Three New LING Fall Courses Offered this Fall

March 8, 2019

LING is offering three exciting new undergraduate classes this coming fall: LING 1200 (Programming for Linguistics), LING 2500 (Language, Race and Ethnicity) and LING 4632 (Computational Linguistics). At this writing, LING 1200 is not yet in the system, but it will be there in time for enrollment in April 2019...

Remi van Trijp gives LingCircle talk on Construction Grammar

Feb. 7, 2019

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the following talk by Remi van Trijp , who is visiting us from Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris. "What Are Constructions and What Can They Do?" Wednesday, February 20 4:00-5:30pm Clare Small 209​​​​​​​ Abstract: Construction grammar grew out of the need...

Graduate student Chu Paing gives talk at the Center for Asian Studies

Feb. 4, 2019

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce that one of our graduate students, Chu Paing , will be giving a talk at the Center for Asian Studies ! For details, click here , or see the title/abstract of her talk below. "Legalizing Gender: The Effects of Myanmar Nationalist Anti-Rohingya...

Linguistics participates in new Interdisciplinary Writing Certificate

Jan. 30, 2019

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to be one of seven units taking part in the new Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Interdisciplinary Writing Certificate . The Certificate in Writing offers a flexible, interdisciplinary curriculum in writing studies that affords new opportunities to undergraduate students to demonstrate their commitment to and excellence in...

Forum on Indigenous and Native American Languages Recognizes UN Year of Indigenous Languages

Jan. 14, 2019

The Department of Linguistics and the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies (CNAIS) are pleased to host a discussion-formatted event titled "2019: The UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, and the Future of Native American Languages". Wednesday, January 23 4:00pm Clare Small 209 This talk (in discussion format) will...

Antti Arppe gives LingCircle talk on Plains Cree

Dec. 3, 2018

Antti Arppe , visiting Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, gave a LingCircle talk on December 5 entitled " What can a small corpus tell us? (with the help of computational modeling): Case studies in morphological complexity, syntactic argument structure, and word order in Plains Cree ".

Lisa Rutta and SoundHound colleagues lead LingCircle panel on Speech Recognition Technology

Oct. 22, 2018

Lisa Rutta is the Director of Ops and Technical Project Managment at SoundHound , a company that does music identification (Houndify) and has recently moved into speech recognition. While their headquarters is in California, they have recently opened a branch office in Boulder and are looking for more linguists to...

CLASIC Program Holds Open House

Oct. 9, 2018

Come join our celebration of CLASIC (Computational Linguistics, Analytics, Search and Informatics) , one of our professional master's programs! Check out the program space, meet the faculty and students, and enjoy some light refreshments! Wednesday, October 10th 3:00-5:00pm Fleming Building, Room 279 (located between the Idea Forge & SASC programs;...

Claire Bonial Gives LingCircle Talk on Human-Robot Dialogue

Sept. 12, 2018

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to welcome back Claire Bonial , a graduate of our own PhD program who now works for the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). In this Ling Circle talk, Dr. Bonial will share some of her work on human-robot...

J Calder gives talk on drag queen speech

Sept. 12, 2018

J Calder is currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Department of Linguistics. In this talk, he'll be presenting some of his work on drag queens in San Francisco. Title : " The fierceness of fronted /s/: Social and linguistic influences on a variable among San Francisco drag queens...

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