Join us next Friday for the next talk in our speaker series! Demonstrative ku in Korean: Its prosodic and syntactic analyses Dr. Kyumin Kim (Chungbuk National University) and Dr. Emily Elfner (York University) Friday, Feb 13 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

Bring a dish from your home country (or a country near and dear to your heart) next week to share! Please be sure to mark what you’re bringing on the sign-up spreadsheet. We’ll see you in the grad lounge at 4pm!

Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Winter 2026, from the new colleague who joined the Linguistics Division this month :) Quandaries and the nature of grammars Dr. Diego Krivochen (University of Calgary) Friday, Jan 23 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212

This afternoon! Be there or be square—because you won’t be a-round. Also the aliens’ language is … Never mind.

Welcome back, everyone! We’re starting the year off strong with a screening and discussion of Arrival (2016). Join us in CHE 212 this Friday at 3pm. There will be popcorn!

I think now it’s safe to say this semester is wrapping up 🧶 Good luck with the rest of the writing & grading, and Happy Holidays to everyone :)

Our last Brownbag Series this semester is on Friday! 👏 Friday, Nov 28 | 3pm | CHE 212 During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!

Check out this year's ACOL highlights of our students' presentation! Part one - poster sessions & Part two - talk sessions 😎 Thank you so much for UAlberta hosting the Alberta Conference on Linguistics this year! Looking forward to seeing you all again in Calgary next year!

The third talk in our speaker series is this Friday! (The second talk this week!) External possession and multitransitivity Dr. María Cristina Cuervo (University of Toronto) Friday, Nov 21 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

The second talk in our speaker series this semester is this Wednesday! (We will have two talks this week, stay tuned!) A Syntax-Semantics Interface in an Extraterrestrial Language: A Thought Experiment Dr. Carol Tenny Wednesday, Nov 19 | 12:00pm | CHE 212

Join our trivia team, you will. Meet outside the Den in the basement of Mac Hall at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 18th. The event goes until 8:30pm.

I wish there were a Humans of Forvo. I’d love a profile of Bríd Eilís, say, who has uploaded 13k words and phrases of her Galway Irish. And imagine an interview with someone like user piral58: “You’ll soon have recorded and shared 100k words and phrases of Luxembourgish. What drives you, kind sir?”

At this year's @lingcomm.bsky.social conference, we learned that the UK has been celebrating National Linguistics Day on November 26th, and everyone immediately went, hey, can't we make that World Linguistics Day? Well, now it's only 20 days away, so time to get your celebration plans in order!

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

Coming back to our Brownbag Series this Friday! Friday, Nov 7 | 3pm | CHE 212 During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics! This week, we will discuss Engineering with Dr. Benjamin Tan from Schulich School of Engineering!

Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Fall 2025! What is that thing? Distributional Bootstrapping of Determiner Semantics Dr. Ana Pérez-Leroux' (University of Toronto) Friday, Oct 31 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212

It’s time to get spooky and solve some ghost mysteries! Our Halloween party is on Thursday, October 30th. Things kick off at 3pm. Be sure to wear a costume for a chance to win a prize!

This Friday! Continuing on our NEW brownbag series! We will explore Linguistics with Creative Performing Arts! 🎭 Fri, Oct 24 | 3pm | CHE 212 This week, we will have Ms. Jane MacFarlane, MFA, from School of Creative and Performing Arts.

The phonetics lab had a great time at Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences this weekend! There’s some really neat research out there. We loved checking in on what techniques other labs are utilizing, and sharing how we’re using free classification at the UofC.

One of these projects may or may not be my thesis

Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏 Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212 During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics! This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.

Congratulations to our PhD candidate, Vincent Nwosu, on being interviewed about his research by one of Nigeria's major newspapers 🎉! tribuneonlineng.com/nearly-300-n...

Welcome back, graduate students! We're kicking off the semester with a good ol' Meet & Greet. Pop by the grad lounge (CHC 212) between 12pm and 3pm to meet (or reunite with) your peers, grab some snacks, and stick around for some card games.

Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”

Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”. Congratulations also to Mahyar's supervisor, Dr. Dennis Storoshenko.

Big congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on successfully defending her MA thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children”!!

Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on the successful defence of her thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children.” Congratulations also to Cheryl's supervisor, Dr. Dimitrios Skordos!

The @cla-acl.bsky.social conference is over, but we're here at the LaTeX workshop!

“Two UCalgary linguists walk into an epidemiology lab …” www.ucalgary.ca/news/two-uca...

Hearing updates about the Canadian Language Museum at the Canadian Linguistics Association annual meeting, they have lots of traveling exhibitions all over the country! #linguistics #claacl2025 languagemuseum.ca

We're getting a much chiller start to the day at @cla-acl.bsky.social. On to Day 3!

Next poster session coming up!

Day 2 begins! @cla-acl.bsky.social

Currently at the Canadian Linguistics Association annual meeting hearing about this online "living dictionaries" tool for hosting dictionaries with audio/video/photo files for endangered, under-represented and diasporic languages #claacl2025 #linguistics livingdictionaries.app

Speaking of poster presentations...

We're out at @cla-acl.bsky.social this week! Follow along for the UCalgary highlights:

unusually difficult to pronounce name such that you have an ipa guide in your profile? call that pronounce in bio

UCalgary's Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) awards are out, and our very own Maria Mercedes Estrada-Caro is working with Dr. Storoshenko! Their project is titled Interaction of Gender Stereotypes and Language Processing in Spanish.

Procrastination ∝

UCalgary's Giving Day fundraiser is on for one more week! These funds go towards projects like financial assistance and scholarships for students, community engagement projects, and student learning and experience enhancements.

PhD student and Meta intern @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social “On the lack of queer voices in diverse speech datasets” with her Meta FAIR colleagues Anaelia Ovalle, Adina Williams and Levent Sagun at the Social Science and Language Models workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin on April 3–4

Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Kang Xu on the successful defence of his dissertation, “On the Syntax of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles: A Neo-Performative Analysis and its Implications.” Congratulations also to Kang's supervisor, Dr. Betsy Ritter!

Congratulations Dr (!) Kang Xu on successfully defending his PhD thesis, “On the syntax of Mandarin sentence-final particles: a neo-performative analysis and its implications.” Congrats also to the proud supervisor Dr. Ritter!

"speech is heir to flesh" is a pretty metal line

Giving Day is on now! For the next two weeks, the University is fundraising to enhance student learning and experiences, provide financial assistance and scholarships to students, and facilitate community engagement projects. Links to donate are in the next post 👇

i must share this *kiki*’s delivery service that i drew a couple of months ago:

UCalgary's Giving Day fundraiser is starting next week! These funds go towards projects like financial assistance and scholarships for students, community engagement projects, and student learning and experience enhancements. Stay tuned for details on how and where to donate.

Whoah! 🤯🤯🤯 There's some really cool acoustic phenomena happening here! theconversation.com/researchers-...

The final talk of the semester in our speaker series is this Friday! Linguistic inferences beyond words Dr. Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto) Friday, March 14 | 3:30pm | CHE 212