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Past Colloquia

Dr. Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University) - “Preconditions and projection”
October 2, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Sergio Robles-Puente (West Virginia University) - Spanish prosody in West Virginia
September 18, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) - Success as a graduate student
September 11, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Jevon Heath and Directed Research students (University of Pittsburgh)- Directed Research presentations
April 24, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. James Lantolf (Pennsylvania State University)- Crisis and Causality in SLA
April 17, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Sanghee Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)- Leveraging artificial intelligence for language learning: Linguistic alignment and feedback
April 3, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Ruth Jimenez Nina (University of Pittsburgh)- Digital activism in Quechua: A new form of linguistic visibility
March 6, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Islam Farag (University of Pittsburgh)- Syntactic complexity development among EAL emerging scholars: A longitudinal investigation of the use of 56 syntactic features
February 27, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Natalie Amgott (University of Pittsburgh)- Fostering growth mindset and critical digital literacy through multimodal projects in the language classroom
February 20, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Tessa Warren (University of Pittsburgh)- Individual differences: Syntactic processing, language experience, cognitive constructs, and portability across tasks
February 13, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Alexus Brown (University of Pittsburgh), Dr. Lauren Collister (Invest in Open Infrastructure), Dr. Sean Nonnenmacher (Chatham University), Dr. Angela Swain (Pennsylvania State University)
February 6, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
CMU-Pitt Linguistics/SLA PhD Student Research Showcase and Mixer
January 30, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Dan Villarreal (University of Pittsburgh)- The Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech (APLS): A publicly accessible, richly annotated speech corpus
January 23, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dr. Braden Brown (University of Pittsburgh)- The role of tense and aspect in Iyasa narrative texts
January 16, 2026 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Jack Rechsteiner (Pitt Linguistics) - Nonbinary speaker participation in a sound change in progress
October 31, 2025 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm