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Apr 01
Lecture: Luc Baronian 4/4, 5-6pm CAS325
Please join us for a lecture from the linguistics department’s own Luc Baronian on“The Metrics of Amédé Ardoin and its Implications on the French stress system”. On April 4th at 5pm in CAS 325 Abstract: In this talk, I will use the principles of Generative Metrics (Halle & Keyser 1971, Kiparsky 1977) to present an analysis …
Nov 06
Bananagrams/Scrabble Tournament
Wednesday Nov 16th at 7pm in the Academy Room in the back of the GSU. BULA is hosting a Bananagrams and Scrabble tournament! Bring your linguistic skills, love of word games and any Bananagrams or Scrabble sets you may own so we can have multiple games going on at once.
Sep 26
Dialects: From True Grit to Soda Pop
Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting. Here are some cool links that relate to the topics we discussed. Stay tuned for the date of our first discussion on Language Myths! Check out the video on English dialects from How The States Got Their Shapes: Here. Also Check out this blog post from Language …
Sep 21
First General Meeting!
Calling all linguistics and language enthusiasts! The first general meeting of the Boston University Linguistics Association (BULA) will be Thursday, September 22nd at 7pm in CAS 228. We will be discussing possible events and activities for the 2011-2012 year. Ideas include: Movie Screenings, Discussion Groups, Bananagrams Tournament, Guest Speakers. Come share your ideas and interests and meet fellow linguistics lovers!
May 04
Linguistics Study Group
Stressing out about finals? Join fellow Linguistics students for an informal study group before exams start! Many of our e-board members have taken the traditional Linguistics courses and will be happy to help. It’s Monday May 9th from 6pm-9pm in the GSU’s Backcourt. RSVP on Facebook!
Mar 29
Bert Vaux Lecture on “Linguistic Profiling”
April 12 @ 7pm in KCB (565 Comm Ave) Room 101. Recent scientific studies have shown that humans are able to reliably identify features such as gender, race, age, and even sexual orientation from just a short sample of speech. (Test subjects also consistently infer attributes such as height, intelligence, attractiveness, and reliability from speech …
Mar 29
General Meeting and English Dialects Discussion
Join us for our General Meeting at 7 pm on Wednesday April 6th in CAS B20, where we’ll be doing Officer Selection for the coming academic year. After the meeting, we’ll have our monthly discussion group. This month’s theme is “Dialects of English.” RSVP on Facebook
Feb 05
Linguistics Opportunities at BU
If you’re a current Linguistics major or minor, or just interested in what’s going on around campus, please join us on Feb. 24th at 6:30 pm in CAS 203 for this Panel on Linguistic Opportunities at BU. We will be discussing research on campus, upcoming undergraduate linguistics conferences and have students available to discuss linguistics …
Jan 30
Welcome to Spring 2011!
BULA has a host of exciting events planned for the semester. Join us for our monthly discussion groups, come chat with members at the Spring Activities Expo Tuesday Feb 1st and discover what you can do as a linguistics major at our Linguistics Opportunities at BU event! Keep up to day by following us on …
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