BULA's first event of the semester will be a co-sponsored event with the
Linguistics Program Colloquium series and with the generous support of the
CAS Academic Enhancement Fund and it is happening *TODAY!*
"Acquisition, Loss, and Change in Southern Quechua and Spanish: What
happened to evidential marking?" by Susan E. Kalt.
*Linguistics Colloquium series: Susan E. Kalt*
*When: Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 5:15 pm*
*Where: CAS B12 (675 Commonwealth Ave
<https://maps.google.com/?q=675+Commonwealth+Ave&entry=gmail&source=g>,
also basement of CAS)*
*Title: Acquisition, Loss, and Change in Southern Quechua and Spanish: What
happened to evidential marking?*
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More information is on the BU Linguistics Program facebook page, here:
https://www.facebook.com/BULinguistics/
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Good Afternoon Everybody!
Brought to you by BU NSSLHA and the Sargent Speech department, *SLP** Career
Night* is open to any undergraduates interested in learning more about
Speech-Language Pathology (majors and non-majors are both welcome)!
If you've never considered being an SLP as an option, come to the panel and
discussion to learn more about the profession and its variety of career
options.
*When?** 26 February 2018, 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm. *
*Where? **Sargent College, Rm 610.*
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Hi again Everybody!!
BULA's first event of the semester will be a co-sponsored event with the
Linguistics Program Colloquium series and with the generous support of the
CAS Academic Enhancement Fund.
"Acquisition, Loss, and Change in Southern Quechua and Spanish: What
happened to evidential marking?" by Susan E. Kalt.
*Linguistics Colloquium series: Susan E. Kalt*
*When: Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 5:15 pm*
*Where: CAS B12 (725 Commonwealth Ave)*
*Description: *This event in the Linguistics Colloquium is about language
acquisition and language attrition in rural areas in Peru and Bolivia, and
the complex relationship between Southern Quechua and Spanish, as well as
between their respective speakers in the region. See the abstract on the
attached flyer for more details.
We hope to see you all there!
More information about this event is on the BU Linguistics Program facebook
page, here: https://www.facebook.com/BULinguistics/
Also, BULA is still organizing the rest of this semesters events and we
will announce the rest of the calendar soon!
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Hello Everybody!
BULA's first event of the semester will be a co-sponsored event with the
Linguistics Program Colloquium series and with the generous support of the
CAS Academic Enhancement Fund.
"Acquisition, Loss, and Change in Southern Quechua and Spanish: What
happened to evidential marking?" by Susan E. Kalt.
*Linguistics Colloquium series: Susan E. Kalt*
*When: Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 5:15 pm*
*Where: STO B50 (675 Commonwealth Ave
<https://maps.google.com/?q=675+Commonwealth+Ave&entry=gmail&source=g>,
also basement of CAS)*
*Description: *This event in the Linguistics Colloquium is about language
acquisition and language attrition in rural areas in Peru and Bolivia, and
the complex relationship between Southern Quechua and Spanish, as well as
between their respective speakers in the region. See the abstract on the
attached flyer for more details.
We hope to see you all there!
More information about this event is on the BU Linguistics Program facebook
page, here: https://www.facebook.com/BULinguistics/
Also, BULA is still organizing the rest of this semesters events and we
will announce the rest of the calendar soon!
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Hello everyone,
Don't forget that the final linguistics colloquium of the semester is just
a couple of days away (see also the attached flyer):
*Speaker: Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland; Visiting Professor at MIT)*
*Title: How phonetic learners should use their input*
*When: Thursday, Dec 7, 5:30pm*
*Where: **Life Sciences and Engineering (24 Cummington Mall) Room B01*
*Abstract: *Children have impressive statistical learning abilities. In
phonetic category acquisition, for example, they are sensitive to the
distributional properties of sounds in their input. However, knowing that
children have statistical learning abilities is only a small part of
understanding how they make use of their input during language acquisition.
This work uses Bayesian models to examine three basic assumptions that go
into statistical learning theories: the structure of learners' hypothesis
space, the way in which input data are sampled, and the features of the
input that learners attend to. Simulations show that although a naïve view
of statistical learning may not support robust phonetic category
acquisition, there are several ways in which learners can potentially
benefit by leveraging the rich statistical structure of their input.
*RSVP on Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/>*
Thanks also to everyone who came and made How to Create Your Own Language
Night such a success on Friday. As promised, attached are the materials
from the event (which might also be of interest to those who couldn't make
it that night). See you next semester for more great BULA events, and this
Thursday for the linguistics colloquium!
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Hello BULA-ers,
Just a reminder that we have a couple of excellent linguistics-related
events coming up in the next week, starting with the final BULA event of
the semester, tomorrow's How to Create Your Own Language Night!
*How to Create Your Own Language Night*
*When: Friday, Dec 1, 6pm*
*Where: CAS B18*
*Description: *Join BULA for a workshop where you'll be given a quick guide
on how to create a constructed language (along the lines of Klingon from
Star Trek, Dothraki from Game of Thrones, etc.), and then you'll get to
work on creating the basic elements of your very own conlang, with guidance
from Prof. Neil Myler. Pizza will be provided!
*RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/688546351335903/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/688546351335903/> *
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Also, don't forget that the Linguistics Program's final Colloquium of the
semester is taking place next Thursday:
*Speaker: Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland; Visiting Professor at MIT)*
*Title: How phonetic learners should use their input*
*When: Thursday, Dec 7, 5:30pm*
*Where: **Life Sciences and Engineering (24 Cummington Mall) Room B01*
*Abstract: *Children have impressive statistical learning abilities. In
phonetic category acquisition, for example, they are sensitive to the
distributional properties of sounds in their input. However, knowing that
children have statistical learning abilities is only a small part of
understanding how they make use of their input during language acquisition.
This work uses Bayesian models to examine three basic assumptions that go
into statistical learning theories: the structure of learners' hypothesis
space, the way in which input data are sampled, and the features of the
input that learners attend to. Simulations show that although a naïve view
of statistical learning may not support robust phonetic category
acquisition, there are several ways in which learners can potentially
benefit by leveraging the rich statistical structure of their input.
*RSVP on Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/>*
Hope to see many of you there!
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Hello everyone,
BULA's final event of the semester will be taking place just over three
weeks from now, so mark your calendars:
*How to Create Your Own Language Night*
*When: Friday, Dec 1, 6pm*
*Where: CAS B18*
*Description: *Join BULA for a workshop where you'll be given a quick guide
on how to create a constructed language (along the lines of Klingon from
Star Trek, Dothraki from Game of Thrones, etc.), and then you'll get to
work on creating the basic elements of your very own conlang, with guidance
from Prof. Neil Myler. Pizza will be provided!
*RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/688546351335903/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/688546351335903/> *
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The Linguistics Program also has two very exciting colloquia coming up in
the next month or so, which many BULA members will be interested in.
*Speaker: Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon--also a BU alumn)*
*Title: Perception of Non-native speech*
*When: Thursday, Nov 16, 5:15pm*
*Where: Life Sciences and Engineering (24 Cummington Mall) Room B01*
*Abstract: *Listening to non-native speech often provides a significant
challenge for native speakers of a language. While substantial work has
examined how non-native speech differs from native speech, relatively
little work has examined how native listeners perceive this speech. In this
talk, I will present studies examining what factors might influence how
native speakers perceive and can adapt to non-native speech. Experiments 1
and 2 examine how perception of non-native speech compares to the
perception of other unfamiliar types of speech and, and what cognitive and
linguistic factors might influence listeners’ abilities to perceive these
types of unfamiliar speech. Experiment 3 investigates how native listeners
adapt to non-native speech over time, and how exposure to speakers from
different backgrounds may influence this adaptation. In Experiment 4, I
will present production data investigating some global properties of
non-native production that may influence perception of this speech by
non-native speakers. I will discuss the implications of these studies for
our understanding of non-native speech, and for perception more broadly.
*RSVP on Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/events/1399840486799971/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1399840486799971/>*
*Speaker: Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland; Visiting Professor at MIT)*
*Title: How phonetic learners should use their input*
*When: Thursday, Dec 7, 5:30pm*
*Where: **Life Sciences and Engineering (24 Cummington Mall) Room B01*
*Abstract: *Children have impressive statistical learning abilities. In
phonetic category acquisition, for example, they are sensitive to the
distributional properties of sounds in their input. However, knowing that
children have statistical learning abilities is only a small part of
understanding how they make use of their input during language acquisition.
This work uses Bayesian models to examine three basic assumptions that go
into statistical learning theories: the structure of learners' hypothesis
space, the way in which input data are sampled, and the features of the
input that learners attend to. Simulations show that although a naïve view
of statistical learning may not support robust phonetic category
acquisition, there are several ways in which learners can potentially
benefit by leveraging the rich statistical structure of their input.
*RSVP on Facebook: **https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/846247092203474/>*
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Hello everyone,
Thanks very much to everyone who attended African Languages Night on
Monday, it was a fantastic event!
We're currently working on arrangements for BULA's final event of the
semester, a workshop on How to Create Your Own Language. We'll announce
the date and venue as soon as we can once those are finalized. In the
meantime, here's some news about a couple of language and
linguistics-related events happening at BU next week. Take a look at the
descriptions below, and the attached flyers. Hope to see you there!
*Undergraduate Linguistics Open House*
*When:* Monday, 10/23, 5.15pm
*Where:* LSE (24 Cummington Mall) Room 103
*RSVP Appreciated by email to carol(a)bu.edu <carol(a)bu.edu> or on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/events/133582927281723/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/133582927281723/> *
*BU undergraduates (or prospective undergraduates) interested in finding
out more about Linguistics, our courses and degree offerings, and/or the BU
Undergraduate Linguistics Association (BULA) are welcome! Come meet other
students and faculty members who share an interest in this area.
**Refreshments
will be served!*
*Fall Language and Careers Expo*
*When: *Thursday, 10/26, 4-6pm
*Where*: Yawkey 613 (100 Bay State Road)
*RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994005667544387/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1994005667544387/>*
*Find out about Spring 2018 course offerings and opportunities for study
abroad, internships, and scholarships! Meet representatives from local and
international organizations who are interested in recruiting students with
language skills! Network with BU graduates who are using their language
skills on the job! Refreshments will be served!*
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Dear all,
This is just a quick reminder that BULA's African Languages Night is taking
place today from 5-6pm in the Psychology Building (64-86 Cummington Mall),
room B51.
See you there! (And also at the CAS Major Fair, right afterwards over on
the 6th floor of 100 Bay State Road)
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Neil Myler <myler(a)bu.edu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Please join us for the second BULA event of the semester: African
> Languages Night!
>
> *When:* Monday, October 16
> *Where:* PSY B51 (Psychology Building is at 64-86 Cummington Mall)
> *Time:* 5pm-6pm
>
> *Event Description:* Come and hear Prof. Zoli Mali give us a brief
> introduction to the languages of South Africa, followed by a hands-on
> language lesson on Zulu and Xhosa, taking in click sounds, agreement
> patterns, and more!
>
> This event is also a facebook event; please RSVP if you can:
> https://www.facebook.com/events/179131932663060
>
> Alternatively, you can RSVP here if you don't have facebook:
> https://goo.gl/forms/53VD4vJyUr87JFsq2
>
> And don't forget to check out the Linguistics table at the CAS Major Fair,
> right after this event from 6pm onwards on the 6th floor of 100 Bay State
> Road!
>
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>
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Dear all,
Please join us for the second BULA event of the semester: African Languages
Night!
*When:* Monday, October 16
*Where:* PSY B51 (Psychology Building is at 64-86 Cummington Mall)
*Time:* 5pm-6pm
*Event Description:* Come and hear Prof. Zoli Mali give us a brief
introduction to the languages of South Africa, followed by a hands-on
language lesson on Zulu and Xhosa, taking in click sounds, agreement
patterns, and more!
This event is also a facebook event; please RSVP if you can:
https://www.facebook.com/events/179131932663060
Alternatively, you can RSVP here if you don't have facebook:
https://goo.gl/forms/53VD4vJyUr87JFsq2
And don't forget to check out the Linguistics table at the CAS Major Fair,
right after this event from 6pm onwards on the 6th floor of 100 Bay State
Road!
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