The University of Colorado is offering a fantastic opportunity for people interested in Speech Language Sciences to be brought up to date with the latest developments and trends in applications of linguistic theory to this field in 4 short weeks.

This is part of the Linguistic Institute 2011 in Boulder (see below), which offers an unusually wide range of courses in Speech Language Sciences by renowned researchers, covering everything from phonetic theory and phonetic variation (John Ohala, Meghan Sumner, Grant McGuire), to infant speech acquisition and perception (Alejandrina Cristià and Amanda Seidl) to sign language development (Diane Lillo-Martin).

There are also opportunities to gain experience with experimental software in a course taught by Michael Wagner.

For a complete list of classes, please visit https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/courses-areas.html. A list of Institute workshops can be found here at https://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/events-calendar.html#workshop

These courses are open to anyone, and you can register as an affiliate if you do not need transfer credit. The courses meet twice a week, so it would be possible to take a full load of 4 courses by attending just two days a week.

There are also some very good workshops that are open to Institute participants, such as an ELAN workshop and a workshop on data collection by Lise Menn.

It’s an extraordinary networking opportunity, with small classes and lots of institute-wide events.


The Linguistic Institute 2011 will take place July 7-August 2 on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, with major sponsorship by the Linguistic Society of America and the university. Courses are being taught by over 100 outstanding international visiting faculty members. In addition, more than 20 affiliated workshops and conference meetings will be held during Institute 2011.

The theme of the 2011 Linguistic Institute is Language in the World, and the focus is on interdisciplinary, empirically based approaches to language. In keeping with this theme, a large suite of courses target language documentation and description, as well as processes of language endangerment and appropriate responses. The Institute not only continues a vital tradition in the field but also showcases the outstanding research and teaching activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The 79 one-credit hour courses include many courses on sociolinguistics, field methods, typology, syntactic/semantic/pragmatic theory, cognitive science and computational linguistics.

Registration is open until July 5, so please consider taking advantage of this one-time opportunity. Enrollment costs for students are $375 per course (less than the normal CU summer school fee). The Institute website is located at http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/. CAMPUS HOUSING RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE THROUGH JUNE 13, 2011.