Week of September 14

Fall Reception

Reminder that our Fall Reception will be held on Tuesday, September 15 from 4:00-6:00pm in the Boylston 3rd floor lounge. Come mix and mingle with our faculty, graduate students, undergraduate concentrators, and potential future concentrators - there will be food from Five Spices!

 

Bees, Whales, and LLMs

As part of a project for LING 10, Avani Shah-Lipman ('29) interviewed linguist Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley), an alum of the department who researches animal and non-human language. The interview was recorded as a podcast, which aired on WHRB 95.3 FM this past Sunday, September 13 just after 12pm. If you missed it, you can listen for the next two weeks at https://www.whrb.org/broadcast-archive/.

 

Talk Radar: Upcoming Lectures

  • "Constraints on the emergence and interpretability of linguistic conventions" with Veronica Boyce (MIT) - Tuesday 9/15, 5:30-7:00pm in William James Hall, room 1305 (LangCog)

  • "Uvamam: Classical Tamil Theory of Likeness in Making Meaning" with E. Annamalai (UChicago) - Thursday 9/24, 6:00-8:00pm in Barker Center, Thompson Room (Department of South Asian Studies)

  • Linguistics Colloquium with Ryan Bochnak (UBC) - Friday 9/25, 12:00-1:30pm, further details forthcoming

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