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Lecture Series 2017-18
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Friday, September 29 |
3:00pm |
CHD 420 |
Rüdiger Singer (University of Minnesota): Private Eye Nick Knatterton; or, How the Germans Learned to Love the Speech Bubble |
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Tuesday, October 3 |
3:00 pm |
CHD 419 |
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Friday, October 13 |
3:00 pm |
CHD 420 |
Jim Wood (Yale University): Extended Benefactives in Southern American English |
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Friday, October 20 |
3:00 pm |
CHD 420 |
Angeliki Athanasopoulou (University of Calgary): The acquisition of prosody above the word level |
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Monday, October 30 |
2:00 pm |
CHC 110 |
Jonathan Livernois (Université Laval): Les années 1970 au Québec: à la recherche d’un ancrage épistémologique commun | Seventies in Quebec: looking for an epistemological common ground |
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Friday, November 3 |
3:00 pm |
CHD 420 |
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona): Invisible passivization |
“I’d Like to Know More About...” workshop
Friday, November 10, 2017 | 9:30 a.m. | CHD 420
This workshop provides students, established researchers, and members of the LRC community with an introduction to new areas and practical tools for enabling research.
Work in Progress (WiP) Talks
Friday, September 22, 2017 | 3 p.m. | CHD 420
Presenters gave general overview of their individual research projects, an “elevator speech” version using the presentation method of the international 3MT (3-minute thesis) competitions.
Alberta Open Educational Resources Summit
The Alberta Open Educational Resources Summit took place at the University of Alberta on May 11, 2017 from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm and was live-streamed at the University of Calgary in Craigie Hall E 106 and 110.
LRC Annual Student Poster Symposium 2017 - Tuesday, May 2, 2017
1:00 - 3:00 pm | Craigie Hall D, fourth floor
1:00 - 3:00 pm | Craigie Hall D, fourth floor
Thank you to all of the participants in the Annual Student Poster Symposium for making this such a successful event! Thank you also to the guests and LRC community members who came out to support these students.
The goal of the event is to provide undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to present and get feedback on their research on Language or languages (including the connection between language and literature / culture) in a multidisciplinary setting.
Presentations:
Mohammad Alsamaani The Adaptation of Arabic to Swahili: The Voice-Onset Time Dimension
Una Y. Chow An Investigation of Blackfoot Pitch Accents Using Six Eliciting Methods
Adam Daniel The Role of Morphology in Japanese Clipping
Heans Keeler Lateralization in Puerto Rico and Equatorial Guinea
Allison E. Wade Cultural Christianity: The Russian Orthodox Church in Contemporary Russia
The poster symposium showcases the outcomes of original student research in cultural studies, linguistics and literary studies and will be accompanied by a reception.
Lecture Series 2016-17
Language of Literature Series
| January 13, 2017 |
Martin Wagner and Anthony Wall, University of Calgary | Enlightened Aesthetic Theory in German and France: The Case of the Ancient Laocoon Statue |
| September 30, 2016 | Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia | The Art of Ingenuity: A Brief History of the Chinese Swindle Story |
Language Acquisition and Learning Series
| March 31, 2017 |
Katherine Mueller, University of Calgary |
Intensive French in the classroom: An application of the Neurolinguistic Approach |
| March 24, 2017 |
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, University of Toronto | Productivity, directionality and proficiency: Exploring L2 speakers' difficulties with recursive NPs |
| November 4, 2016 |
Michael Dabrowski, University of Calgary | From Creator to Curator: Teaching Language in the 21st Century |
| October 28, 2016 |
Peter Wood, University of Saskatchewan |
The effects of computer-assisted extensive reading on L2 vocabulary acquisition. A meta analysis |
The LRC "I'd Like to Know More About ..." Workshop
Thursday, November 10, 2016 | 9:00 am - 2:30 pm | CH D 420
Annual Student Poster Symposium - April 29, 2016
Thank you to all of the participants in the Annual Student Poster Symposium for making this such a successful event! Thank you also to the guests and LRC community members who came out to support these students.
The goal of the event is to provide undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to present and get feedback on their research on Language or languages (including the connection between language and literature / culture) in a multidisciplinary setting.
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Adam Daniel |
Linguistics |
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Elias Abdollahnejad |
Linguistics |
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Jennifer MacDonald |
Werklund School of Education |
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Lindsay Hracs |
Linguistics |
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Martin Lisanik |
German |
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Mohammad Alsamaani |
Linguistics |
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Philothe Kabasele |
Linguistics |
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Ritika Chauhan |
Communication, Media and Film |
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Salma Alqahtani |
Linguistics |
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Simona Kopnicka |
German |
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Sonam Thind |
Linguistics |
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Stephanie Reyes |
Philosophy |
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Svitlana Winters |
Linguistics |
Speaker Series 2015-2016
Language of Literature
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March 11 |
Josias Semujanga (Départment des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal):"When fiction becomes testimony of Genocide" |
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September 30 |
Christopher Rea (Asian Studies, University of British Columbia):The Art of Ingenuity: A Brief History of the Chinese Swindle Story |
Language Acquisition and Learning
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February 26 |
Murray Munro (Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University): "The multi-dimensional nature of L2 pronunciation: Implications for research and pedagogy" |
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April 8 *12:00pm in CHD 419 |
Asmaa Shehata (Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, University of Calgary): "The lexical encoding of novel phonological features" |
Workshop on Corpus Linguistics
Monday, October 26, 2015
2:00 - 5:00pm | EDT 450 (University of Calgary)
Please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5SR2J3R
Corpus Linguistics: An overview of methods, research findings and applications
This session will combine lectures and workshops to provide an introduction to corpus analysis for linguistic research and language teaching. We will begin by introducing corpus linguistics as a research approach, providing case studies that illustrate the unexpected research findings that have emerged from corpus analyses, and discussing how those unexpected findings might directly influence practices in language instruction. We will then discuss case studies that have investigated particular linguistic research questions, showing again how corpus research often leads to unanticipated findings (related, for example, to the kinds of grammatical complexity found in conversation versus academic writing, or the kinds of phraseological chunks found in the professional writing of L1-English versus L2-English academics). Finally, we will provide the opportunity for hands-on practice working with corpora and corpus-analysis tools available for research and classroom applications. The workshop will provide ample opportunity for audience participation and questions.
Annual Student Poster Symposium
The LRC’s annual poster symposium is back! The goal of the event is to provide graduate students with the opportunity to present and get feedback on their research on Language or languages (including the connection between language and literature / culture) in a multidisciplinary setting. Abstracts are due on March 20. The event will take place from 2:00 to 4:00pm on April 30, 2015.
We encourage students who work on any aspect of Language or Languages to submit an abstract. Email lrc@ucalgary.ca and watch the LRC website for more information.
2015 Participants
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JeongEun Lee |
Linguistics |
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Jinghang Zhou |
Education |
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Vibha Kaushik |
Social Work |
Social integration of immigrants within the linguistically diverse workplace: |
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David Sidhu |
Psychology |
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Philothe Kabasele |
Linguistics |
Wh-questions in Bantu languages: The case of Kinshasa Lingala |
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Philothe Kabasele |
Linguistics |
Vowel sound change: the case of near-merger in Kinshasa Lingala |
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Anja Dressler |
Linguistics and Language |
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Una Chow |
Linguistics |
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Alison Heard |
Psychology |
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Simona Kopnická |
German |
Speaker Series 2014-2015
The LRC speaker series for 2014/2015 has now finished for the year. We had two very engaging and stimulating series: “Language of Literature” focused on the ties between language and literature, and “Language Acquisition and Learning” focused on methodological issues in language acquisition research. Lectures were held on Fridays from 3:00 until 4:00 p.m. in the Language Research Centre (CHD420). Thanks to everyone who came out to hear the speakers and we look forward to another great series next year!
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Speaker Series Winter 2015
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Language Acquisition and Learning |
Language of Literature |
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February 6: Sophia Van Hees (University of Calgary) "Mapping the brain mechanisms of naming treatment post-stroke" |
Wednesday, January 28: Justine Huet (Mount Royal University) "Bloody shitcakes!" Chavs are overtaking Québécois schools. The Québécois dubbing of Bromwell High” |
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February 13: Ines Martin (Penn State) "L2 pronunciation training boosts the acquisition of L2 grammar among classroom learners" **Please note the time change to 1:00pm AND room change to CHE 106 |
Wednesday, March 4: Christian Bök (University of Calgary) "Colony Collapse Disorder: A translation of 'The Georgics (Book IV)' by Virgil" |
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February 27: Peter Siemund (Universität Hamburg) |
Tuesday, March 17: Russell Valentino (Indiana University) "The nexus of translation: Foreign language, creative writing, and the teaching of literature" |
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March 13: Enrica Piccardo (OISE, University of Toronto) "A social agent navigating complexity: Challenges and opportunities of language education" |
March 27: Sonia Thon (Acadia University) "Linguistics and literature: A path to critical discourse analysis" |
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April 10: David Barner (University of California, San Diego) |
Speaker Series Fall 2014
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Language Acquisition and Learning |
Language of Literature |
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October 17: Suzanne Curtin (Department of Psychology and Linguistics, Languages and Cultures) & Susanne Carroll (Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures): “What we learn about language acquisition from the way people acquire sound systems vs. grammar” |
September 26: Jean-Jacques Poucel (Department of French, Italian and Spanish): “Horizons of the Real: Littéralité, Elegy and Propositoinal Poetics” |
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November 14: Robert Bayley (University of California Davis):
“Frequency and Morphosyntatic variation: Evidence from US and peninsular Spanish” |
October 31: Dr. Christian Reyns-Chikuma (University of Alberta):
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December 5: Yvan Rose (Memorial University): “Phonetic Effects on the Development of Phonological Categories: A Case Study” |
Monday, November 17 : Dr. Lucas Klein (University of Hong Kong): "Here's Looking at Yu: Chinese Silences and the trope of China in contemporary American poetry" Please note the time change to 3:30pm |
"I'd like to know more about...?" Workshop - November 10, 2014
On Monday, November 10 (Reading Day) we hosted our fourth annual “I’d like to know more about …” workshop. Three researchers presented on the following topics:
-Johannes Knaus (Open Sesame, an open-source application for designing psycholinguistic studies)
-Joel Dunham (LingSync, a suite of open-source web-based tools for collaborative linguistic fieldwork and documentation)
-Dennis Storoshenko (LaTeX, a free typesetting system with customized modules for formatting linguistic data and diagrams)
CEFR Roundtable Discussion
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) Roundtable Discussion
Please join us on Friday, March 13 from 12:00 to 1:00pm in CHD 420 for lunch and a roundtable discussion on the CEFR with Enrica Piccardo, one of Canada’s foremost scholars working on the CEFR. Details will follow.
LRC Visioning Session
Establishing a Vision for the Future of the LRC
The 2013-2014 academic year saw a great deal of introspective work on the role of Language and languages at the University of Calgary and beyond. The Task Force on the Status of Languages in the Faculty of Arts completed its report, which highlights the work of students, classroom practitioners and researchers who are doing innovative and often highly collaborative research in and on languages at the University of Calgary. Based on a series of surveys and comparative data, the report makes sixteen high-level recommendations regarding the role of languages in the realization of a number of the University’s goals. These include a focus on research, academic excellence, internationalization, and connection with the community. Richard Sigurdson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, will officially respond to these recommendations in the coming months.
Establishing a concrete vision for the LRC involves the participation of its members. On April 15, 2014, Sarah Eaton, LRC Research Associate and an expert in strategic visioning, led highly
engaged LRC stakeholders through the process of establishing realizable goals for the Centre. Among internal stakeholders were representatives from the Departments of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures; French, Italian and Spanish; Psychology; and English, as well as from the Faculty of Education. Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research associates, sessional instructors and adjunct professors as well as professors and researchers from across the ranks took part in the exercise. Among the external stakeholders, representatives from the Calgary Board of Education, the Calgary Separate School Board, Alberta Health Services, the Calgary Public Library, the University of Lethbridge, and Mount Royal University joined in the discussion. Based on the strategic visioning exercise, the LRC Steering Committee created a new three-year plan for the LRC, which can be found here . We look forward to your comments.
CIHR Science Cafe "Overcoming Language Barriers to Healthcare"
On Thursday, January 31, 2013, we held a CIHR sponsored Science Cafe entitled “Overcoming Language Barriers to Healthcare”. Photos and the poster for this event can be found here.
*See the hompage for a summary of the 2014 CIHR Science Cafe: "Is language learning for everyone?"
German CEFR exams
The Language Research Centre is an official Goethe Institute CEFR Testing Centre. We offered the B1 exam on May 2, 2013. For more specific information about the test, including sample tests, see the Goethe Institute's website. For further questions, contact lrc@ucalgary.ca.
Graduate student poster symposium
Graduate students from across campus working on language acquisition and its implications took part in our annual graduate student poster symposium on May 2, 2013. Abstracts can be found here.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism (IAM 2013) Conference
This SSHRC-funded conference took place August 15-17, 2013 and explored the connections among researchers and practitioners investigating language acquisition and learning. Read about it in UToday.
"I'd like to know more about..." workshop
On Tuesday, November 12 three LRC researchers introduced workshop participants to their research. This workshop was free and open to the public. Researchers and topics were as follows.
Roswita Dressler: Linguistic Landscape
Steve Winters: Statistics for language research
Wei Cai: Listening in a second language