SLUGS hoodies are officially here!!

 

The Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students is selling the linguistics hoodies pictured here! For just $45 you can finally rep your linguistics program and support TULCON! 

Hoodies will be sold in-person during SLUGS office hours (Tuesdays 19:00-20:00 or Wednesdays 17:00-18:00) in SS568, or you can reserve your order using the Stripe link (https://buy.stripe.com/5kA4hz9s28aYepGcMM) and pick it up during office hours. 

 

All proceeds fund TULCON and future SLUGS initiatives!

(H)LVC Fondue Party 2023

 The Language Variation and Change (LVC) Research Group and RAs from the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project (HLVC) celebrated the coming of winter with their annual fondue party. 

There was fondue...

Alexei & Hassan prep baguettes

Nick's cheese is the stretchiest; Kirill, Siyi and Laura miss it, though!

Julian debates diverse chocolate desserts.

 

a Draw a Snowperson on your head contest...

Kirill shows us how it's done.

Our art.

and great gifts exchanged (and exchanged and exchanged) in the Yankee Swap!

Patrick and the holiday hat

Hassan and the holiday hat

Red-and-grey day

Several times recently, multiple faculty members have unwittingly selected the same colour palette for the day. Here, Craig Chambers (faculty), Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty), and Derek Denis (faculty) provide an example (photo courtesy of Sali).

Freaky Friday

Did someone tell Marisa Brook (faculty) and Sadaf Kalami (MA) to try to dress as similarly as possible on Friday the 4th? Nope, but Gabrielle Dumais (MA) pointed out that it sure looked like it!

Coordinated coral colleagues

July around the department is normally quiet, but this at least frees up some time for everyone - up to and including our hard-working department chair, Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty) - to get some research done! Here, Sali and Katharina Pabst (Ph.D.) have a chance to work on the final revisions for a paper going into the Journal of English Linguistics - and discover an ability to be synchronized in more than one way!

Talk by Dennis Preston

"Dennis Preston, Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, visited our Department on Feb. 25. SLUGS and the LVC group hosted a talk by him, "Does language regard vary" - an interesting overview of recent research on variation in language attitudes.

 Dennis, Jack and Claire coordinated their colours for the event.

Dennis and Carol Preston and Jack and Sue Chambers enjoyed Mercurio

Linguists Show their Stripes

...just another Wednesday!

(photo courtesty of Sali Tagliamonte)

Black Monday

Left to Right: Professors Sali Tagliamonte, Yoonjung Kang, Diane Massam, Michela Ippolito

Snapshot from a particularly well-coordinated faculty meeting earlier this week....

Ringing in the New (Academic) Year

Last Friday we had our welcome reception for the 2012-2013 academic year, welcoming the newest members of our department. We also recognized several achievements by members of the department, including new appointments of tenure (Cristina Cuervo, Michela Ippolito, and Alexei Kochetov) and the successful completion of the MA program by last year's cohort (Erin Brassell, Julie Doner, Erin Hall, Shannon Mooney, Kyle Weishaar, and Tomohiro Yokoyama). We also announced that Ross Godfrey was the winner of the first Elan Dresher Award, which is to be awarded annually to the graduate student who writes the best phonology course paper.

Elizabeth's official welcome

Jack's annual toast

Midway through the party, we noticed that many of the attending linguists were unintentionally colour-coordinated!