Elliott Moreton and Katya Pertsova recently presented a poster (with co-authors Joe Pater, Brandon Prickett, Lisa Sanders, and Chris White) at the 2nd Expression, Language, and Music Conference (ELM2), hosted at the University of Connecticut. Their poster “Explicit and implicit reversal of musical and phonological stimuli” can be viewed …
An article by Brian Hsu and Benjamin Frey (UNC Asheville), “Word order in Cherokee: Information structure, thematic structure, and variability,” has been published in Language. The article is available online …
Mike Terry has been invited to give the annual Freeman Lecture, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He will present his work “Can Linguistic Differences Affect African American English Speaking 2nd Graders Performance on Math Tests?” on September 23, 2024 …
Jen Smith has been awarded a Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2029. This award “recognizes tenured faculty who are making exceptional contributions to undergraduate education at UNC-Chapel Hill” and provides awardees with funding …
Katya Pertsova has been awarded an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the Spring 2025 semester. During the fellowship, she will pursue a project “The Language of Propaganda”. The list of 2023-2024 fellows can be found …
Abigail (Abbie) Amick and Paul Roberge each presented talks at the 30th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, hosted at Indiana University Bloomington. Abbie presented “Pitch accent adaptation in speech islands: the case of Texas German,” and Paul presented “Caste nomenclature in the Cape Dutch vernacular: Imposition, appropriation, reclamation.”
An article by Mónica López-Vázquez (MA 2022, current PhD student in Romance Studies, Hispanic Linguistics concentration), “A Comprehensive Examination of Emoji Usage in Mexican Spanish WhatsApp Corpus: A Mixed-Methods Linguistic Approach,” has been accepted for publication in Quality and Quantity.
An article by Misha Becker and Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University), ‘More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context’ has been published in Language Acquisition. The article is available online …
An article by Elliott Moreton and Kayta Pertsova, “Implicit and explicit processes in phonological concept learning,” has been published in Phonology. The article is available online …
Erin Humphreys and Brian Hsu presented last weekend at the 48th Penn Linguistics Conference, at the University of Pennsylvania. They presented a talk: “How much overt agreement is needed for polysynthesis? Quantitative evidence from Cherokee.”
An article by David Mora-Marín, “The duplication diacritic: A case study of variation and change in Mayan writing” has been published in Ancient Mesoamerica. The article is available online …
Jen Smith gave a keynote address at the workshop “Nominal Inflection and Word Formation at the Phonology-Morphology Interface” (NoWPhoMo), held at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in late January. She also gave a colloquium talk in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Barcelona, on implementing a stratified-lexicon analysis of loanword phonology in Harmonic Grammar. Her presentations reviewed …
Lucas Adelino and Caitlin Smith presented last weekend at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, hosted at MIT. They presented a poster: “Height harmony and nasal vowels: An argument for agreement by correspondence.”
Brian Hsu has been awarded an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the Spring 2024 semester. During the fellowship, he will pursue his project “Principled Probability in Language,” on the modeling of probabilistic word order patterns in formal syntactic theory…
An article by David Mora-Marín, Meg Fletcher (MA 2020, now Ph.D student at University of Georgia), and Elizabeth Gorman (BA 2018), “Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family,” has been published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics …
In the spring 2024 semester, the linguistics department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …
The 2023 Annual Meeting on Phonology, hosted online this past weekend, featured a presentation by professor Katya Pertsova, alumus Brandon Prickett (BA 2014, MA 2015), and current BA/MA student Esther Chen. They presented a poster: “Effects of frequency and distribution on learning defaults”
Alumnus Brian Ladd (MA 2020), currently a Ph.D student at North Carolina State University, has been accepted in the Virtual Student Federal Service Internship Program at the United States Department of State. Congratulations, Brian!
Recent MA graduate Jarem Saunders presented his work at the Twentieth SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Phonology, Morphology, and Phonetics, held in Toronto. The proceedings paper for his talk is available online …
Mónica López-Vázquez gave an invited presentation this summer in the Seminar of Linguistics Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). She presented …