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Special Topics Linguistics course in Methods in Corpus Linguistics offered this summer

April 16, 2020, 12:52 pm
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Join us during the late summer term (July-August) for a special topics course, “Methods in Corpus Linguistics,” taught by Dr. Christopher Cox.

This graduate-level seminar provides an introduction to central concepts and common analytical techniques in corpus linguistics, an approach to studying language that focuses on collections of observations of language in use (corpora). Through a combination of assigned readings, seminar presentations, and a series of practical activities that introduce different techniques for corpus-assisted analysis, annotation, and corpus development, participants in this course will become familiar with a range of corpus-based methods that are commonly employed in applied linguistics today. No previous background in corpus linguistics or corpus-based methodologies is assumed.

About the Course

Methods in Corpus Linguistics (ALDS 5905 S)
Instructor: Christopher Cox
Term: Late Summer 2020 (July 2 – August 14)
Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday 12:35 -15:25

This courses is offered online. Students must be available during the scheduled time.

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Linguistics student awarded FASS summer research internship

May 4, 2020, 11:00 am
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Congratulations to fourth-year Linguistics student Emma Bornheimer on being awarded a FASS Undergraduate Summer Research Internship in the 2020 competition. Emma will be working on her project, Netspeak, Autism, and the Internet: Contextual Analysis of Netspeak, under the supervision of Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan. We look forward to hearing about her findings at the end of the summer!

Click here to learn more about this award.

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Home language environment and children’s second language acquisition

May 4, 2020, 11:04 am
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Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan in collaboration with Dr. Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) recently published an article in the Journal of Child Language about the relation between children’s emerging L2 (English) abilities and the L2 input they receive at home. Using hierarchical linear regression modelling with controls for age, non-verbal reasoning and phonological short-term memory, this paper found that greater L2 input from siblings – but not mothers – was associated with stronger L2 abilities in narrative macrostructure, inflectional morphology, and vocabulary. Increased cumulative exposure to the L2 at school and greater maternal L2 fluency were also positively related to children’s L2 inflectional morphology and vocabulary scores.  Read online.

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SALaDS Hosts Virtual Writing Group via CUlearn

May 4, 2020, 11:06 am
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After a few weeks apart from our ALDS graduate student community which is largely facilitated by the beloved ALDS Grad Student Lounge, many of us—through one-on-one conversations and group chats—reported similar difficulty maintaining our writing and working habits and motivation.

Academic writing is strenuous work on our best days, and the uncertainty, grief, and fear that COVID-19 has brought to the fore has made academic research and writing feel insurmountable for many of us. In addition to this, graduate student isolation—a well-known issue in academia connected to mental health—has been exacerbated by these circumstances.

To mitigate some of this, the Graduate Student Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) set up a virtual writing group using BigBlueButton on our CUlearn page. The first session, facilitated by SALaDS executive, Codie Fortin Lalonde, took place on Wednesday, April 15, from 1:00-4:30 pm with seven grad students from both the MA and PhD cohorts. The session began with a 15-minute catch-up and statement of our writing intentions for the day and ran in three 45/15-style units, in which we worked silently for 45 minutes followed by a 15 minute social break where we could ask questions, bounce ideas off one another, etc., and finished with recounting our goals and the progress we had made throughout the session, as well as next steps. Everyone who participated shared their relief at how productive they had been during the session and how nice it was to work with one another again.

After this initial session, a standing BigBlueButton session was set up in the SALaDS CUlearn page, for which any/all ALDS grad students can gather at any time for virtual writing groups. While we need not be too hard on ourselves through this pandemic, many of us still have goals and deadlines to keep up with and maintaining our work/writing habits through our grad student community can help us through this difficult time.

Please also feel free to join the ALDS grad student Facebook group.

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And the Director’s Outstanding Research Essay Award goes to…

May 4, 2020, 11:13 am
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Join us in congratulating MA student Melissa Dane on winning the 2018-19 Director’s Award for Outstanding Research Essay for her exemplary essay titled Ojibway Stories Today in the Face of Language Loss.

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SLaLS brings online experiences to workshops

May 4, 2020, 11:30 am
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With the shift to online classes, the Teaching and Learning Services unit has been offering a wide range of support services, especially the “Welcome to my Online classroom” series.  Many SLaLS instructors report attending and benefiting from the experience.  Last Friday’s session was delivered by ESLA instructor Peggy Hartwick and the May 8th session will feature long-time ALDS instructor Virginia Taylor.

Videos, slides, and transcripts from previous sessions along with a schedule of upcoming sessions are available online.

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View from my window

May 4, 2020, 12:09 pm
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With so many of us working from home, what are we looking at every day?

Working from home…not exactly from my window. This is my view when I come home from one of my rare trips into town. (Tracey)
Covert visitor (Peggy)
Many tomato plants and lettuce on a window ledge. Beyond the window are an empty parking lot and apartment building.
Finally got around to putting those dots on my window to prevent bird collisions. (Marie-Odile)
Snow on Sudbury doorstep
Here’s the view from my window in Copper Cliff (Sudbury), Ontario this morning. We’ve had little snow squalls almost every day for the past week and a half. (Codie)
Cardinal at the window
The Cardinals have gone wild attacking the windows of our house. This has been going very actively on for the past 6 weeks. It is their mating season and they see their reflections in the window and think they have other males in the area, so they are fighting their own reflexions. (Marina)
Downtown Ottawa street from apartment window
View from above (Don)
Flowers and plants in window boxes
I planted this hibiscus a few months ago….watered it every week, talked to this and my other plants…got a flower this morning! It made my day. (Janett)
13 turkeys in the front yard. (Mike)
Mauzy morning (Peggy)
From my home office…but my desk faces the orange wall. (Tracey)

“Collisions with glass kill 1 billion birds per year in North America.” (Safe Wings Ottawa). Learn more at Safe Wings Ottawa and Feather Friendly.

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Strong performance by Carleton in annual Canada-wide Russian Writing Contest

May 5, 2020, 2:01 pm
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April 10th marked the conclusion to the 3rd Annual Canada-wide Russian Writing Contest held by Carleton University, in cooperation with and supported by the Russia-Canada Business Council and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada, with the announcement of winners across several different categories.

Join us in congratulating three winners from the Russian program in SLALS, who brought home prizes in the category of “The Russian Language as a Window Into Russian Culture”:

  • 1st place: Mercedes Bullock (RUSS 4115)
  • 3rd place: Sladjana Grmas, our Russian TA in the 2019-2020 academic year.
  • Special Award: Alexander Currey, also our TA in 2019-2020 academic year and a former student in many SLALS Russian classes.

Special thanks to Dr. Marina Sabanadze of SLALS for her extraordinary work in our Russian program and for her key role in the initial preparation of this event!

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