Colloquia
Linguistics Colloquium Series
The SFU Linguistics Colloquium Series is a forum for all those interested in language and linguistics. Talks take place on the SFU Burnaby campus Thursdays at 11:30 (exceptions noted below). All are welcome. Contact colloquium organizer John Alderete (alderete@sfu.ca) to be added to the colloquium email list.
Schedule Spring 2012
March 29
RCB 6152 Dr. Kazuya Saito (Simon Fraser University, Department of Linguistics, Postdoctoral fellow)
Title: TBA
Apr. 5
Halpern 114 Poster session, students of Linguistics 851 and general forum
Apr. 12
Library Room 7200. Dr. Carlos Subirats
Title: TBA
Past Colloquia
Schedule Fall 2011
September 29
RCB 6152 Dr. Huamei Han (Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Education)
Title: Making a Case for a Multilingual Turn in SLA Research: Social Inclusion through Institutional Multilingual Ideologies, Policies and Practices
October 27
RCB 6152 Dr. Marina Dyakonova (Vancouver, BC)
Title: A Cartographic Approach to Information Structure along the Lines of Derivation by Phase (Abstract)
November 17
AQ 3159, 12:30pm, Dr. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University, Department of Psychology and Program in Linguistics)
Title: Learning what not to say: The role of categorization, statistical preemption and age (Abstract)
Schedule Summer 2011
| May 19 |
Dr. Yang Zhang (University of Minnesota, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences) Title: New perspectives on speech perception and language acquisition (Abstract) |
| June 23 |
Dr. Bruce Horner and Dr. Min-Zhan Lu (University of Louisville, Department of English) Title: Translingual Literacy and the Production of Difference (Abstract) |
| July 21 |
Dr. Douglas Walker (University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University) Title: Alberta French: from majority to minority language (Abstract) |
| August 18 |
Dr. Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Department of Linguistics) Title: Deriving generalizations from large data sets: The case of Preposition-Noun-Combinations (Abstract) |
Schedule Spring 2011
| January 20 | Robert J. Stainton (University of Western Ontario, Philosophy Department) Title: In Defense of Good Old-Fashioned Linguistics and Semantics |
| February 3 | Jennifer Alexander (Simon Fraser University, Post-doc, Linguistics Department) Title: The Theory of Adaptive Dispersion and Acoustic-phonetic Properties of Cross-language Lexical-tone Systems |
| February 24 | Stefan Dollinger (University of British Columbia, English Department) Title: The low-back vowel merger in Canada, 1780s – 2011: language change as expressions of identity or as mere reflections of communities of practice? |
| March 10 | Leslie Saxon (University of Victoria, Linguistics Department) Title: Two types of relative clauses in Tłįchǫ Yatiì |
| March 17 | Special Event!!! In honor of Ilse Lehiste. Zita McRobbie-Utasi and Thomas A. Perry of the SFU Linguistics Department present, The significance of the empirical approach: Ilse Lehiste’s contributions to linguistic theory. |
| March 24 | Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, French Department) Title: Opening the door of the research kitchen: the making of a scription |
| April 7 | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (University of British Columbia, Statistics Department) Title: Automated reconstruction of protolanguages using probabilistic models of sound change |
Schedule Fall 2010
| September 30 | Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona) Title: Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition |
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| October 14 | Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University) Inaugural Lecture |
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| October 21 | Dan Silverman (San Jose State University) Title: Alternation not segmentation |
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| November 4, 2:30 | Ana Fernández Dobao (University of Washington) Collaborative writing tasks in the L2 classroom: a comparison of group, pair, and individual work |
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| Friday, December 3, 3:00 | PhD |
Anne Rimrott (Simon Fraser University, Linguistics) Title: Computer-Assisted Vocabulary Learning: Multimedia Annotations, Word Concreteness, and Individualized Instruction (PhD Thesis Examination) |
Please direct any suggestions/corrections to the Colloquium Committee Chair.