UIC Talks in Linguistics Schedule
All Talks in Linguistics are held at 4:00 p.m. in a hybrid format (both at UH 1750 and on Zoom), unless stated otherwise. Please contact Dr. David Miller, Jason Cruz, or Ana Rodríguez Gallego to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.
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Talks for 2023-2024
Date Time Speaker Affiliation Title and abstract September 1st 4:00 p.m. Welcome! UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty! September 15th 4:00 p.m. Alexis Berles UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Lab Individual differences in adult Romance-like language learning and working memory in implicit and explicit contexts 4:30 p.m. Ana Rodríguez Gallego UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Lab The role of working memory in adult L2 processing: An ERP study September 29th 4:00 p.m. David Miller UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Psychology of Multilingualism Lab Aversive language processing in bilingualism: The role of System 1 and 2 October 27th 11:00 a.m. Fernando Martín-Villena Universitat Pompeu Fabra L1 morphosyntactic attrition in bilinguals: triangulating evidence from production, interpretation, and processing data November 10th 4:00 p.m. Michał B. Paradowski Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw Peer interactions in study-abroad SLA: Insights from complete learner networks November 17th 10:00 a.m. Kate Bellamy Leiden University Dialectology meets heritage language research: Identifying appropriate baselines among P'urhepecha speakers January 19th 4:00 p.m. Jefferson Imbaquingo UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, The Bilingualism Research Lab Evidentiality, conjecture and grammatical expression in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish February 2nd 4:00 p.m. Jason Cruz UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Multilingual Phonology Lab L3+ Attrition: Proof of Concept & Current Trends Marty Buck UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Spanish Dialect Contact in the United States: Sociolinguistic Outcomes and Future Directions February 16th 4:00 p.m. Jennifer Cabrelli, Jason Cruz, &; John Escalante Martínez UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, Multilingual Phonology Lab The relationship between perception and production in L2 English phonotactic acquisition and resultant effects in L1 Brazilian Portuguese
March 1st 2:00 p.m. Gyu-Ho Shin UIC, Linguistics ‘Good-Enough’ processing and heritage speakers: A case of Korean suffixal passive and morphological causative constructions March 15th 4:00 p.m. Tania Ionin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Universal Quantification, Distributivity, and Collectivity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals March 29th 2:00 p.m. Adam Cleveland &; Liliana Sánchez UIC, Hispanic Linguistics, The Bilingualism Research Lab Universal Quantification, Distributivity, and Collectivity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals April 12th 3:00 p.m. Silvia Perez-Cortes Rutgers University, Camden Close and personal: the importance of examining intra-speaker variability and production data in heritage language research. -
Talks for 2022-2023
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Abstract September 2nd Meet and greet Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty! September 16th Dr. Eloi Puig Mayenco King's College London Modelling L3 development patterns: Japanese-English bilinguals acquiring Spanish September 30th Dr. Ana Pérez-Leroux University of Toronto La lobo malo: A critical listening of La caperucita roja October 14th UIC Bilingualism Forum No TiL October 28th UIC Bilingualism Forum No TiL November 11th Alexis Berles UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Individual differences in cognitive control and adult language learning Nate Cook UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Exploring the foreign language effect in bilinguals: Illusory truth effect of true statements November 25th Thanksgiving Break No TiL February 3rd Dr. Jorge Valdés Kroff University of Florida Adaptive Prediction in Code-switching as a window into language regulation February 17th Lidia Aguilera UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Exploring Identity and Investment using Qualitative Research Software March 3rd Dr. Tania Leal University of Arizona Canceled
March 17th Dr. Silvia Gumiel Molina,Dr. María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, & Dr. Norberto Moreno Quibén University of Alcalá Canceled
April 7th John A. Escalante Martínez UIC, Hispanic Linguistics Perception of lexical stress by Spanish heritage speakers April 20th Dr. Nicole Wicha University of Texas at San Antonio Electrophysiological signatures of cognitive development and bilingualism in processing simple arithmetic
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Talks for 2021-2022
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Abstract September 3rd TiL meet-and-greet Get to know your fellow linguistics students and faculty! October 1st Tribute to Dr. John Franco, University of Deusto October 15th Dr. Vincent DeLuca University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway October 29th Ana Hernandez University of Illinois at Chicago November 12th Dr. Brad Hoot DePaul University January 21st Alexis Berles University of Illinois at Chicago February 4th Marina Ridchenko University of Illinois at Chicago March 4th Dr. José Sequeros-Valle University of Nebraska at Omaha March 11th Dr. Jorge Valdes Kroff University of Florida March 18th Dr. Rajiv Rao University of Wisconsin April 1st Dr. Betty Birner Northern Illinois University April 15th Dr. Alison Gabriele University of Kansas -
Talks for 2020-2021
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Abstract September 4th TiL meet-and-greet Get to know you fellow linguistic students and faculty! September 18th Dr. Kara Federmeier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Getting a read on language and the brain October 16th Dr. Holger Hopp Technical University of Braunschweig How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?
NOTE: held at 12pm CST to account for time zone differencesOctober 30th Dr. Kara Morgan-Short, David Abugaber, Irene Finestrat, & Alicia Luque University of Illinois at Chicago & University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway NOTE: held at 12pm CST to account for time zone differences November 13th Dr. Luis López, Irati de Nicolás, & Jose Sequeros-Valle University of Illinois at Chicago Make your mouth agua: idioms and the integrated hypothesis January 22nd Irene Finestrat University of Illinois at Chicago Language learning in context: The Role of Native-Language Skills in the At-Home and Study Abroad Settings February 5th Annette D'Onofrio Northwestern University February 19th Mike Putnam Penn State University March 5th M. Parafita Cuoto Leiden University March 19th Liliana Sánchez, Megan Marshall, Gabriel Martínez, & Marina Sokolova University of Illinois at Chicago April 2nd Antje Muntendam Florida State University April 16th Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg Northern Illinois University -
Talks for 2019-2020
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Talks for 2018-2019
Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Abstract September 14th TiL meet-and-greet September 28th Student Presentations - David Abugaber, Jose Sequeros University of Illinois at Chicago Clitic-doubled Left Dislocation in Heritage Spanish: Judgment vs. Speeded Production Data (Jose) and Frequency and Semantic Prototypicality in an L2 Spanish Dative Construction: A Corpus Study (David) November 16th Adriana Weisleder Northwestern University Richer language experience leads to faster understanding: Language input and processing efficiency in Spanish-learning children November 19th (Monday, 4pm in University Hall 1501) Vita Kogan University of Barcelona Individual Differences in L1 Perception & their Effects on Discrimination of Unfamiliar Nonnative Vowel Contrasts February 8th - *note time/location change to 1pm in University Hall 1750* Mike Iverson University of Indiana Rethinking some issues in L1 attrition: A case study of L1 Spanish in contact with Brazilian Portuguese March 1st Sung Park-Johnson and Carolina Barrera-Tobon DePaul University English hegemony in a Spanish Immersion preschool: a case study at Puerta Abierta March 15th Erik Zyman University of Chicago Antilocality at the Phase Edge April 5th Erika Erdely National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Una nueva mirada a la semántica a los verbos ser y estar con perspectiva dialectal / New insights on the semantics of Spanish copulas ser and estar from a dialectal perspective April 12th Student Presentations University of Illinois at Chicago TBD April 26th Kara Federmeier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TBD -
Talks for 2017-2018
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Talks for 2016-2017
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Talks for 2015-2016
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Talks for 2014-2015
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Talks for 2013-2014