This open-access book casts light on an understudied corpus of Indian Francophone literatures by writers originally from former French territories of India and from other regions of India, who also engage in processes of translation: Ari Gautier (Pondicherry), M. Mukundan (Mah茅), Manohar Rai Sardessai (Goa), Toru Dutt (Calcutta) and Shumona Sinha (Calcutta).
By examining the range of ways in which these writers write between languages, Sheela Mahadevan advances theories of translation and lit
Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual.
In Singapore, Christian discourses of sex and sexuality have materialised in the form of testimonials that detail the pain and suffering of homosexuality, and how Christianity has been a salve for the tribulations experienced by the storytellers. This bo
At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or what goes into inferring something about a character. Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance uses case studies from dramatic performances and data from real-world interaction to present findings from interaction ana
Laurestine Bradford聽presented a poster titled 鈥淎spectual classes as lexically-conditioned predictors of aspectual choice鈥� at the SCiL (Society for Computation in Linguistics) 2025 meeting on July 18th-20th. The meeting was hosted by Wellesley College but held in Eugene, Oregon, co-located with the LSA Summer Institute.
Ada Tur (CS + Linguistics 黑料社 undergraduate) and Gaurav Kamath presented their work entitled “Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences” at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025). 聽The paper received a Senior Area Chair award at the conference, and can […]
Congratulations to Xuanda Chen, who successfully defended his dissertation, 鈥淟inguistic Experience and the Representation of Phonological Features: Perception, Processing, and Second Language Acquisition,鈥� on August 5th!
On August 8th, Connie Ting successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淚nvestigating Cross-linguistic Patterns of Intrinsic F0 Effects in Production and Perception.鈥� Congratulations, Connie!
Brendan Gillon travelled to Japan for the last two weeks of April. He made three stops there: first in Tachikawa, a satellite city Tokyo; second in Kyoto; and third in Kobe. In Tachikawa, he gave a talk to Prof. Yusuke Kubata’s research group at the National Institute for Japanese language and Linguistics, in Tachikawa. The […]
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Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
T眉bingen, 24. 鈥� 26. September 2025
Metaphern und Symbole stellen seit jeher ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel in der Alltagssprache und Literatur dar. Immer wieder stehen sie dabei auch im Kontext 盲sthetischer Ansp
Supported by the Graduate Mobility Award, Alex Zhai spent the summer at The University of Tokyo. She participated in Professor Yuki Hirose and Professor Manami Hirayama’s labs, presented at the Tokyo Circle of Phonologists workshop, and collected data from Japanese participants.
McLing would like to welcome聽Josh Lee聽to the Linguistics department! Josh is a postdoctoral researcher working with Morgan Sonderegger and Meghan Clayards. Seung Suk (Josh) Lee (he/him) works on corpus phonetics, prosody, and computational phonology. His main interest is studying how segmental realization is conditioned by prosodic structure in production and how it serves as a […]
A paper by Michaela Socolof (PhD ’24), Timothy O’Donnell, and Michael Wagner, “The idiom processing advantage is explained by surprisal,” recently appeared in Cognitive Science. Abstract: It has been repeatedly found that idioms are processed faster than syntactically matched literal phrases, in both comprehension and production. This has led to debate about whether idioms are […]
PhD student Kuilin Li presented a poster titled 鈥淐ue Weighting in Mandarin Sibilant Perception & Imitation by Native Mandarin Speakers & Na茂ve English Speakers鈥� at the 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, held June 25鈥�27, 2025. The event took place at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain.
Some of the final projects from last semester’s LING315: Languages of the World (taught by PhD student Willie Myers) can be seen聽here. In the class, each student works with the grammar of an endangered language to learn about its phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. This semester’s final projects included:
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AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026
Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin)
Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible a
Our Places is a mobile app with which to explore the etymologies of South African place names and discover place-name signs in South African Sign Language (SASL). The free version of the app includes 30% of entries from the Dictionary of Southern African place names (Raper, M枚ller & Du Plessis, 2014). SASL place names is provided from our research corpus. Available for Android on Google Play Store: https:/play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=za.ac.ufs.ourplaces
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Philippinescapes and Beyond
Nicko Enrique Manalastas, Christian Go, & Nelson Buso Jr. (Editors)
Under consideration with Palgrave Macmillan
About the Volume:
Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies have emerged as a dynamic and increasingly visible area of inquiry in Philippine scholarship. Filipino and foreign scholars across disciplines鈥攆rom sociolinguistics and discourse studies to education, sociology, and cultural geography鈥攈ave begun to explore the ways in whic
Repr茅senter l鈥櫭ヽriture. Outils, techniques, exploitations.
Journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖udes internationale co-financ茅e par les universit茅s de
UQAM (Canada), HEC Montr茅al (Canada), Bordeaux (France), Turku (Finlande), Vendredi 17 octobre 2025 - Montr茅al (Canada)
Lieu : Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM) - Salle DR 200 / 10h00-16h00
Dans le champ des 茅tudes sur l鈥櫭ヽriture, on observe depuis un demi-si猫cle un d茅placement de l鈥檌nt茅r锚t des chercheurs du produit (l鈥櫭ヽrit termin茅) vers le processus (le traje
We are pleased to invite submissions for Speech Prosody 2026, the 13th International Conference on Speech Prosody, to be held May 26鈥�29, 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
https://www.speechprosody2026.org
Speech Prosody is the largest international forum dedicated to prosody in all its forms. This year鈥檚 theme, Prosodic Encodings in Context: From Structure and Cognition to Technology, and Back, highlights our commitment to advancing interdisciplinary inquiry into the