University of Toronto Department of Linguistics Blog
June 12, 2014
Congratulations, Premier Wynne!
Congratulations to alumna Kathleen Wynne (MA 1980), who is now an elected Premier of Ontario! She was appointed Premier in February 2013 after the resignation of Dalton McGuinty; now, following a nail-biting three-way battle in a provincial election that even just yesterday was too close to call, Wynne has led the Liberal Party of Ontario to a surprise majority government.
June 11, 2014
Conference on Aboriginal language use at the Jackman Humanities Institute
(Post courtesy of Alana Johns.)
Thursday June 19th - Sunday June 22nd 2014
ᓃᐱᐣ (Summer)
Speech Acts and Joyous Utterances
Translating, Teaching, Learning and Living
Indigenous Tribalographies Conference
As Indigenous people in Canada struggle to revitalize and preserve our languages, we are faced with some interesting challenges. Regardless of our level of proficiency with an Aboriginal language, learners and teachers alike are carried into the necessary project of translation—translation of treaties (paper, wampum, covenant chains, medals), of earth works, or of oral archives (story, song, regalia, ceremonial objects). The “written” archives that have been left for Indigenous peoples across Canada present those of us who labor to recover our cultural legacies with unique challenges and compelling questions. Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, the conference will bring together community members, scholars, speakers and students of Indigenous languages to engage with the questions and challenges that speak to the acquisition and preservation of Indigenous languages.
Keynote Address by Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Panel Presentations
Interactive Language Workshops
University of Toronto Libraries Installation
Free and open to all.
To see the full conference schedule and to register, visit aboriginalstudies.utoronto.ca.
Thursday June 19th - Sunday June 22nd 2014
ᓃᐱᐣ (Summer)
Speech Acts and Joyous Utterances
Translating, Teaching, Learning and Living
Indigenous Tribalographies Conference
As Indigenous people in Canada struggle to revitalize and preserve our languages, we are faced with some interesting challenges. Regardless of our level of proficiency with an Aboriginal language, learners and teachers alike are carried into the necessary project of translation—translation of treaties (paper, wampum, covenant chains, medals), of earth works, or of oral archives (story, song, regalia, ceremonial objects). The “written” archives that have been left for Indigenous peoples across Canada present those of us who labor to recover our cultural legacies with unique challenges and compelling questions. Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, the conference will bring together community members, scholars, speakers and students of Indigenous languages to engage with the questions and challenges that speak to the acquisition and preservation of Indigenous languages.
Keynote Address by Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Panel Presentations
Interactive Language Workshops
University of Toronto Libraries Installation
Free and open to all.
To see the full conference schedule and to register, visit aboriginalstudies.utoronto.ca.
June 10, 2014
HLVC happenings
(Post courtesy of Naomi Nagy.)
It's been a busy week and a half for the HLVC project. On behalf of his colleagues - undergrads Naomi Cui, Vina Law, and Minyi Zhu, and faculty member Naomi Nagy - visiting student Holman Tse presented our ongoing analysis of variation in Heritage Cantonese speakers' vowel production at CVC 8 in Kingston.
Simultaneously, Naomi reported on variation in pro-drop patterns in Heritage and Homeland Faetar and Italian at the Contatto Interlinguistico conference in Pescara, Italy. It was her first time presenting at a conference where there was another talk about Faetar. Here she is with fellow Faetar researcher Carmela Perta:
Then Naomi zipped off to Szeged, Hungary, for a day to help an urban
dialectology group there get up to speed with analysis in ELAN. Here she is with their team:
...and with (2012) visiting student Timea Molnár, also working on pro-drop, but in Heritage Hungarian :
With Naomi and Timi is the man who won a Nobel Prize for extracting vitamin C from paprika. (Szeged is the paprika capital of Hungary.)
And just for good measure, coffee and snacks at a highway truck-stop between Szeged and Budapest.
It's been a busy week and a half for the HLVC project. On behalf of his colleagues - undergrads Naomi Cui, Vina Law, and Minyi Zhu, and faculty member Naomi Nagy - visiting student Holman Tse presented our ongoing analysis of variation in Heritage Cantonese speakers' vowel production at CVC 8 in Kingston.
Simultaneously, Naomi reported on variation in pro-drop patterns in Heritage and Homeland Faetar and Italian at the Contatto Interlinguistico conference in Pescara, Italy. It was her first time presenting at a conference where there was another talk about Faetar. Here she is with fellow Faetar researcher Carmela Perta:
Then Naomi zipped off to Szeged, Hungary, for a day to help an urban
dialectology group there get up to speed with analysis in ELAN. Here she is with their team:
...and with (2012) visiting student Timea Molnár, also working on pro-drop, but in Heritage Hungarian :
With Naomi and Timi is the man who won a Nobel Prize for extracting vitamin C from paprika. (Szeged is the paprika capital of Hungary.)
And just for good measure, coffee and snacks at a highway truck-stop between Szeged and Budapest.
June 9, 2014
Undergraduate Paul Poirier wins JHI Fellowship
Paul Poirier, undergraduate linguistics student, has been awarded one of 6 Jackman Humanities Institute Undergraduate Fellowships, 2014-2015. The theme this year is humour, play, and games. Paul's project is "Playing with Words: A syntactic analysis of verse." He will be working with JHI Faculty Research Fellow Supervisor Professor Simon Dickie
Paul's project will examine word play in poetry and song and determine whether or not it conforms to the same principles as those that constrain everyday language. He will also consider other forms of word play (e.g. language games) to explore on a larger scale what role (if any) UG plays in creative language use.
Congratulations, Paul!
Paul's project will examine word play in poetry and song and determine whether or not it conforms to the same principles as those that constrain everyday language. He will also consider other forms of word play (e.g. language games) to explore on a larger scale what role (if any) UG plays in creative language use.
Congratulations, Paul!
June 2, 2014
Congratulations, Dr. Belanger!
Hats off to Suzanne Belanger, who successfully defended her dissertation, "Regeneration in Recall and Verb Phrase Ellipsis" on May 30. This thesis was supervised by Ron Smyth. On the committee were Craig Chambers, Ana-Teresa Perez-Leroux, Rena Helms-Park, Yves Roberge and (external) Jeff Runner (University of Rochester). Congratulations, Suzanne!
May 29, 2014
Change and Variation in Canada 8
CVC 8 is taking place in Kingston, Ontario,
this weekend, hosted by the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University. The program is full of U of T sociolinguists; in particular, undergraduates are unusually well-represented. Current members of the department taking
part are:
Marisa Brook (Ph.D.)
A peripheral view of change from above:
Prestige forms over time in a medium-sized community.
Naomi Cui (BA), Minyi Zhu (BA), Vina Law (BA),
Holman Tse (visiting student, originally from the University of Pittsburgh), and Naomi Nagy (faculty)
Exploring automated formant analysis for
comparative variationist study of Heritage Cantonese and English.
Derek Denis (Ph.D.)
A variationist perspective on epistemic
parentheticals in Ontario.
Aaron Dinkin (faculty)
A phonological variable in a textual
medium: (ing) in online chat.
Shayna Gardiner (Ph.D.)
Prized possessions: Variation in Ancient
Egyptian possession.
Jim Smith (Ph.D.)
Sociophonetic variation in Northern Ontario
vowels: A first look.
Martin Sneath (BA)
Emigrants, isolation, urban influx:
Variable (ing) in Haliburton, Ontario.
Ph.D. alumnae Nicole Rosen
(University of Manitoba) and Alexandra D'Arcy (University of Victoria) are co-authors
on a presentation with colleague Jillian Ankutowicz (University of Lethbridge):
What have we been do-een? (ing) is not
binary.
Other department attendees include Matt Hunt Gardner (Ph.D.), Alex Motut (Ph.D.), Ruth Maddeaux (MA), and Michael Iannozzi (BA).
Other department attendees include Matt Hunt Gardner (Ph.D.), Alex Motut (Ph.D.), Ruth Maddeaux (MA), and Michael Iannozzi (BA).
Diane Massam at AFLA 21
Diane at AFLA 21 in Hawaii
Elizabeth Cowper at Spring Reunion
Elizabeth Cowper is giving a lecture entitled 'Looking Into the Future' which will take place as part of Spring Reunion on Thursday, May 29 from 7-9 pm in the Linguistics Lounge at the University of Toronto. This lecture is open to all students, alumni, faculty and friends!
Abstract: Currently, linguists disagree as to whether the future is best seen as a tense, along with present and past, or as a modal element, along with notions like possibility, necessity, obligation, and ability. For example, present-day English marks the future with the modal element will, whereas in Romance languages there is typically a morphological future tense form. I will discuss my ongoing research into how the expression of futurity in English has changed since the 10th century. English modals (can, will, may, might, etc.) emerged as a special class only around 1500, and will and shall began to be used as future markers only in Middle English. Comparing four versions of the Gospels (the 10th-Century Anglo-Saxon Gospels, the 14th-Century Purvey version of the Wycliffe Bible, the 16th-Century King James version, as well as the Vulgate Latin Bible from which the other three were translated), I will talk about how the expression of futurity developed, and what this says about whether the future is a tense or a mood.
Abstract: Currently, linguists disagree as to whether the future is best seen as a tense, along with present and past, or as a modal element, along with notions like possibility, necessity, obligation, and ability. For example, present-day English marks the future with the modal element will, whereas in Romance languages there is typically a morphological future tense form. I will discuss my ongoing research into how the expression of futurity in English has changed since the 10th century. English modals (can, will, may, might, etc.) emerged as a special class only around 1500, and will and shall began to be used as future markers only in Middle English. Comparing four versions of the Gospels (the 10th-Century Anglo-Saxon Gospels, the 14th-Century Purvey version of the Wycliffe Bible, the 16th-Century King James version, as well as the Vulgate Latin Bible from which the other three were translated), I will talk about how the expression of futurity developed, and what this says about whether the future is a tense or a mood.
May 28, 2014
Psycholinguistics Group (May 31)
The psycholinguistics group is resuming meetings this week (May 31), with a guest speaker from
the University of Rochester. Jeff Runner will present his work entitled "Verb specific transitivity biases in verb phrase ellipsis". You can read more about Jeff here.
The meeting starts at 9:30am and will take place in Sid Smith 560A.
The next meetings are scheduled for June 13 (Inge Alferink, PSY, UTM) and
June 27, followed by a break for July and August.
the University of Rochester. Jeff Runner will present his work entitled "Verb specific transitivity biases in verb phrase ellipsis". You can read more about Jeff here.
The meeting starts at 9:30am and will take place in Sid Smith 560A.
The next meetings are scheduled for June 13 (Inge Alferink, PSY, UTM) and
June 27, followed by a break for July and August.
Congratulations, Sandrine!
Congratulations to Sandrine Tailleur (Phd 2012), who has accepted a tenure-stream position at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. As of August 1st, she will be an assistant professor (in French: professeur régulier) in the Linguistics and Modern Languages department (Unité de linguistique et langues). The department offers both a BA and an MA program in linguistics.
May 26, 2014
Congratulations, Maddie and Holly!
Alumni wedding! Maddie Shellgren and Holly
Young (both MA 2011) were married on May 24, 2014, in Montgomery, Vermont. Maddie
and Holly met in the U of T MA program in September 2010, started dating in early 2011, and became engaged in March 2012. They are both currently at Michigan
State University; Maddie is a Ph.D. student in sociolinguistics, and Holly is doing
an MA in speech pathology.
A large number of U of T linguists took a road trip down to Vermont for the wedding! In attendance were Derek
Denis (Ph.D.) and Alex Motut (Ph.D.); Sarah Clarke (Ph.D. 2013) and Radu Craioveanu
(Ph.D.); James Byrnes (MA 2011) and Michelle Stella (BA 2010); Jim Smith (Ph.D.)
and his wife Deborah; Ruth Maddeaux (MA) and her husband Barn Costello; Ross
Godfrey (Ph.D.); Marisa Brook (Ph.D.); and Andrei Anghelescu (MA 2011, now at the
University of British Columbia). Radu, James, Michelle, Marisa, Ross, and Andrei were all in Holly and Maddie's MA cohort in 2010-2011.
(Photos courtesy of Radu.)
(Photos courtesy of Radu.)
Maddie & Holly's ceremony
A brief downpour after the ceremony.
Table 1: Marisa, Jim, Deborah, Alex, Derek, Ruth, Barn
Table 2: Radu, Sarah, Ross, Andrei, James, Michelle
Peering through the window.
Cake!
The whole Toronto crowd!
(Michelle, James, Derek, Alex, Sarah, Radu, Barn, Ruth,
Holly, Maddie, Andrei, Ross, Marisa, Deborah, Jim)
Leslie Saxon wins Craigdarroch Award
Congratulations to alumna Leslie Saxon (MA 1979) of the University of Victoria, who has been awarded a Craigdarroch Research Award for Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization. The award recognizes Leslie's important contributions to language revitalization efforts in the Northwest Territories. You can read more about this great honour here.
Jila Ghomeshi wins National Achievement Award
Congratulations to alumna Jila Ghomeshi (Ph.D. 1996) who was awarded the National Achievement Award at this year's CLA. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field and to the community.
Past recipients include faculty members Keren Rice (2013) and Jack Chambers (2010).
Past recipients include faculty members Keren Rice (2013) and Jack Chambers (2010).
CLA 2014
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association wraps up today at Brock University. As usual, there has been a strong U of T presence, with contributions from many department members past and present.
Current members of the department who presented include:
Bronwyn Bjorkman (postdoc) and Elizabeth Cowper (faculty)
Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds
Cristina Cuervo (faculty) (with Gabrielle Klassen)
An imperfect representation: The preterit–imperfect contrast in syntactic theory and SLA
Paul Poirier (Undergraduate)
Malay/Indonesian voice and pseudo-incorporation
Julianne Doner (Ph.D.)
Dimensions of variation of the EPP
Liisa Duncan (Ph.D.)
Synchronic productivity of Finnish vowel harmony
Clarissa Forbes (Ph.D.)
On the absence of nominal coordination in Gitksan
Naomi Francis (MA)
This predicate is tasty: Predicates of personal taste, faultless disagreement, and the ideal judge
Julie Goncharov (Ph.D.)
Many and determiner systems in English and Russian
Jessica Mathie (Ph.D.)
Markedness in number features: Evidence from Ganggalida (Yukulta)
Daniel Milway (Ph.D.)
Null pronouns in English: Evidence from particle verb constructions
Avery Ozburn (MA)
Statistical co-occurrence restrictions in Oromo consonants
Maida Percival (MA)
Variation in ejectives in Harar Oromo
Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty) (with Malina Radu, Gabrielle Klassen, Laura Colantoni, Matthew Patience, and Olga Tararova)
The perception of intonational contours: a cross-linguistic study
Christopher Spahr (Ph.D.)
Restricting non-segmental contrasts
Alumni who presented include:
Richard Compton (McGill)
An argument for genuine object agreement in Inuit
Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Who are we talking to when we talk to ‘the public’ about linguistics?
Carrie Gillon (Arizona State) (with Solveiga Armoskaite)
Aspectual conditions on (in)definiteness
Daniel Currie Hall (Saint Mary’s University)
On substance in phonology
Sara Mackenzie (Memorial University) (with Erin Olson, Meghan Clayards, and Michael Wagner)
Allophonic variation in English /l/: production, perception, and segmentation
Will Oxford (University of Manitoba)
The rise and fall of split-ergative agreement in Algonquian
Marina Sherkina-Lieber (Carleton University)
Monolingual and bilingual children’s production of Russian embedded yes–no questions
In addition to the main session, there was a joint session with the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics on the revitalization of First Nations languages, organized by Keren Rice (faculty). This session included presentations by alumni:
Carrie Dyck (Memorial University) (with Amos Key, Jr.)
An immersion program for intermediate-level speakers
Marguerite MacKenzie (Memorial University)
Language maintenance in East Cree, Naskapi and Innu: A forty-year perspective
Current members of the department who presented include:
Bronwyn Bjorkman (postdoc) and Elizabeth Cowper (faculty)
Possession and necessity: from individuals to worlds
Cristina Cuervo (faculty) (with Gabrielle Klassen)
An imperfect representation: The preterit–imperfect contrast in syntactic theory and SLA
Paul Poirier (Undergraduate)
Malay/Indonesian voice and pseudo-incorporation
Julianne Doner (Ph.D.)
Dimensions of variation of the EPP
Liisa Duncan (Ph.D.)
Synchronic productivity of Finnish vowel harmony
Clarissa Forbes (Ph.D.)
On the absence of nominal coordination in Gitksan
Naomi Francis (MA)
This predicate is tasty: Predicates of personal taste, faultless disagreement, and the ideal judge
Julie Goncharov (Ph.D.)
Many and determiner systems in English and Russian
Jessica Mathie (Ph.D.)
Markedness in number features: Evidence from Ganggalida (Yukulta)
Daniel Milway (Ph.D.)
Null pronouns in English: Evidence from particle verb constructions
Avery Ozburn (MA)
Statistical co-occurrence restrictions in Oromo consonants
Maida Percival (MA)
Variation in ejectives in Harar Oromo
Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux (faculty) (with Malina Radu, Gabrielle Klassen, Laura Colantoni, Matthew Patience, and Olga Tararova)
The perception of intonational contours: a cross-linguistic study
Christopher Spahr (Ph.D.)
Restricting non-segmental contrasts
Alumni who presented include:
Richard Compton (McGill)
An argument for genuine object agreement in Inuit
Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Who are we talking to when we talk to ‘the public’ about linguistics?
Carrie Gillon (Arizona State) (with Solveiga Armoskaite)
Aspectual conditions on (in)definiteness
Daniel Currie Hall (Saint Mary’s University)
On substance in phonology
Sara Mackenzie (Memorial University) (with Erin Olson, Meghan Clayards, and Michael Wagner)
Allophonic variation in English /l/: production, perception, and segmentation
Will Oxford (University of Manitoba)
The rise and fall of split-ergative agreement in Algonquian
Marina Sherkina-Lieber (Carleton University)
Monolingual and bilingual children’s production of Russian embedded yes–no questions
In addition to the main session, there was a joint session with the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics on the revitalization of First Nations languages, organized by Keren Rice (faculty). This session included presentations by alumni:
Carrie Dyck (Memorial University) (with Amos Key, Jr.)
An immersion program for intermediate-level speakers
Marguerite MacKenzie (Memorial University)
Language maintenance in East Cree, Naskapi and Innu: A forty-year perspective
May 22, 2014
Diane at ETI3
Diane Massam was recently in Montreal for Exploring the Interfaces 3. She presented an invited talk: "Issues in constituency in Niuean". The workshop was third in a series that McGill has held exploring the intersections of syntactic theory with other core theoretical areas; the focus of ETI3 in particular was 'Prosody and Constituent Structure'.
May 20, 2014
Special issue of Lingua edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Congratulations to Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux on the recent publication of Lingua Vol 144, which she edited. The subtitle of this special issue is: How Children Learn to Detect and Interpret Agreement
Morphology: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. Here are the contents:
Morphology: A Crosslinguistic Perspective. Here are the contents:
SI: How Children Learn to Detect and Interpret Agreement Morphology: A
Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by Ana-Teresa Pérez-Leroux
Introduction
1. How children learn to detect and interpret agreement morphology: A
crosslinguistic perspective
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux
Pages 1-6
Articles
2. The detection of subject–verb agreement violations by German-speaking children:
An eye-tracking study
Oda-Christina Brandt-Kobele, Barbara Höhle
Original Research Article
Pages 7-20
3. Is children's comprehension of subject–verb agreement universally late?
Comparative evidence from French, English, and Spanish
Géraldine Legendre, Jennifer Culbertson, Erin Zaroukian, Lisa Hsin, Isabelle
Barrière, Thierry Nazzi
Original Research Article
Pages 21-39
4. Spanish-speaking children's use of verbal inflection in comprehension
Karen Miller, Cristina Schmitt
Original Research Article
Pages 40-57
5. The acquisition of object clitic features in French: A comprehension study
Mihaela Pirvulescu, Nelleke Strik
Original Research Article
Pages 58-71
Semantics of Understudied Languages (SULA)
SULA (Semantics of Understudied Languages) took place at UBC this past weekend.
Keren Rice was an invited speaker and gave a talk entitled 'A catalogue of plurality in Slavey (Dene, Athabaskan)'.
Other participants included two U of T alumni:
Meagan Louie (MA 2008) presented a talk: "Action-determined temporal perspectives in Blackfoot."
SFU faculty member Keir Moulton (BA, MA 2002) was a discussant.
Keren Rice was an invited speaker and gave a talk entitled 'A catalogue of plurality in Slavey (Dene, Athabaskan)'.
Other participants included two U of T alumni:
Meagan Louie (MA 2008) presented a talk: "Action-determined temporal perspectives in Blackfoot."
SFU faculty member Keir Moulton (BA, MA 2002) was a discussant.
May 17, 2014
ABC↔C: Agreement by Correspondence Conference
The Agreement by Correspondence Conference (ABC↔C) was held in Berkeley, California on May 18th and 19th. Talks and posters presented by current members of our department were:
Radu Craioveanu (PhD) and Ross Godfrey (PhD)
A nonagreement analysis of Harari long-distance V-C palatalization
Alexei Kochetov (faculty) and Avery Ozburn (MA)
Categorical and gradient laryngeal harmony in Lezgian
Peter Jurgec (faculty)
Consonant harmony as feature spreading
Alexei Kochetov presented a second poster with PhD student Tomohiro Yokoyama and their colleague Myles Leitch (Tyndale University College):
Optionality in sibilant harmony: Experimental evidence from Kirundi
Avery Ozburn (MA) also presented a second poster:
Statistical laryngeal harmony in Oromo: a Maximum Entropy model
Alumna Rachel Walker (MA 1993), now at the University of Southern California, gave a talk:
Prominence-control and multiple triggers in vowel harmony: An ABC analysis
(Photos courtesy of Radu Craioveanu)
Radu Craioveanu (PhD) and Ross Godfrey (PhD)
A nonagreement analysis of Harari long-distance V-C palatalization
Alexei Kochetov (faculty) and Avery Ozburn (MA)
Categorical and gradient laryngeal harmony in Lezgian
Peter Jurgec (faculty)
Consonant harmony as feature spreading
Alexei Kochetov presented a second poster with PhD student Tomohiro Yokoyama and their colleague Myles Leitch (Tyndale University College):
Optionality in sibilant harmony: Experimental evidence from Kirundi
Avery Ozburn (MA) also presented a second poster:
Statistical laryngeal harmony in Oromo: a Maximum Entropy model
Alumna Rachel Walker (MA 1993), now at the University of Southern California, gave a talk:
Prominence-control and multiple triggers in vowel harmony: An ABC analysis
(Photos courtesy of Radu Craioveanu)
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| Lunch in the courtyard on the first day |
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| Dwinelle Hall |
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| Ross in discussion with Will Bennett |
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| Avery explaining her poster to Florian Lionnet |
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| Tomohiro and his poster |
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| Avery and her poster |
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| Evening out at Jupiter after the conference dinner |
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| Peter, Tomo, Ross, Radu, Avery, Alexei |
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| Ross, Tomo, Avery, Radu, Alexei, Peter |
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| At a cafe just after the conclusion of the conference |
May 6, 2014
Ron Smyth, Movie Star
Parts of an interview with Ron Smyth will be appearing in an upcoming documentary called
'Do I Sound Gay?'. The film - also featuring George Takei, David Sedaris, Margaret Cho, Dan
Savage, and more - is a thorough investigation of what makes for a prototypical gay voice, and how that interacts with societal homophobia. 'Do I Sound Gay?' is currently entering post-production
The finished film might well be a good resource for classes in sociolinguistics/sociophonetics, gender and sexuality studies, and so on. If you'd like to know more about it before its release, check out the
trailer <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117088046/do-i-sound-gay-a-documentary-about-finding-your-tr> on the Kickstarter page. Watch for Ron and our own phonetics
lab!
'Do I Sound Gay?'. The film - also featuring George Takei, David Sedaris, Margaret Cho, Dan
Savage, and more - is a thorough investigation of what makes for a prototypical gay voice, and how that interacts with societal homophobia. 'Do I Sound Gay?' is currently entering post-production
The finished film might well be a good resource for classes in sociolinguistics/sociophonetics, gender and sexuality studies, and so on. If you'd like to know more about it before its release, check out the
trailer <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117088046/do-i-sound-gay-a-documentary-about-finding-your-tr> on the Kickstarter page. Watch for Ron and our own phonetics
lab!
May 4, 2014
Guest speaker: José Ignacio Hualde
José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will be giving a guest talk on Monday, May 5: "Phonological awareness and conventionalization in intervocalic lenition". This will be located in room 115 at Victoria College at 3 PM.
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