Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
Linguistics Graduation Celebration (April 29, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94223 94223-21725661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department will host an in-person graduation celebration on Friday, April 29, in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union from 12:30-2 pm. All Linguistics graduating majors and minors are invited to this event. RSVP required.

The event will be livestreamed. Please click on the website link below for program and livestream access.

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Other Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:10:31 -0400 2022-04-29T12:30:00-04:00 2022-04-29T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Linguistics Other Michigan Union
Prosody Discussion Group (April 29, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92057 92057-21686455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 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 2022-04-29T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T14:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Dissertation Defense: Andrew McInnerney (May 9, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94906 94906-21784746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 9, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Andrew McInnerney will defend his dissertation on Monday, May 9, at 11:30 am. The title of his dissertation is “The Argument/Adjunct Distinction and the Structure of Prepositional Phrases.” Doctoral committee members include Professor Acrisio Pires (Chair), Professor Ezra Keshet, Dr. Lisa Levinson, Professor Richard L. Lewis, and Professor T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University. All are invited to attend.

ABSTRACT
This dissertation examines the traditional evidence for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction (A/AD). I begin by drawing a distinction between the semantic sense of the A/AD and the syntactic sense of the A/AD. The semantic A/AD concerns lexical encoding of thematic information; arguments are taken to be semantically encoded in the lexical representation of predicates, while adjuncts are not. I argue instead that lexical encoding of thematic information is a property in its own right; the standard evidence does motivate an understanding of the A/AD in these terms. The syntactic A/AD has to do with the external syntax of constituents. I consider nine canonical syntactic diagnostics for argumenthood (e.g. omissibility, VP-anaphora, islandhood, etc.), using prepositional phrases in the verbal domain in English as a test case, and I find that these diagnostics do not provide good evidence for the syntactic A/AD. Instead, the properties identified by the canonical argumenthood diagnostics are independent of one another; they should not be taken to as properties of a single larger distinction.
After carefully examining the evidence for the A/AD, I consider the consequences of eliminating the distinction. I focus specifically on consequences for the syntax prepositional phrases, including (i) the configuration of PPs in the verbal domain, (ii) licensing of pronouns within PPs, and (iii) pseudopassives (p-passives). The A/AD has been argued to play an important role in each of these domains, and so if the distinction is to be eliminated, it is important to explore how analyses in these domains are affected. On the structure of VP-internal PPs, I explore the possibility that PPs could be attached as sisters to functional heads in the verbal domain, potentially forming multiple n-ary-branching layers. On pronoun-licensing in PP, I defend the hypothesis that PP is split into two layers, and I argue that the lower of the two layers is a phase; assuming that Condition B is sensitive to phase domains, this enables an account of a range of relevant data. Finally, on p-passives, I consider the conditions under which p-passivization is blocked, arguing that argumenthood is not a relevant factor.

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Other Mon, 09 May 2022 11:33:11 -0400 2022-05-09T11:30:00-04:00 2022-05-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Dissertation Defense: Kelly Wright (May 13, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94908 94908-21784748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 13, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Kelly Wright will defend her dissertation on Friday, May 13, at 11:30 am. Title: “Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor.” Committee chair is Patrice Beddor. All are invited to attend.

ABSTRACT

Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Metalinguistic awareness, and a language user’s embodied positionality in relation to it, can be thought of as akin to how one relates to an indexical field, in that such a field is described as representing all the potential meanings a given linguistic variable can have across contexts and communities. I argue that some people are, by the nature of their embodied positionality, always already more aware of the contents of these fields. To elicit metacommentary stemming from such positionality-based awareness, a new method of sociolinguistic interview is introduced which elevates metalinguistic knowledge to a level comparable to that of speech feature. This dissertation applied this method in interviews with 17 Black professionals from Detroit, Michigan. The design included, for example, a task geared towards eliciting metacommentary on targeted African American Language terms (e.g., shawty, stressed BIN, and the N-words) that aligns with some aspects of their positionality (e.g., regionally) and diverges in others (e.g., age- and gender-based knowledges). One major theme to emerge from the metacommentary on these terms and on other components of the interview method—examined in especially close detail through three case studies—is that the current understanding of the theoretical concept of sociolinguistic labor does not fully capture these Black professionals’ reported motivations for style shifting. Rather, the notion of sociolinguistic labor needs to be enriched to include linguistic actions which are taken not only to satisfy others, but also to satisfy the self and in service of others.

Metacommentary elicited from these Black professionals on specific elements of their racialized styles that they shift away from in the workplace informed the design of the speech perception experiment also undertaken in this study, which assessed listeners’ judgments of the relative professionalism of Black professional speech styles. Targeting three non-Standard variables—fortition via TH-stopping (they versus dey); metathesis (ask versus aks);, and consonant cluster reduction (trend versus tren_)—the perception experiment asked: if Black people sound more like themselves at work, are their identities as professionals more likely to be rejected by audiences? Across three configurations of paired sentences differing in the number of non-Standard variables, the overwhelming majority of listeners, across demographic categories, prefer sentences with fewer non-Standard variables to those with more such variables from a Black professional speaker. However, the relative influences of these variables on professionalism judgments differed, with the metathesis variable aks, for example, presenting evidence of perceptual blocking, indicating that stereotypes about aks and its normative incompatibility with professionalism are operative in this study. These findings indicate that when a Black speaker shifts towards the Standard—towards Whiteness—their style appears to align with listener expectations of professionalism; this indicates that Black professionals are less successful in conveying professionalism when features of non-Standard racialized varieties are present. In consideration of the interviewees’ reports of sociolinguistic labor done to acquiesce to assimilationist Standards, and in light of the experimental evidence indicating preference of speech styles which reflect said labors, I conclude this dissertation by calling for linguists across the discipline to become better advocates for linguistic equity at local and federal levels.

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Other Mon, 09 May 2022 08:36:10 -0400 2022-05-13T11:30:00-04:00 2022-05-13T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Linguistics Dissertation Defense (June 24, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95579 95579-21790351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Jian Zhu will defend his dissertation on Friday, June 24, at 11 am.
Title: A computational account of selected patterns of linguistic variation and change
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93720993749, password: dimsum
Co-Chairs: Pam Beddor and David Jurgens

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

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Other Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:00:18 -0400 2022-06-24T11:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Linguistics Dissertation Defense (June 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95694 95694-21790560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Moira Saltzman will defend her dissertation on Wednesday, June 29, at 9 am. Title: "A History of Jejueo." Committee co-chairs are Marlyse Baptista and Sally Thomason.

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

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Other Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:01:02 -0400 2022-06-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
Linguistics Dissertation Defense (August 2, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96241 96241-21792162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics graduate candidate Yourdanis Sedarous will defend her dissertation on Tuesday, August 2, at 10 am. Title: "An experimental study on the syntax of English and Egyptian Arabic: A unified account of bilingual grammatical knowledge." Co-chairs are Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires.

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Other Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:43:27 -0400 2022-08-02T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-02T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Other
CogSci Community Student Org Mass Meeting (September 14, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97438 97438-21794570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The CogSci Community will be holding its first meeting of the year on September 14 from 8pm-9pm on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall! Stop by to learn more about upcoming events and how to get involved, as well as get some swag!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:57:02 -0400 2022-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Rally / Mass Meeting csc logo
CSAS Lecture Series | Deconstructing Language Boundaries and Transnational Identities: Malayalees in Kerala and the US (September 16, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97079 97079-21793861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Mesthrie (2008) describes the "third focus" of South Asian diaspora as being economically motivated, which, in the context of the South Asian diaspora in the United States, describes the wave of South Asian immigration following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. Here, I explore the impact of immigrants who moved to the United States after the late 1990s, concurrent with and following the IT boom, on the language practices and ideologies of the three generations of existing diasporic community. I focus in particular on the Malayalee community in Minnesota, an area which did not have a significant concentration of Malayalee- (or South Asian-) origin residents prior to the 1990s (cf., Sridhar & Sridhar 2000). Bringing together data from 45 oral histories of Minnesotan Malayalees, experimental work conducted in Kerala, and a large scale survey (in collaboration with Dr. Maya Abtahian) investigating language use and linguistic ideologies of Malayalees in North America, I interpret the language maintenance practices and ideologies of Malayalees in Minnesota in the context of Malayalees' language practices in Kerala and beyond.

Taken together, this work (A) proposes a distinct "fourth focus" of South Asian diaspora by outlining qualitative differences in linguistic context and practices between the pre- and post-1990s immigrants, (B) problematizes the dichotomy between diaspora and in situ, which are the predominant analytic categories used in this type of linguistic research, and (C) argues that the inclusion of English-origin elements in North American Malayalam does not necessarily indicate language shift, but rather can be reflective of language maintenance.

Savithry Namboodiripad earned her BA and MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. She has been an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 2019, following a two year Collegiate Fellowship. She runs the Contact, Cognition, & Change lab, where her group investigates methodological and theoretical issues relating to how multilingualism shapes how languages change.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:12:44 -0400 2022-09-16T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Savithry Namboodiripad, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (September 26, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99162 99162-21797647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Title:
Giving Structure to the Cognitive Map

Abstract:
The cognitive map within the minds of animals is the mental process of perceiving and arranging relevant environmental features upon which behavioral decision making processes can be built (Tolman 1948). The previous 5-decades have seen investigation of the neural processes that underlie animals’ ability to cognitively map spaces primarily through recording the electrical activity of neurons as animals navigate a physical space (O’Keefe 1974). Among the most prominent features of the cognitive mapping system within the brain are the discovery of place cells which respond to an animals’ specific location in space, and lay the foundation of seeing the hippocampus as being foundational to the cognitive map (O’Keefe & Nadel 1978).

Recently more attention has been placed on how the cognitive mapping system of the brain encodes for structural features (Behrens et al. 2018). However, little research has gone into how structural features directly interact with spatial representations of the hippocampal system. Data presented here demonstrates that while CA1 place-representations are relatively unimpacted by the structure of the space the animal is in, one synapse away in dorsal subiculum, a mapping of structure emerges within the activity patterns of individual and populations of neurons. These results show the importance of environmental structure when studying spatial navigation, and helps elucidate the relatively understudied brain region of the subiculum.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:02:48 -0400 2022-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 2022-09-26T15:50:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Alexander Johnson
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 7, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99306 99306-21797851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
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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SoConDi Discussion Group is hybrid.
Lorch Hall, Room 473, or on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:35:04 -0400 2022-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Linguistics Colloquium (October 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96064 96064-21797563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Ashwini Deo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin. She will present, "Coordinated on the context: Discourse salience, exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification in Marathi"

ABSTRACT
Several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi contain a discourse clitic whose uses overlap with those of English particles like exclusives only/just, intensifiers really/totally, precisifiers right/exactly/absolutely, anaphoric indeed/that very, and scalar additive even without corresponding perfectly to any of them. In this talk, I offer an analysis of the varied and seemingly disparate uses of this particle, focusing on the Marathi variant -ts. I claim that =ts conventionally signals that interlocutors are in mutual agreement that the proposition denoted by the prejacent is uniquely salient among alternatives in the current question. That is, =ts conveys that the proposition expressed by the prejacent offers a schelling point (or focal point) for the interlocutors to coordinate on. Most effects associated with =ts are shown to arise as a consequence of pragmatic reasoning about the position of the prejacent with respect to the contextually given ordering on the current question. In addition to offering a unified analysis for Marathi =ts and its functional cognates in Indo-Aryan, this new perspective can open the door to a better understanding of why exclusivity, mirativity, precisification, and intensification might cluster together in languages. In closing, I consider the implications of =ts’s meaning for a crosslinguistic picture of the lexicalization of some discourse-managing functions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:40:19 -0400 2022-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ashwini Deo
CogSci and Linguistics Grad School Preparation Event/Workshop--RSVP Required (October 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97423 97423-21794549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science presents a lecture and workshop on preparing for graduate school! This event is for students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in areas such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, information technology, and more! Hear from faculty, current PhD and Masters students, as well as from our advisors on how to select a program that is right for you!

The presenters are as follows:
Dr. Richard Lewis, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Director
Dr. Marlyse Baptista, Grad Chair Department of Linguistics
Logan Walls, PhD Student Department of Psychology
Demet Kayabasi, PhD Student Department of Linguistics
Hanaa Ziad, Masters Student School of Information, Product Designer JSTOR
Julia Smoot, Masters Student Department of Psychology and CogSci class of '21

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/KNgw9p4JVZAERWr4A

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:02:59 -0400 2022-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Language in a Neurodiverse World (October 14, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100126 100126-21799305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 14, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The University of Michigan Department Seminar Series on Language, Disability, and Neurodiversity would like to invite you to our inaugural event, Language in a Neurodiverse World. This event will feature two leading scholars on issues related to neurodiversity and disability in language study: M. Remi Yergeau (Associate Professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan) and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Washington). Drs. Yergeau and Kerschbaum will discuss issues at the intersection of neurodiversity and language and will also participate in a Q & A with moderators and attendees.
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Panelists:

M. Remi Yergau (they/them/theirs)
University of Michigan: English Language & Literature

M. Remi Yergeau is Associate Professor of Digital Studies and English at the University of Michigan. They direct Digital Accessible Futures Lab, part of DISCO Network. Their book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP), has received three notable rhetoric scholarships, and their forthcoming book is tentatively titled Crip Data, which explores disability, techno-rhetorics, and sociality.


Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (she/her/hers)
University of Washington: Department of English

Stephanie L. Kerschbaum is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Washington. Her newest book, Signs of Disability, will be published in December 2022 with New York University Press simultaneously in print and as an open-access e-book.
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The University of Michigan Department of Linguistics' Language, Disability and Neurodiversity Seminar Series is made possible by a generous gift through the Larry Motola Linguistics Fund, established to fund the development of curriculum projects related to cognitive processes and conditions, and their interaction with language.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:16:54 -0400 2022-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2022-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Language in a Neurodiverse World Poster
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 21, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99306 99306-21797852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
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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SoConDi Discussion Group is hybrid.
Lorch Hall, Room 473, or on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:35:04 -0400 2022-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 4, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99306 99306-21797853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
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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SoConDi Discussion Group is hybrid.
Lorch Hall, Room 473, or on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:35:04 -0400 2022-11-04T15:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Linguistics Colloquium (November 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96065 96065-21800217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

T. Daniel Seely is a Professor of Linguistics at Eastern Michigan University.

Join us in person in East Hall room 4448 or virtually on Zoom.

TITLE
On the History and Current Form of Merge

ABSTRACT
This discussion explores the history, form, and function of the most fundamental operation of the narrow syntax, Merge. The question we'll focus on is this: What 'should' Merge do, what 'should' Merge not do; and, most importantly, why?

By way of background, we give a brief history of structure building devices, from PS rules (graph-theoretic and linear-order-encoding) to successive stages in the development of Merge--from its introduction in Bare Phrase Structure (Chomsky 1994/95) to its formulation in Problems of Projection (Chomsky 2013, 2015, see also Epstein, Kitahara, Seely 2015, Collins and Seely to appear)) and to its recent characterization (Chomsky 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Epstein, Kitahara, Seely (2018, 2020, 2022).

Next, we trace the "maximize minimal merge" program (Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely 2018, 2022): The idea is to maximize the effects of Merge while minimizing its form, positing internal to the narrow syntax as little as possible beyond simplest Merge, striving ultimately for the thesis “3rd Factor + Interfaces + Recursion = Language,” as initially articulated in Chomsky 2007.

With this background, our primary goal is to explore Chomsky's recent thinking on Merge, from a series of lectures and papers, and ultimately trace conclusions of a forthcoming paper “Merge” by N. Chomsky, R. Berwick, S. Fong, M.A.C. Huybregts, H. Kitahara, A. McInnerney, T.D. Seely, Y. Sugimoto, in R. Freidin (ed) Elements, Cambridge.

Chomsky’s recent work suggests that what we thought was simplest Merge (unifying external and internal merge) is in fact inexplicit in crucial respects, and a revision is proposed that reconceives Merge as an operation that applies to the workspace WS, thereby allowing the monitoring of computational resources. Explored are the 3rd
factor (non-linguistic) principles that constrain Merge, its empirical consequences, challenges, and prospects for future research.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:43:24 -0400 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion T. Daniel Seely
Language and Identities (November 7, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101063 101063-21800752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Please join us for this FREE event hosted by the Language Matters Initiative. Lightning talks will be followed by discussion opportunities with speakers. Pizza and beverages proovided.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | Scholar & Author, Department of American Culture and Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Jessi Grieser | Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Michela Russo, Nick Henriksen, and Sabine Gabaron | Romance Languages & Literatures Gender Diversity Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:08:08 -0400 2022-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2022-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Language and Identities Poster
Linguistics Colloquium (November 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96066 96066-21791884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Pilar Prieto is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalunya. Her research focuses on the communicative role of prosody and gesture in language, as well as their significance in language development and second language learning. She serves as associate editor of the journals Language and Speech and Frontiers in Communication. She is currently coediting a special issue of Language and Cognition on Multimodal Prosody and organizing the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium MMSYM, April 27-28 2023, Barcelona.

This event is hybrid, join us via Zoom or in East Hall 4448

TITLE
How the prosody in our hands and body can help us enhance second language pronunciation learning
Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

ABSTRACT
When we speak, we frequently use rhythmic hand gestures which are coordinated with prosodically prominent parts of speech (e.g., beat gestures). As most of the research on the benefits of gesture in the second language classroom has focused on the effects of representational gestures (e.g., for the acquisition of vocabulary), little is known about the potential beneficial effects of beats and other embodied prosodic movements on the learning of L2 pronunciation. In this talk I will discuss the results of several experiments carried out in our research group that deal with how beat gestures and other embodied rhythmic and melodic movements facilitate the learning of second language pronunciation. Experiments 1 and 2 will assess the potential benefits of observing and performing beat gestures on L2 pronunciation learning by intermediate Catalan learners of English. Experiments 3 and 4 will analyze the benefits of performing hand-clapping on L2 pronunciation learning at initial stages of L2 acquisition of French by Catalan and Chinese native speakers. Experiments 5 and 6 will assess the effects of the use of melodic and rhythmic hand movements on the learning of both suprasegmental and segmental information by English and French language learners. Widening the scope of this investigation, Experiment 7 will assess the boosting effects of an embodied music-based rhythmic and melodic training which does not involve speech in the foreign language for English pronunciation learning. Based on the positive findings from these experiments, I will discuss the results of a recent study testing the idea that embodied narrative-based natural classroom interventions have the potential to be used as strong scaffolding mechanisms for speech production. I will finally suggest that a more active, context-based multimodal approach to teaching pronunciation could be successfully applied to both language teaching and speech treatment contexts.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:30:19 -0400 2022-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Pilar Prieto
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 18, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99306 99306-21797854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
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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SoConDi Discussion Group is hybrid.
Lorch Hall, Room 473, or on Zoom.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:35:04 -0400 2022-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall