Winners:

Winner: Tasheney Francis (University of Manitoba)
Runners Up: Chloe Brotherton and Peter Torres (UC Davis)

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Program:

Date & Time: July 17, 2019 (Wednesday) | 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Student Community Center – Multipurpose Room
Program: The event starts with Gretchen McCulloch’s talk followed by the contest proper.

Gretchen McCulloch, co-creator and host of the Lingthusiasm podcast, opened the event with a talk titled: 

How to do LingComm – Communicating linguistics effectively with broader audiences

We all wish that people were better informed about linguistics, but how do we get them there without their eyes glazing over? This talk draws on the science communication literature and Gretchen McCulloch’s experience doing pop linguistics to provide concrete strategies for making people find your explanations captivating instead of dull. 
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Meet the finalists:

Chloe Brotherton

UC Davis

#nastywomenpersist:
Reclaiming Insults on Social Media

Da-Xue Yang

Capital Normal University to Centre national de la recherche scientifique

From Numeral Systems to see the Phylogenetic Relationship of Ridwags Tibetan

Daniel Krausse

University of Newcastle, Australia

Small languages also matter: Testing syntactic
theories in Australian and Oceanic languages

Mana Kitazawa

Keio University

The Creation of Identity Among Employees: A Comparative Analysis of US and Japanese Mission Statements

Peter Joseph Torres

UC Davis

“If I may, shall we address pain or should we focus on addiction?” A talk about the language of opioid policies.

Ruoqian Cheng

University of Kansas

How to measure a sound merger: the [n~l] case in Fuzhou.

Tasheney Francis

University of Manitoba

Cant Avoid Avoidance

Xintong Bausch

SUNY Albany

The Linguistic Features of Graeco-Latin Words Used by Chinese-English Second Language (L2) Learners in Academic Writings

 

The inaugural 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition provides emerging linguists with an opportunity to present their research to a diverse and general audience comprised of students, faculty, and non-specialist community members from various backgrounds. Without the help of notes and with only three minutes to present, 3MT contestants must present the fundamental points and significance of their thesis in a clear, direct, and interesting way.

Contestants must also impress a panel of judges, who will be looking for effective and clear presentations that are also highly engaging and entertaining. The winner will a receive a free, one-year membership to the LSA, along with the title of being the first ever LSA Institute 3MT champion.

To apply:

Students (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) specializing in any area of Linguistics are invited to submit a 300-word abstract that will be evaluated by the 3MT committee. You can now submit your abstracts to the 3MT through Orbund, our course management system. You will find the link on your account’s homepage. Deadline for abstracts is on June 7th . Eight abstracts will be selected for the competition based on their potential to be accessible to the general public.