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Jiefang Li and Yiwen Peng present at LASSO

September 25, 2020

MA students Jiefang Li and Yiwen Peng presented their work at the (virtual) annual meeting of LASSO, the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. They presented …

Brian Hsu in Language

September 23, 2020

An article by Brian Hsu and Saurov Syed (University of Auckland), “Cooccurrence of nonarticle determiners as evidence for split DPs and bundled projections” has appeared in the current issue of Language …

UNC Linguists at Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020

September 21, 2020

Several UNC linguists faculty, students, and alumni presented their work at the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020, hosted online by UC Santa Cruz. They presented the following works …

Jennifer Smith keynote at Phonology Forum 2020

September 9, 2020

Jennifer Smith recently presented a keynote lecture “How Productive Is Core-Periphery Structure in the Japanese Lexicon? Empirical Results and Theoretical Implications” at the Phonology Forum 2020 of the Phonological Society of Japan. 

Jennifer Boehm, Amy Reynolds, Becky Butler featured in Endeavors

June 18, 2020

Recent work by Amy Reynolds, Jennifer Boehm, and Becky Butler with the Karen community has been featured in an article in Endeavors, the UNC Research magazine. The article delves into their collaboration with local Karen youth to document …

Erin Chesson’s successful MA thesis defense

June 17, 2020

Erin Chesson has successfully defended her MA thesis, “Heritage speaker use of pro-drop and verbal agreement morphology in Tigrinya.” Her committee includes Misha Becker (chair), Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University), and Brian Hsu. Congratulations, Erin!

Elliott Moreton paper in Proceedings of SCiL (2020)

May 27, 2020

A paper by Elliott Moreton appeared earlier this spring in the Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Volume 3. The paper, “Evolving constraints and rules in Harmonic Grammar” is available online …

Jennifer Smith in the 2020 Proceedings of the LSA

May 18, 2020

A paper by Jennifer Smith, “From experiment results to a constraint hierarchy with the ‘Rank Centrality’ algorithm” has appeared in the latest volume of the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. The paper is available online …

Article by David Mora-Marín in Ancient Mesoamerica

May 18, 2020

A paper by David Mora-Marín, “THE CASCAJAL BLOCK: NEW LINE DRAWING, DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS, AND ORTHOGRAPHIC PATTERNS” has appeared in Ancient Mesoamerica. The paper can be found online …

David Mora-Marín presents at NARNiHS at KFLC

May 8, 2020

David Mora-Marín gave a paper presentation on April 18 at the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 2020 Research Incubator. His talk “Prerequisites for A Historical Sociolinguistics of Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphic Texts” was delivered…

Ivy Hauser accepts position at UT Arlington

March 14, 2020

Ivy Hauser (BA 2012) has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Linguistics & TESOL at the University of Texas at Arlington, to begin in Fall 2020. After receiving her BA in Linguistics at UNC, she completed her doctoral work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D 2019). Congratulations, Ivy!

Michael Bruxvoort’s successful MA thesis defense

December 6, 2019

Michael Bruxvoort has successfully defended his MA thesis, “Numeral classifiers in S’gaw Karen: A compilation and analysis of enumerators.” His committee includes Brian Hsu (chair), Katya Pertsova, and David Mora-Marín. Congratulations, Michael!

Two accepted articles by Misha Becker

November 25, 2019

Misha Becker has recently had two papers accepted for publication. “How do children learn novel emotion words? A study of emotion concept acquisition in preschoolers” co-authored with Holly Shablack and Kristen Lindquist (UNC Psychology and Neuroscience) will appear in the…

Special courses in Spring 2020

November 18, 2019

In the upcoming spring semester our department will offer two new courses, LING 260/ASIA 260: Languages of Southeast Asia and LING 290: Constructed Languages – Theory and Typology. In addition, we will offer LING 558: Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing. More information…

Brian Hsu in Linguistic Inquiry

November 15, 2019

A paper by Brian Hsu, “Coalescence: a unification of bundling operations in syntax,” has been accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry. The current paper and its published…