A number of UNC linguistics students, faculty, and alumni presented over the weekend at the 2021 annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America and North American Research Network on Historical Sociolinguistics …
David Mora-Marín has been interviewed by Spectrum News 1 North Carolina about new English words and new word meanings that have developed during the Coronavirus pandemic …
In the spring semester, our department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …
Brian Hsu presented this past weekend at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 51), hosted online by the Université du Québec à Montréal …
Current MA student Leah Dudley presented her work recently at the 5th annual Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, hosted online by Rice University …
Current MA student Sean Foley presented recently at the 53rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, hosted (remotely) by the University of North Texas …
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 …
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 …
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 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.
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 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!
A paper by Katya Pertsova and Misha Becker, “In support of phonological bias in implicit learning,” has recently been accepted for publication in Language Learning and Development.
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 …
Current MA students Yu Cai and Rebecca Winters presented their work last month at the Northwest Linguistics Conference 2020, hosted (remotely) by the University of Washington. They presented …
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 …
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 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…
This group represents a continuation of research on P’urhepecha/Purépecha/Tarascan (ISO 639-3) begun in the Spring of 2017, a year ago, as part of a the Field Methods in Linguistics (Ling 573) class taught by Assoc. Prof. David Mora-Marín. The group … Read more
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!