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Linguistics Public Lecture: The Rise of Classificatory Verbs

A talk by Dr. Dagmar Jung, University of Zurich

Event

Date: Tuesday, May 21
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Room 100 Arts Building, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon

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Free and open to the public

About this event

The Rise of Classificatory Verbs: Using a Naturalistic Corpus of Dene First Language Acquisition to Study Conceptual Development

by Dr. Dagmar Jung, University of Zurich

In this talk, I discuss some of the challenges and rewards of using naturalistic data in a language acquisition study located in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation (SK) that took place 2014–19.

Info: linguistics.department@usask.ca


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