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/

Winter Week 2 GM: ASL

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

Our Speakers: Dan Levitt and Natasha Abner
Topic: American Sign Language

Dan Levitt is the Assistant Director of the Office for Students with
Disabilities.  He has been involved with interpreter training and ASL
instruction since 1970!  He will be speaking about some of the structural
aspects of ASL, as well as demonstrating what the language looks like.

Natasha Abner is a graduate student in the UCLA Ling department.  She will be
speaking about WH-Questions in American Sign Language, particularly six question
formation strategies in ASL and how language-internal variation of this type
fits into our theory of syntax.

When: Wednesday, January 13th, 6-8pm
Where: Campbell Hall 2122 (Second floor conference room)
What to expect: Not one but TWO speakers, food and drink, a chance to talk to
your fellow Blingers, and FUN.

Fall Week 10 GM: Study group!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break! We would like to invite you all to the last Fall Quarter meeting of the Bruin Linguists! Since finals weeks is approaching, our last meeting will be a study session. It’s just some Ling students preparing for finals together, but we aren’t necessarily studying for Ling classes. So bring along your papers, laptops, and some snacks and come study with us!

When: Wednesday, December 2nd, 6pm (until whenever everyone leaves)
Where: Campbell Hall 2122 (Second floor conference room)