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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our third Fall 2026 Speaker Series talk is coming up this Friday! Morphological Diffusion and the Internal Sub-grouping of Central Totonac Dr. David Beck (University of Alberta) Friday, Oct 9 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212 About the speakers: sites.ualberta.ca/~dbeck/
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us this upcoming Friday!
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Starting shortly!
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congrats in advance to PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu (and his proud PhD advisors @kfran.bsky.social at @harvard.edu & @phono-logical.bsky.social at @ucalgary.bsky.social) for guest-editing a special collection of Glossa titled “Pitch at the Language–Music Interface” linguistlist.org/issues/37/29...
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LINGUIST List 37.2981 Calls: Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics - "Special Issue: Pitch at the Language-Music Interface" (Jrnl)
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Abstract submissions for the Alberta Conference on Linguistics are now welcome at albertaconferenceonlinguistics@gmail.com. Deadline: 23:59 MST on October 23, 2026.
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Abstract submissions for the Alberta Conference on Linguistics are now open! Send your abstract to albertaconferenceonlinguistics@gmail.com no later than 23:59 (MST) on October 23, 2026. For detailed information, please visit our website!
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a good interview of my colleague. Kudos to @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social and @ctvmarkvillani.bsky.social. Journalists duly report on things we linguists say, but imo it’s rather uncommon to see what we actually do in the news. There’s even a bit of video with Dennis at one of his eye-trackers.
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So I got to talk about structural ambiguity and other issues in the Alberta referendum questions (snappy video and longer form text) www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Me in my lab with CTV News chyron showing name and title
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great interview of Prof. Storoshenko @exolinguist.bsky.social on @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social tonight: “Alberta referendum question wording questioned by experts” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Alberta referendum question wording questioned by experts
Albertans preparing to vote in October’s provincial referendum are being encouraged to read the questions ahead of time, after academics identified several examples of wording that can make voters sto...
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Welcome back, everyone! 🍂 Our first Speaker Series talk of Fall 2026 is just around the corner — and this one's a collab with the Philosophy Speaker Series! 👀✨ Do Real Patterns Really Save Linguistics From LLMs? Dr. Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town) Friday, Sep 25 | 3:00 pm | SS 1253
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Congrats 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)
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New preprint from PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu: “Prosodic cues to backchanneling in Igbo oral storytelling” (Aug. ’26) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“What does the general public want to know about language?” by Victor Kuperman and Gary Libben (Aug. ’26) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Prerequisite: Consent of the Linguistics Division of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The 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!
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@brooklynsheppard.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
LING 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...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
PhD 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
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Kudos to @ucalgaryling.bsky.social PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu and his co-supervisor @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social on organizing the satellite workshop “Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection” at #LabPhon20 labphon.org/labphon20/pi...
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Pitch at the crossroads | Labphon
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Evening again, everyone! The weather isn't so great today 🌬️🌥️ but the crash courses sure were! Huge thanks to Dr. Dillon & Dr. Hracs for their amazing courses today — we learnt so much! 🤩
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Evening, everyone~ 🌞 Hope you're soaking up this beautiful weather! It's the final day of the conference — here are today's UCalgary highlights :) Thank you for spending the past three days with us here at UCalgary, and we can't wait to see you all in Montreal next year! 🎉
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Good afternoon, everyone ☀️ Hope you are enjoying your second day at CLA 📖 Here are some highlights from UCalgary people in today's invited talk & 3 poster presentations⭐
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey guys! Don't forget we also have a Podcast :) New episode Tuesday! 🎙️ Our Podcast, Linguistically Aware, sits down with Dr. Julie Sedivy to explore Language in Humans and Machines.
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calgarylinguistics.bsky.social @calgarylinguistics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Evening everyone! Hope you enjoyed the first day of CLA 📖 🥁 Here's a quick recap for UCalgary folks — we have 7 posters & 1 talk today featuring the incredible work of our students and faculty ✨
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to Harvard Prof. Katie Franich (@kfran.bsky.social) and our (incl.) PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu on the publication of “Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift’” www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...
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Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift’
Though predictability has been found to play an important role in reduction processes in speech, its role in conditioning co-speech gestures has not been explored. Co-speech gestures are known to be c...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We’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...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New article by Prof. Krivochen: “The architecture of agreement: from strings to structures” with Douglas Saddy (University of Reading) and Julie Franck (University of Geneva) www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan...
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Frontiers | The architecture of agreement: from strings to structures
In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural ...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today 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/...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Free registration link: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/languag...
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Language Processing in Minds and Machines - with Dr. Brian Dillon
Join us for a rich evening of linguistics with scientist Dr. Brian Dillon, Ph.D. talking about artificial intelligence and human language. In the 2...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Join 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:
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New 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...
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Congratulations 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
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Diachronica journal @diachronica.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Diachronica gets a paper bump every (northern) summer, and we're seeing submissions pick up. This year, there are many more submissions with AI involvement (declared or undeclared). Here's a brief thread about why the vast majority of such #linguistics papers won't make it past my desk:
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exolinguist.bsky.social @exolinguist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Language is a biological function of the human organism. The concept of language as a tool goes back at least to the Classics.
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PhD 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Great stuff @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social and @swinters.bsky.social!
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PhD 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Very cool methodology @charysbrussell.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social!
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
MA 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PhD 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PhD 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Pointed 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Closing remarks at the Verbatim Colloquium by Jessica Wong, president of the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Elijah Durocher on “Vowel mergers in Cavite Chavacano” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Kiana 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
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UofC Linguistics @ucalgaryling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Victoria 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
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