News Blog Archives
News Blog Archives
Jennifer Smith at Georgetown Linguistics
February 10, 2020 |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.”
UNC linguists at the 2020 meetings of LSA, ADS, SCIL, SSILA
January 6, 2020 |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’s successful MA thesis defense
December 6, 2019 |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 at Asia Scholar Network Conference
November 27, 2019 |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…
Two accepted articles by Misha Becker
November 25, 2019 |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…
Special courses in Spring 2020
November 18, 2019 |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…
Brian Hsu in Linguistic Inquiry
November 15, 2019 |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…
Jiefang Li wins best project award at Carsey Graduate Student Symposium
November 11, 2019 |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…
2020 UNC Spring Colloquium date and call for abstracts
November 1, 2019 |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…