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 …
After two years in our department as a postdoctoral scholar, Jamilläh Rodriguez is continuing in the Department of Linguistics as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations and welcome back, Jamilläh!
Graduating MA student Xuan Hu has accepted an admissions offer to the Ph.D program in linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she will begin this fall. Congratulations, Xuan!
A paper by Brian Hsu and Caitlin Smith, “Idiosyncratic Hiatus Resolution: An Argument for Gradient Harmonic Grammar,” has appeared in the Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. The open-access paper is available online …
Mike Terry will teach a 4-week class, Introduction to African American English, at the 2023 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, hosted this year by the University of Massachusetts Amherst …
Brian Hsu has been awarded the William C. Friday Award for Excellence in Teaching, as one of the 2023 University Teaching Awards. Congratulations, Brian!
An article by Jamilläh Rodriguez and Lee Bickmore (SUNY Albany), “Cophonologies and upper-lower tone register mapping in Copala Triqui” has been published in Linguistic Discovery. The published open-access article is available …
An article by Katya Pertsova, “A case for a binary feature underlying clusivity: the possibility of ABA,” has been published in Morphology. The published article is available …
Several UNC linguists and alumni presented last week at the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology, hosted at UCLA. They presented the following works …
An article by Brian Hsu, “Gradient symbolic representations in Harmonic Grammar” has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass. The published version is available on the journal’s website; an open access submitted version is available on Lingbuzz.
Justin Pinta (MA 2013) has accepted and begun a faculty position as an assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics at Mississippi State University. After receiving his MA in Linguistics at UNC, he completed his doctoral work at the Ohio State University (Ph.D 2022). Congratulations, Justin!
Recent graduate Dylan Elliott (MA 2022) started a job this summer as a computational linguist at Megaputer Intelligence. Congratulations, Dylan!
The department congratulates Jennifer Smith, who has been promoted to the rank of Professor. Congratulations, Jen!
Becky Butler and an interdisciplinary team of UNC researchers have won a $900,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” an initiative that will expand the study of Southeast Asia and its languages at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC System …
Last week, Amy Reynolds successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation, “Consonant Cluster Simplification Patterns in Refugee English Revisited: Karen English in the United States.” Her committee includes David Mora-Marín as chair, Jennifer L. Smith, Misha Becker, Robin Dodsworth (NCSU), and Walt Wolfram (NCSU). Congratulations, Amy!
Caitlin Smith presented last weekend at the 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted virtually by Stanford University. She presented a talk, “Typological asymmetries in underapplication opacity: A gestural account,” with co-author Charlie O’Hara (University of Michigan).
Trey Anthony recently presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Language Attitudes toward Spanish, Portuguese, and Related Languages, hosted virtually at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He presented a talk, “Perceptions of Inclusive Language among Spanish-language Educators in Spain and Mexico.”
Second-year MA student Sean Foley has accepted an admissions offer to the linguistics Ph.D program at the University of Southern California, where he will begin this fall. Congratulations, Sean!