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!
On February 7, Jennifer Smith gave two invited presentations in the Georgetown University Department of Linguistics: a Friday Speaker Series colloquium talk “Core-periphery structure and productivity in Japanese phonology,” and a PhonLab group talk “Category-specific phonology in an artificial-language paradigm.”
A number of UNC linguistics students, faculty, and alumni presented last week at the 2020 meetings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), American Dialect Society (ADS), Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCIL), and Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) in New Orleans. They presented the following works …
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!
Jennifer Boehm, Amy Reynolds, and Becky Butler will present at the Asia Scholar Network Conference at UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday, December 7. Their talk “Narratives of Linguistics and Belonging among Refugees from Burma” will present…
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…
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…
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…
MA student Jiefang Li won the popular vote for best project at the Thomas M. Carsey Graduate Student Symposium on Friday, November 8. She presented a poster of her work, “Effectiveness of Morphological…
We are pleased to announce that the 2020 UNC Linguistics Spring Colloquium will be held on Saturday, March 21, 2020 with Dr. Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University) as our keynote speaker…