Linguistic Seminar / Club and Reading Room

Linguistic seminar Every Monday at 4pm, in the Lucy Ellis lounge A mix of invited speakers and local faculty and graduate student speakers Linguistics students are expected to attend the seminar Attending seminar gives you exposure to a broad range of research in multiple linguistic sub-disciplines, and will help you appreciate everything that happens under the umbrella of “Linguistics” Attending also shows support for your fellow students and faculty members – go there to learn from each other, get feedback and provide feedback Invited speakers are often renowned experts in their field – come to seminar to learn from the best!

Linguistic seminar Seminar schedule (to be updated soon): Also see under ‘upcoming events’ on the main Linguistics page Faculty supervisor: Darren Tanner Student GA: Maria Goldshtein

Linguistics Club talk series The Linguistics Club series brings distinguished linguists to give talks at our seminar This semester we have two Linguistics Club speakers: Roumyana Slabakova from the University of Southampton (Sep. 12) Chris Kennedy from the University of Chicago (November/December)

Other linguistics talks on campus Reading groups in the linguistics department (contact faculty in areas you are interested in) SLATE seminars, Linguistics-related talks in other SLCL departments, in Psychology, in Computer Science, in Speech & Hearing Science… The annual linguistics student conference (ILLS) in April.

Just this year: GALANA-7 conference The 7 th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America conference (GALANA-7) is taking place at Illinois, September Great opportunity to hear about research in first and second language acquisition without leaving campus! Registration is free to Illinois students and faculty.

Linguistics Library/ Reading room (4100 FLB) Accessible to all Linguistics students Books, textbooks, hard copies of journals Computers for student use Reserve material for some graduate courses Student meeting room Room used for reading group meetings FYI: another library: TESL library / reading group, 3046 FLB, houses ESL and TESL books, materials and AV resources; supervised by Prof. Koshik