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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.”
Article by David Mora-Marín in Ancient Mesoamerica
March 19, 2024 |An article by David Mora-Marín, “The duplication diacritic: A case study of variation and change in Mayan writing” has been published in Ancient Mesoamerica. The article is available online …
Jen Smith in Barcelona
February 5, 2024 |Jen Smith gave a keynote address at the workshop “Nominal Inflection and Word Formation at the Phonology-Morphology Interface” (NoWPhoMo), held at the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in late January. She also gave a colloquium talk in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Barcelona, on implementing a stratified-lexicon analysis of loanword phonology in Harmonic Grammar. Her presentations reviewed …
Lucas Adelino and Caitlin Smith at NELS 54
January 29, 2024 |Lucas Adelino and Caitlin Smith presented last weekend at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, hosted at MIT. They presented a poster: “Height harmony and nasal vowels: An argument for agreement by correspondence.”
Brian Hsu receives IAH Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2024
December 6, 2023 |Brian Hsu has been awarded an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the Spring 2024 semester. During the fellowship, he will pursue his project “Principled Probability in Language,” on the modeling of probabilistic word order patterns in formal syntactic theory…
David Mora-Marín, Meg Fletcher, Elizabeth Gorman in Journal of Historical Linguistics
November 29, 2023 |An article by David Mora-Marín, Meg Fletcher (MA 2020, now Ph.D student at University of Georgia), and Elizabeth Gorman (BA 2018), “Lexico-semantic stability in the anatomical domain in the Mayan language family,” has been published in the Journal of Historical Linguistics …
Special courses for Spring 2024
October 30, 2023 |In the spring 2024 semester, the linguistics department will offer several courses of special interest (less frequent or Special Topics courses). This includes the following classes …