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Spring Week 6 GM: Icelandic Nicknames / Elections

We would like to invite you all to the Spring Week 6 meeting of the Bruin Linguists!

Our Speaker: Professor Kendra Willson
Topic: Icelandic Nicknames

Kendra Willson is an Assistant Professor in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA. She works on Old and Modern Icelandic…

Spring Week 4 GM: Computational Models of Language Universals

WE ARE CURRENTLY SELLING THIS YEAR’S BLing SHIRTS. FORMS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE LING DEPT OFFICE (Campbell, third floor). BUY ONE (or more) BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!!

Why I’m going to this BLing meeting: Prof. Ed Stabler
What’s he gonna talk about: Computational Models…

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…

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…