Events – The Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics

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MOTH 2026 Learn more

The 13th Annual Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax Workshop, April 11, 2026

Life After ARiEAL with Erin DeBorba and Angie Lopez-Cormier Learn more

April 6, 3:00pm, LRW 4018.

Stronger Together: STEMM and the Humanities Learn more

March 30, 1-4:30 pm, LiveLab

2026 Ling & Lang Student Research Day Learn more

Wednesday April 8th, 2026, Chester New Hall 104

Dr. Renan C. Ferreira, "Reading across genres: eye-movement evidence from Brazilian Portuguese.” Learn more

January 27, 2:30pm, LRW 4018

Life after ARiEAL with Heather Wild: CV-Cover Letter Edition Learn more

February 4, 3pm, LRW 4018

"A Discussion on Student Mental Health: What We Learn from Data and Dialogue”, with Dr. Marisa Young, Dr. Loa Gordon & Audrey Ho Learn more

November 27, 3pm, LRW 4018

Dr. Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, “Vocal communication beyond the words.” Learn more

November 20, 1:30-2:30pm, LRW 4001

Smartwatches in Research with Maya Flannery Learn more

12 November, 3:30pm, LRW 4018

ARiEAL-McMaster Linguistics Society Information Session Learn more

29 October 2025, LRW 2001

Dr. Rui Rothe-Neves, "Acoustic analyses of speech production in Parkinson’s Disease" Learn More

June 12, 9am, LRW 4001

Drs. Stephen Henhawk and John Whitman, "Preverbal Subject Placement in Gayogoho꞉nǫʔ (Cayuga)" Learn More

March 26, 3:30pm, LRW 4001

Dr. Hamidreza Mahyar, "AI Transformation: Bridging Research and Community Impact.” Learn More

March 19, 3:30pm, LRW 4001

Dr. Renan Ferreira, “Thinking for reading: how bilinguals process motion in English as a foreign language.” Learn More

February 26, 3:30pm, LRW 4001

Life after ARiEAL with Heather Wild Learn More

January 29, 3:30pm, LRW 4001

Past Speaker Series Events

Esther Vicente Manzanedo, “Does the L1 influence foreign language aptitude for English learning in multilingual children?,” March 27, 2024
Dr. Mary Amaechi, “Sluicing-like constructions in Igbo,” March 13, 2024
Felix Kpogo, “Differential cue use in the production of complex–simplex stop contrasts: A developmental perspective from Gã,” February 28, 2024
Dr. Serhii Zasiekin, “A psycholinguistic study of translated language deformed by ‘third code’ – A corpus-driven approach,” February 21, 2024
Dr. Renan Castro Ferreira, “Bilingual minds in motion: exploring conceptual transfer in the use of English as a foreign language,” February 14, 2024
Dr. Christian Brodbeck, “Studying the neural basis of perception as a time-continuous process,” January 11
Dr. Lauren Fink, “From Individual to Social Dynamics of Musical Engagement,” 8 December 2023
Dr. Hironori Katsuda, “A Probabilistic Model of Loanword Accentuation in Japanese,” 10 November 2023
Dr. Larysa Zasiekina, “Civilians on Fire: Hearing Voice and Language of Moral Injury in Ukrainians under the Russian Invasion,” 4 July 2023
Dr. Victor Kuperman, Drs. Larysa and Serhii Zasiekin, Dr. Myron Groover, Dr. Maiia Bulakh, Olga Dvorova, and Emilie Altman, “The Narratives of War“, 29 June 2023
Sara Pearsell, “The Effects of Amplitude and Voice Quality on Personality Trait Perception,” 1 March 2023
Dr. Anna Moro, “Developing an appropriate rime judgment task to examine phonological similarity judgements among moderately proficient L2 English adult learners,” 7 February 2023
Dr. Ivona Kučerová, “Indigenous Language Revitalization: University-Lab-Based Perspective,” 11 November 2022.
Dr. Gemma Repiso Puigdelliura, “The Production of Spanish Rhotics by Spanish Heritage Speakers: Variation and Development,” 12 October 2022.
Dr. Elisangela Teixeira, “Language acquisition and language processing studies in Brazilian Portuguese” on June 17, 2022 (Zoom recording).
Dr. Steve Majerus, “The boundaries of linguistic determinants of verbal working memory” on April 4, 2022 (Zoom recording)
Drs. Anna Moro and Daniel Schmidtke, “Tracking reading in a second language: perspectives from a university bridging program” on March 21, 2022 (Zoom recording)
Dr. Catherine Best, “Attunement to native speech in year 1 provides grounding for recognition of familiar words across unfamiliar regional accents in year 2” on February 7, 2022 (Zoom recording)
Woodland Cultural Centre, Mohawk Institute Residential School Virtual Tour and Debrief, January 10, 2022
Dr. Tania Ionin, Investigations into Word Order and Information Structure in the Russian of Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners, December 3, 2021
Dr. Penny Pexman, Grasping Word Meaning: Sensorimotor and Emotion Effects in Lexical Development, June 10, 2021
Dr. Sid Segalowitz, Accessing words in the Mental Lexicon with ERPs: Are words ‘perceived’ in the same way as faces and objects?, May 21, 2021
Dr. Denise Klein, Language Experience and its role in changing our brains, April 8, 2021
Prof. Loretta Ross, Calling in the Calling Out Culture, March 25, 2021
Dr. Michel DeGraff, Decolonizing linguistics and education: Haitian Creole as case study, October 19, 2020
Dr. Ken McRae, Event Knowledge and Semantic Processing, February 14, 2020
Dr. Sylvian Baillet, New frontiers in electrophysiology for decoding and imaging the human brain, January 14, 2020
Dr. Jon Sprouse, Marr’s razor and syntactic movement in grammar, parsing, and acquisition, November 26, 2019
Dr. Steven Broglio, Background and findings of the CARE Consortium, November 18, 2019
Dr. Athanassios Protopapas, There is a big gap in our understanding of reading fluency and the study of serial naming can help address it, July 22, 2019
Yueming Xi, Improving Reading Fluency through Reading Acceleration Program among Chinese-speaking EFLs, April 2, 2019
Dr. Maria Polinsky, Agreement and concord in heritage grammars, April 12, 2019
Sr. Susan Ehrlich, ‘Well, I saw the picture’: Semiotic Ideologies and the Unsettling of Normative Conceptions of Female Sexuality in the Steubenville Rape Trial, March 27, 2019
Prof. Jim Reilly, The Localized Feature Selection (LFS) Method and its Application to the Prediction of Emergence of Coma Patients, March 1, 2019
Dr. Keir Moulton, Processing bound variable “singular they”, March 1, 2019
Dr. Carrie Dyck, Cayuga language maintenance at Six Nations, Feb 1, 2019
Dr. Janet van Hell, Understanding code-switched sentences and foreign-accented speech, November 2, 2018
Dr. Athulya Aravind, Learning what to (not) take for granted, October 26, 2018
Dr. Yana Meerzon, ‘Speaking in Tongues’: Staging Hospitality of (Non)Translation, October 12, 2018
Dr. Natalia Slioussar, Grammatical gender of Russian nouns, Oct 4, 2018
Dr. Joe Kim, Motivating durable learning: focused attention through instructional design, Sept 21, 2018
Dr. Bryan Gick, Why linguists should care about bodies?, July 13, 2018
Dr. Raymond Bertram, How to gain insight into reading processes, May 9, 2018
Dr. John Connolly and Dr. Rober Boshra, Beyond the Brain, May 14, 2018
Dr. Daniel Pape, Linking speech production to speech perception: A cross-linguistic comparison of the phonological voicing contrast and its phonetic realization, May 1, 2018
Dr. Vincent Porretta, Variability in spoken language: Foreign-accented speech and its influence on the dynamics of processing, April 26
Dr. Angela Cooper, Diversity and Adversity in Speech Perception, April 24, 2018
Dr. Erin White, Developing Language Networks in the Brain, April 10, 2018
Dr. Lance L. Hawley, Mindfulness Based Interventions for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, March 14, 2018
Dr. Nicholas Welch, Linguistic fieldwork on threatened languages, February 7, 2018
Dr. Aline Godfroid, Attention in second language acquisition: Towards an explanatory model, January 24, 2018
Dr. Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Nominal Linkers: The Case of Ezafe in Iranian Languages, November 29, 2017
Dr. John Connolly and Dr. Michael Noseworthy, Ripping the Band-Aid Off – Concussion Awareness, November 17, 2017
Dr. Elissa Asp, Brain imaging in research on language, November 15, 2017
Dr. Sasha Schroeder, Analyzing Interactions and Non-Linear Effects in Mixed-Effect Models, November 4-5, 2017
Dr. Sascha Schroeder, Decomposing the Frequency by Skill Interaction November 1, 2017
Dr. Doug Whalen, Characteristics and Usefulness of Phonetic Variability, October 18, 2017
Dr. Anna Marie Trester, Bringing Linguistics to Work(shop), September 13, 2017
Dr. Tsee Leng Choy,Colours Within
Dr. Michael Metel, Mini-batch stochastic gradient descent with dynamic sample and step sizes, May 16, 2017
Dr. Suzi Lima, The role of count lists in the acquisition of numerals, April 5, 2017
Dr. John Anderson, Imaging the Aging Bilingual Brain, March 22, 2017
Dr. Stefanie Blain-Moraes, New EEG Pipeline, March 28, 2017
Dr. Lucie Menard, Multisensory Speech Perception and Production, March 8, 2017
Dr. Khalil Iskarous, Discreteness and Dynamics in Computation, February 8, 2017
Dr. Jessica Coon, The Linguistics of Arrival: Aliens, Fieldwork and Universal Grammar, January 25, 2017

Past Learning Series Events

“Student Mental Health: A Discussion from the World Mental Health McMaster Study” with special guests Dr. Marisa Young & Dr. Loa Gordon, November 28, 2024.
“ARiEAL-McMaster Linguistics Society Information Session,” November 1, 2024
“Life After ARiEAL with Diane Doran,” April 5, 2024
“Life after ARiEAL” featuring Dr. Constance Imbault, March 21, 2024
“Life after ARiEAL” with Dr. Cassandra Chapman, March 6, 2024
“Life after ARiEAL” with Tess Hudson, February 8, 2024.
“Online Networking,” with special guest Jared Kunar, Career Development Advisor at the Student Success Centre, 16 November 2023
“Fun with Research Ethics Applications,” with special guest Nicole Gervais, Research Ethics Advisor at Research Ethics Boards, 25 October 2023
“Introduction to the Student Success Centre,” with special guest Jared Kunar, Career Development Advisor at the Student Success Centre, 4 October 2023
“Graduate Scholarship Application Workshop,” with special guests from the School of Graduate Studies and ARiEAL, 14 September 2023
“Research Ethics Information Session,” presented by Nicole Gervais, McMaster Research Ethics, 20 April 2023
“Intro to LaTeX,” presented by Ethan Stollar, 16 February 2023
“Q&A: Applying to Speech Language Pathology Programs Workshop, presented by Reading Lab and ARiEAL,” 22 November 2022
“Effective Presentations Workshop” presented by Audrey Ho, 3 November 2022
“Applying an EDI Lens in Research” presented by Dr. Arig al Shaibah on March 30, 2022 (Zoom recording)
“Applying your language research skills outside of academia” presented by Hans Wijgh on March 3, 2022 (Zoom recording)
“Finding a Supervisor” presented on July 22, 2021 (presentation slides)
“Captivating your audience” presented by Rachelle Ho on June 28, 2021 (presentation slides)
“How to stay motivated and active during the COVID-19 pandemic” presented by Sheereen Harris on February 24, 2021 (presentation slides).
Life After ARiEAL – Career Planning, December 8, 2021
Graduate School Q&A, October 27, 2021
Finding an Academic Supervisor, July 22, 2021
Captivating Your Online Audience, June 28, 2021
How to Stay Motivated and Active During the COVID-19 Pandemic, February 24, 2021
Life After ARiEAL – Career Planning, December 11-12, 2020
How to Navigate Online Conferences, November 17, 2020
Mr. Vivek Jadon, Research Data Management: Tools for successful management of data, November 5, 2019
Dr. Esther Geva, Perspectives on What Contributes to L2 Literacy Development – A Focus on Transfer, October 29, 2019
Dr. Brendan Johns, Content-Driven Machine Learning: Using Lexical Variability to Optimize Models of Natural Language, Oct 22, 2019
Dr. Karen Beattie, Successful Graduate Student Award Application, May 3, 2019
Building and Sustaining Research Partnerships, Jan 25, 2019
Dr. Noam Siegelman, Statistical Learning as an Individual Ability, Jan 11, 2019
Dr. Benjamin Munson, The Sociophonetics of Gender: Acquisition and Processing across the Lifespan, Dec 7, 2018
LaTeX Workshop, November 9, 2018

Past Symposium, Colloquium, and Other Events