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 …
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 …