19th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (CULC19)
April 26-27, 2025
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its seventeenth annual undergraduate research conference. By facilitating communication and discussion between researchers, the conference aims to promote undergraduate research at all levels throughout the linguistics community.
Internal Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Kuo, Cornell University
Jennifer Kuo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. She is primarily interested in how morphophonological paradigms are learned. She looks at how paradigm learning is affected by different cognitive biases, and how statistical learning interacts with such biases. She addresses this question using experiments (wug tests, artificial grammar learning), comparative data on language change over time, and quantitative modeling.
Jennifer's empirical focus is on Austronesian languages. Languages she has researched include Seediq (Atayalic), Malagasy (Malayo-Polynesian), Mà„ori (Malay-Polynesian), and Yongning Na (Sino-Tibetan).
External Keynote Speaker: Meredith Tamminga, University of Pennsylvania
Meredith Tamminga is an an associate professor and the Graduate Chair of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is based on the premise that social, temporal, and spatial patterns of linguistic variation reflect the underlying structure of the human capacity for language. She integrates experimental psycholinguistic methods, computational modeling, and the quantitative analysis of natural speech data to learn how speakers store and produce linguistic variables.
Call for Abstracts
CULC is a conference run by undergraduate students highlighting undergraduate research. Undergraduates in Linguistics (Underlings) at Cornell University is now accepting abstracts for the 19th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. We are looking for undergraduate presenters from any university to submit their abstracts for a 20 minute oral presentation or poster presentation.
Abstract submission guidelines:
Deadline: February 14, 2025 11:59PM EST The abstract should be no more than 500 words (excluding citations) in PDF format and completely anonymous (do not include your name or affiliation in the file name and file name). Please submit the PDF to culc@cornell.edu. f you have any questions, please email culc@cornell.edu.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2025 (11:59pm EST) - late abstracts will be considered
Notification of decisions: Friday, April 11, 2025 (or sooner)
Conference date: April 26-27, 2025