Emerging Scholars Speaker Series at Boston University

[BU Linguistics Public Relations]

The Department of Linguistics at Boston University is delighted to announce an Emerging Scholars Speaker Series this spring! The series consists of six speakers:

• Feb. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-5): Megan Figueroa (U. of Arizona)
• "Rethinking English past tense overregularizations"
• Mar. 19, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Jhonnatan Rangel (INALCO Paris)
• "Words like the wind: Documenting variation in critically endangered languages"
• Mar. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Nandi Sims (Ohio State U.)
• "The effects of ethnic and social group identities on the linguistic variation of Black middle schoolers"
• Apr. 2, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Gladys Camacho-Rios (UT Austin)
• "Morphological variation in South Bolivian Quechua: A new approach to Quechuan typology"
• Apr. 16, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Megan Burkhardt-Reed (U. of Memphis)
• "Exploring the roles of voice and gesture in early communication development"
• Apr. 30, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Rachel Elizabeth Weissler (U. of Michigan)
• "How do our experiences influence perception? Exploring the intersection of sociolinguistics and cognitive processing"

All talks are free and open to the public. Select talks will be livestreamed on the BU Linguistics YouTube channel. To participate in the Q&A, advance registration is required at: bit.ly/bulingspring21

These events are made possible by the financial support of BU's Office of the Provost and CAS Dean's Office. Questions may be directed to the Emerging Scholars Organizing Committee (Kate Lindsey, Danny Erker, & Charles Chang).