Congrats to PhD candidate Jesse Weir on the special recognition of their poster titled “There seemsta be a difference here, and I wanna find it” at this summer’s annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association @cla-acl.ca (which they were also central in organizing)

New preprint from PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu: “Prosodic cues to backchanneling in Igbo oral storytelling” (Aug. ’26) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“What does the general public want to know about language?” by Victor Kuperman and Gary Libben (Aug. ’26) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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...

PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu and his co-supervisor @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social presented “Cross-dialectal incomplete neutralization in Igbo implosives” at labphon.org/labphon20/home @labphon.bsky.social #LabPhon20

Kudos to @ucalgaryling.bsky.social PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu and his co-supervisor @harvard.edu prof. Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social on organizing the satellite workshop “Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection” at #LabPhon20 labphon.org/labphon20/pi...

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⭐

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.

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 ✨

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...

journal-labphon.org

We’re all set and excited to host the 73rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association next week. Only two days left to register (June 14): event.fourwaves.com/cla-acl/regi...

New article by Prof. Krivochen: “The architecture of agreement: from strings to structures” with Douglas Saddy (University of Reading) and Julie Franck (University of Geneva) www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan...

Frontiers | The architecture of agreement: from strings to structures

In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural ...

frontiersin.org

Today PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu gave a talk on “Acoustic analysis of implosives in Igbo” with Harvard prof. Kathryn Franich at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) hosted by the University of Buffalo sites.google.com/view/acal57/...

Join Dr. Brian Dillon at Contemporary Calgary on June 16 at 6pm for a fascinating evening on AI and human language. There will also be UCalgary Linguistics research exhibitions to explore. Registration is required:

New open-access article from Prof. Storoshenko and PhD candidate Jesse Weir with SFU’s Chung-hye Han, Trevor Block, Holly Gendron and Sara Williamson, and UofT’s Keir Moulton: “Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze task” doi.org/10.5070/G601...

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu on winning an excellence award for his service as Faculty of Arts Research Impact Coordinator – Community, Connection and Culture

Diachronica gets a paper bump every (northern) summer, and we're seeing submissions pick up. This year, there are many more submissions with AI involvement (declared or undeclared). Here's a brief thread about why the vast majority of such #linguistics papers won't make it past my desk:

Language is a biological function of the human organism. The concept of language as a tool goes back at least to the Classics.

PhD student Melissa Lazzari on “The Use of Language Melody in the Interpretation of Ambiguous Adjective-Noun Attachment in Brazilian Portuguese” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

PhD candidate Brooklyn Sheppard and Prof. Steve Winters on “What makes a word stand out? Modelling the cognitive underpinnings of linguistic prominence perception” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

MA student Charys Russell and Prof. Steve Winters on “Examining the effects of variability and level of focus in L2 learning and phonetic training” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

PhD candidate Francisco Ongay González on “Correlation between omitted durative prepositions, telicity, and transitivity: Experimental evidence from Spanish” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

PhD candidate Jesse Weir on “Collecting experimental evidence of wanna-contraction in English” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Pointed opening remarks by Prof. Storoshenko (@exolinguist.bsky.social) at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Closing remarks at the Verbatim Colloquium by Jessica Wong, president of the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Elijah Durocher on “Vowel mergers in Cavite Chavacano” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Kiana Gardner on “Processing of prosodic information by (Canadian) English speakers” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by our Undergraduate Linguistics Society. Joint work with Prof. Athanasopoulou and Dr. Nikolić in the University of Calgary Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab