Praat Workshop by Erin O’Rourke

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Erin O’Rourke will be giving a workshop on Praat on December 2nd at 10am in the Bilingualism Research Lab (1700 University Hall, 601 S. Morgan St., Chicago).  If you are unfamiliar with Praat, on its website http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Sidney Wood describes it in the following manner:

  • Praat is a program for speech analysis and synthesis written by Paul Boersma och David Weenink at the Department of Phonetics of the University of Amsterdam (links on the Contents page). The program is constantly being improved and a new build is published almost every week. Version 4.2 was published in March 2004 and the last build was 4.2.34. Version 4.3 was introduced in February 2005 and the current builds (22 February 2005) are 4.3.00 for Solaris, 4.3.01 for Linux and 4.3.02 for Windows and Macintosh.

    • All are welcome to participate in the workshop and are encouraged to download Pratt on their laptop beforehand.

    BAEC December 11 & 12

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    On the 11th and 12th of December the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong will be hosting the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood.  This conference on childhood bilingualism is organized by the newly established Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong & Co-sponsored by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.

    http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/baec/

    Of particular interest at the BAEC is a workshop on Sign Bilingualism in the Asia-Pacific Region.  The workshop itinerary can be viewed at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/baec/signlang.html

    UIC TiL: Patrick Wong

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    On December 1st Patrick Wong from Northwestern University will give a talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His talk is entitled “Effects of Long- and Short-Term Auditory Experiences on the Auditory Pathway: Speech, Voice, and Music”.

    The talk will take place at 2pm in 1700 University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street in Chicago.

    UIC TiL: Anastasia Giannakidou

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    The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Talks in Linguistics is proud to be hosting Anastasia Giannakidou from the University of Chicago.  Tomorrow she’ll be presenting a talk entitled “Negative polarity in natural language: Variation, scalarity, and dependent reference.”  The talk will take place in the Language Oasis in Grant Hall on UIC campus at 2pm.

    For further information visit our UIC TiL homepage:

    http://www.uic.edu/depts/sfip/UIC_TiL/UIC_TiL.html

    Welcome to UIC’s Bilingualism Research Lab

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    The Bilingualism Research Lab, BRL, was founded this summer here at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Professors Luis Lopez Carretero and Kay Gonzalez Vilbazo.  Current student members of the lab are doctoral students Brad Hoot, Shane Ebert, and Laura Bartlett.  Current masters students who are part of the lab are Mirta Lee, Sarah Downey-Gimenez, and Jeanne Heil.

    The BRL works in theoretical bilingual research, with a particular interest in code-switching phenomena.