Wednesday Events
July 9th
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Event: “Praat for Sound Synthesis”
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)
11:00 am–5:00 pm
101 ways to communicate linguistics with broader audiences
Gretchen McCulloch, Lingthusiasm
2:00 pm–5:00 pm
Python tools for phonetics
Keith Johnson (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Reading Group: “How to Do Things with Mental Spaces”
Organizer: Don Peterkin (independent researcher)
July 16th
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Tutorial: “One size does not fit all: Tailoring the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) to your data”
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Mentoring session: PUMP (pop-up mentoring program)
Organizers: Hadas Kotek (Apple/MIT), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Tutorial: “One size does not fit all: Tailoring the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) to your data”
Organizers: Michael McAuliffe (McGill University), Kaylynn Gunter (University of Oregon)
July 30th
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Tutorial: “Generalized Additive Mixed Models for Linguistic Data”
Harald Baayen (University of Tuebingen)
10:30 am – 12:00 noon
Book Talk: “We Do the Talking: Language Production, not Language Knowledge or Comprehension, is Uniquely Human”
Maryellen MacDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Mentoring session: PUMP (pop-up mentoring program)
Organizers: Hadas Kotek (Apple/MIT), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Tutorial: “Bayesian regression for linguistics: Applications, misconceptions and best practices”
Natalia Levshina (Radboud University)
August 6th
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Tutorial: “Generalized Additive Mixed Models for Linguistic Data”
Harald Baayen (University of Tuebingen)
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Event: “National Science Foundation Funding for Linguistics Research”
Rachel M. Theodore (National Science Foundation Program Director for Linguistics)