Event Category Archives: Featured Events

UBC MDS Computational Linguistics Alumni Panel

You are invited to join UBC Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics alumni for a virtual information session to learn more about the student experience in the UBC MDS Computational Linguistics program in Vancouver, British Columbia. At this live panel, MDS Computational Linguistics alumni will: Share their student experiences and learning in the MDS […]

Colloquium – Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Berkeley)

Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Berkeley) will present a virtual colloquium on November 3rd 3:30-5pm, 2023. Title: Uncentered attitude reports Abstract: One of the major discoveries in attitude semantics over the last thirty years has been the fact that certain types of attitude reports require interpretation de se. This finding has prompted a move […]

Research Seminar – Kaili Vesik

Kaili Vesik will give a research seminar. Title: 74 constraints walk into a bar: Modeling acquisition with an eye to typology Abstract: Although phonological analysis and learning algorithms may be studied independently, additional insight can be gained when their intertwining and interdependent elements are taken into account. This work investigates how assumptions made about each […]

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium – Jessica Rett (UCLA)

LinguisticsNOW is a joint colloquia series hosted by the Department of Linguistics at UBC and Simon Fraser University that aims to bring the most exciting new work in linguistics to the Northwest. The speaker for this year’s edition of LinguisticsNOW is Jessica Rett (University of California, Los Angeles). The event will be held in-person at […]

LOC colloquium – Gloria Mellesmoen

Gloria Mellesmoen will give an in-person LOC colloquium on November 24th 3:30-5pm, 2023. Title: Miniature, Messy, and Meaningful: Diminutive Reduplication in Salish Abstract: A diminutive morpheme signals that something is small or little in some dimension, which can include the size of an object (“small cat”) or amount of a quality (“a little clever”). Diminutivity […]