The Endangered Language Initiative of the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center is pleased to announce two special events this coming Thursday, March 14th, relating to tone in endangered languages.

Our visitor is Christian DiCanio, Research Associate at Haskins Laboratories.

At 2pm, he will offer an informal workshop, “Fieldwork and tone in Mexico”. This workshop is free and open to the public and will take place in room 3305 at the Graduate Center. See the Event listing here.

It will cover fieldwork on Oto-Manguean languages, tonal systems, current research on tone, and methods for organizing lexical tone distinctions.

At 4:15, Christian will offer an invited talk titled “Coarticulatory variation in Trique tone” at the Linguistics Program in Room 6417. Event link here.