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