Winter Week 8 GM: Pitch Variation in English and Mandarin

We would like to invite you all to the fourth Winter Quarter meeting of the Bruin Linguists!

Our Speaker: Professor Pat Keating
Topic: “Pitch and Voice Quality Variation in English and Mandarin”

Professor Keating is a professor in the Linguistics Department, as well as the Director of the UCLA Phonetics Lab.  She specializes in phonetics and her current research pertains to the linguistic uses of phonation across languages.  She teaches Ling 103 (Intro to Phonetics), 104 (Experimental Phonetics), 120A and 165A (Phonology I and II), 130 (Lg Development), and many graduate proseminars.

When: Wednesday, February 24th, 6-8pm
Where: Campbell Hall 2122 (Second floor conference room)
What to expect: An excellent talk on phonation variations, uber fun social activity, food and drinks, chatting with fellow BLingers, and FUN.

Winter Week 6 GM: Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order

Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 10th from 6-8pm, location Rolfe 2118 (note room change!)

Our Speaker: Professor Olga Yokoyama

Topic: “Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order”

Professor Yokoyama is a professor and the Chair of the Applied Linguistics Department at UCLA.  Some of her research interests include functional syntax and semantics, discourse grammar, Russian intonation and word order, gender linguistics, and folklore.  She teaches courses within the Applied Linguistics Department as well as GE courses, particularly in functional grammar and gender linguistics.

Winter Week 4 GM: Specific Language Impairment

We would like to invite you all to the second Winter Quarter meeting of the Bruin Linguists!

Our Speaker: Professor Susie Curtiss
Topic: Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Professor Curtiss is a member of the UCLA Linguistics faculty.  She will be speaking about what SLI is, what the major linguistic impairment(s) seems to be, and why should linguists be interested in studying SLI.

When: Wednesday, January 27th, 6-8pm
Where: Campbell Hall 2122 (Second floor conference room)
What to expect: An excellent talk on language impairment, uber fun social activity, food and drinks, chatting with fellow BLingers, and FUN.

Social activity: IPA Spelling Bee!

Call for abstracts! SCULC: A new undergraduate conference

Fellow linguistics undergraduates:

We are proud to announce the official call for abstracts for the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference. It will be held on April 10, 2010 on the UCLA campus in Westwood, Los Angeles. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday, March 5 at 11:59 pm (PST) to BLing AT bruinling.org. Accepted students will give a 20-minute presentation followed by 5-minutes for Q&A.

For more information visit: http://bruinling.org/sculc/