UofC Linguistics
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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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