UofC Linguistics
@ucalgaryling.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow (Fri) at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Dennis Storoshenko will talk with Engineering Prof. Benjamin Tan and PhD student & recent Meta intern Brooklyn Sheppard
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Join us tomorrow (Fri) at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Dennis Storoshenko will talk with Engineering Prof. Benjamin Tan and PhD student & recent Meta intern Brooklyn Sheppard
Reminder: please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the first talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “What is that thing? Distributional Bootstrapping of Determiner Semantics” by University of Toronto Professor Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reminder: please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the first talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “What is that thing? Distributional Bootstrapping of Determiner Semantics” by University of Toronto Professor Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
Some of our amazing profs and students talking to potential students and their families about our programs at today’s Open House, which an estimated 11,000 will attend!
October 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Some of our amazing profs and students talking to potential students and their families about our programs at today’s Open House, which an estimated 11,000 will attend!
Join us this Friday at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Steve Winters will talk with Creative and Performing Arts Prof. Jane MacFarlane and Digital Projects Librarian Julia Guy!
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Join us this Friday at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Steve Winters will talk with Creative and Performing Arts Prof. Jane MacFarlane and Digital Projects Librarian Julia Guy!
Join us this Friday at 3pm! This event is part of our new brownbag series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. We’ll be exploring connections with Marketing this week, with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from our School of Business, and Dr. Svitlana Winters from the marketing industry
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Join us this Friday at 3pm! This event is part of our new brownbag series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. We’ll be exploring connections with Marketing this week, with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from our School of Business, and Dr. Svitlana Winters from the marketing industry
Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”
Congratulations to Adjunct Associate Professor Dr. Eyüp Bacanlı on his latest article, “Stem allomorphy in Southwestern Turkish dialects” (with Prof. Flynn) www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Turkic_Langu...
July 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to Adjunct Associate Professor Dr. Eyüp Bacanlı on his latest article, “Stem allomorphy in Southwestern Turkish dialects” (with Prof. Flynn) www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Turkic_Langu...
Big congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on successfully defending her MA thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children”!!
June 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Big congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on successfully defending her MA thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children”!!
New article by Prof. Athanasopoulou, Quinn Goddard (MA, Linguistics; MSc, Epidemiology), and Prof. Flynn: “Plains Cree word prosody revisited” doi.org/10.1017/S002...
June 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
New article by Prof. Athanasopoulou, Quinn Goddard (MA, Linguistics; MSc, Epidemiology), and Prof. Flynn: “Plains Cree word prosody revisited” doi.org/10.1017/S002...
MA student Rowan Sali, Prof. Dimitrios Skordos and Concordia Prof. Alan Bale presenting “Weak or strong distributivity with disjunction under the universal quantifier” at the Canadian Linguistic Association annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
MA student Rowan Sali, Prof. Dimitrios Skordos and Concordia Prof. Alan Bale presenting “Weak or strong distributivity with disjunction under the universal quantifier” at the Canadian Linguistic Association annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
MA student Cheryl Iwanchuk presenting “Contrastive inference comprehension in children” with Prof. Dimitrios Skordos at the Canadian Linguistic Association ( annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025 cla-acl.ca/pdfs/resumes...
June 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
MA student Cheryl Iwanchuk presenting “Contrastive inference comprehension in children” with Prof. Dimitrios Skordos at the Canadian Linguistic Association ( annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025 cla-acl.ca/pdfs/resumes...
Thx Francisco Ongay González for this pic of @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thx Francisco Ongay González for this pic of @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social
PhD student Brooklyn Sheppard @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social presenting on “Agreement in coordinated nominals in English: Evidence from acceptability ratings and reaction time” at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
PhD student Brooklyn Sheppard @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social presenting on “Agreement in coordinated nominals in English: Evidence from acceptability ratings and reaction time” at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
PhD candidate Syed Alam presenting “The Bengali DP: NP Movement, Adjective–Classifier Combination, and Acoustic Evidence for Focus” at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
PhD candidate Syed Alam presenting “The Bengali DP: NP Movement, Adjective–Classifier Combination, and Acoustic Evidence for Focus” at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presenting “The Productivity of the Rhythm Rule in Western Canadian English” (with Prof. Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presenting “The Productivity of the Rhythm Rule in Western Canadian English” (with Prof. Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social at the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.bsky.social annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
Prof. Dennis Storoshenko (@exolinguist.bsky.social) presenting on “Reflexive Interpretation under Coordinate and Subordinate Ellipsis in English” at the Canadian Linguistic Association (@cla-acl.bsky.social) annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
June 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Prof. Dennis Storoshenko (@exolinguist.bsky.social) presenting on “Reflexive Interpretation under Coordinate and Subordinate Ellipsis in English” at the Canadian Linguistic Association (@cla-acl.bsky.social) annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025
Today PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presented “Rhythmic Constraints on Vowel Coalescence in Igbo: Evidence from Children’s Song” with his amazing co-supervisor Harvard prof. Katie Franich (@kfran.bsky.social) at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis, MN #ACAL
May 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Today PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presented “Rhythmic Constraints on Vowel Coalescence in Igbo: Evidence from Children’s Song” with his amazing co-supervisor Harvard prof. Katie Franich (@kfran.bsky.social) at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis, MN #ACAL
Today PhD student Brooklyn Sheppard (@brooklynsheppard.bsky.social) presented “Tonal repulsion in Kinyarwanda nominals: The phonetic expression of tone within and across phonological phrases” with Kevin Ishimwe and Annette Kiiza at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis, MN
May 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today PhD student Brooklyn Sheppard (@brooklynsheppard.bsky.social) presented “Tonal repulsion in Kinyarwanda nominals: The phonetic expression of tone within and across phonological phrases” with Kevin Ishimwe and Annette Kiiza at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis, MN
Good to see Dr. Keffyalew Gebregziabher presenting “Bare nouns and the morpho-syntax and semantics of number in Tigrinya” at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis.
Here’s a link to Keffy’s (2013) UCalgary Linguistics doctoral thesis: hdl.handle.net/11023/741
Here’s a link to Keffy’s (2013) UCalgary Linguistics doctoral thesis: hdl.handle.net/11023/741
May 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good to see Dr. Keffyalew Gebregziabher presenting “Bare nouns and the morpho-syntax and semantics of number in Tigrinya” at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics in Minneapolis.
Here’s a link to Keffy’s (2013) UCalgary Linguistics doctoral thesis: hdl.handle.net/11023/741
Here’s a link to Keffy’s (2013) UCalgary Linguistics doctoral thesis: hdl.handle.net/11023/741
“Linguistics alumni Dr. Lindsay Hracs and Dr. Joseph W. Windsor are first authors of a major study in Nature revealing how IBD progresses through four global stages” news.ucalgary.ca/news/researc...
May 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Linguistics alumni Dr. Lindsay Hracs and Dr. Joseph W. Windsor are first authors of a major study in Nature revealing how IBD progresses through four global stages” news.ucalgary.ca/news/researc...
PhD student and Meta intern Brooklyn Sheppard @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social presented “On the lack of queer voices in diverse speech datasets” (with Anaelia Ovalle, Adina Williams & Levent Sagun) at CHI (Computer Human Interaction) 2025 in Yokohama, Japan on April 27 drive.google.com/file/d/1DUJR...
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
PhD student and Meta intern Brooklyn Sheppard @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social presented “On the lack of queer voices in diverse speech datasets” (with Anaelia Ovalle, Adina Williams & Levent Sagun) at CHI (Computer Human Interaction) 2025 in Yokohama, Japan on April 27 drive.google.com/file/d/1DUJR...
New from @phono-logical.bsky.social:
Flynn, Darin. 2025. What the f? F-elements behind labiodentals and crazy rules. In K. C. Hall, G. Hansson & A.-M. Tessier (eds.), DougSchrift: a collection of squibs and puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank arts-pulleyblank-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
Flynn, Darin. 2025. What the f? F-elements behind labiodentals and crazy rules. In K. C. Hall, G. Hansson & A.-M. Tessier (eds.), DougSchrift: a collection of squibs and puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank arts-pulleyblank-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
April 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New from @phono-logical.bsky.social:
Flynn, Darin. 2025. What the f? F-elements behind labiodentals and crazy rules. In K. C. Hall, G. Hansson & A.-M. Tessier (eds.), DougSchrift: a collection of squibs and puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank arts-pulleyblank-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
Flynn, Darin. 2025. What the f? F-elements behind labiodentals and crazy rules. In K. C. Hall, G. Hansson & A.-M. Tessier (eds.), DougSchrift: a collection of squibs and puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank arts-pulleyblank-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
The Canadian Linguistic Association will hold its 72nd annual conference at McGill University, June 3–5, 2025. The preliminary program cla-acl.ca/programmes/c... suggests that UCalgary Linguistics will have a strong showing:
April 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Canadian Linguistic Association will hold its 72nd annual conference at McGill University, June 3–5, 2025. The preliminary program cla-acl.ca/programmes/c... suggests that UCalgary Linguistics will have a strong showing: