Nov 28
November 30th from 1 to 1:50 pm in CAS 224. Prof. Mara Breen is coming to talk to Boston University about her work in Prosody. A professor at Mount Holyoke College. Her abstract is below: Implicit prosody in reading: Listening to the little voice in our heads Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/136729799807354/ ABSTRACT: For over one hundred years, …
Sep 27
I hope everyone is really excited for Greg Scontras coming to Boston University on October 12th! (Because I know I am). A former Boston University Linguistics major, Greg is a Ph.D student at Harvard and is returning to Boston University to tell us about his research at Harvard. (Abstract below) Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/277254892393972/ …
Sep 09
Calling all linguistics and language enthusiasts! The first general meeting of the Boston University Linguistics Association (BULA) will be Wednesday, September 12th at 7pm in 621 Commonwealth Ave (Linguistics Conference Room Basement). We will be discussing possible events and activities for the 2012-2013 year. It’s going to be pretty informal, just introductions, our plan for the …
Apr 01
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
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.
Oct 15
Dr. Pierre Pica (UMR 7023 CNRS Paris), who has had a unique opportunity to visit the Mundurukú, an indigenous people of Brazil, will talk about the experience of conducting linguistic field work on a language that has a very limited vocabulary for numbers and geometry. His work has been published in Science (among other places) …
Sep 21
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
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!
Feb 05
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 …
