Congratulations to Prof. Diego Krivochen on his latest article, “EPP: can’t live with it, can’t raise without it,” in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are happy to announce that Dr. Diego Gabriel Krivochen will be joining our Division of Linguistics as a new assistant professor (LTA) in January 2026.

Join us tomorrow (Friday) for a discussion of connections between linguistics and medicine with Dr. Beverly Collisson, from the Cumming School of Medicine, Jomanna Sleiman, R. SLP-Registered Speech-Language Pathologist, and our very own Prof. Dimitrios Skordos

Our PhD candidate Jesse Weir presented “Imperative Phonetic Analysis” (with SFU Prof. Chung-hye Han) at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta

PhD candidate Francisco Ongay González presented “Prepositionless durative adverbials and telicity in Spanish” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta

PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu presented “Backchanneling in Igbo Oral Narrative: Forms and Functions” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta

MA student Sarah Krassman presented “Emic and Etic Perspectives of Iconicity: Phonology blocks iconic notions in L1 American Sign Language” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend in Edmonton at the University of Alberta

Dr. Dušan Nikolić (UCalgaryLing ’23) and Prof. Angeliki Athanasopoulou presented “Real Time Integration of Acoustic Cues of Lexical Pitch Accent: An Eye Tracking Study” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta. Go @dusannikolic.bsky.social!

PhD student Syed Sazzad presented “From Perception to Production: Transfer of L1 Acoustic Feature in L2 Stop Production” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held in Edmonton this weekend at the University of Alberta

PhD student Marina Slemender presented “The syntax-prosody interface of Pannonian Rusyn pronominal enclitics” at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held in Edmonton this weekend at the University of Alberta

BA (LING/PSYC) student Alexia Strutzenberger presented “Eye-tracking investigation of prosodic focus and context on sentence comprehension” (with Profs. Angeliki Athanasopoulou and Dimitrios Skordos) at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta

MA student Charys B. Russell presented “Effects of Variability and Level of Focus in L2 Learning: Examining the Phonetic Training Paradigm” at the annual Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton

PhD student Melissa Lazzari presented “Transitivization of monoargumental verbs and the SVO order in Brazilian Portuguese” at the annual Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton

MA student Allison Grothman presented “Contradiction as a window to noun meanings” (with Dr. Mathieu Paillé and Profs. Elizabeth Ritter and Dimitrios Skordos) at Alberta Conference on Linguistics (ACOL 2025) held this weekend at the University of Alberta in Edmonton

Go PhD candidate Syed Sazzad, Dr. Dušan Nikolić (UCalgaryLing ’23), and MA student Sarah Krassman!!!

Go PhD candidates Vincent Nwosu, Francisco Ongay González and Jesse Weir!!

Go Alexia Strutzenberger and Marina Slemender!!

Go Allison Grothman, Melissa Lazzari and Charys Russell!!

Job: phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, etc. “The French National Research Centre (CNRS) will soon be recruiting researchers ... SFL (Structures Formelles du Langage) welcomes applications to join our lab. ... Knowledge of French is not required.” linguistlist.org/issues/36/35...

Congratulations in advance to PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu for organizing a satellite workshop titled “Pitch at the crossroads: Experimental approaches to the language–music connection” labphon.org/labphon20/sa... at next year’s LabPhon20 labphon.org/labphon20/home

Job at University of Georgia Department of Linguistics: Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/458...

Calls: 20th Conference on Laboratory Phonology

Jobs: French; General Linguistics: Lecturer or Assistant Professor in Linguistics, University of Cyprus

Reminder: Please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the third talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “External possession and multitransitivity” by University of Toronto Professor María Cristina Cuervo

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

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon for a sure-to-be-interesting talk by Dr. Carol Tenny www.linguist.org on “A syntax-semantics interface in an extraterrestrial language: a thought experiment”

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.

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 us tomorrow (Fri) at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Dennis Storoshenko will talk with Engineering Prof. Benjamin Tan and PhD student & recent Meta intern Brooklyn Sheppard

Happy Halloween from A Higher Clause!

Reminder: please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the first talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “What is that thing? Distributional Bootstrapping of Determiner Semantics” by University of Toronto Professor Ana T. Pérez-Leroux

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

Some of our amazing profs and students talking to potential students and their families about our programs at today’s Open House, which an estimated 11,000 will attend!

Join us this Friday at 3pm in CHE 212 for the next event in the new Linguistics Brownbag Series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. This week Prof. Steve Winters will talk with Creative and Performing Arts Prof. Jane MacFarlane and Digital Projects Librarian Julia Guy!

Go @charysbrussell.bsky.social , @dusannikolic.bsky.social, @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social and @swinters.bsky.social!

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.

Join us this Friday at 3pm! This event is part of our new brownbag series, where we explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics. We’ll be exploring connections with Marketing this week, with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from our School of Business, and Dr. Svitlana Winters from the marketing industry

I'll be doing a workshop for Edmonton's LitFest that I've long wanted to put together! We'll be getting intimate with sentences, exploring the magic that can happen when you leverage language structure with skill and sensitivity. Saturday, Oct. 18, noon-2 pm. litfestalberta.org/event-1/work...

Phonology job at the other UofC: “The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Phonology with an expected start date of July 1, 2026” apply.interfolio.com/174988

Congrats to PhD student Vincent Nwosu on being interviewed about his research by a major newspaper in Nigeria tribuneonlineng.com/nearly-300-n...

Charys Russell, my TA extraordinaire for LING 227 (rap linguistics), just gave an excellent lecture on rhyme strengthening (Komaniecki 2020) and pitch rhyming — Charys’s own discovery, which she promises to write up soon enough. Students loved it, and one told Charys that she should teach full-time!

Jobs: Phonetics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Pomona College

“The Dept. of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, invites applications for a tenure track position (rank open) in linguistics, incl. but not limited to PHONOLOGY, generative syntax, and computational ling.” linguistlist.org/issues/36/27...

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”

List of linguistics and language podcasts compiled by Lauren Gawne www.superlinguo.com/post/7940729...

“University of Calgary PhD student Francisco Ongay González takes the prize for best student poster presentation at this year's Canadian Linguistic Association Conference” news.ucalgary.ca/news/linguis...

cf. these @ucalgaryling.bsky.social PhD theses: “Conflict resolution in the Spanish SLA of Yucatec ejectives” by Antonio González-Poot ’11 hdl.handle.net/1880/105228 “Adult acquisition of Kaqchikel (Mayan) plain and glottalized stop consonants” by @brettc.bsky.social ’23 hdl.handle.net/1880/117817

Congratulations indeed! Everyone should also read Dr. Bacanlı’s 2021 book by the same publisher, “Irregularities in Turkic languages” doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...

Congratulations to Adjunct Associate Professor Dr. Eyüp Bacanlı on his latest article, “Stem allomorphy in Southwestern Turkish dialects” (with Prof. Flynn) www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Turkic_Langu...