Xiaobei Chen (UChicago): Variability of phonation cue weighting across prosodic positions in Hani

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Thursday, May 23 at 2:00 PM for the final LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Our very own Xiaobei Chen will be presenting on her upcoming fieldwork in southwest China this summer. Variability of phonation cue weighting across prosodic positions in Hani The weighting of co-varying cues for […]

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Benjamin Smith (Sonoma State): Getting Ahead While Falling Behind: Peer Socialization and the Paradoxes of Race in Southern Peruvian Digital Gaming

UPDATE: Unfortunately, this talk was canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, May 3 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Prof. Benjamin Smith will be presenting a talk on the intersection of race, language, and gaming among young men in southern Peru. Getting […]

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Gabriel Gilbert (UChicago): The Hawaiian Directional System: Corpus Analysis and Implications for L2 Acquisition and Revitalization Pedagogy

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 19 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Our very own Gabriel Gilbert will be presenting on the results of a corpus study on the distribution of a class of morphemes in Hawaiian known as directionals and its implications for L2 […]

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Adam Cleveland (UIC): Tú and Usted: Lexical Access and Frequency Effects among Heritage and Second Language Speakers of Spanish

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 12 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the Spring Quarter! Adam Cleveland will be presenting on the effect of lexical access and frequency on the acquisition of 2nd person pronominal forms among heritage and second language speakers of Spanish. Tú and Usted: Lexical […]

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Andrew Zulker (UChicago): The Enigmatic Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: Refining the Diachronic Account

Please join us in Rosenwald 301 on Friday, April 5 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the Spring Quarter! Andrew Zulker will be presenting a diachronic account for a verbal form in Biblical Hebrew. The Enigmatic Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: Refining the Diachronic Account The Biblical Hebrew verbal system has been described […]

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Anna Belew (UH Mānoa): Ten Years Beyond the Ancestral Code: Growing Into a Model for Sociolinguistic Documentation

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 and on Zoom on Friday, February 23 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the quarter. Dr. Anna Belew will be talking her sociolinguistic findings in Iyasa-speaking communities in Cameroon and its implications for language documentation and revitalization. Ten Years Beyond the Ancestral Code: Growing Into […]

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Camilla Kleeman-Andersen (University of Greenland/UChicago): Can Anything Good Come out of Upernavik? Language Ideologies in Greenland

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the next LVC meeting of the quarter. Camilla Kleeman-Andersen will be talking about standardization and its effects on a dialect of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic). Can Anything Good Come out of Upernavik? Language Ideologies in Greenland Turkic languages are a strongly suffixing […]

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Kutay Serova (UChicago): Dative Pronoun Alternation in Turkic Languages: A Phonological Analysis and Diachronic Family-Internal Typology

Please join us in Cobb Hall 202 on Friday, January 19 at 3:30 PM for the first LVC of the Winter Quarter! Our very own Kutay Serova will be talking about vowel harmony alternation in singular dative pronouns. Dative Pronoun Alternation in Turkic Languages: A Phonological Analysis and Diachronic Family-Internal Typology  Turkic languages are a […]

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