Current Colloquia
Watch this space for the announcement of an exciting colloquium coming this December, delivered by a guest speaker from Boston University.
Scheduling for Spring 2025 Colloquia is in progress. Event details will be published here shortly.
Past Colloquia
2024
Dr. Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Deconstructing authenticity/linguistic realism
September 19th | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
Dr. Carolyn Quam (Portland State University)
Annual Yvonne Becker Colloquium
Title: Bilingualism and developmental language disorder shape phonological aspects of word learning
May 30th | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
chuutsqa Layla Rorick
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: April 3rd
11:30am–12:30pm: Indigenous language documentation and teaching practice in a 100-hour Hesquiaht language camp on Hesquiaht land
3:00pm–4:00pm: Hesquiaht guidance for Hesquiaht land based language instruction
Location: RCB 7402
Leah Meunier
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: April 2nd
11:30am–12:30pm: sx̌ʷəx̌ʷəy̓ém̓ ‘Stories’ of Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Traditional, Ecological, and Cultural Knowledges
3:00pm–4:00pm: x̌ʷəx̌ʷəy̓ém̓ ‘Storying’ Traditional, Ecological, and Cultural Knowledges
Location: RCB 7402
Jaskwaan Amanda Bedard
Indigenous Languages Colloquium
Date: March 28th
11:30am–12:30pm: A Haida Research Framework for Strengthening Language Immersion
3:00–4:00pm: Pedagogy of the Liberated: Shifting Narratives in Indigenous Language Education
Location: RCB 7402
Dr. Jozina Vander Klok (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: On the topic of the subject in Austronesian
March 14th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Daniel Goodhue (Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Speech Acts: Grammar, Prosody, and Pragmatics in Child Acquisition and Adult Competence
March 11th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Yining Nie (San Jose State University)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: The cross-linguistic expression of causation
March 4th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
Dr. Steven Foley (University of Southern California)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Case, word order, and the comprehension of grammatical complexity in Georgian
February 29th | 11:30am | RCB 7402
2023
Ashley Farris-Trimble (Simon Fraser University)
Inaugural Talk
Title: The acquisition of phonological opacity
Thursday, January 19 | 12:30 pm | Halpern 114
Christopher Hammerly (University of British Columbia)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: A unified model of person/animacy effects in incremental sentence comprehension.
Thursday, February 9 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Jeremy Calder (University of Colorado Boulder)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: What researching understudied populations can illuminate about social meaning.
Friday, March 3 | 4:30 pm | HC 2270 (Harbour Centre)
Yifang Yuan (Simon Fraser University)
PhD Defence Proposal
Title: Asking questions in context: An elicitation study of questions in Mandarin Chinese conversation
Wednesday, March 8 | 2:00pm | RCB 7402
Nathan Sanders (University of Toronto)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Teaching linguistics with equity, diversity, and inclusion
Thursday, March 30 | 12:30pm | RCB 7402 and via Zoom
Teresa Pratt (San Francisco State University)
Annual Yvonne Becker Colloquium
Title: Affect and embodiment in sociolinguistics
Thursday, May 11 | 12:30pm | RCB 7402
Mary O'Brien (Simon Fraser University)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: (Why) Does pronunciation matter?
Thursday, October 26 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Danielle Deng, (Simon Fraser University)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Native and non-native English speakers' adaptation to non-native English accents
Thursday, November 9 | 1:00 pm | RCB 7402
Magda Ivok, (Simon Fraser University)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: Acoustic cues to production of English stress levels by non-native English speakers
Thursday, November 30 | 1:00 pm | RCB 7402
2022
Marina Tzakosta (University of Crete)
Linguistics Colloquium
Title: «Die Hard»: The three scales model as a tool of analysis of complex consonant clusters (Abstract)
Tuesday, November 29 | 12:45 pm | RCB 6152
Dawn M. Behne (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Linguistics / Cognitive Science Colloquium
Title: Audio-visual alignment in speech perception: Long- and short-term experience (Abstract)
Thursday, October 27 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Holliday (Pomona College)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: Sociophonetic variation and human interaction with digital voice assistants (Abstract)
Friday, October 21 | 4:30 pm | HC 2270 (Harbour Centre)
Henny Yeung (SFU)
Title: How should we sound when we talk to babies? (Abstract)
Thursday, September 29 | 12:30 pm | ASB 10900 | Link to recording
Friedemann Vogel (Siegen University, Germany), Hongyin Tao (UCLA)
John Alderete, Nancy Hedberg (SFU)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, June 16 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Danica Reid, Andrew Cheng, Margaret Grant, Heather Bliss (SFU)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, June 2 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Chung-hye Han, Claudia Wong, Magdalena Ivok (SFU)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, May 19 | 12:30 pm | RCB 7402 & Remote
Panayiotis Pappas & Laurens Bosman, Jetic Gu, Leanne Bartley (SFU)
Linguistics Blitz Talks
Thursday, May 5 | 12:30 pm | SWH 9095 & Remote
Ben Naismith (University of Pittsburgh)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Title: Teaching philosophy from a career in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Thursday, April 7 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Josef Fruehwald (University of Kentucky)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: What should we do when the formant track doesn't look like the IPA transcription?
Friday, April 1 | 3:30 pm | Remote | Link to recording
Shahin Nematizadeh (Mount Allison University)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Title: Principles of My Teaching Philosophy
Thursday, March 31 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Claudia Wong (SFU)
Series on TESL Pedagogy
Thursday, March 24 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Jennifer Hinnell (UBC)
Social Data Analytics Speaker Series
Title: What's in the hands? Analyzing speech and the body signal in spontaneous discourse
Wednesday, March 9 | 12:30 pm | Burnaby, Halpern 126
Patrick Baylis (UBC)
Social Data Analytics Speaker Series
Title: Assessing the impacts of environment hazards with text analysis
Tuesday, March 1 | 12:30 pm | Burnaby, Halpern 126
2021
Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in partnership with UBC
Title: Though these be exceptions, yet there is method in them
Friday, December 3 | 3:30 pm | Remote
Andrew Cheng (University of California, Irvine)
Title: What it means to "sound Asian American": Phonetic and sociolinguistic considerations
Abstract
Thursday, July 15 | 12:30 pm | Remote | Link to recording
Sarah Key-DeLyria (Portland State University)
Title: Observing Implicit Statistical Learning Over Time in Individuals with Aphasia
Thursday, April 8 | 12:30 pm | Remote | Link to recording
Katie Carmichael (Virginia Tech)
Title: The intersection of race, place, and language change in post-Katrina New Orleans
Thursday, March 18 | 12:30 pm | Remote
Alexandra Frazer (Muhlenberg College)
Title: Sustained Attention in Phonological Preparation
Thursday, February 4 | 12:30 pm | Remote | Link to recording
2020
Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham)
Title: Resolving Cases of Disputed Authorship through Linguistic Analysis
Thursday, October 29 | 9:30am | Remote | Link to colloquium
Corrine Occhino and Jalon Begay (UBC Language Sciences Initiative)
Title: Comparing Classifier Constructions in ASL and Navajo
Thursday, October 1 | 2:00pm | Remote
Stephen Dollinger (UBC)
Title: The pluricentricity debate: Retrospect and prospect of Austrian German, Canadian English and other non-dominant standard varieties
Thursday, February 27 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Dennis Storoshenko (University of Calgary)
Title: "Most people only care about themselfs": Form and function variance in English th- reflexives
Wednesday, March 4 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz)
Title: Prepositions and the relative vulnerability of lexicon and morpho-syntax in heritage Icelandic
Thursday, March 12 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz)
Title: A cross-linguistic view on the prosody of rhetorical questions
Friday, March 13 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm | RCB 7402
2019
Megan Lukaniec (University of Victoria)
Title: Reclamation-based reconstruction: Using the tools of historical-comparative linguistics to reclaim Wendat language, culture, and history
Thursday, December 5 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Takahito Shinya (Otsuma Women's University)
Title: Effects of intonational contour and duration on the identification of lexical stress by Japanese listeners
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Anne Christophe (CNRS)
Title: Bootstrapping the syntactic bootstrapper
Friday, November 1, 2019 | 4:30 - 6:00 pm | HBC 1600
Peggy Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Title: The acquisition of lexical tone by Cantonese-speaking children
Thursday, June 20, 2019 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Saywell Hall (SWH) 10051
Dawn M. Behne NTNU (Norway)
Title: Does experience influence audio-visual alignment in speech perception?
Thursday, May 9, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Julian Brooke (UBC)
Title: Computational lexical stylistics for sociolinguistic analysis
Thursday, April 11, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Sound Change and Social Change
Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 12:30 - 1:30 | SECB 1010
Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Language Ideology and Linguistic Variation
Friday, March 15, 2019 | 4:30 - 5:30 | 7000 Earl & Jennie Lohn Policy Room (Harbour Centre)
Amanda Cardoso (UBC)
Title: Evaluating Theories on the Origins of Canadian Raising
Thursday, February 28, 2019 | 12:45 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
2018
Bob McMurray (University of Iowa)
Title: Reinforced statistical learning for speech categories.
Friday, November 2, 2018 | 11:00 - 12:30 | RCB 7402
María de los Ángeles Gómez González (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Title: Interacting through talk: Comparing and contrasting tag questions
Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 12:30 - 1:30 | RCB 7402
Virginia Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong)
Title: The Child Heritage Chinese Corpus
Thursday, July 12, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 6152
Molly Babel (UBC)
Title: Dimensions of phonetic variation in Cantonese-English bilinguals (Abstract)
Thursday, June 28, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Fatemeh Torabi Asr (Simon Fraser University)
Title: News Text in the Hands of a Computational Linguist (Abstract)
Thursday, May 24, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
LinguisticsNOW Talk! Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon)
Title: Factors influencing non-native perception and learning
Friday, March 23, 2018 | 4:30-5:30 pm | Harbour Centre
Lila Daskalaki (University of Alberta)
Title: Input Effects across domains: The case of Subjects in Heritage Greek (Abstract)
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) Inaugural Lecture
Title: From social media to rhetoric through discourse analysis
Thursday, January 25, 2018 | 12:30-1:30 | Halpern 114 (new location, with refreshments provided)
2017
Katherina Ehret (Simon Fraser University)
Title: Measuring variation in English and beyond (Abstract)
Thursday, November 30, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Claire Moore-Cantwell (Simon Fraser University)
Title: Learning lexical idiosyncrasy in a probabilistic world (Abstract)
Thursday, October 26, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)
Title: Interrogative clauses in English and the social economics of questions
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Tania Zamuner (University of Ottawa) Title: The production and reverse production effect
Thursday, September 14, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 | RCB 7402
Carla Hudson Kam (UBC) Title: 'Intake', and the Adult Language Learner
Thursday, May 25, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Akira Omaki (University of Washington)
Title: Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of filler-gap dependencies in children
Friday, March 24, 2017 | 3:30-4:30 pm | Harbour Centre 2270
Shin-ichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo)
Title: The Shape and Function of Phonology in Evolutionary Linguistics:
Why we can Explore Language Origin from Extant Languages, and How (Abstract)
Thursday, March 2, 2017 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Title: Parameter Change in Early Middle Chinese (Abstract)
Friday, February 3, 2017 | 2:30-3:30 pm | RCB 7402
2016
Maki Aoyagi (Dokkyo University)
Title: Perceptual Effects of Vowel Devoicing and Reduction – Phonetic vs. Phonological (Abstract)
Thursday, November 17, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Tony Naro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Marta Scherre (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo and Universidade de Brasília)
Title: Revisiting Sociolinguistic Trends in the Brazilian Speech Community (Abstract)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Manfred Stede (Applied Computational Linguistics, FSP Cognitive Science, Universität Potsdam)
Title: Argument mining: Manual and automatic annotation of short user-generated texts (Abstract)
Thursday, October 13, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Cliff Goddard (Griffith University)
"So much from so little?": Semantic complexity and the NSM theory of semantic molecules (Abstract)
Thursday September 15, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Nino Grillo (Humboldt University)
The Grammar of Parsing: Preference for events over entities in complements of perceptual verbs (Abstract)
Tuesday August 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 7402
Meg Grant (University of Toronto)
Processing ambiguous Input: Mechanisms and interaction with working memory (Abstract)
Thursday, June 2, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | AQ3153
Nathan Albury (University of Oslo)
The folk linguistics of language policy: Knowing, feeling and doing Māori language revitalisation (Abstract)
Monday, April 4, 2016 | 12:30-1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Tracey Derwing (University of Alberta/SFU)
Social Factors Associated with An L2 Accent: A Synthesis (Abstract)
Thursday, March 24, 2016 | 12:30-2:00 pm | BLU 10081
Emily Elfner (UBC)
Phonological Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing: evidence from Connemara Irish (Abstract)
Thursday, February 25, 2016 | 12:30-2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (SFU)
Building beliefs and desires in Navajo (Abstract)
Thursday, January 28, 2016 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
2012 - 2015
What information is in the speech signal? Not quite enough. The role of real-time processes in the development of speech perception. (Abstract)
Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Dr. Keith Apfelbaum (The Ohio State University)
Surprising Evidence for Lexical Specificity in Selective Attention (Abstract)
Monday September 14 2015 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Anna Kyppö (University of Jyvaskyla)
Belarusian or Ukrainian? Slovak or Czech? Serbian or Croatian? Introduction to Slavic Languages and Cultures (Abstract)
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | RCB 6152
Tyler Kendall (University of Oregon)
The Production and Perception of Vowels in U.S. Regional Vowel Shifts (Abstract)
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | 12:30 - 2:30 pm | RCB 6152
Dr. Thomas Cobb (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Corpus Insights from Lextutor R&D that are too small to publish but too interesting to ignore (Abstract)
Thursday, March 12, 2015 | 11:30 am - 1:30pm | RCB 6152
Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota)
SFU Burnaby:
Adults' perception of children's speech and its role in phonological acquisition (Abstract)
Thursday, January 15, 2015 | 12:30 pm - 2:00pm | RCB 6152
SFU Vancouver:
Imputed gender and sibilant fricative perception, revisited (Abstract)
Friday, January 16, 2015 | 4:30 - 6:00pm | Harbour Centre 1600 Canfor Policy Room
2014
John Lyon (Simon Fraser University/UBC)
Identifying Identificational Sentences in Okanagan Salish (Abstract)
Thursday, November 27, 2014 | 12:30 -1:30 pm | Saywell Hall 10051
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva)
The semantics-pragmatics interface: how it works, why we need it, and where it is? (Abstract)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm | RCB 6152
Lawrence Mcallister (Simon Fraser University)
Inaugural Lecture
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Halpern 114
Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland)
Semantic Framing: The Meaning of 'most'
This event is jointly hosted by Cognitive Science with Linguistics and Philosophy
Monday, June 23, 2014 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm | IRMACS Centre
Randi Reppen (Northern Arizona University)
Using Corpora to Inform Teaching Materials Development (Abstract)
Thursday, May 22, 2014 | 9:00 - 10:30 am | AQ6106
Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of Alberta)
How kids do and don’t make U-turns: The nature of regressions in phonological acquisition (Abstract)
Thursday, May 1, 2014 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | AQ 6106
Cliff Goddard (Griffith University, Australia)
Endangered concepts: The challenge for linguistic fieldworkers (Abstract)
Thursday, April 24, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, UBC and SFU)
In Defence of the Autonomy of Syntax (Abstract)
Thursday, March 27, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
John Alderete (Simon Fraser University)
Inaugural Lecture
The phonology and morphology of Tahltan (Abstract)
Thursday, March 6, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Halpern 126
Heather Bliss (University of Victoria)
Investigating the Syntax of Blackfoot’s Demonstratives (Abstract)
Thursday, February 27, 2014 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | AQ 6106
2013
Jozina Vander Klok (University of British Columbia)
On theoretically-informed fieldwork: A case study on the modal system in Javanese (Abstract)
Thursday, November 28, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Barbara Citko (University of Washington)
On Multiple (Coordinated) (Free) Relatives (Abstract)
Thursday, October 31, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Peter Jacobs (University of Victoria)
Control in Skwxwu7mesh: From Aspect to Control (Abstract)
Thursday, September 26, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Kathleen Currie Hall (University of British Columbia)
Strategic Positions: A Communication-Based Approach to Phonological Prominence (Abstract)
Thursday, June 27, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Stella Tagnin (Universidade de São Paulo)
The CoMET Project at the University of São Paulo (Abstract)
Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Allard Jongman (University of Kansas)
Deriving Invariance by Integrating cues Computed Relative to Expectations (Abstract)
Thursday, April 4, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Panos Pappas (Simon Fraser University)
Inaugural Lecture
Structural Variation in Language (Abstract)
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Halpern 126
Michael Walsh (AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages)
Language is Like Food (Abstract)
Thursday, March 7, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Sandra Siok Lee (CSU, Fresno)
Integrating CALL and computer assessment with teacher instruction in college ESL writing: Its efficiency and effectiveness (Abstract)
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
2012
Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria)
Incrementing generational change: Men, women, and Labov (Abstract)
Thursday, November 22, 2012 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | RCB 6152
Catherine Caws (University of Victoria)
Web-based annotated corpora for language learning: harnessing their potential (Abstract)
Thursday, October 25, 2013 11:30 am - 1:00pm | RCB 6152