Language Research Centre

Happy New Year! Please read about what is happening in the LRC by reading our latest newsletter, which you can find here: http://arts.ucalgary.ca//files/lrc_newsletter_w16_v7_n1.pdf

Please join us THIS AFTERNOON at 3:00pm in Craigie Hall D420 for the next talk in the Language Research Centre's Language Acquisition and Learning Speaker Series! Jennifer Vannest (Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital) will give a presentation entitled Neuroplasticity in the language network in the developing brain." The abstract is available on the LRC website: http://arts.ucalgary.ca/lrc/

Please join us for our annual I’d like to know more about event on Thursday, November 12 (Reading Day). The goal is to provide participants with a hands-on introduction to new areas of research and to new research tools. The schedule for the day is as follows: 9:00-10:30 Translation 10:45-12:15 Data elicitation 12:15-1:00Lunch (provided)... 1:00-2:30Statistics in R More information is available at http://arts.ucalgary.ca/lrc/node/582. Please RSVP to [email protected] by November 4. Be sure to indicate which workshops you’d like to attend and whether or not you’d like to join us for lunch.

Please join us tomorrow at 3:00pm in Craigie Hall D420 for the next talk in the Language Research Centre's Language Acquisition and Learning Speaker Series! Laurent Dekydtspotter (Indiana University) will give a presentation entitled "Second Language Grammar and Processing as Computations Fail to Complete." The abstract is available here on the LRC website: http://arts.ucalgary.ca/lrc/ We will provide coffee, but please be sure to bring your own reusable mug.

Darin Flynn held Blackfoot Rap Camp in the Language Research Centre this week. You can learn more about it here. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/Calgary/ID/2673200943/

LRC researchers were busy in 2014. You can read about their work in our annual report: http://arts.ucalgary.ca///files/lrc_annualreport_2014_.pdf