Our third Fall 2026 Speaker Series talk is coming up this Friday! Morphological Diffusion and the Internal Sub-grouping of Central Totonac Dr. David Beck (University of Alberta) Friday, Oct 9 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212 About the speakers: sites.ualberta.ca/~dbeck/

Our second Fall 2026 Speaker Series talk is this Friday! Exploring Argumenthood Dr. Ida Toivonen (Carleton University) Friday, Oct 2 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Abstract submissions for the Alberta Conference on Linguistics are now open! Send your abstract to albertaconferenceonlinguistics@gmail.com no later than 23:59 (MST) on October 23, 2026. For detailed information, please visit our website!

Welcome back, everyone! 🍂 Our first Speaker Series talk of Fall 2026 is just around the corner — and this one's a collab with the Philosophy Speaker Series! 👀✨ Do Real Patterns Really Save Linguistics From LLMs? Dr. Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town) Friday, Sep 25 | 3:00 pm | SS 1253

Start the Fall semester right — with a Dino Trip 🦖 to Drumheller!!! Here are some fun moments from the adventure 👉 Also, a huge thank you to Charys for organizing such an amazing road trip — we had a blast! 🎉

Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! 🎉Congratulations to Charys Russell on the successful defence of her master's thesis, “Examining the Effects of High- and Low-Variability Training and their Interaction with Level of Task Processing.”

The new course LING 599: Mathematical Linguistics (Formal Properties of Grammars) will be taught by Prof. Diego Gabriel Krivochen in Winter 2027 (MWF 12–12:50). This is a seminar for advanced students in LING, but students in other programs (CPSC, MATH, etc.) are most welcome to enrol and benefit!

LING 302: Language in Humans & Machines will be taught as a no-prerequisite block-week course August 24–28 by computational linguist Brooklyn Sheppard. Don’t miss out! LING 302 is only offered every two years or so, and it’s already over half full (65/120) calendar.ucalgary.ca/courses/1663...

That's a wrap! 🎉 Again, a huge thank you to Dr. Dillon for four amazing days of eye-tracking workshops 🤩 and to everyone who stayed the extra days — safe travels! 🧳 Also, wrapping up some highlights from this year's CLA events at UCalgary 🌟

Congratulations to Harvard Prof. Katie Franich (@kfran.bsky.social) and our (incl.) PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu on the publication of “Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift’” www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1...

Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift’

Though predictability has been found to play an important role in reduction processes in speech, its role in conditioning co-speech gestures has not been explored. Co-speech gestures are known to be c...

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Evening again, everyone! The weather isn't so great today 🌬️🌥️ but the crash courses sure were! Huge thanks to Dr. Dillon & Dr. Hracs for their amazing courses today — we learnt so much! 🤩

Evening, everyone~ 🌞 Hope you're soaking up this beautiful weather! It's the final day of the conference — here are today's UCalgary highlights :) Thank you for spending the past three days with us here at UCalgary, and we can't wait to see you all in Montreal next year! 🎉

Good afternoon, everyone ☀️ Hope you are enjoying your second day at CLA 📖 Here are some highlights from UCalgary people in today's invited talk & 3 poster presentations⭐

Evening everyone! Hope you enjoyed the first day of CLA 📖 🥁 Here's a quick recap for UCalgary folks — we have 7 posters & 1 talk today featuring the incredible work of our students and faculty ✨

Hey guys! Don't forget we also have a Podcast :) New episode Tuesday! 🎙️ Our Podcast, Linguistically Aware, sits down with Dr. Julie Sedivy to explore Language in Humans and Machines.

📢 Eye-Tracking Workshop with Dr. Brian Dillon — don't forget to register! For grad students, postdocs & faculty in linguistics or cognitive science. June 20 & 22–25 | FREE | Closes at capacity. 👉 Link to register → gqr.sh/DBtE

We'd love to see you there 💛 CLA 2026 is coming up on June 17-19, and is hosted by UCalgary this year :) ‼️Friendly Reminder: Registration is required for the conference. 🔗 Register via the link below. See you all soon! event.fourwaves.com/cla-acl/regi...

Excited for our new event in June! 🎉 Join Dr. Brian Dillon, Ph.D., for a fascinating evening on AI 🤖 and human language 🗣️ — plus explore UCalgary Ling students' research exhibitions 🌟. 🗓️ [Jun.16 / 6pm] | 📍 [Contemporary Calgary - Heather Edwards Theatre] ‼️Registration Required: gqr.sh/aBp4

Attention graduate students: our next event is this Friday at 3pm. Bring your game face to CHE 212 to play a game of linguistics-themed Jeopardy!

Join us next Friday for the next talk in our speaker series! Demonstrative ku in Korean: Its prosodic and syntactic analyses Dr. Kyumin Kim (Chungbuk National University) and Dr. Emily Elfner (York University) Friday, Feb 13 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

Bring a dish from your home country (or a country near and dear to your heart) next week to share! Please be sure to mark what you’re bringing on the sign-up spreadsheet. We’ll see you in the grad lounge at 4pm!

Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Winter 2026, from the new colleague who joined the Linguistics Division this month :) Quandaries and the nature of grammars Dr. Diego Krivochen (University of Calgary) Friday, Jan 23 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212

This afternoon! Be there or be square—because you won’t be a-round. Also the aliens’ language is … Never mind.

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Welcome back, everyone! We’re starting the year off strong with a screening and discussion of Arrival (2016). Join us in CHE 212 this Friday at 3pm. There will be popcorn!

Welcome back, everyone! We’re starting the year off strong with a screening and discussion of Arrival (2016). Join us in CHE 212 this Friday at 3pm. There will be popcorn!

I think now it’s safe to say this semester is wrapping up 🧶 Good luck with the rest of the writing & grading, and Happy Holidays to everyone :)

Our last Brownbag Series this semester is on Friday! 👏 Friday, Nov 28 | 3pm | CHE 212 During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!

Check out this year's ACOL highlights of our students' presentation! Part one - poster sessions & Part two - talk sessions 😎 Thank you so much for UAlberta hosting the Alberta Conference on Linguistics this year! Looking forward to seeing you all again in Calgary next year!

The third talk in our speaker series is this Friday! (The second talk this week!) External possession and multitransitivity Dr. María Cristina Cuervo (University of Toronto) Friday, Nov 21 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

The second talk in our speaker series this semester is this Wednesday! (We will have two talks this week, stay tuned!) A Syntax-Semantics Interface in an Extraterrestrial Language: A Thought Experiment Dr. Carol Tenny Wednesday, Nov 19 | 12:00pm | CHE 212

Join our trivia team, you will. Meet outside the Den in the basement of Mac Hall at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 18th. The event goes until 8:30pm.