News Blog Archives
News Blog Archives
Elliott Moreton and Katya Pertsova at the Expression, Language, and Music Conference
October 9, 2024 |Elliott Moreton and Katya Pertsova recently presented a poster (with co-authors Joe Pater, Brandon Prickett, Lisa Sanders, and Chris White) at the 2nd Expression, Language, and Music Conference (ELM2), hosted at the University of Connecticut. Their poster “Explicit and implicit reversal of musical and phonological stimuli” can be viewed …
Brian Hsu and Benjamin Frey in Language
September 23, 2024 |An article by Brian Hsu and Benjamin Frey (UNC Asheville), “Word order in Cherokee: Information structure, thematic structure, and variability,” has been published in Language. The article is available online …
Mike Terry to deliver annual Freeman Lecture at UMass Amherst
September 11, 2024 |Mike Terry has been invited to give the annual Freeman Lecture, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He will present his work “Can Linguistic Differences Affect African American English Speaking 2nd Graders Performance on Math Tests?” on September 23, 2024 …
Jen Smith receives Distinguished Term Professorship
September 9, 2024 |Jen Smith has been awarded a Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2029. This award “recognizes tenured faculty who are making exceptional contributions to undergraduate education at UNC-Chapel Hill” and provides awardees with funding …
Katya Pertsova receives IAH Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2025
September 9, 2024 |Katya Pertsova has been awarded an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the Spring 2025 semester. During the fellowship, she will pursue a project “The Language of Propaganda”. The list of 2023-2024 fellows can be found …
Abigail Amick and Paul Roberge at 30th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference
April 29, 2024 |Abigail (Abbie) Amick and Paul Roberge each presented talks at the 30th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, hosted at Indiana University Bloomington. Abbie presented “Pitch accent adaptation in speech islands: the case of Texas German,” and Paul presented “Caste nomenclature in the Cape Dutch vernacular: Imposition, appropriation, reclamation.”
Mónica López-Vázquez in Quality and Quantity
April 22, 2024 |An article by Mónica López-Vázquez (MA 2022, current PhD student in Romance Studies, Hispanic Linguistics concentration), “A Comprehensive Examination of Emoji Usage in Mexican Spanish WhatsApp Corpus: A Mixed-Methods Linguistic Approach,” has been accepted for publication in Quality and Quantity.
Misha Becker in Language Acquisition
April 18, 2024 |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 …
Elliott Moreton and Katya Pertsova in Phonology
March 25, 2024 |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 at PLC 48
March 19, 2024 |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.”