Events

ILST seminar: Sang-Im Lee-Kim

February 17, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Sang-Im Lee-Kim Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan   Unmerging the sibilant merger in Taiwan Mandarin: Phonetic, phonological, and social factors   According to Garde’s principle, a merger, once completed, cannot be reversed by linguistic means. In cases of near-mergers, however, a merger may be reversed in […]

SCEW seminar: Sarah Tishkoff

February 21, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

This event will be streamed via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   “Human Evolution and Adaptation in Africa”   Bio: Sarah Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, holding appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and […]

ILST seminar: Marlyse Baptista

February 24, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Marlyse Baptista Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   An experimental approach to congruence in language contact with implications for Creole genesis   In Baptista (2020), I provided a survey of congruent forms in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical domains (including negation,Tense, Mood, Aspect markers, complementizers…), as they were reported in the scholarly literature […]