Events

Behind the CV: Martha Farah

August 10, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Martha Farah Department of Psychology Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) University of Pennsylvania     Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty (a “Growing Up in Science” Event) is an event series about becoming and being a scientist. Faculty share their stories with a focus on the unspoken challenges of a life in academia. […]

LDC/ILST Joint Talk: Paul Heggarty

September 6, 2023
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Paul Heggarty Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History   LDC Conference Room (Room 135) 3600 Market Street, Suite 810   For the Zoom link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu.   A New Database, Family Tree and Origins Hypothesis for the Indo-European Language Family   A recent article in Science* presents a new language database […]

Maya Dewhurst, Lancaster University   Nasality in Greater Manchester: (Aero)acoustics and variation   Variation in voice quality is a socially meaningful phenomenon and plays an important role in acts of identity construction and group membership (Podesva and Callier, 2015). “Nasal voice”, or nasality, specifically, has been found to index a range of social characteristics (Bucholtz, […]