Language is a biological function of the human organism. The concept of language as a tool goes back at least to the Classics.

PhD student Melissa Lazzari on “The Use of Language Melody in the Interpretation of Ambiguous Adjective-Noun Attachment in Brazilian Portuguese” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Great stuff @brooklynsheppard.bsky.social and @swinters.bsky.social!

PhD candidate Brooklyn Sheppard and Prof. Steve Winters on “What makes a word stand out? Modelling the cognitive underpinnings of linguistic prominence perception” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Very cool methodology @charysbrussell.bsky.social and Prof. Steve Winters @swinters.bsky.social!

MA student Charys Russell and Prof. Steve Winters on “Examining the effects of variability and level of focus in L2 learning and phonetic training” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

PhD candidate Francisco Ongay González on “Correlation between omitted durative prepositions, telicity, and transitivity: Experimental evidence from Spanish” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

PhD candidate Jesse Weir on “Collecting experimental evidence of wanna-contraction in English” at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Pointed opening remarks by Prof. Storoshenko (@exolinguist.bsky.social) at the 2026 Graduate Forum of the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary

Closing remarks at the Verbatim Colloquium by Jessica Wong, president of the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Elijah Durocher on “Vowel mergers in Cavite Chavacano” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Kiana Gardner on “Processing of prosodic information by (Canadian) English speakers” at today’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by our Undergraduate Linguistics Society. Joint work with Prof. Athanasopoulou and Dr. Nikolić in the University of Calgary Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab

Victoria Klassen on “Morphophonological processes in Blackfoot storytelling for heritage learners” at this year’s Verbatim Colloquium, by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Lunch break at the Verbatim Colloquium, organized annually by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society

Dorian Van Hardeveld on “Turkish DIK and MA Embedded Clauses” at this year’s Verbatim Colloquium, organized by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society

“Embedded Clause Gapping in Spanish” by Maria Estrada-Caro, the first presentation this year’s Verbatim Colloquium by the University of Calgary’s Undergraduate Linguistics Society

U of C makes it to top 100 list on Times magazine calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

A poster for a potluck event. There is blue paint spatter on a yellow background and a sketched table and chairs. The caption reads "Potluck dinner, February 9th, 2026, at 4pm in CHC 211."

Bring a dish from your home country (or a country near and dear to your heart) next week to share! Please be sure to mark what you’re bringing on the sign-up spreadsheet. We’ll see you in the grad lounge at 4pm!

Join us next Friday for the next talk in our speaker series!

Demonstrative ku in Korean: Its prosodic and syntactic analyses
Dr. Kyumin Kim (Chungbuk National University) and Dr. Emily Elfner (York University)

Friday, Feb 13 | 3:00pm | CHE 212

Reminder: this afternoon!

Join us this Friday for the first talk in our speaker series in Winter 2026, from the new colleague who joined the Linguistics Division this month :)

Quandaries and the nature of grammars
Dr. Diego Krivochen (University of Calgary)

Friday, Jan 23 | 3:00 pm | CHE 212

The Canadian Linguistic Association will hold its 73rd annual conference at the University of Calgary (!) from Wednesday, June 17th to Friday, June 19th, 2026. The abstract deadline is January 31 cla-acl.ca/news/appel-a...

This afternoon! Be there or be square—because you won’t be a-round. Also the aliens’ language is … Never mind.

A poster from Arrival (2016). The caption under the poster reads "Now screening: Arrival (2016). Friday, January 16, 2025. CHE 212. 3:00 pm".

Welcome back, everyone! We’re starting the year off strong with a screening and discussion of Arrival (2016). Join us in CHE 212 this Friday at 3pm. There will be popcorn!

Workshop at LabPhon 20 (Montreal, June 25): Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection. Abstract deadline: Feb. 20. The main organizer is PhD candidate Vincent Nwosu linguistlist.org/issues/37/33/

Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory | Home We study how infants and children acquire their language and how that interacts with other aspects of their cognitive development. We use a variety of behavioural tasks, including eye-tracking, to tes...

Dušan Nikolić @dusannikolic.bsky.social is a post-doctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences who obtained his PhD in 2023 with us as an Izaak-Walton Killam awardee. He is currently a visiting scholar in our Developmental Psycholinguistics Lab www.ucalgary.ca/labs/develop...

Today Dr. Dušan Nikolić gave a talk on “Perception of lexical pitch accents: the native language acoustic cue approach vs. the target language acoustic cue approach” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Linguistics across disciplines” panel session today at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“Fostering undergraduate participation in linguistics research” presented today by Emily Clem, Myriam Lapierre, Line Mikkelsen, Katherine Russell and Hannah Sande at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026

“CUREing linguistics: a replicable model for undergraduate research participation” presented today by Montclair State University’s Lauren Covey, Larissa Goulart and Jonathan Howell at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans, Jan. 8–11 #LSA2026