817 91817-21683182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

U-M graduate student Natasha Vernooij (Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience) will present "Experimental Proposal: Bilingual Processing of Incongruent Codeswitches."

ABSTRACT
Bilinguals have a shared grammatical representation for constructions that follow the same word order in their two languages (congruent structures) (Hartsuiker & Pickering, 2008), and make language independent predictions for these constructions (de los Santos et al., 2019). There is also evidence that bilinguals have some sort of shared grammatical representation for constructions that do not follow the same word order in their two languages (incongruent structures) (Hsieh, 2017). However, it is unclear if all types of incongruent constructions have a shared mental representation, or if there is a limit on how different the word orders in the two languages can be to still have a shared representation. The proposed experiment investigates bilingual comprehension of incongruent codeswitched adjective/noun constructions in Spanish and English through the Stop Making Sense task (Mauner, Tanenhaus, & Carlson, 1995). Results will indicate what types of constructions have shared representations and to what extent bilinguals have a shared mental representation of their languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:29:19 -0500 2022-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 2022-02-07T15:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (February 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group: What's Interesting about Albanian? (February 11, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92042 92042-21686402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week, Brian Joseph of The Ohio State University will present "What's Interesting about Albanian?" The meeting will be held on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:39:16 -0500 2022-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 11, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92056 92056-21686439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 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.

For more information, please email so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:52:19 -0500 2022-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (February 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (February 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92057 92057-21686450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

For more information about the Prosody group, email prosody-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:56:53 -0500 2022-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (February 18, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92530 92530-21692022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 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 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.

All meetings will be virtual this semester. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:49:20 -0500 2022-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium (February 18, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88620 88620-21656209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Janet G. van Hell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, and co-director of the Center for Language Science. She will present "Understanding accented speech: the role of speaker identity and listener experience."

ABSTRACT
Current everyday communication is a cultural and linguistic melting pot. There are hundreds of millions of speakers of English as a second language in the world, so we are likely to encounter speakers who have a non-native accent when speaking English. We are also likely to interact with people from different backgrounds, whose accent may be similar or different from one’s own accent. Research has shown that non-native accented speech can challenge language comprehension. Although behavioral studies indicate that listeners adapt quickly to non-native accented speech, neurocognitive studies have shown distinct neural mechanisms in processing non-native accented sentences relative to native accented sentences. I will present a series of recent behavioral and EEG/ERP experiments in which we examined how speaker identity and listener experience affect the comprehension of non-native accented and native accented sentences. More specifically, we studied how listeners’ experience with non-native accented speech modulates accented speech comprehension by testing different groups of listeners (young and older adult monolinguals with little experience with non-native accented speech, listeners immersed in non-native accented speech, and bilingual (non-native accented) listeners). We also examined how faces cuing the speaker’s ethnicity (e.g., Asian face) create language expectations (here, Chinese-accented English), and how these biases impact the neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with the comprehension of American- and Chinese-accented English sentences. Implications of the findings will be discussed by integrating neuropsychological theories of language comprehension with linguistic theories on the role of socio-indexical cues in speech comprehension.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:23:21 -0500 2022-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Janet van Hell
HistLing Discussion Group (February 25, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92044 92044-21686403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Martha Ratliff.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:44:30 -0500 2022-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 25, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92056 92056-21686441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 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.

For more information, please email so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:52:19 -0500 2022-02-25T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Dissertation Defense: Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (March 10, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93106 93106-21700726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales will defend his dissertation on Thursday, March 10, at 2 pm. Title: “Truly a language of our own” A corpus-based, experimental, and variationist account of Lánnang-uè in Manila.

Committee co-chairs are Marlyse Baptista and Sarah G. Thomason.

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Other Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:41:16 -0500 2022-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Phondi Discussion Group (March 11, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (March 11, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92046 92046-21686404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Linguistics graduate student Moira Saltzman.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:48:38 -0500 2022-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 11, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92056 92056-21686443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 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.

For more information, please email so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:52:19 -0500 2022-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Colloquium: Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain (March 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93118 93118-21700880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Jon Brennnan, Associate Professor of Linguistics, will present "Lessons learned while searching for syntax in the brain" on Friday, March 11, at 4 pm via Zoom.

ABSTRACT

“[T]here is absolutely no mapping to date that we understand in even the most vague sense.” So writes David Poeppel in 2012 about the connection between Linguistics and neurobiology. I discuss our attempts to meet this challenge in the domain of syntax and give some reasons to be (slightly) optimistic. This optimism is underwritten by the hard lessons learned over the last decade of research by ourselves and others that have forced us to (i) confront that the term “syntax” does not neatly map to neurobiology, (ii) reconcile apparently competing theoretical frameworks for memory and prediction, and (iii) carefully tease apart the multifaceted linguistic causes of neural effects that we measure in the lab.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:55:09 -0500 2022-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Jon Brennan
Dissertation Defense: Joy Peltier (March 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93107 93107-21700728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Joy Peltier will defend her dissertation on Monday, March 14, at 9 a.m. Title: “Little Words” in Contact and in Context: Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, English, and French.

Committee chair is Marlyse Baptista.

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Other Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:45:23 -0500 2022-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Phondi Discussion Group (March 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (March 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92057 92057-21686452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

For more information about the Prosody group, email prosody-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:56:53 -0500 2022-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Dissertation Defense: Rawan Bonais (March 21, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93385 93385-21704098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

PhD candidate Rawan Bonais will defend her dissertation on Monday, March 21, at 9:30 a.m.

Title: "The Role of Transfer/Substrate Influence in the Development of Gulf Pidgin Arabic"

PhD defenses in the Linguistics Department are open to the public. Anyone is welcome to attend if interested.

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Other Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:14:16 -0400 2022-03-21T09:30:00-04:00 2022-03-21T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
LingAMod Discussion Group (March 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92054 92054-21686424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Language Across Modalities (LingAMod) discussion group will host Michigan Medicine on Zoom to talk about developing Deaf-friendly physicians and the ASL elective for medical students on Thursday, March 24, at 1 pm EST. The Michigan Medicine team will discuss the healthcare access for Deaf patients and the (positive) outcomes of having American Sign Language (ASL) as an elective for medical students, followed by a Q&A and a discussion.

Meetings are conducted in ASL and English with ASL-English interpreting and automated Zoom captions. Participants are expected to follow our Community Norms (linked below).

Passcode: lingamod

Contact Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) for more LingAMod information or for additional accessibility requests.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:48:29 -0400 2022-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (March 25, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92047 92047-21686406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Anthony Struthers-Young.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:51:45 -0500 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Weinberg Symposium Keynote Speaker Watch Party--RSVP required (March 25, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93238 93238-21701925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Greetings CogSci majors,

Due to the symposium being virtual this year, we are inviting all majors to come together and watch Dr. Michael Tomasello's keynote address. Michael Tomasello is a James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University.

Title: "How Chimpanzees Understand the World"
Date: Friday, March 25
Time: 2:30- 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union - Wolverine (3rd Floor)
Appetizers and refreshments will be served.

The keynote address will be followed by a panel discussion consisting of symposium guest speakers.
Panelists :
Marjorie Rhodes (NYU Faculty - Professor of Psychology)
Michael Strevens (NYU Faculty - Professor of Philosophy)
Michael Tomasello ( Duke Faculty - Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience)
Sandra Waxman ( Northwestern Faculty Fellow - Institute of Policy Research - Chair of Psychology)
Felix Warneken (UM Faculty - Professor of Psychology)
Natasha Abner (UM Faculty - Assistant Professor of Linguistics)
Moderator: Chandra Sripada(UM Faculty - Associate Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry)

RSVP Deadline: Wednesday, March 16

Register Now for the Watch Party: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxpag6bNdYlAaDyJ9Wmi27OsKpVuJEerqxCZTqv3dDmpEsNQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
2022 Marshall M. Weinberg Symposium: https://lsa.umich.edu/weinberginstitute/symposium.html


Contact: weinberg-institute@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:22:47 -0500 2022-03-25T14:30:00-04:00 2022-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion mind matters logo
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 25, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92056 92056-21686445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 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.

For more information, please email so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:52:19 -0500 2022-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Dissertation Defense: Yushi Sugimoto (March 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93744 93744-21707959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

PhD candidate Yushi Sugimoto will defend his dissertation on Monday, March 28, at 9 am.

Title: "Underspecification and (im)possible derivations: Toward a restrictive theory of grammar"

PhD defenses in the Linguistics Department are open to the public. Anyone is welcome to attend if interested.

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Other Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:47:54 -0400 2022-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Our Errors are Invisible to Us (March 31, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94172 94172-21723570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This meeting will be in person at Angell Hall G168. Please fill out the RSVP form as we have limited capacity for in-person meetings.

Our Errors are Invisible to Us
Every judgment we make requires a second one--whether to be confident or hesitant about it. I discuss psychological research on the vagaries of reaching accurate confidence assessments of our judgments, in particular the intrinsic problem of anticipating when we are wrong. Our errors are often invisible to us because they don't look like errors at the time. Other people, however, have a better chance at spotting those errors than we do.
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David Dunning is Professor at the University of Michigan and a social psychologist focusing primarily on the psychology underlying human misbelief. His most cited work shows that people hold flattering opinions of their character and competence that cannot be justified from objective evidence, work supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation. An author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and general interest pieces, he is half of the team responsible for describing the infamous Dunning-Kruger effect, in which ignorance fails to recognize itself. He has served as president of both the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for the Science of Motivation. In 2016 he was awarded the Distinguished Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He holds a BA from Michigan State University and a PhD from Stanford University, both in psychology.


CSC Speaker Event: Dr. Dave Dunning
Date: Thursday (3/31) 6pm (ET)
Location: Angell Hall G168
RSVP form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsPqVJMYeLXuqxLQDvUWcqOxYzsOMOuCaixV046Dpin4MdjQ/viewform

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:58:09 -0400 2022-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
Phondi Discussion Group (April 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (April 1, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92057 92057-21686453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

For more information about the Prosody group, email prosody-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:56:53 -0500 2022-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Department Colloquium (April 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88624 88624-21656212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Annette D'Onofrio is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at Northwestern University. She will present "Perceiving sound change reversal: Age-based dynamics in Chicago's Northern Cities Vowel Shift"

ABSTRACT
Sound changes in progress are often hallmark features of regional dialects, becoming linked with local speakers and local social meanings. These changes are can be examined in apparent time through both age-based differences in production, and through listener age differences in perception. However, little is known about the ways in which sound changes that have moved from advancing to reversing in production over time are perceived by community members. In this talk, I explore how listeners of various ages within one U.S. community in Chicago produce and perceive vowels implicated in the region’s characteristic Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCS), which is undergoing reversal over time. Findings suggest that sociolinguistic perception is not simply a reflection of an individual’s static social position within a community, from which matched production and perceptual patterns are derived. Instead, a listener’s own positionality, experience, and ideas about others in their community, can condition not only their sociolinguistic productions as speakers, but also their expectations as listeners.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:13:01 -0400 2022-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Annette D'Onofrio
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 4, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91827 91827-21683197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

U-M Linguistics graduate student Felicia Bisnath will present "Socio-cognitive salience and production and perception of a multimodal construction in American Sign Language."

Title:
Socio-cognitive salience and production and perception of a multimodal construction in American Sign Language

Abstract:
Mouthing in signed languages refers to mouth movements corresponding to synchronic spoken language words that accompany manual signing. Mouthing constructions are pairings of a mouthing and manual sign and are multimodal in the sense that the mouthing component may be indexed with the oral-auditory modality e.g. the pairing of the English mouthing /kɑt/ and the manual sign CAT in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) with an overall meaning of ‘cat’ (https://www.nzsl.nz/signs/4503). Due to its connection with spoken language and the minoritisation of signed languages, mouthing may have socio-cognitive salience in signed languages that affects its perception and production. In this talk I present a proposal to determine the socio-cognitive salience of mouthing in American Sign Language (ASL) and to test if/how it affects perception and production of mouthing, which has implications for understanding mechanisms of language change.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:06:42 -0400 2022-04-04T14:30:00-04:00 2022-04-04T15:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Felicia Bisnath
Linguistics Professionalization Workshop (April 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94265 94265-21727751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department will host a virtual professionalization workshop featuring guest alumni and focusing on non-academic positions on Tuesday, April 5th from 4:00-5:30 pm EST. Our guests are Marcus Berger, Sagan Blue and Emily Sabo. (See bios below).

Marcus Berger
Marcus Berger defended his dissertation on syntax and fieldwork in September of 2019. He now works for the U.S. Census Bureau as a Sociolinguist as part of the Language and Cross Cultural Research team in the Center for Behavioral Science Methods. In this position, his linguistic knowledge meshes with research in survey methodology to create better survey materials for users of non-English languages.

Sagan Blue
Sagan Blue has spent the past five years as a Language Data Researcher with Amazon Alexa. Most recently she has been providing analytics support to drive improvements in the language models for currently available Alexa languages. Previously she provided analytics support for yet-to-be-released languages and Smart Home features.

Emily Sabo
Emily Sabo completed her Ph.D. in 2021. She is now content creator (Mango Languages), and producer (We Are What We Speak, the docuseries). In her academic research, she investigated the social and cognitive factors that impact bilingual language processing and production. At Mango, she creates digital content for the language learning community in the form of blogs, podcasts, and videos. Passionate about teaching, she has taught and developed curricula for 700+ learners in multiple countries (South Korea, Ecuador, U.S.) on courses in linguistics, cognitive science, English and Spanish.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:55:24 -0400 2022-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Careers / Jobs Workshop promotional graphic
Phondi Discussion Group (April 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (April 8, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92048 92048-21686408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. This week's presenter will be Ben Fortson.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:54:23 -0500 2022-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 8, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92056 92056-21686447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 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.

For more information, please email so-con-di@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:52:19 -0500 2022-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Phondi Discussion Group (April 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92055 92055-21686437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 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.

For more information about Phondi, email phondi-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:48:15 -0500 2022-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Prosody Discussion Group (April 15, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92057 92057-21686454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

For more information about the Prosody group, email prosody-contact@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:56:53 -0500 2022-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (April 15, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94576 94576-21749745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 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 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.

All meetings will be virtual this semester. For more information, email syntax-org@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:20:18 -0400 2022-04-15T15:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium (April 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93441 93441-21704496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD students Wil Gonzales and Felicia Bisnath will present their research.

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, University of Michigan
Sociolinguistic variation in a mixed language? A corpus-based analysis of Lánnang-uè conjunctions and prepositions


ABSTRACT
For several decades, research has shown that sociolinguistic factors play an important role in language variation (Weinreich et al. 1968; Eckert 2005). However, prior sociolinguistic research has primarily focused on well-documented varieties in Western contexts (e.g., American English).

In this presentation, I analyze the variation in a low-resource, previously undocumented “mixed language” in the Philippines called Lánnang-uè – a variety that systematically derives linguistic elements from Hokkien (Southern Min), Mandarin, English, and Tagalog (Gonzales 2018; Gonzales and Starr 2020; Gonzales 2022a). Specifically, I focus on the patterns of variation in two lexical categories: conjunction and prepositions – two categories that show higher rates of variation compared to other features in Lánnang-uè.
Using a mix of quantitative (i.e., corpus-based, computational) and qualitative (i.e., ethnographic) approaches, this analysis investigates the impact of four factors – age, sex, self-reported language proficiency in the source languages, and language attitudes – on the variation observed. I pre-processed, machine-tagged, and statistically analyzed conjunction and preposition data from the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp) (Gonzales 2022b) – a self-compiled 375,000-word corpus of Lánnang-uè, acquired from 135 Lánnang-uè speakers. I also analyzed metalinguistic commentary from a subset of these speakers in an attempt to provide a more holistic explanation for potential sociolinguistic patterns.

The findings indicate that variation in the use of conjunctions and prepositions can be explained by at least one of the four enumerated sociolinguistic factors, corroborating my previous work on Lánnang-uè (Gonzales 2018; Gonzales and Starr 2020) and other research on related contact varieties in East Asia (Hansen Edwards 2019; Starr and Balasubramaniam 2019; Lee 2014). However, I also found that the effects of age, sex, language proficiency, and attitudes varied depending on many context-specific factors (e.g., degree of awareness, stylistic practices unique to a particular social group). I discuss the sociolinguistic patterns uncovered in my presentation in light of cognitive, sociolinguistic, and contact linguistics theories, and conclude by briefly identifying potential avenues for future research.


Felicia Bisnath, University of Michigan
Mouthing constructions in 37 signed languages: typology, ecology and ideology

ABSTRACT
Sign languages – like creoles and other contact languages– are minoritised in their communities and in linguistics. This makes perspectives on creoles potentially illuminating to the study of sign languages. A common way that sign languages are categorised, based on social criteria, is into deaf and rural sign languages. This distinction highlights relationships between social and linguistic properties. This paper investigates one such relationship motivated by the literature: namely whether the extent of contact with spoken language(s) via institutionalised education translates into a higher prevalence of the silent articulation of spoken words, mouthing. Across 37 sign languages (26 deaf; 11 rural), mouthing was found to be prevalent regardless of language type, having been reported in 35 languages (25 deaf; 10 rural). This suggests that differences in contexts of language emergence that have been used to motivate a typological separation between deaf and rural sign languages does not equate to a structural difference in terms of the structural property, mouthing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:17:47 -0400 2022-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion