BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Graduate Linguistics Association - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Graduate Linguistics Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Graduate Linguistics Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161031T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161031T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20161026T130606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T130606Z UID:534-1477927800-1477933200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:ELAN 1 workshop DESCRIPTION:Come and learn the basics of ELAN with Holly Keily. \nThis workshop is a refresher on the ELAN workshop run in Spring 2016. Come learn how to set up files\, some basic commands\, and how to get up and running with some basic coding decisions. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/elan-1-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20161026T130340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T130340Z UID:533-1477323000-1477328400@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:GLA Website tutorial DESCRIPTION:Come learn how to make your UB website! Holly Keily will lead a tutorial where you go step-by-step through writing and uploading a bootstrapped website to your UBFS. Have a professional space! Learn to work with HTML! URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/gla-website-tutorial/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161017T033000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20161012T161851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T161851Z UID:531-1476675000-1476723600@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:IRB for Principal Investigators: How to create and submit a protocol in the system DESCRIPTION:Baldy 603 \nWith guest speaker: \nMarla Witkowski\nPACS Campus Training Coordinator\nElectronic Research Administrator (eRA)\nUB’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development \n• Participants should bring their laptop\, tablet\, etc.\n• Also bring current research ideas… \nGuatemalan Coffee & Homemade Pastries will be served!! URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/irb-for-principal-investigators-how-to-create-and-submit-a-protocol-in-the-system/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160913T131635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T131635Z UID:499-1473778800-1473786000@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Launch of Socio Reading Group DESCRIPTION:Wolf Wölck will be inaugurating the Sociolinguistics Lab with a talk on community profiles\, ethnolects\, language attitudes\, and language standardization\, this afternoon\, at 3pm\, in the Wolf Wölck Seminar Room (603 Baldy Hall). \nAll welcome\, and there will be baked treats and refreshments. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/launch-of-socio-reading-group/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, 603 Baldy Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160401T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160401T190000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160308T033708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T033708Z UID:452-1459517400-1459537200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:First Friday - Free Admission to Albright Knox DESCRIPTION:On the first Friday’s of each month\, the Albright Knox offers free admission and various events. \nFollow this link for more information: http://www.albrightknox.org/education/m-t-first-fridays/mtff-events-1/ \n  URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/first-friday-free-admission-to-albright-knox/ LOCATION:Albright Knox Art Gallery\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160325T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160304T044920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160304T044920Z UID:448-1458919800-1458925200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium: Maya Ravindranath\, University of Rochester DESCRIPTION:Sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language shift and endangerment Maya Ravindranath Abtahian\, University of Rochester The rate of language endangerment worldwide is rapid\, with linguists currently estimating that 50 – 90% of the world’s languages will be lost in the coming decades (Crystal 2000\, Krauss 1992). URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/colloquium-maya-ravindranath-university-of-rochester/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, 603 Baldy Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160318T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160318T200000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160326T232458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160326T232458Z UID:458-1458324000-1458331200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Women and Linguistic Fieldwork DESCRIPTION:A roundtable about the unique issues facing women doing fieldwork\, particularly the potential problems\, hassles and challenges that aren’t usually discussed and their potential solutions. \nThis is a 2-hour event with a keynote speaker followed by small presentations of the graduate students and a roundtable discussion. Its goal is to provide a platform for female fieldworkers to exchange their experiences and reflections on the role their gender plays in both their work and personal life while in the field. \nThis roundtable is designed to address the gendered experience of female fieldworkers and gender dynamics in host communities. This should help female fieldworkers to be\nsuccessful field linguists. \nOur keynote speaker is Nadine Grimm\, a researcher in the University of Rochester\, who has been doing fieldwork in West and Central Africa. Taking her field sites and their social contexts as a basis\, she will describe the different social roles she has in the communities and how they relate to social stratification in this area of the world (with a special emphasis on gender). The talk will review the literature on the topic and provide recommendations to fieldworkers who are new to the field. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/women-and-linguistic-fieldwork/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160320T150000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160302T051838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T051838Z UID:431-1458207000-1458486000@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Causality Across Languages (CAL): Training Workshop Program DESCRIPTION:CAL_Workshop_Program_Buffalo \nThe Causality Across Languages project will host a training workshop March 17-20 (yes\, during spring break – sorry!). The goal of the workshop is to instruct project members in the goals\, methods\, and procedures of the project. Duplicate workshops will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in April and at Beihang University in Beijing in June. The preliminary program is attached. All parts of the workshop are open to interested students and faculty\, but you’ll understand that the project members will have to take priority when it comes to allocating discussion time. \nThe list of non-UB-affiliated participants of the March workshop include Pius Akumbu (U of Buea\, Cameroon)\, James Essegbey (UFL)\, Nadine Grimm (UR)\, Tanya Nikitina (CNRS Paris)\, and Mitsuaki Sasaki (U of Tokyo)\, as well as our esteemed alumni Kazuhiro Kawachi (National Defense Academy of Japan) and Alice Mitchell (U of Hamburg). \nCurrent faculty and students who will be participating include Van and Yen-Ting\, who will travel far to be here\, as well as Anastasia\, Jeff\, Karl\, Kate\, Saima\, and of course Erika\, Randi\, and yours truly. \nAs part of the workshop\, the GLA will be hosting a round table on Women in Fieldwork on Friday night (March 18) concomitantly with a catered workshop dinner. Nadine Grimm will be the keynote speaker for this event. A separate announcement by the GLA will follow. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/causality-across-languages-cal-training-workshop-program/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, 603 Baldy Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160309T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160309T160000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160304T045809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160304T045809Z UID:449-1457532000-1457539200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Cognitive Science Colloquium - Marieke van Heugten DESCRIPTION:Marieke van Heugten \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo \nThe comprehension of unfamiliar accents during language acquisition: It’s in the ear of the beholder \nABSTRACT: \nPerhaps one of the most impressive feats of human cognition concerns our ability to comprehend spoken language. This task is far from trivial\, in large part due to the tremendous variability in the pronunciation of words across speakers of different language backgrounds. In order to become efficient language users\, it is thus important to develop the capacity to flexibly adjust to the different ways in which people pronounce words. In this talk\, I will describe a series of studies examining when and how language learners accomplish this. In particular\, I will first focus on the developmental trajectory of learning to cope with unfamiliar accents\, both from the perspective of young children learning their first language and from the perspective of adults who are in the process of learning a second language. I will then describe a series of studies examining the potential mechanisms underlying this ability. Both similarities and differences between the two populations will be discussed. \nRECOMMENDED READINGS: Catherine T. Best\, Michael D. Tyler\, Tiffany N. Gooding\, Corey B. Orlando\, and Chelsea A. Quann. 2009. \nDevelopment of Phonological Constancy: Toddlers’ Perception of Native- and Jamaican-Accented Words\, Psychological Science\, 20(5): 539-542. \nLINK to COGSCI Page: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/Activities/Colloquium/CLLQs16/2016spring.html \n  URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/cognitive-science-colloquium-marieke-van-heugten/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, 603 Baldy Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160308T190000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160308T032737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T032737Z UID:451-1457420400-1457463600@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:National Pancake Day at IHOP = Free Pancakes DESCRIPTION:From 7 am – 7 pm\, you can visit IHOP and receive a free short-stack of pancakes (3). If you only drink water\, then you don’t have to pay anything. (Beverages are extra.) At the restaurants\, there is a poster and a place to make donations to the Children’s Miracle Network\, but the staff does not aggressively pursue donations. (They are WAY too busy serving lots of pancakes.) \nHere is a link to a page with more information: http://www.gocmn.org/events/ihop-national-pancake-day-2016 \n  URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/national-pancake-day-at-ihop-free-pancakes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T220000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160302T060110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T060110Z UID:445-1457204400-1457215200@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Prospie Week/end Events! DESCRIPTION:An informal grad student prospie party will be Saturday night at 7pm at Ali’s house. Email  for directions. We will have food/soda from Moe’s provided by the department\, but you are welcome to bring any snacks\, desserts\, or alcoholic beverages that you so desire. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/prospie-weekend-events-3/ LOCATION:Ali’s Home ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra Lawson":MAILTO:aflawson@buffalo.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T140000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160302T055502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T055502Z UID:443-1457175600-1457186400@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Prospie Week/end Events! DESCRIPTION:Saturday morning we are going to go for breakfast at The Thirsty Buffalo restaurant at 11 am\, followed by either a wander around Elmwood Village\, an outing to Albright Knox\, or a trip to Niagara falls (weather/interest permitting). These events are for everyone\, so if you want to join in for either (even if you aren’t a host) please come along! Let Ali know by Thursday morning if you plan on coming to brunch so reservations can be made. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/prospie-weekend-events-2/ ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra Lawson":MAILTO:aflawson@buffalo.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T155000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160302T053433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T053433Z UID:437-1457106600-1457110800@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Adaptation of language for efficient communication\nDr. John Pate \nDepartment of Linguistics\n\nUniversity of Buffalo \nAbstract:\nElements of linguistic messages that are more predictable\, either overall or in context\, tend to have shorter forms than elements of linguistic messages that are longer. Zipf (1949) proposed that this tendency facilitates communication by giving typical messages shorter linguistic forms than atypical messages. More recent work has argued that this tendency reflects adaptation towards efficient communication in the sense of the Noisy Channel Theorem. However\, others have argued that these effects are\, in the terminology of Gould and Lewontin (1979)\, “spandrels:” non-adaptive side effects of other processes. In this talk\, I will present work that develops this information-theoretic framing more fully. First\, I will show that it is unlikely that natural language actually gets close to the information-theoretic efficiency bounds. Second\, I will show how increased efficiency in the sense of the Noisy Channel theorem requires very different coding operations. Third\, I will present corpus studies that find evidence for these very different coding operations. Because these operations are very different\, if they are spandrels\, they would probably be independent spandrels\, an unlikely coincidence. Thus\, while previous work has been too optimistic in proposing that predictability effects actually achieve theoretical efficiency bounds\, we do find evidence for adaptation in the direction of theoretical efficiency bounds. URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/linguistics-colloquium/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, 603 Baldy Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T084500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T100000 DTSTAMP:20260616T195804 CREATED:20160302T054619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T054619Z UID:440-1457081100-1457085600@ubwp.buffalo.edu SUMMARY:Prospie Week/end Events! DESCRIPTION:There will be FREE COFFEE\, BAGELS\, AND DONUTS for anyone who can come and hang out with us Baldy 603!!! URL:https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/linguistics/event/prospie-weekend-events/ LOCATION:UB North Campus\, Baldy 603 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR