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

Unless otherwise communicated, all events take place in 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 2024

Friday	Speaker(s)	Title of Lecture/Workshop
1/12	No Colloq	No Colloq
1/19	Faculty	The Future of the Spring Colloquium
1/26	No Colloq	No Colloq
2/2	Faculty and Students	Finding Linguistics and Finding Linguistics Problems
2/9	TBA	TBA
2/16	No Colloq	TBA
2/23	Donna Jo Napoli	Movement in Sign Language
3/1	Erin Humphreys and Brian Hsu	How much overt agreement is needed for polysynthesis? Quantitative evidence from Cherokee.
3/8	Ana Kisley and David Mora-Marin	The Copador Writing System of Honduras and El Salvador: Initial Documentation and Decipherment Steps
3/15	TBA	TBA
3/22	Emma Wrenn	TBA
4/5	Abigail Amick	Master's Paper Presentation
4/12	Emily Morgan	TBA
4/19	Lisa Green	TBA
4/26	Robin Dodsworth	TBA

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