Events at: Totem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

Martina Martinović colloquium

Martina Martinović (McGill) will give an in-person colloquium. The title and abstract are below. Clitics in Wolof: Syntax all the way up This talk explores the properties and placement of Wackernagel-like clitics in the Niger-Congo language Wolof. I affirm the proposal initially put forth by Dunigan (1994), that Wolof clitics move to the highest head […]

Sam Tilsen colloquium

Sam Tilsen will present an in-person colloquium. Title: Longitudinal studies of speech pattern dynamics in networks of speakers playing games Abstract: This talk describes a pair of longitudinal studies that I have conducted to investigate how speech patterns change over time in small networks of speakers playing dyadic map navigation games. The social network study […]

Mariapaola D’Imperio’s talk

Dr. Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University & Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS) is going to give an in-person talk on July 2nd, 2025. This event will be held by the Speech In Context Lab.   Title: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND THE INTONATION-MEANING MAPPING: COGNITIVE VARIANCE AND EXPOSURE EFFECTS Abstract: The pragmatic valence of intonation contours has been […]