Colloquia 2025-2026
Autumn
Naomi Caselli, Director BU Deaf Center, Boston University
Thursday, October 9, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Beyond Arbitrariness: What Iconicity Reveals About Language Learning and Use
Rosenwald 011
Kate Mooney, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Thursday, November 13th, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Explaining Asymmetries between (Morpho-)phonological and Phonetic Operations
Rosenwald 011
Winter
Mirella Blum, Dartmouth College
Thursday, January 15th, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Tone through time: the “dialect laboratory” as a comprehensive tonological method
Stuart 102
Canaan Breiss, University of Southern California
Thursday, January 22nd, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Building rich theory from sparse data: two case studies from Tōhoku Japanese
Stuart 102
Sarah Lease, University of New Mexico
Tuesday, January 27th 3:30 - 5:00pm
Empirical tests of an exemplar model in child and adult language data
Rosenwald 011
Thursday, February 19th, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Christopher Potts, Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Stanford University
Location TBA
Spring
Thursday, March 26th, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Michelle Yuan, Associate Professor, UCLA
Location TBA
Thursday, April 23rd, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Rolando Coto-Solano, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Dartmouth College
Location TBA
Thursday, May 7th, 3:30 - 5:00pm
Meredith Tamminga, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Location TBA