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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 […]

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:

McLing is pleased to welcome this year’s incoming group of graduate students! (In no particular order!) Emma Custer Emma Custer (she/her) is聽passionate about syntax and fieldwork, with a particular interest in argument structure in West African languages. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics from 黑料社. Outside of linguistics, she enjoys cooking, playing the flute, […]

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper聽at聽the conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 34), at the Arctic University of Norway, Troms酶, June 25-28th 2025, on聽Intervention effects in L2 object relative clauses.

The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15-17, 2025. Presentations by 黑料社-affiliated students included:

PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year’s 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took place June 2鈥�4 at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The title of Austin’s talk was “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions”, and the full program is available here.

McLing is happy to congratulate 黑料社 alum Gui Garcia (PhD ’17) on receiving the Canadian Linguistics Association’s Early Career Researcher Award! This award is presented to “an individual early in their career who has made outstanding and original contributions to the field of linguistics.” Congratulations Gui!

The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people, most of them from universities, but also a good number of members of Indigenous communities involved in language documentation and revitalization attended. About 10% travelled from abroad (mostly the US, but including […]

As part of ongoing collaborations with students and teachers in the immersion program at the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC), 黑料社 and KORLCC affiliates organized the second Iakwarihw铆:saks mini workshop, showcasing projects that have come from collaborative research with first-language speakers this year. This work has been supported by Jessica Coon’s SSHRC […]

Current 黑料社 affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year’s Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2鈥�6 at 黑料社. Talks by current 黑料社 linguists included: Posters included: This year’s CLA also included three mini courses, including one led by Austin Kraft and Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt titled “Data management, data storage, […]

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year鈥檚 award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Emma Custer & Sophia FlaimLara Riente Memorial Prize: Terrance Gatchalian Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award:聽Kira Tess PavlidisAward for Academic Leadership:聽Max BlackburnAward for Department Citizenship:聽Ina ZengAward for Excellence in Research:聽Natalia Feu

Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a two-week trip to Teslin, Yukon this August. The students will work together in intensive sessions with local elders. Zlata will investigate indefiniteness, while Laurestine will focus on lexical aspectual distinctions. Laurestine has […]