LOC Talk Schedule
The schedule of LOC talks for the Spring 2026 semester is posted below.
Talks in the first half of the semester
Tuesday, February 17, 2:30 pm
Baker Systems Engineering 120
Björn Köhnlein:
“Meaning is overrated: The linguistic structure of place names”
Wednesday, March 4, 4 pm
Journalism Building 360
Maddie Bloomquist:
""Examining encoding interference effects with self-paced reading"
Talks in the second half of the semester
Friday, March 27, 2:30 pm
Journalism Building 300
Yujin Song:
"Children’s use of uptalk in narratives"
Tuesday, April 7, 4 pm
Page Hall 020
Victoria Sevich:
"Changes in lexical bias in response to restoration of auditory input in adults with hearing loss"
Monday, April 20, 4 pm
Journalism Building 360
Kyler Laycock:
"Integrating multimodal phonetic cues in speech perception"