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U of C makes it to top 100 list on Times magazine calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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A poster for a potluck event. There is blue paint spatter on a yellow background and a sketched table and chairs. The caption reads "Potluck dinner, February 9th, 2026, at 4pm in CHC 211."
Bring a dish from your home country (or a country near and dear to your heart) next week to share! Please be sure to mark what you’re bringing on the sign-up spreadsheet. We’ll see you in the grad lounge at 4pm!
02.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Join us next Friday for the next talk in our speaker series!
Demonstrative ku in Korean: Its prosodic and syntactic analyses
Dr. Kyumin Kim (Chungbuk National University) and Dr. Emily Elfner (York University)
Friday, Feb 13 | 3:00pm | CHE 212
Reminder: this afternoon!
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Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Winter 2026, from the new colleague who joined the Linguistics Division this month :)
Quandaries and the nature of grammars
Dr. Diego Krivochen (University of Calgary)
Friday, Jan 23 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212
The Canadian Linguistic Association will hold its 73rd annual conference at the University of Calgary (!) from Wednesday, June 17th to Friday, June 19th, 2026. The abstract deadline is January 31 cla-acl.ca/news/appel-a...
16.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This afternoon! Be there or be square—because you won’t be a-round. Also the aliens’ language is … Never mind.
16.01.2026 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A poster from Arrival (2016). The caption under the poster reads "Now screening: Arrival (2016). Friday, January 16, 2025. CHE 212. 3:00 pm".
Welcome back, everyone! We’re starting the year off strong with a screening and discussion of Arrival (2016). Join us in CHE 212 this Friday at 3pm. There will be popcorn!
12.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Workshop at LabPhon 20 (Montreal, June 25): Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection. Abstract deadline: Feb. 20. The main organizer is PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu linguistlist.org/issues/37/33/
13.01.2026 16:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dušan Nikolić @dusannikolic.bsky.social is a post-doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences who obtained his PhD in 2023 with us as an Izaak-Walton Killam awardee. He is currently a visiting scholar in our Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab www.ucalgary.ca/labs/develop...
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Today Dr. Dušan Nikolić gave a talk on “Perception of lexical pitch accents: the native language acoustic cue approach vs. the target language acoustic cue approach” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
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“Linguistics across disciplines” panel session today at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
09.01.2026 02:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Fostering undergraduate participation in linguistics research” presented today by Emily Clem, Myriam Lapierre, Line Mikkelsen, Katherine Russell and Hannah Sande at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
09.01.2026 03:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“CUREing linguistics: a replicable model for undergraduate research participation” presented today by Montclair State University’s Lauren Covey, Larissa Goulart and Jonathan Howell at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
09.01.2026 03:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The Speech Varieties Website: An Example of Project-Based Learning in the Linguistics Classroom” presented today by BYU’s Lisa Morgan Johnson, Wendy Smemoe and Dallin Bailey at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026
09.01.2026 03:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to Prof. Diego Krivochen on his latest article, “EPP: can’t live with it, can’t raise without it,” in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
20.12.2025 23:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0His work is on linguistic theory and theoretical syntax, the syntax of English and Spanish, the theory of formal languages, and implicit learning of artificial grammars.
20.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are happy to announce that Dr. Diego Gabriel Krivochen will be joining our Division of Linguistics as a new assistant professor (LTA) in January 2026.
20.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Join us tomorrow (Friday) for a discussion of connections between linguistics and medicine with Dr. Beverly Collisson, from the Cumming School of Medicine, Jomanna Sleiman, R. SLP-Registered Speech-Language Pathologist, and our very own Prof. Dimitrios Skordos
27.11.2025 23:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
23.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
23.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
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