Events

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Upcoming Events

• Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University
  Friday, Feb 7th, 3:55- 5:15

  Combining continuous and discrete components in speech, sign, and gesture

  Human language is infinitely productive because it makes use of discrete symbols that can combine with each other to form new structures with new meanings. This is equally true of spoken languages and sign languages, but the latter have often been considered to include additional continuous/depictive components, which typically fall outside the domain of traditional linguistic analysis. In this talk I will discuss a series of experimental studies which argue that several candidates for depictive components in sign languages can be naturally compared to combinations of spoken language plus gesture, and then discuss formal semantic models of how continuous and discrete pieces compose in several examples of sign+gesture and speech+gesture.
• Lisa Green, UMass- Amherst
  Monday, March 2, 4:30 – 6:00pm, US Bank Theater in the Ohio Union
  She’s giving the William A. Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition and she specializes in African American English. 
• Annual BLN Symposium
  Thursday, April 23rd, time tba (roughly, 9am – 1pm)

  This year’s symposium has a theme:  Language for Social Justice.

  Look forward to hearing talks from our own Jennifer Lundine (SHS) and Anna Babel  (SpanPort) as well as a student poster session.

Past Events

These events were funded in whole or in part with funds from the Arts and Sciences Study of Language Variation grant awarded to the BLN.

• BLN Spring Symposium (2019) featuring Irina Castellanos (Otolaryngology) and Christa Teston (English).
  Interested in following up on Christa’s talk?  Try this!
• Lego Grad Student
• Domenica Romagno, “The representation of linguistic categories in the brain: between grammatical distinctions and semantic properties”
• Sudha Arunachalam, “How Toddlers Acquire Words that Denote Events”
• Screening of Talking Black in America with the BLN Student Association
• David Beaver, The University of Texas at Austin:
  “Realsemantik: finding meaning in a non-ideal world”
• 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30)
• Second Language Research Forum 2017: Growing Connections in SLR
• 22nd Mid-Contenental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon22)
• OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (OSUCHiLL)
• Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation
• Workshop on Reference
• The Ohio Speaks Project Workshop
• Buckeye Language Network Symposium
• How to Conduct Language Science Research at COSI
• Buckeye Language Network Labs in Life Grand Opening
• Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics
• Understanding Language Problems in the Elderly
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Getting a Job Outside of an R01 University, But Were Afraid to Ask