4/28: Philosophy forum

This coming Wednesday, in our first collaboration with the awesome Philosophy Forum, we will be participating in a lively debate on Daniel Everett’s research on the Piraha language and culture. We will be discussing Everett’s controversial 2005 paper on Piraha, which claims that the language exhibits some properties that we did not realize were possible [...]

This week: Julia Hirschberg and Trace Foundation lectures

This week is just packed with linguistics goodness: Julia Hirschberg will be speaking this Friday, 3/26, and there is a series of lectures at the Trace Foundation downtown, starting on Friday and continuing on Saturday. First, Professor Hirschberg’s lecture: Friday, 3/26 3pm Hamilton 709 Knowing When to Speak: Turn Management in Spoken Dialogue Systems Julia [...]

3/1: Peter Gordon

Department of Human Development Colloquium: Peter Gordon, Associate Professor of Speech and Language Pathology Cultural Causality, Language, and Commensurability in Numerical Cognitions Monday, March 1 3:00-4:40 pm 281 Grace Dodge Refreshments will be served

2/23: Mother Language Day

Join Club Bangla in celebrating International Mother Language Day! This day is meant to promote cultural and linguistic diversity and develop awareness of these traditions. We’ll have a table on Lerner ramps with a quilt you can sign, to be displayed at our future events. Come stop by and write something in your mother language! [...]

11/19: Paul Kockelman

PLEASE NOTE: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED. It will now take place in room 702 Hamilton Hall, at the same time (6pm on Thursday, 11/19). Harrison White and Corinne Kirchner, co-organizers of the “Workshop on Meaning: Language and Socio-cultural Processes” are pleased to announce: PAUL KOCKELMAN, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Barnard College, New York [...]

10/16: Daniel Everett

صباح الخير ! On Friday, October 16th at 3pm, we will be hosting Daniel Everett, an expert on the language and culture of the Pirahã, an indigenous people of the Amazon. Professor Everett is the chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department at Illinois State University. He has done extensive research on Pirahã, culminating [...]