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Metta Crouse, Jennifer Smith, and Katya Pertsova in Catalan Journal of Linguistics
March 3, 2025 |An article by Metta Crouse (MA 2016), Jennifer Smith, and Katya Pertsova, “Segmental faithfulness to semantic heads in novel Spanish blends,” has appeared in the Catalan Journal of Linguistics. This article is based on Metta’s 2016 MA thesis and Jen’s 2024 presentation at the workshop “Nominal Inflection and Word Formation at the Phonology-Morphology interface” in Barcelona, and is part of the NSF-funded “Sporklab” project …
Ashton Rooney and Lamar Graham at Spanish Linguistics in the Southeast 2025
February 20, 2025 |Ashton Rooney (MA 2024, PhD student in Romance Studies, Hispanic Linguistics concentration) and Lamar Graham (UNC Romance Studies) gave talks at this year’s Spanish Linguistics in the Southeast conference, hosted at East Carolina University. Ashton presented “The prosodic rhythm of Yucatec Maya and Yucatecan Spanish” and Lamar presented “Morphosyntactic variation in Galician-Portuguese future and conditional clitic placement and contrasts with Old Spanish.”
Mónica López-Vásquez in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
February 19, 2025 |A paper by Mónica López-Vásquez (MA 2022, current PhD student in Romance Studies, Hispanic Linguistics concentration) and a team of researchers at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, “Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Families with a Remote Neurodevelopmental Assessment,” has appeared in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders …
UNC linguists at SSILA 2025
January 29, 2025 |Several UNC linguists and alumni presented last week at the 2025 meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, hosted online. They presented the following works …
Mónica López-Vázquez at the National Association of Medical Spanish Annual Conference
November 19, 2024 |Mónica López-Vázquez (MA 2022, current PhD student in Romance Studies, Hispanic Linguistics concentration) presented two talks at the National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS) Annual Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in October 2024. She presented the following works …
Caitlin Smith in Proceedings of WCCFL 40
November 18, 2024 |A paper by Charlie O’Hara (National Council of State Boards of Nursing) and Caitlin Smith, “Typological asymmetries in underapplication opacity: A gestural account” has appeared in the Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. The open-access paper is available …
Brian Hsu and Yiwen Peng in Proceedings of WCCFL 39
November 18, 2024 |A paper by Brian Hsu and Yiwen Peng (MA 2021), “Positions of Mandarin Classifiers in and out of Compounds: Implications for Distinctness, Selection, and Projection” has appeared in the Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. The open-access paper is available …
UNC linguists at BUCLD 49
November 12, 2024 |Several UNC linguists and alumni presented last weekend at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. They presented the following works …
Brian Hsu and Caitlin Smith at NELS 55
October 23, 2024 |Brian Hsu and Caitlin Smith presented last weekend at the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, hosted at Yale University. They presented a talk: “Emergent strength strata in Cherokee hiatus resolution.”
Caitlin Smith in the Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony
October 13, 2024 |A book chapter by Caitlin Smith, “Harmony in gesture-based phonology” has appeared in the recently-published Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony, edited by Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst.