Friday Colloquium
Friday Colloquium Series
About the Friday Colloquium
The UNC Linguistics Friday Colloquium series (not to be confused with the annual Spring Colloquium) serves three purposes:
- a place for UNC graduate students and faculty to present current work for feedback and discussion in a friendly, supportive atmosphere
- an opportunity for our department to host talks by speakers from other UNC departments or elsewhere
- a venue for professional-development workshops for linguistics graduate students
All events this Fall of 2021 will take place from 3:30-4:30 pm, over Zoom, instead of Smith Building 107. If you are interested in attending or giving a Friday Colloquium talk, please contact the organizer, Michael Terry (jmterry@unc.edu).
Current Schedule
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Spring 2023
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 1/13 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 1/20 | David Mora-Marín | An Update on Lexicosemantic Stability of the Anatomical Domain in the Mayan Languages |
| 1/27 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 2/3 | Laura Demsey | TBA |
| 2/10 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 2/17 | Lucas Adelino | Website Workshop |
| 2/24 | Elaine Ye | TBA |
| 3/3 | Emily Moeng | Applying to non-academic jobs as a linguist |
| 3/10 | TBA | TBA |
| 3/17 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 3/24 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 3/31 | Daniel Everett | The Inferential Foundation of Human Language |
| 4/7 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
| 4/14 | Jen Ramadurai | Inhibitory Control and Sociolinguistic Awareness in Young English-Tamil Bilinguals |
| 4/21 | TBA | TBA |
| 4/28 | No Colloq | No Colloq |
Past Colloquia
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Fall 2022
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 9/23 | Anissa Neal | |
| 9/30 | Canceled due to weather | |
| 10/7 | Linguistics Outreach Group Meeting | |
| 10/14 | TBA | TBA |
| 10/28 | TBA | TBA |
| 11/4 | David Mora-Marín | TBA |
| 11/11 | Joy Peltier | TBA |
| 11/18 | Meg Fletcher | TBA |
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Spring 2022
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 1/14 | David Mora-Marin | The Nature of the *k > ch Shift in Yucatecan and Greater Q’anjob’alan (Mayan) |
| 1/21 | No Colloq | |
| 1/28 | No Colloq | |
| 1/4 | No Colloq | |
| 2/11 | Brian Hsu & Benjamin Frey | Examples to "count" on: data-driven approaches to language revitalization |
| 2/18 | Jamillah Rodriguez | The tonosyntax of Copala Triqui possessive constructions |
| 2/25 | Jowita NIewulis-Grablunas and Piotr Grablunas | What to Choose, &, Linguistic Landscape as a multifunctional tool for minority language studies Case of Greko in Calabria |
| 3/4 | Jennifer Smith | Phonetic naturalness beats core-periphery structure in a Japanese loanword experiment |
| 3/11 | No Colloq | |
| 3/18 | No Colloq | |
| 4/1 | No Colloq | |
| 4/8 | Jolie Hiers and Samantha Golden | Spanish teacher attitudes toward gender neutral Spanish forms |
| 4/15 | No Colloq | |
| 4/22 | Dylan Elliott | Correcting Preposition Errors with Deep Learning Models |
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Spring 2021
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 1/22 | Welcome back! | Organization |
| 1/29 | David F. Mora-Marín | Additional Comparanda for Testing the Mayan-Mijesokean Hypothesis |
| 2/5 | — | No event |
| 2/12 | Ling Faculty | Graduate Student Workshop |
| 2/19 | Katya Pertsova | On morphological productivity and lack thereof: evidence from verbal borrowings into Russian |
| 2/26 | Jennifer Arnold | Adaptation Effects in Pronoun Comprehension |
| 3/5-3/6 | SLINKI 2021—No FLC https://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6602JA44587E485E40A050441 | |
| 3/19 | Kathryn Leech | Input and Interaction: The role of caregiver speech in children’s early language and literacy development |
| 3/26 | Phil Edwards | Course Design and Critical Pedagogy |
| 4/9 | Jeffrey Bourns | Cherokee Philology: Methods and Discoveries |
| 4/16 | ||
| 4/23 | Sean Foley | Revisiting Proto-Central Ngwi Tones |
| 4/30 | Joshua Fennell | Searching for phonological amelioration |
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Fall 2020
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 8/21 | Linguistics Faculty | Workshop: Creating an Academic Website |
| 8/28 | Jennifer Smith | How Productive is core-periphery structure in the Japanese lexicon? Empirical results and theoretical implications |
| 9/4 | David Mora-Marin | Paleography of Mayan Hieroglyphs |
| 9/11 | Sean Foley | Naruo: an endangered Ngwi language spoken in Yunnan, China |
| 9/18 | Jon Henner | Whose Modality Counts |
| 9/25 | Linguistics Faculty | Workshop: Abstract Writing |
| 10/2 | Leah Marie Dudley | Accent Accommodation in American Students Studying in the UK |
| 10/9 | Tiffany Judy | Residual Effects of Instruction on L@ Acquisition of Aspect |
| 10/16 | Lamar Graham | Castilian influence on the development of personal(ized) infinitives in Ibero-Romance |
| 10/23 | Brian Hsu | Harmonic Grammar in phrasal movement: an account of probe competition and blocking |
| 10/30 | Megan Gotowski | Children's Comprehension of Comparatives |
| 11/6 | Emily Pace | Careers for Linguists, Linguists for Careers |
| 11/13 | Linguistics Faculty | How to prepare a lit review |
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Spring 2020
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 1/17 | Linguistics Faculty | Linguistics Outreach Group Meeting |
| 1/24 | Dr. Stefan Frisch | Brown Bag Talk at NCSU: Competence is Performance: Bridging the Gap between Language Sound Structure and Speech |
| 1/31 | Misha Becker | Graduate Student Development Workshop: Abstract Writing and Finding Funding |
| 2/7 | Graduate Students | LGSA Meeting |
| 2/14 | David Mora-Marin | The *k(') > *ch(') Shift in Greater Tzeltalan (Mayan) Languages |
| 2/21 | Heather Mayo | The Dialectal Origins of Borgarmalet |
| 2/28 | Margaret Bender | The New Voice of God: Linguistic, Cultural and Theological Implications of Translating the Bible into Cherokee |
| 3/27 | Tiffany Judy | TBA |
| 4/3 | Jonathan Henner | Reading the Signs: Performative Hearingness in this Era of Language Assessment |
| 4/17 | No FLC | |
| 4/24 | Katya Pertsova | TBA |
Friday Colloquium Schedule — Fall 2019
| Friday | Speaker(s) | Title of Lecture/Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| 8/30 | No talk | |
| 9/6 | No talk | |
| 9/13 | David Mora-Marín | Izapan Writing: Yet Another Undeciphered Mesoamerican Script |
| 9/20 | Interest meeting for Linguistics Outreach Group | |
| 9/27 | Elliott Moreton et al. | Personal statements and cover letters for PhD programs and private sector employment |
| 10/4 | No talk | |
| 10/11 | Important non-FLC event: Difficult Discourse workshop in Hyde Hall University Room, 1:00-5:00 pm | |
| 10/25 | Tristan Bavol and Victoria Johnston | Divergent Principles of Numeral Formation in P'urhepecha |
| 11/1 | Jen Smith | Statistics workshop: Interactions |
| 11/8 | Peter Baumgartner | Applied NLP: Lessons from the Field |
| 11/15 | Yunchuan Chen | An experimental approach to the L2 acquisition of the head noun phrase in Japanese relative clauses |
| 11/22 | Adam Albright | Speakers avoid saying improbable words, but not exceptional words |