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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) https://t.co/7nIITZKcPD

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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 https://t.co/btGeqxGYm1

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Free registration link: https://t.co/fTjBvcRRxr

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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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Congrats @exolinguist and @TalkingLinguist!

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New article from Prof. Storoshenko and PhD cand. Jesse Weir with SFU’s Chung-hye Han, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron & Sara Williamson, & UofT’s Keir Moulton: “Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze task” https://t.co/8JO2zupTq3

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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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“Language is a biological function of the human organism. The concept of language as a tool goes back at least to the Classics. Echoing and expanding on the words of Descartes, in the last century, Charles Hockett enumerated a set of features of language that make it a unique ...

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All three of these streams of research have their own unique contributions to make in the study of this uniquely human phenomenon, the internal and external forces upon which we will hear about today.”

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Opening remarks by Prof. Storoshenko at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

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with language devalues humans and the study of the humanities. And to pretend that these models mimic the human ability to construct novel utterances and process language in the same way as humans do ignores the decades of inquiry into language studied as a natural science. ...

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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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PhD candidate Brooklyn Sheppard and Prof. 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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Very cool methodology @charysbrussell and @seduloussteve!

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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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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