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Weekly Digest, 9/16/22
We’re a quarter of the way through the Fall 2022 semester!
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The Return of Teatime
The grand tradition of Thursday afternoon department teatime finally returned this week, after a long, two-year hiatus! Welcome back, linguists and cookies!
Look Who’s Talking 🗣
Reed Blaylock gave an invited talk titled “Phonological harmony in beatboxing” at the Beatbox Day 2022 conference held in hybrid format in Grenoble, France.
New discussion group on teaching linguistics
The first meeting of a new research/discussion group with the working title “Teaching Linguistics Discussion Group” will be Monday September 19 at 9am on Zoom. All are welcome. Meeting formats may include discussion of recent articles about Linguistics pedagogy, practicing conference presentations about pedagogical research, professional development (e.g., reviewing teaching statements or scheduling peer evaluation), and workshopping ideas for the classroom. Please direct questions to Reed Blaylock.
Upcoming Events
Friday 9/16, 3-5pm @ Mind and Language in Los Angeles (MLLA): Chaz Firestone on “The Perception of Silence”
Monday 9/19, 1pm @ PhonLunch: Khalil Iskarous
Monday 9/19, 2:10-3:10pm @ S-Side Story: Stacie Chadwick on “Optimality Theory for Scrambling Variability in Dutch”
Monday 9/19, 3:30pm: Policies & Procedures Townhall Meeting (for graduate students)
Monday, 9/19, 4:30pm @ MeaningLab: Deniz Rudin on “Asserting Epistemic Modals”
Tuesday 9/20, 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Jun Lyu on “Chinese reflexive ta-ziji and discourse factors” (practice talk for North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics)
Thursday 9/22, 3:30pm: Tea Time
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