SLaB members can access readings, discussions, and other materials via our bCourses page.

Schedule

Sept 4

Round table: Research over summer, introductions

Sept 11

Please read and come ready to discuss Simonet et al. (2025). Velar palatalization, phonologization, and sound change – A comparative acoustic study of /k/-fronting in Majorcan CatalanLinks to an external site.. Journal of Phonetics.

12 p.m. Guest talk by Professor Miquel Simonet (U. of Arizona). Dwinelle 5125. "Vowel sandhi processes in Catalan and Spanish: Investigating the phonetics-phonology interface".

1-2 p.m. Chat with Prof. Simonet

2:30 p.m. SLaB discussion w/ Prof. Simonet on Simonet et al. (2025)

Sept 18

Paper discussion: Caplan, E., Chakraborty, T., & Goldwasser, D. (2026). Splits! Flexible sociocultural linguistic investigation at scale. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04640Links to an external site.

Sept 25

Data Presentation by Verónica Grajeda

Oct 2

Graphing and Data Visualization Workshop. Please come to ready with R and R Studio installed on your computer.

Oct 9

Talk By Professor Sarah Lease (Dept. Spanish & Portuguese)

Oct 16

NWAV Practice Talks

Oct 23

Paper discussion led by Ivy Shaw

Oct 30

Workshop led by Shulin Liu: Corpus phonetics, forced alignment, and data processing in understudied languages.

Nov 6

Presentation led by Anna Knall

Nov 13

Discussion with Felix Kpogo. Please read and be ready to discuss: Kpogo, F. & Chang, C. B. (2026). Age, gender, and locality effects on innovation in the Twi vowel harmony system. Language Variation & Change.

Discussion led by Nafisa Rashid

Nov 20

Presentation by Riley VanMeter

Dec 4

Talk by Professor Mosiah Bluecloud (Dept. Linguistics). Sociolinguistic variation in Indigenous communities undergoing language revitalization.