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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 …

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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

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 …

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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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Orthography Discussion Group

Join us on Tuesday, Feb 8th in 621 Comm Ave, B02 (basement of the Linguistics Program building) from 7:00-9:00 pm.

Linguistics comics

From the Arizona Linguistics Circle (graduate students at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona) comes this: