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The Department of LinguisticsMany congratulations to Ph.D. candidate János Egressy, who was awarded a prize for best student presentation at GLOW 48! His talk was titled “Williams Cycle effects and successive cyclicity unified“….
Read MoreThe 4th International Conference “Prominence in Language” (ICPL IV) took place April 23-24, 2026, hosted by the University of Cologne. The following current and former members of the department presented:…
Read MoreThe 48th Generative Linguistics in the Old World conference (GLOW 48) took place Apr. 21-23, 2026, at the University of Siena. The following current and former members of the department…
Read MoreFormal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) is taking place April 10-11, 2026, and April 18, 2026, hosted by the University of South Carolina. The program features presentations…
Read MoreCongratulations to 5th-year PhD candidate János Egressy for having his paper “Size-sensitive sequence of tense in Hungarian ” recently accepted to Linguistic Inquiry! You can find an early-access print on…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could…
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his…
Read MoreGraduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Read MoreGraduate student Kevin Liang has published part of his MA in Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Kevin! Liang K, Sundara M. Infants discover English suffixes allomorph by allomorph. Journal of…
Read MoreJian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in…
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