Dear list members:
Greetings! I'm writing on behalf of the Emerging Scholars Organizing
Committee at BU Linguistics <https://ling.bu.edu/> to invite you to our
Emerging Scholars Speaker Series this spring. This virtual talk series will
consist of six speakers:
- Feb. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-5): Megan Figueroa
<http://meganfigueroa.com/> (U. of Arizona)
- "Rethinking English past tense overregularizations"
- Mar. 19, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Jhonnatan Rangel
<https://inalco.academia.edu/jhonnatanrangel> (INALCO Paris)
- "Words like the wind: Documenting variation in critically
endangered languages"
- Mar. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Nandi Sims
<https://nandisims.github.io/> (Ohio State U.)
- "The effects of ethnic and social group identities on the
linguistic variation of Black middle schoolers"
- Apr. 2, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Gladys Camacho-Rios
<https://gladyscr26.wixsite.com/gladys-camacho-rios/home> (UT Austin)
- "Morphological variation in South Bolivian Quechua: A new approach
to Quechuan typology"
- Apr. 16, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Megan Burkhardt-Reed
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Burkhardt-Reed> (U. of
Memphis)
- "Exploring the roles of voice and gesture in early communication
development"
- Apr. 30, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Rachel Elizabeth Weissler
<https://sites.google.com/view/rachel-elizabeth-weissler> (U. of
Michigan)
- "How do our experiences influence perception? Exploring the
intersection of sociolinguistics and cognitive processing"
All talks are free and open to the public. Select talks will be
livestreamed on the BU Linguistics YouTube channel <http://bit.ly/bulingyt>.
To participate in the Q&A, advance registration is required at:
bit.ly/bulingspring21
These events are made possible by the financial support of BU's Office of
the Provost <https://www.bu.edu/provost/> and CAS Dean's Office
<https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/dean-of-arts-sciences/>. Questions
may be directed to any member of the Emerging Scholars Organizing Committee
(Kate Lindsey <https://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey>, Danny Erker
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/erker>, & Charles Chang
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/chang>). We hope to see you at one or more of
these events!
Kind regards,
Charles (on behalf of the Emerging Scholars Organizing Committee)
--
Charles B. Chang (he/him/his)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Boston University
w: cbchang.com
