Department Seminars

Linguistics Seminar

Seminars typically take place each Monday from 4-5 PM in FLB 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge).

Spring 2020 Schedule

Jan. 27th: Matthew Rispoli, Assoc. Prof. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, UIUC

Feb. 24th: Karlos Arregi, Assoc. Prof. Department of Linguistics, U. Chicago.

March 9th: Mien-Jen Wu, Graduate student, UIUC - (Open House)

March 30th: Diego Arispe-Bazan, Asst. Prof., Department of Anthropology, U. Penn.

April 13th: Chongwon Park, Prof. Department of English, Linguistics and Writing Studies, U. Minnesota Duluth

April 20th: Stephanie Landblom, Graduate student,  UIUC

April 27th: Matthew Barros, Lecturer in the Linguistics Program, Washington University, St. Louis.

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

Event info here.

Oct. 21st: Brian Monson (Asst. Prof., Speech & Hearing Sciences, UIUC)

Title: The Effect of Altered Perinatal Experience on Auditory Brain and Language Development

Event info here.

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

Event info here.

Nov. 11th: Rizwan Ahmed (Ass. Prof., English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University)

Title: Indexicality, identity, and language change: Journey of Urdu across times

Event info here.

Nov. 18th: Aurore Patricia Mroz (Asst. Prof., French & Italian, UIUC)

Title: Mind-body-machine-world: Capturing learners

Event info here.

Nov. 25th: Fall Break - no talk

Dec. 2nd: SLATE workshop - no talk

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.

 
Past Seminars
 
  • 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.