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The Department of LinguisticsCongratulations to 4th year PhD student Canaan Breiss and Professor Bruce Hayes for having their paper recently accepted to Language. The title of the paper is “Phonological markedness effects in sentence formation.” You can find a pre-print here.
Read MoreThe Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…
Read MoreCongratulations to Jessica Rett! The 2020 winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistic Service Award is the “Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP)”, whose organizers facilitate short-term mentoring of linguists by linguists. Our own Jessica Rett is one of the six organizers receiving the award, which will be presented at the New Orleans Annual Meeting in…
Read MoreOur very own Nina Hyams has been chosen to be an LSA Fellow. She will be inaugurated into the 2020 class this January. Congratulations, Nina!
Read MoreJeremy Steffman (4th year PhD candidate) published two papers at the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), one by himself and the other with Sun-Ah Jun. Congratulations!!! Below is the publication info. Steffman, J. (2019). Phrase-final lengthening modulates listeners’ perception of vowel duration as a cue to coda stop voicing. The Journal of the…
Read More“[T]he future [of linguistics] is dynamic and diversifying.” Professor Jessica Rett was selected as the Member Spotlight in the Linguistic Society of America’s September newsletter. Congratulations to Professor Rett, someone who has greatly contributed to the field of linguistics since becoming a member of LSA in 2005. To read more about her spotlight, please click…
Read MoreMany current and past department members attended the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Melbourne, Australia this month. Adam Chong and Pat arranged an evening social at a local bar. The photo above shows Adam Royer, Beth Sturman, Meng Yang, Ho-Hsien Pan (former visiting scholar), Sun-Ah Jun, Mary Baltazani (PhD 2002), Marc Garellek (PhD 2013),…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department’s End of Year 5K Run is an annual, end of the academic year celebration. This year the 5K run was held at Professor Emeritus Ed Keenan’s home on Friday, June 14th. The 5K run includes a spirited walk and run among students and faculty, along with catering from Juan’s Taco Truck, and…
Read MoreThe Linguistics Department would like to congratulate the recent undergraduate and graduate students who were honored this past June 15th, 2019. The graduation reception took place in Royce Hall, room 314. The graduates included Eleanor Glewwe, Zhuo Chen (not pictured), Richard Stockwell (not pictured), Tyler Carson, Angelica Pan, and Joy Wu. Again, congratulations to our…
Read MoreWe are delighted to announce that Stefan Keine has accepted a faculty position in the department, effective July 1, 2020. We look forward to welcoming him then!
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