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April 2022
Linguistics Faculty Meeting
The Linguistics Faculty Meeting will take place on Monday, April 25, 2022 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. via Zoom.
Find out more »August 2022
Fall Welcome Party
The Department of Linguistics Fall Welcome Party will take place on Monday, August 29 from 3:00 to 5:00 in the Keene Faculty Center. Come on by and help us celebrate the start to a new semester! Light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »September 2022
September Faculty Meeting
The September meeting of the Linguistics faculty will take place on Monday, September 12, 2022 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It will take place at Pugh 210.
Find out more »NLP Interest Group
Students and faculty interested in natural language processing are invited to help launch an NLP Interest Group at UF! We will discuss recent NLP research, give feedback on practice presentations, share plans for new NLP-related courses, and perhaps find opportunities for collaboration. Our first meeting will be held at 1:55-12:35pm on Wednesday, September 14, in Matherly 0014. The first meeting will be a time for introductions and planning a meeting schedule and topics/events for the rest of this semester.
Find out more »Language and Brain Talk: John Grundy
September Meeting of the Brain and Language Interest Group. Dr. John Grundy will be speaking. Title and Abstract TBA.
Find out more »Special Faculty Meeting
A special faculty meeting focusing on tenure and promotion will take place September 26, 3:00-5:00 via Zoom. Zoom link to be sent out closer to time.
Find out more »October 2022
October Faculty Meeting
The October meeting of the Linguistics faculty will take place on Monday, October 10, 2022 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It will take place at Pugh 210.
Find out more »Linguistics Faculty Research Blitz
MEET UF’S LINGUISTICS FACULTY MEMBERS!
JOIN US FOR A FACULTY RESEARCH BLITZ where faculty will briefly tell us about their research and a few fun facts about themselves
Language and Brain Talk: Lin Chen
October Meeting of the Brain and Language Interest Group. Dr. Lin Chen will be speaking. Title and Abstract TBA.
Find out more »October Colloquium — Faculty Research Blitz continues!
On October 24th, we will have the second half of the Faculty Research Blitz. Many faculty from Linguistics will take the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves, their research, and to share a fun fact. 3:00-4:55 pm 101 Little Hall.
Find out more »November 2022
November Faculty Meeting
The November meeting of the Linguistics faculty will take place on Monday, November 14, 2022 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It will take place at Pugh 210.
Find out more »November Colloquium
The November Colloquium for the Department of Linguistics will take place November 28, 3:00-5:00. Further details and location to be provided closer to time (so stay tuned!)
Find out more »December 2022
Language and Brain Talk: Michal Korenar
December Meeting of the Brain and Language Interest Group. Dr. John Grundy will be speaking. Title and Abstract TBA.
Find out more »December Faculty Meeting
The December meeting of the Linguistics faculty will take place on Monday, December 5, 2022 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. It will take place at Pugh 210.
Find out more »Linguistics Holiday Party
Faculty and students in the Dept of Linguistics are invited to our annual holiday party, held on Dec 8, from 2-4pm in the Friends of Music room (University Auditorium, on the other side of Newell Rd from Turlington Hall).
Find out more »January 2023
Bilingualism as a Human Capital
Join the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and UF's Brain Language and Bilingualism Lab for a panel discussion of the 2023 Speaker Series in the Humanities.
Find out more »Language and Brain Talk: Dr. Vicky Lai
The UF Language and Brain Interest Group is hosting a talk by Dr. Vicky Lai on Friday, January 20, from 1:55-2:45 at Turlington 2328. For more information, contact Keng-Yu Lin at linkengyu@ufl.edu.
Find out more »Linguistics Seminar: Dr. Elsi Kaiser
The Department of Linguistics is hosting a Monday seminar on Monday, January 30th from 3:00-4:00. It will be held online. For the link, contact Yihan Chen at yihan.chen@ufl.edu.
Find out more »February 2023
Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »GLS Luncheon
The Graduate Linguistics Society will be holding a luncheon on February 10, 12:00-1:00. For more information, contact Grace deMeurisse (gdemeurisse@ufl.edu).
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Job Talk: Dr. Cory Shain
The first job talk of the semester will be given by Dr. Cory Shain. Title and abstract are below. It will take place Monday, February 13, 3:00-4:30, in Turlington L007. For Zoom link, contact Ratree Wayland (ratree@ufl.edu). Title: Uncovering the algorithmic foundations of language learning and processing Abstract: Human language is a vastly complex communication system, and speech is transient, existing for a moment and then lost in time. Nonetheless, our brains allow us to learn language with little guidance during childhood when we…
Find out more »GLS Meeting
The Graduate Student Linguistics Society will have a get-together with rubiks cubes on February 15, 3:00-4:00. For more information, contact Grace deMeurisse (gdemeurisse@ufl.edu).
Find out more »Job talk by Dr Alayo Tripp
Speaker: Dr Alayo Tripp The Role of Metalinguistic Knowledge in Developmental Psycholinguistics: Connecting Knowledge of Linguistic and Social Structure Abstract: Individuals language in unique ways, yet we can recognize variable productions as instances of “the same words.” This suggests that linguistic information is a special kind of shared knowledge. However, there is also a lot of information we get from language use that isn’t necessarily linguistic. For example, we can get impressions of how a person is feeling, or how they might be…
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Job talk — Dr Luke Gessler
Closing the NLP Gap: Progress in Low-Resource NLP and Providing Access for Language Communities In the past decade, advances in natural language processing (NLP) have led to the development of powerful language technologies. However, the algorithms involved require large quantities of data that most of the world’s languages (“low-resource” languages) do not have. Research in low-resource NLP aims to resolve this issue, but much work remains, and the communities that speak “low-resource” languages have been consistently unable to benefit from…
Find out more »GLS Meeting
The Graduate Students Linguistics Society will have a meeting on February 22, 3:00-4:00. For more information, contact Grace deMeurisse (gdemeurisse@ufl.edu).
Find out more »Forrest Davis — What neural models tell us about linguistic knowledge: insights from cross-linguistic investigations
Title: What neural models tell us about linguistic knowledge: insights from cross-linguistic investigations Abstract: Is linguistic data enough to model human linguistic knowledge? In this talk, I will describe computational experiments that are designed to highlight how cross-linguistic variation provides unique insights into this question. I will draw on two key contributions of natural language processing: i) computational models which scale to large amounts of data, and ii) tests of linguistically naïve models on particular linguistic phenomena (e.g., subject-verb…
Find out more »Language and Brain Talk: Dr. Sol Lago
The UF Language and Brain Interest Group is hosting a talk by Dr. Sol Lago on Friday, February 24, from 1:55-2:45 at Turlington 2328. For more information, contact Keng-Yu Lin at linkengyu@ufl.edu.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »March 2023
Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Curriculum Committee Meeting
The Linguistics Curriculum committee will be meeting Wednesday, March 8th 4:05 pm in the small conference room inside Turlington 4131. Agenda items include General Education designations and Quest 3 planning update.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Language and Brain Talk: Dr. Jason Bohland
The UF Language and Brain Interest Group is hosting a talk by Dr. Jason Bohland on Friday, March 24, from 1:55-2:45 at Turlington 2328. For more information, contact Keng-Yu Lin at linkengyu@ufl.edu.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »April 2023
Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »Language Brain Talk: Keng-Yu Lin
The UF Language and Brain Interest Group is hosting a talk by PhD student Keng-Yu Lin on Friday, April 21, from 1:55-2:45 at Turlington 2328. For more information, contact Keng-Yu Lin at linkengyu@ufl.edu.
Find out more »Psycholinguistics Reading Group Meeting
The Psycholinguistics Reading Group meets weekly on Fridays 3:30-4:30 pm this semester (Spring 2023). Location: TUR 2303, and over zoom. Please contact kaan@ufl.edu if you want to be put on the mailing list and to get the zoom information.
Find out more »September 2023
Special faculty meeting (tenure and promotion)
Special faculty meeting (tenure and promotion). Assistant, Associate, and full Professors are asked to attend.
Find out more »Language and Brain Talk: Tracy Centanni
Dr. Tracy Centanni from the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences will give a talk. More information to come. Contact kaan@ufl.edu for Zoom link and location.
Find out more »October 2023
The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History
The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History The Choctaw Language and History Workshop [George Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida Frankie Bauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward Green, Pennsylvania State University Jamie Henton Pennsylvania State University, Seth Katenkamp, Yale University Julie Reed, Pennsylvania State University Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University Michael Stoop, University of Florida Matthew Tyler, Cambridge University] Friday October 13th 3pm Turlington 2349 Abstract: In the…
Find out more »November 2023
Chair Candidate’s Forum
The Department of Linguistics will be holding a Chair Candidate's Forum on November 20, 3:00-5:00, at Pugh 210. In this meeting, candidates for the chair of the Linguistics department will present their vision for the department and participate in a Q&A.
Find out more »Monday Seminar: Desi Ferber
The next Monday Seminar will be Monday, November 20, 5:00-6:00 pm EST. It will be held in Turlington 2305. Desi Ferber, an MA student in Linguistics, will be giving a workshop talk entitled "Discourse-Based Language Teaching in a Conversation". The abstract is below. “This talk will present a curriculum built off of discourse-based methods of instruction for ESL students that I worked on with Dr. Paula Golombek and my peer Katya Richter from the Education department. I will be giving…
Find out more »December 2023
Language and Brain Talk (Dr. Charles Chang)
Dr. Charles Chang (Boston University) will be giving a Language and Brain Talk on Friday, December 1, 1:55-2:45 pm EST. For location, zoom and more information, please contact kaan@ufl.edu.
Find out more »Dr. Nicholas Rolle Seminar
The Graduate Linguistics Society will be hosting a seminar on December 4, 2023 (9:30-10:30). Dr. Nicholas Rolle (ZAS) will be presenting on "When prosody cultivates segments: The case of tone-driven epenthesis". The seminar will be conducted on Zoom. The abstract for the talk and Dr. Rolle's bio are below. Abstract: “This talk presents on an oft-neglected topic in phonology: the interaction between segments and prosody. This talk argues for a novel segment-prosody interaction ‘tone-driven epenthesis’, defined as the phonological insertion…
Find out more »Syntax Search Committee
The Syntax Search Committee will be meeting December 12 at 11:00 am to discuss candidates for the position. The meeting will be on Zoom. E-mail Brent Henderson for more details.
Find out more »January 2024
Syntax Search Committee Meeting
A meeting of the Syntax Search Committee will take place Thursday, January 11, at 4:00pm on Zoom.
Find out more »Wednesday Seminar: Dr. Jon T. Sakata
Dr. Jon T. Sakata (McGill University) will be presenting his work on prosodic parallels between birdsong and speech in this Wednesday Seminar. Further information is below. E-mail Nathan Dwyer for link. Title of Talk: “Developmental and comparative analyses highlight prosodic parallels between birdsong and speech” Abstract: “Numerous prosodic features of speech are more prevalent across languages than expected by chance, and such “universals” suggest potential biological contributions to the emergence of speech structures. Like speech, the songs of songbirds (birdsong) is learned…
Find out more »Syntax Search Committee Meeting
The Syntax search committee is meeting 9:00 am on Thursday, January 25 in Turlington Hall 4131.
Find out more »Language & Brain Talk: Dr. David Therriault
The Language and Brain Interest Group will be meeting on Friday, January 25, 1:55-2:45pm. Dr. David Therriault from the UF College of Education will present work from his lab. Room information and zoom link TBA
Find out more »February 2024
Alan Hezao Ke, Computational Modeling of Syntactic Operations and the Acquisition of Parametric Variation
Abstract: This talk explores computational approaches within the context of three factors in language design: core syntactic operations (linguistic principles), the role of linguistic input (in parameter acquisition), and a third factor regarding computational constraints on the mind (Chomsky, 2005). The first part of the talk integrates a third factor search algorithm, Minimal Search, with two core syntactic operations—Agree and Labeling—and shows empirical and theoretical implications of Minimal Search-based Agree and Labeling, which are considered universal principles of language. The…
Find out more »Search Committee Meeting
The Syntax Search Committee will be meeting on Thursday, February 22, at 12:45 pm in Turlington 4131B.
Find out more »Danfeng Wu — Pied-piping by ‘whether’ across languages
Whether and if can both introduce embedded questions, and appear to be interchangeable (e.g. I don’t know whether/if Amira will arrive). But a well-known difference between them is that the phrase or not can immediately follow whether (I don’t know whether or not Amira will arrive), but not if (*I don’t know if or not Amira will arrive) (Kayne 1991). I argue that this contrast can be explained if we assume that whether can pied-pipe (i.e. as whether undergoes wh-movement,…
Find out more »Guest Lecture: Danfeng Wu
Dr. Danfeng Wu will be giving a guest lecture on Thursday, February 22 at 3:00 pm in CSE A101. More information about her lecture and the Zoom link is below. Title: Pied-piping by ‘whether’ across languages Whether and if can both introduce embedded questions, and appear to be interchangeable (e.g. I don’t know whether/if Amira will arrive). But a well-known difference between them is that the phrase or not can immediately follow whether (I don’t know whether or not Amira…
Find out more »Language & Brain Talk: Dr. Weisberg’s Lab
The Language and Brain Interest group will be meeting on Friday, February 23, 1:55-2:45. The talk will be showcasing Dr. Steve Weisberg's lab. Room: MAT 0103 Zoom: contact kaan@ufl.edu
Find out more »Departmental colloquium — PT Anderson
Centering Language Data in Technology Choices: The Case of the New Tunica Dictionary The language documentation and revitalization world has many examples of productive community-academic collaborations. These collaborations often take place with the help of technology: emails to schedule our language sessions, google docs to store collective documents, file structures with naming conversations to store audio media, and software to store and analyze language data, to name a few. In short, technology is central to these relationships and the language…
Find out more »Syntax job talk (Candidate 4)
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Find out more »Guest Lecture: Irina Burukina
Dr. Irina Burukina will be giving a guest lecture on February 29, 3:00 pm, in CSE A101 and on Zoom. More information about the talk and Zoom link are below. Topic: The syntax of the thematic domain This talk takes as its point of departure the general question of how syntax puts predicates and arguments together, focusing on the structure of the thematic domain with a special emphasis on valency-changing operations: passivization, antipassivization, and causativization. I will first present a…
Find out more »March 2024
Syntax job talk (Candidate 5)
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Find out more »Guest Lecture: Maša Bešlin
Dr. Maša Bešlin will be giving a guest lecture on Monday, March 4, at 3:00pm in Turlington L005 and on Zoom. More information about her talk and Zoom link are below. Title: What’s in Universal Grammar? On participles and the inventory of grammatical primitives One of the goals of syntactic theory is to account for the distributional properties of grammatical units. My central question is whether the lexical categori(zer)s like n(oun), v(erb), and a(adjective), which are partially responsible for determining…
Find out more »Language & Brain Talk: Dr. Xie
The Language and Brain Interest Group will be meeting on Friday, March 29, 1:55-2:45pm. Dr. Xin Xie from the UC Irvine will present work from their lab. Room: MAT 0103 Zoom link: e-mail kaan@ufl.edu
Find out more »April 2024
Language & Brain Talk
The Language and Brain Interest Group will be meeting on Friday, April 5, 1:55-2:45pm. Speaker TBA Room information and zoom link TBA
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