UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Abstract submissions for the Alberta Conference on Linguistics are now welcome at albertaconferenceonlinguistics@gmail.com. Deadline: 23:59 MST on October 23, 2026. 121
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Congrats to PhD candidate Jesse Weir on the special recognition of their poster titled “There seemsta be a difference here, and I wanna find it” at this summer’s annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.ca (which they were also central in organizing) 142
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Prerequisite: Consent of the Linguistics Division of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures 120
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The new course LING 599: Mathematical Linguistics (Formal Properties of Grammars) will be taught by Prof. Diego Gabriel Krivochen in Winter 2027 (MWF 12–12:50). This is a seminar for advanced students in LING, but students in other programs (CPSC, MATH, etc.) are most welcome to enrol and benefit! 134
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026LING 302: Language in Humans & Machines will be taught as a no-prerequisite block-week course August 24–28 by computational linguist Brooklyn Sheppard. Don’t miss out! LING 302 is only offered every two years or so, and it’s already over half full (65/120) calendar.ucalgary.ca/courses/1663... 123
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu and his co-supervisor @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social presented “Cross-dialectal incomplete neutralization in Igbo implosives” at labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social #LabPhon20 151
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 12/06/2026We’re all set and excited to host the 73rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association next week. Only two days left to register (June 14): event.fourwaves.com/cla-acl/regi... 000
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Today PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu gave a talk on “Acoustic analysis of implosives in Igbo” with Harvard prof. Kathryn Franich at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) hosted by the University of Buffalo sites.google.com/view/acal57/... 131
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Join Dr. Brian Dillon at Contemporary Calgary on June 16 at 6pm for a fascinating evening on AI and human language. There will also be UCalgary Linguistics research exhibitions to explore. Registration is required: 120
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026New open-access article from Prof. Storoshenko and PhD candidate Jesse Weir with SFU’s Chung-hye Han, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron and Sara Williamson, and UofT’s Keir Moulton: “Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze task” doi.org/10.5070/G601... 111
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Congratulations to our PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu on winning an excellence award for his service as Faculty of Arts Research Impact Coordinator – Community, Connection and Culture 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026PhD student Melissa Lazzari on “The Use of Language Melody in the Interpretation of Ambiguous Adjective-Noun Attachment in Brazilian Portuguese” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026PhD candidate Brooklyn Sheppard and Prof. Steve Winters on “What makes a word stand out? Modelling the cognitive underpinnings of linguistic prominence perception” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 151
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026MA student Charys Russell and Prof. Steve Winters on “Examining the effects of variability and level of focus in L2 learning and phonetic training” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 141
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026PhD candidate Francisco Ongay González on “Correlation between omitted durative prepositions, telicity, and transitivity: Experimental evidence from Spanish” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026PhD candidate Jesse Weir on “Collecting experimental evidence of wanna-contraction in English” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Pointed opening remarks by Prof. Storoshenko (@exolinguist.bsky.social) at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary 121
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Closing remarks at the Verbatim Colloquium by Jessica Wong, president of the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society 022
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Elijah Durocher on “Vowel mergers in Cavite Chavacano” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society 033
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Kiana Gardner on “Processing of prosodic information by (Canadian) English speakers” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by our Undergraduate Linguistics Society. Joint work with Prof. Athanasopoulou and Dr. Nikolić in the University of Calgary Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab 032
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Victoria Klassen on “Morphophonological processes in Blackfoot storytelling for heritage learners” at this year’s Verbatim Colloquium, by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Lunch break at the Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society 031
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Dorian Van Hardeveld on “Turkish DIK and MA Embedded Clauses” at this year’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026“Embedded Clause Gapping in Spanish” by Maria Estrada-Caro, the first presentation this year’s Verbatim Colloquium by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Workshop at LabPhon 20 (Montreal, June 25): Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection. Abstract deadline: Feb. 20. The main organizer is PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu linguistlist.org/issues/37/33/ 041
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Today Dr. Dušan Nikolić gave a talk on “Perception of lexical pitch accents: the native language acoustic cue approach vs. the target language acoustic cue approach” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026 112
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 20/12/2025We 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. 111
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Our 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 011
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025PhD 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025PhD 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025MA 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Dr. 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! 032
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025PhD 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025PhD 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025BA (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 011
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025MA 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 021
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025PhD 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 031
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 23/11/2025MA 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 031
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Reminder: 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 022
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Join 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 100
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Reminder: 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 101
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Some 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! 131
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Join 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! 000
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Join 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 011
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Congratulations 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” 153
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Congratulations 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... 032
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Big congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on successfully defending her MA thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children”!! 132
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 18/06/2025New article by Prof. Athanasopoulou, Quinn Goddard (MA, Linguistics; MSc, Epidemiology), and Prof. Flynn: “Plains Cree word prosody revisited” doi.org/10.1017/S002... 031
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025MA student Rowan Sali, Prof. Dimitrios Skordos and Concordia Prof. Alan Bale presenting “Weak or strong distributivity with disjunction under the universal quantifier” at the Canadian Linguistic Association annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025 010
UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025MA student Cheryl Iwanchuk presenting “Contrastive inference comprehension in children” with Prof. Dimitrios Skordos at the Canadian Linguistic Association ( annual conference in Montreal, June 3–5, 2025 cla-acl.ca/pdfs/resumes... 010
