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Category: Events
Nov 06
Conversations — Linguistics and Neuroscience
This is also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1078365882203830/ Thursday, November 19 at 5 pm THE ROOM HAS BEEN CHANGED. THE EVENT WILL BE HELD IN CAS 426.
Sep 24
Presentation by Dr. Rupal Patel: “Crowdsourcing voice collection to power unique vocal identities”
Don’t miss the Linguistics program’s upcoming colloquium! Prof. Patel is Founder & President, VocaliD, and a Professor at Northeastern University This is also a Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/159221471085202/ Abstract: VocaliD’s voice banking platform is a crowdsourced effort to collect and store everyday voices from around the world. The voicebank powers the creation of unique vocal …
Sep 24
Linguistics Program: Undergraduate Open House
Date & Time: Thursday, October 1, 2015 – from 5:15 to 6:30 PM Location: LSE (24 Cummington Mall) – room 103 Current and prospective students interested in (or curious about) linguistics are welcome! Come find out more about course offerings, the Linguistics major and minor, joint majors with French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Philosophy, study …
Mar 09
Linguistics Undergraduate Spring Open House
Get information about Linguistics courses and programs (major; minor; joint majors with French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Philosophy). Meet Linguistics faculty and students, including members of BULA (bula.bu.edu). Refreshments will be served. Current and prospective BU undergraduates are welcome! Date and Time: Thursday, April 2, 2015 from 5:15 to 6:30 pm Location: SAR Setterberg Lounge (635 …
Mar 05
Come whine and dine with us!
This is also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/589760144494654/ You’re invited to a casual dinner with your favorite BULA peeps. Thursday, March 19, at 6 PM in the GSU. Passed your last linguistics test by the skin of your teeth? Got an axe to grind about idioms? Wanna scream DOWN WITH PRESCRIPTIVISM instead of that tired old …
Feb 14
“Plural formation in Seeku (Mande, Burkina Faso)”
Check back soon for more information about our upcoming presentation by Prof. Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College): http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mcpherson/. Partially funded by your Student Activities fee. The Department of Romance Studies and the African Studies Center are co-sponsoring her talk: “Plural formation in Seeku (Mande, Burkina Faso)” Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 5:30 pm in Stone B50. …
Jan 13
“Is the man who is tall happy?”
Movie showing This event is now confirmed 🙂 Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 7 pm in CAS 522 With a brief introduction by Prof. Neil Myler, who will also lead a discussion afterwards.This event has been made possible by the Geddes Language Center.Light refreshments will be provided by the Department of Romance Studies. Everyone is …
Nov 06
It’s BANANAGRAMS time again…
on Wednesday, November 12 from 7:15 to 8:30pm in CAS 214 Everyone is welcome. No prior experience with Bananagrams is required 🙂
Oct 26
Presentation by Prof. Kie Zuraw (UCLA)
Of mice and (of) men: Phonological influences on the omissibility of French de in coordination Thursday, October 30, 2014 @ 6:45 PM in LSE B01 This is also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/367780246718018/ (RSVP appreciated but not required) Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies and the James Geddes, Jr., Lecture Series ABSTRACT. In English “pieces of …