Linguistics Seminar
Seminars typically take place each Monday from 4-5 PM, over Zoom. Contact Daniel Stelzer for Zoom links and further details.
Fall 2020 Schedule
21 September: Yimei Xiang, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University - "Higher-order readings of wh-questions"
28 September: Stephanie Shih, Assistant Professor at USC Dornsife - "Gradience for lexically-conditioned phonology"
5 October: Noriyasu Li, Language Engineer at Amazon - "Alexa, what do linguists do at Amazon?"
12 October: Marko Simonović, Research Fellow at the University of Graz, and Petra Mišmaš, Research Fellow at the University of Nova Gorica - "Slovenian Verbs, Structure, Stress and Allomorphy"
28 October (Wednesday): Ljiljana Progovac, Professor at Wayne State University - "Evolution of syntax: Genes and grammar caught in the act of sexual selection"
2 November: Chris Heffner, Assistant Professor at Buffalo - "Phonetic Plasticity: Rate, Accent, and Learning"
9 November: Matthew Barros, Lecturer in Linguistics at Washington University
16 November: Vicki Carstens, Professor at the University of Connecticut
30 November: Diego Arispe-Bazan, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania
7 December: Lyn Tieu, Senior Research Fellow at Western Sydney University
Spring 2020 Schedule
Jan. 27th: Matthew Rispoli, Assoc. Prof. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, UIUC
Title: The Development of Predication
Feb. 24th: Karlos Arregi, Assoc. Prof. Department of Linguistics, U. Chicago.
Title: When head chains split: Do-support crosslinguistically
March 9th: Mien-Jen Wu, Graduate student, UIUC - (Open House)
Title: Acquisition of Inverse Scope by L1-Mandarin L2-English Learners
March 16th: Spring Break - No talk
March 23rd: TBD
March 30th: Diego Arispe-Bazan, Post-Doc Fellow, Northwestern University
April 6th: SLATE lecture
April 13th: TBD
April 20th: Stephanie Landblom, Graduate student, UIUC
April 27th: Matthew Barros, Lecturer in the Linguistics Program, Washington University, St. Louis.
May 4th: Hans Henrich Hock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, UIUC
Fall 2019 Schedule
Sept. 9th: Anastasia Stoops (Post-Doc, UIUC Psychology)
Title: Morphosyntactic processing: Evidence from eye-tracking and EEG.
Event info here.
Sept. 16th: Annette D'Onofrio (Asst. Prof., Northwestern Linguistics)
Title: Personae in sociolinguistic perception.
Event info here.
Sept. 30th: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (Prof. U. Warsaw, African Languages and Cultures)
Title: Polysemy of body part terms: A cognitive linguistics perspective.
Event info here.
Oct. 7th: Guillermo Del Pinal (Asst. Prof., UIUC Linguistics/Philosophy)
Title: Oddness, modularity and exhaustification
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Oct. 21st: Brian Monson (Asst. Prof., Speech & Hearing Sciences, UIUC)
Title: The Effect of Altered Perinatal Experience on Auditory Brain and Language Development
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Oct. 28th: Sarah Clark (PhD student, UIUC) presenting about LSA
Nov. 4th: Nicholas Fleisher (Associate Prof., U. Wisconsin, Linguistics)
Title: An Alternative to Compulsory Binding
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Nov. 11th: Rizwan Ahmed (Ass. Prof., English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University)
Title: Indexicality, identity, and language change: Journey of Urdu across times
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Nov. 18th: Aurore Patricia Mroz (Asst. Prof., French & Italian, UIUC)
Title: Mind-body-machine-world: Capturing learners
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Nov. 25th: Fall Break - no talk
Dec. 2nd: SLATE lecture
Dec. 9th: Anita Greenfield (Grad. Student, UIUC, Linguistics)
Title: Polycentricity and agency in the construction of expatriate teacher identity and pedagogical practice
Event info here.
- Apr 29th, 2019 - Sarah Johnson, Phd Candidate, UIUC on Spontaneous nasalization: an articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai
- Apr 22nd, 2019 - Lauren Clemens, Assistant Professor, U. Albany on Prosodic indeterminacy: a syntax-prosody mismatch in Rutooro’s relative clauses
- Apr 15th, 2019 - Sea Hee (Sarah) Choi, Graduate Students, UIUC on The count/mass distinction in native and non-native grammar
- Mar 11th, 2019 - James Yoon, Professor UIUC on Lexical and syntactic nominalizations in Korean
- Feb 25th, 2019 - Damir Ćavar, Associate Professor, Indiana University on Semantic Information Extraction and Generation of Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
- Feb 19th, 2019 - Emily Chen, Phd Student, UIUC on Bootstrapping a Neural Morphological Analyzer for St. Lawrence Island Yupik Nouns from a Finite-State Transducer
- Dec 3rd, 2018 - Patrick James Drackley (UIUC) on Spelling authority: what French language policy can tell us about standard language ideologies and national linguistic identity
- Nov 26th, 2018 - Myeong Hyeon Kim (UIUC) on Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
- Nov 12th, 2018 - Marissa Barlaz (UIUC) on Modeling the relationship between articulation and acoustics in phonemic and phonetic nasalization
- Nov 5th, 2018 - Elias Shakkour (UIUC) on Cognitive pressure and non-targetlike performance: an analysis of speech errors in simultaneous interpreting from English into German
- Oct 29th, 2018 - Xun Yan (UIUC) on In quest of learner profiles in L2 writing classrooms: The development and validation of a profile-based rating scale for a post-admission ESL writing placement test
- Oct 22nd, 2018 - Jennifer Cramer (University of Kentucky) on Perceptual Dialectology, Borders, and Kentucky’s Place in the Southern Dialect Landscape
- Oct 15th, 2018 - Jeffrey Green (UIUC) on PROcessing reference: Constraints on the interpretation of adjunct control
- Sept 10, 2018 - Jessica Montag (UIUC) on Why people say what they say
More information on this event can be found here. - Apr 02, 2018 - Bill Bryce (UIUC) on Psycholinguistically-motivated partial supervision for grammar induction
More information on this event can be found here. - Mar 12, 2018 - Suyeon Im (UIUC) on Exemplar encoding of intonation in syllables, words and phrases.
More information on this event can be found here. - Mar 05, 2018 - Ha Ra Kim (UIUC) on Peer Feedback in an Integrated, Process-Oriented ESL Writing Placement Test
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Feb 26, 2018 - Dunja Veselinović (NYU) on Must be pragmatic: Child over-adherence to modal inferences (joint work with Ailis Cournane).
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Feb 19, 2018 - Dr Anne Pycha (U Wisconsin) on When do listeners mis-perceive co-articulatory variation? Experimental evidence for the role of temporal dynamics.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Feb 08, 2018 - Dr Hadas Kotek (NYU) on A selective ban on syntactic scope-taking
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Feb 05, 2018 - Dr Martina Martinović (U Florida) on Wh-movement, pseudoclefts, and sluicing in Wolof
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Feb 01, 2018 - Dr Jason Overfelt (U Minnesota) on Currency in a semantic economy
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Jan 18, 2018 - Dr Aida Talić on (Non)Uniformity of the Adjectival and the Nominal Domain
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Nov 27, 2017 - Dr Fred Genesee on Lessons from a Half Century of Research on Dual Language Teaching and Learning.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Nov 13, 2017 - Dr Jeffrey Punske on Representations in Dissimilation Phenomena.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Oct 30, 2017 - Dr Elise Kramer on Net-Savvy Cats and Newbie Dogs: Textual Materiality and the Embodiment of Computer-Mediated “Voices”
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Oct 16, 2017 - Dr Klaus von Heusinger on Inferrable and partitive indefinites in topic position.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Oct 02, 2017 - Dr Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez on Language Contact Leading to Complexification or Simplification; Evidences from Basque.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Sep 25, 2017 - Dr Roy Lyster on Language-Focused Instruction in Content-Based Classrooms.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Sep 18, 2017 - Dr Aida Talić on Spelling out enclitics in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and giving their tone a voice.
This past calendar item can be viewed here. - Sep 11, 2017 - Dr Eleanor Chodroff on Structured variation in sibilant fricatives: Implications for phonetic theory and generalized perceptual adaptation.
This past calendar item can be viewed here.