Welcome to the Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2024!

April 12th-13th, 2024

We are delighted to extend a warm welcome on behalf of the Department of Linguistics at Purdue University and the PLA Symposium Planning Committee to the 2024 Purdue Linguistics Symposium. We appreciate your attendance and participation, and hope you have an enjoyable experience at Purdue University.

Follow the links below to get more information and register for free.

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Information about the venue.

Information about hotels and parking.

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About the Symposium

The Purdue Linguistics Symposium is an annual conference collaboratively hosted by the Purdue Linguistics Association and the Department of Linguistics. This year's topics include but are not limited to phonology, morphology, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, sign language, and corpus linguistics.

How to Join the Symposium

This year's symposium will be held in person on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. To register for the symposium, please click here and complete the online form before April 5th.

About the Department

Purdue's Department of Linguistics is distinguished by a strong applied focus after thorough theoretical training. Our graduate students apply theory while studying areas like bilingualism, language acquisition, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and sign languages. Our many on-campus linguistic labs provide opportunities for research and collaboration. The Purdue Linguistics Association is our student organization for inquisitive minds interested in probing the depths of language. We create a strong support network for our members' intellectual growth. We foster mentor relationships, inform our members of linguistic research opportunities, host an annual symposium, and more.

About the Symposium Chairs

Laura Solano-Escobar, Chair

Laura is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. She is also President of the Purdue Linguistics Association. She is a member of the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab at Purdue University. Her research interests focus on Second Language Acquisition and Heritage Language Acquisition.

Yue Li, Co-Chair

Yue is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. She is also Vice President of the Purdue Linguistics Association. She is a member of the Purdue Experimental Linguistics Lab. Her research interests include Language Production, Sentence Processing, Syntax-Semantics interfaces and Second Language Acquisition.

Edier Gómez Alzate, Co-Chair & Webmaster

Edier is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. He is also a co-chair and Webmaster for the PLS2024 working along with the Purdue Linguistics Association. His research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, and the Syntax-Semantics interface. His current work focuses on the syntactic distribution of adverb placement in Spanish as a Heritage Language.

 

Plenary Speakers

Dr. John Grinstead - The Ohio State University

Dr. John Grinstead is a Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. He is also the co-director of the Language Acquisition Lab.

His research interests include Psycholinguistics, Child Language Development, Language Disorders, and Second Language Acquisition.

Dr. Ronnie Wilbur - Purdue University

Dr. Ronnie Wilbur is a Professor in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the Department of Linguistics at Purdue University.

Her research investigates the structure (morphosyntax, semantics, prosody) of American Sign Language (ASL), as well as Croatian Sign Language (HZJ), Austrian Sign Language (OGS), and Turkish Sign Language (TID). Her current work researches the interaction of ASL sentence structure with event structure and discourse/pragamatic functions.

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