GC CUNY - Linguistics Program

🧭 What does ethical fieldwork in linguistics really look like?
Join us for a talk by GC alum Prof. Ignacio Montoya (University of Nevada, Reno) on how academic theory can support more ethical, community-centered language work.

Open to all!

🎉 Congrats to our 2025 MA graduates! Today, they successfully defended their thesis projects:

🗣️ When Suffixes Collide – Simon Zuberek
🧠 Depressive Patterns in Italian Discourse (NLP) – Annapia Borraccino
🧪 Function Words & Implicit Learning – Daniel Schwartz
🎧 ASR on Louisiana French – Emily Chiu

📢 Join us May 10 @ 10am (EST) for a hybrid talk by Cynthia Montaño (UC Berkeley) on her work documenting Da’an Davi (Mixtec, S. Puebla) via a digital dictionary. Hosted at ELA + GC CUNY D&I Committee.
🔗 Registration here: forms.gle/cP8vFNLn92Lg...

🎉 Exciting news! Zhilang Liu’s abstract on noun selection after no in English has been accepted to the Language and Method Conference at The New School (Apr 25–26). Congrats on this amazing achievement!

What do shop signs say about power, place & religion?
Join us for Prof. Shonna Trinch’s talk, “Signs of (Ir)reverence”: Place-Making, Social Semiotics, and Religion in Public Space

🗓 Fri, Mar 28 | 🕑 2–4PM
📍 CUNY Grad Center Rm 7102
💻 Zoom: ID 854 6122 6724 | Code 578481

📢 Join the Spring 2025 ELA Seminar on March 21!

🎙️ "Circles of Oral Knowledge in Digital Motion in Guarani (Tupi-Guarani)"
📍 Hybrid Event – In person & Zoom
📅 March 21, 2025 | 📍 NYC
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dcK8qxAR

Explore how Guarani oral traditions evolve in digital spaces. See you there! 🌍✨

Zhilang Liu’s abstract, "Adjective Formation and Reduplication in Ekhwa Adara," has been accepted for a talk at ACAL 56! 🗣️✨ She’ll be presenting at the University of Minnesota (May 15–17), contributing to the study of African languages.
Congrats, Zhilang (PhD Student)!

Natalia Tyulina (PhD student) will be speaking at the Academic Bridges online conference this March! Her talk, "Tweeting War and Peace: A Linguistic Analysis of Competing Narratives on Russian Twitter" explores how language shapes conflict narratives.
More info here: www.academicbridges.sbs

🚀 Exciting news! Jie Sheng (PhD student) will be presenting her poster, "Atypical Antipassives in Gaahmg," at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2025)! 🗣️🌍

📍 Where? University of Minnesota
📅 When? May 15-17, 2025

Huge congratulations to Jie! 🎉👏

📢 Linguistics Colloquium tomorrow, Feb 20!

Join us for Celeste Escobar’s talk on educational resources for displaced Indigenous languages.

📍 CUNY GC, Room C201
⏰ 4:15-6 PM | Hybrid option available (Register here: tinyurl.com/3zt6nscb)
🍷 Come for the linguistics, stay for the wine & cheese!

Getting this application out of the way before Valentines is a very romantic gesture to your future self!

How do older adults engage with language change? Join us for the first Sociolinguistics Lecture of the Spring! Laurel MacKenzie (NYU) will explore Sir David Attenborough’s /r/-tapping over six decades. Don't miss it! 👀

📅 Friday, February 14, 2 - 4 pm
📍 Room 7102 or Zoom (tinyurl.com/ypahvm7a)

Kendrick Lamar-Drake Feud Underscores Tension Over Authenticity, Graduate Center Linguist Argues Matthew Garley examines how the rappers weaponized language in their high-profile beef, revealing deeper questions about authenticity in hip-hop.

Professor Garley's research was featured in the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social news!

www.gc.cuny.edu/news/kendric...

🤖 Interested in Conversational AI? Join us for a talk by Dr. Nava Shaked on Conversational & Multimodal AI Systems!

📅 Feb 6, 4:15-6 PM
📍 Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center

Learn about speech interfaces, emotion detection, and AI-driven interactions—plus real-world industry applications!

🌟 Linguistics & Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Community Meet-Up! 🌟

Join your colleagues every Monday for coffee, tea, and snacks! ☕🍪

📍 Room 7400
⏰ 1PM - 3PM

Swing by before or after class, or take a break to chat and connect! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉

📢 Spring semester is here, and so is the first Colloquium!

Join us tomorrow at 4:15 PM in Room C201 for Prof. Garley’s talk:

🎤 “It’s Just Big Me”: Discourse, Authenticity & Identity in the Drake-Kendrick Lamar Beef

🍷 Wine & cheese reception after!
💻 Zoom available: tinyurl.com/4t7f3h5a

🌷 Update: Today's colloquium ("It’s Just Big Me”: Discourse, Authenticity, and Identity in the Drake-Kendrick Lamar Beef) is postponed to Spring 2024! We’re making this change to bring you an even better experience. Stay tuned for details – we can’t wait to see you there! 🌟

#EventUpdate #Spring2025

🎉 Let’s wrap up the semester together! 🎉

Join us on Tues, Dec. 17th for:
🗣️ Town Hall: 4-5:30 PM (Room 7102 / Zoom)
🎊 End-of-Semester Party: Right after (Room 7400)

Come celebrate and connect! 🌟

🌟 Grad Students, this one's for you!

Need help perfecting your conference abstracts? 📝 Join us on Thursday for a workshop on Writing Conference Abstracts at the Graduate Center!
🔗 Details here: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/writi...

Don't miss out—your future conference submissions will thank you! 💡

Universidad del Azuay Formamos ciudadanos capaces de cuidar y de transformar el mundo.

🌍 Our PhD student, Celeste Escobar, is presenting at the Symposium on Ecolinguistics today & tomorrow in Ecuador! 🌱

Watch live: (www.youtube.com/@uazuay19
Explore abstracts: simposio-ecolinguistico.uazuay.edu.ec 🎉

Congrats Celeste!

Excited to share that our students Matt Malone, Celeste Escobar, and Margaret R. Matte will represent us at SYNC 2024 on Dec 7 at NYU! Don’t miss it! 🌟

Register here: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/sync...

#SYNC2024

Join us for our next Colloquium with Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs (USC)!

🗣️ "When Number & Gender Compete: Agreement Features in Heritage Bilinguals"
📅 Dec 5, 2024 | ⏰ 4:15-6 PM
📍 ROOM 9205 | 💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/2auwa5r9
👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/2kr2tvby

See you there! 🎉

Who’s Your Linguistics Inspiration? 🌟
This Thanksgiving week, we want to know:
👉 Who’s the one person who most influenced your journey in linguistics?
Comment below and let’s celebrate the mentors, friends, and supporters who shaped us! 🍁

✨ Excited for tomorrow’s Sociolinguistics Lecture!
Join us for a talk featuring Ayala Fader, Britta Ingebretson, and @mikemena.bsky.social , as they dive into the Demystifying Language Project (DLP)! Don't miss out!

🌟 Thinking about computational linguistics but don’t know Python yet? No worries! The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) has got you covered.
Learn more and sign up here: gcdri.commons.gc.cuny.edu

YouTube video by Linguistics Program @ The Graduate Center, CUNY Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center - Faculty Welcome

Did you know we have a YouTube account?
In this video, several faculty members from our program introduce themselves, share insights about their research, and talk about their roles at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.
Get to know the people who shape our program! 🌟 tinyurl.com/mr5yumjk

Call for papers: EuroSLA Workshop hosted at the University of Nottingham

Vocabulary studies and language learning psychology: towards greater interdisciplinary collaboration

www.eurosla.org/call-for-pap...

The next Socio Lunch is TOMORROW at 12 PM!
🗣️ Join us in Room 7102 or on Zoom for an insightful session with Nancy Stern & Andrew McCormick.
Don't miss out! Register here: tinyurl.com/sociolunchgc...

🎓 Curious about the study of linguistics? Join us for our Open House on November 1st! Discover our programs and meet our faculty. Registration required! 👉https://tinyurl.com/openhouselinggccuny

#Langsky #OpenHouse #Linguistics
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