calgarylinguistics.bsky.social
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Join our trivia team, you will.

Meet outside the Den in the basement of Mac Hall at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 18th. The event goes until 8:30pm.
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Coming back to our Brownbag Series this Friday!

Friday, Nov 7 | 3pm | CHE 212

During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!

This week, we will discuss Engineering with Dr. Benjamin Tan from Schulich School of Engineering!
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thank you Dr. Pérez-Leroux for the interesting talk on the acquisition of determiners! We are looking forward to hearing more updates in the future!
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Happy Halloween from A Higher Clause!
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Fall 2025!

What is that thing? Distributional Bootstrapping of Determiner Semantics
Dr. Ana Pérez-Leroux' (University of Toronto)

Friday, Oct 31 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212
October 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It’s time to get spooky and solve some ghost mysteries! Our Halloween party is on Thursday, October 30th. Things kick off at 3pm. Be sure to wear a costume for a chance to win a prize!
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This Friday! Continuing on our NEW brownbag series! We will explore Linguistics with Creative Performing Arts! 🎭

Fri, Oct 24 | 3pm | CHE 212

This week, we will have Ms. Jane MacFarlane, MFA, from School of Creative and Performing Arts.
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The phonetics lab had a great time at Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences this weekend! There’s some really neat research out there. We loved checking in on what techniques other labs are utilizing, and sharing how we’re using free classification at the UofC.
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
One of these projects may or may not be my thesis
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏

Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212

During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!

This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Vincent Nwosu, on being interviewed about his research by one of Nigeria's major newspapers 🎉!

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October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Welcome back, graduate students! We're kicking off the semester with a good ol' Meet & Greet. Pop by the grad lounge (CHC 212) between 12pm and 3pm to meet (or reunite with) your peers, grab some snacks, and stick around for some card games.
September 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”.

Congratulations also to Mahyar's supervisor, Dr. Dennis Storoshenko.
September 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on the successful defence of her thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children.”

Congratulations also to Cheryl's supervisor, Dr. Dimitrios Skordos!
July 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On to ELAN!
June 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The @cla-acl.bsky.social conference is over, but we're here at the LaTeX workshop!
June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Only one UCalgary talk today...Charys presents "Variability and Vocabulary in L2 Learning: Factors in High- and Low-Variability Training".
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
We're getting a much chiller start to the day at @cla-acl.bsky.social. On to Day 3!
June 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
That’s it for Day 2!
June 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Time for the plenary! Dr. Ana Pérez-Leroux presents "Modular interactions in language acquisition and language contact".
June 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Dr. Skordos and Dr. Bale presenting Rowan's paper "Weak or strong distributivity with disjunction under the universal quantifier".
June 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Mathieu presenting "Semi-weakness in sign predicates".
June 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We're getting a follow-up!
June 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cheryl and Dr. Skordos presenting "Contrastive inference comprehension in children".
June 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Lunch panel: "Sharing Linguistic Research with the Public: The Role of the Canadian Language Museum" with Elaine Gold!
June 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM