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Join us tomorrow (Friday) for a discussion of connections between linguistics and medicine with Dr. Beverly Collisson, from the Cumming School of Medicine, Jomanna Sleiman, R. SLP-Registered Speech-Language Pathologist, and our very own Prof. Dimitrios Skordos
Our last Brownbag Series this semester is on Friday! 👏

Friday, Nov 28 | 3pm | CHE 212

During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Our PhD candidate Jesse Weir presented “Imperative Phonetic Analysis” (with SFU Prof. Chung-hye Han) at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
PhD candidate Francisco Ongay González presented “Prepositionless durative adverbials and telicity in Spanish” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presented “Backchanneling in Igbo Oral Narrative: Forms and Functions” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
MA student Sarah Krassman presented “Emic and Etic Perspectives of Iconicity: Phonology blocks iconic notions in L1 American Sign Language” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Dr. Dušan Nikolić (UCalgaryLing ’23) and Prof. Angeliki Athanasopoulou presented “Real Time Integration of Acoustic Cues of Lexical Pitch Accent: An Eye Tracking Study” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta. Go @dusannikolic.bsky.social!
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
PhD student Syed Sazzad presented “From Perception to Production: Transfer of L1 Acoustic Feature in L2 Stop Production” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held in Edmonton this weekend at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
PhD student Marina Slemender presented “The syntax-prosody interface of Pannonian Rusyn pronominal enclitics” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held in Edmonton this weekend at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
BA (LING/PSYC) student Alexia Strutzenberger presented “Eye-tracking investigation of prosodic focus and context on sentence comprehension” (with Profs. Angeliki Athanasopoulou and Dimitrios Skordos) at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
MA student Charys B. Russell presented “Effects of Variability and Level of Focus in L2 Learning: Examining the Phonetic Training Paradigm” at the annual Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
PhD student Melissa Lazzari presented “Transitivization of monoargumental verbs and the SVO order in Brazilian Portuguese” at the annual Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
MA student Allison Grothman presented “Contradiction as a window to noun meanings” (with Dr. Mathieu Paillé and Profs. Elizabeth Ritter and Dimitrios Skordos) at Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Go PhD candidate Syed Sazzad, Dr. Dušan Nikolić (UCalgaryLing ’23), and MA student Sarah Krassman!!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Go PhD candidates Vincent Nwosu, Francisco Ongay González and Jesse Weir!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Go Alexia Strutzenberger and Marina Slemender!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Go Allison Grothman, Melissa Lazzari and Charys Russell!!
Check out this year's ACOL highlights of our students' presentation! Part one - poster sessions & Part two - talk sessions 😎

Thank you so much for UAlberta hosting the Alberta Conference on Linguistics this year! Looking forward to seeing you all again in Calgary next year!
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Job: phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, etc. “The French National Research Centre (CNRS) will soon be recruiting researchers ... SFL (Structures Formelles du Langage) welcomes applications to join our lab. ... Knowledge of French is not required.” linguistlist.org/issues/36/35...
LINGUIST List 36.3575 Jobs: Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax: Resercher, Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL - UMR7023) - CNRS & Université Paris 8
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Congratulations in advance to PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu for organizing a satellite workshop titled “Pitch at the crossroads: Experimental approaches to the language–music connection” labphon.org/labphon20/sa... at next year’s LabPhon20 labphon.org/labphon20/home
Satellite Events | Labphon
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November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Job at University of Georgia Department of Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/458...
Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
The Department of Linguistics and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics and Artifici...
www.ugajobsearch.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Jobs: French; General Linguistics: Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Linguistics, University of Cyprus
Jobs: French; General Linguistics: Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Linguistics, University of Cyprus
Description: The successful candidate will contribute to the teaching, research, and academic service activities of the department, with a primary focus on delivering high-quality instruction in linguistics and supporting the development of undergraduate and/or graduate programs.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reminder: Please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the third talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “External possession and multitransitivity” by University of Toronto Professor María Cristina Cuervo
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The third talk in our speaker series is this Friday!
(The second talk this week!)

External possession and multitransitivity
Dr. María Cristina Cuervo (University of Toronto)

Friday, Nov 21 | 3:00pm | CHE 212
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon for a sure-to-be-interesting talk by Dr. Carol Tenny www.linguist.org on “A syntax-semantics interface in an extraterrestrial language: a thought experiment”
The second talk in our speaker series this semester is this Wednesday!
(We will have two talks this week, stay tuned!)

A Syntax-Semantics Interface in an Extraterrestrial Language: A Thought Experiment
Dr. Carol Tenny

Wednesday, Nov 19 | 12:00pm | CHE 212
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Join our trivia team, you will.

Meet outside the Den in the basement of Mac Hall at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 18th. The event goes until 8:30pm.
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM