Announcements

On Wednesday, November 30 at 4pm, University of Arizona Professor Megan Figueroa gave the LingCircle capstone lecture, "I Tried to Study Language Development and All I Got Was Linguistic Discrimination". Abstract In this talk, I contrast my own early linguistic environment and language input with what is largely described in...

Congratulations to the new Undergraduate Linguistics Association officers (ULA) who will be working with Dr. Kira Hall (Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies) to create exciting events that are of interest to majors and minors in linguistics and to convey ideas about how to make the undergraduate program and curriculum better...

On Monday, Oct 31, Professor Nathan Schneider , from Georgetown University, presented this semester's first Ling Circle Talk , "The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges in Comprehensive Corpus Annotation and Automatic Disambiguation ". Abstract In most linguistic meaning representations that are used in NLP, prepositions fly under the...

How is the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election affected by language and culture? Experience and learn how anthropologists and linguists decipher political messages, and examine the words, gestures, tone of voice, and unspoken meanings that implicitly affect who we vote for, and why. Talking Politics brings together anthropology and linguistics experts...

The sound of the queer voice has captured the intrigue of the popular and sociolinguistic imagination, spurring a wave of research investigating what makes someone “sound gay”. While much research has sought to uncover the phonetic markers of the (cisgender, White, male) “gay sounding” voice, only recently has a wave...

In addition to the general Linguistics major, CU Linguistics now offers four specialized major tracks for undergraduates: Language and Cognition, Computational Linguistics, Sociocultural, Anthropological & Interactional Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). These tracks will allow students to tailor their major coursework to their specific interest(s)...

We are pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University), co-sponsored by the CU Literacy Practicum, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Anthropology. Prof. Shankar will be discussing her new book, Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal about Generation Z’s New Path to Success (2019). Wednesday,...

Adina Williams (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research / New York University) gave a computational linguistics talk to CU Linguistics on the association of nouns to gender classes. Wednesday, February 19th 4:00-5:30pm MUEN D430/D28 Title: "Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?" Abstract: Debate has long raged in linguistics...

Sebastian Schuster (Stanford University) gave a computational linguistics talk on utterance interpretation to CU Linguistics. Monday, February 17th 4:00-5:30pm MUEN D430 Title: "Modeling Utterance Interpretation in Context" Abstract: In communication, listeners are usually able to rapidly infer a speaker's intended meaning, which is often more specific than the literal meaning...

On Tuesday, February 18, at 6pm, CU linguists assembled in the CASE auditorium for a talk by Game of Thrones Language Creator David J. Peterson. In addition to creating the Dothraki and High Valyrian languages for HBO’s medieval fantasy epic Game of Thrones , he has created languages for Syfy’s...