Faculty
Yale linguists present at AMP
Three presentations were given by Yale linguists at the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), held virtually from October 1-3.
Jason Shaw and Natalie Weber presented a paper titled “Situating Blackfoot within a typology of (mobile) boundary tone grammars”.
Chelsea Sanker presented a poster titled “Comparison of coda voicing effects on perceived vowel duration”.
Veneeta Dayal to give virtual talk for Central Institute for Indian Languages
Veneeta Dayal will give an invited talk via zoom on “The semantics of (in)definite articles and languages without (in)definite articles” in the Foundation Day Lectures at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, India.
Congratulations, Larry Horn!
Our very own Larry Horn is the President of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). This year he delivers the 96th Presidential Address at the LSA’s annual meeting in January 2022 in Washington, D.C. The department could not be more proud.
Stephen Anderson publishes second edition of Phonology in the Twentieth Century
Language Science Press has published a second edition of Emeritus Professor Steve Anderson’s celebrated monograph Phonology in the Twentieth Century (U Chicago Press 1985) — an important history of the development of phonological thinking over the course of the last century which taxonomises and contextualises the contributions of important theorists and tensions between “representational” and “rule-based” approaches to the sound structures of human language.
Yale linguists publish in PLC proceedings
Five papers were published by Yale linguists in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference:
Samuel Andersson: Abkhaz Stress as a Segmental Property
Joseph Class: Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque
Catarina Soares and Jim Wood: Locative Causatives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations
Claire Bowern gives talks on the Voynich Manuscript
Claire Bowern recently gave two talks on recent linguistic work on the Voynich Manuscript, an early cipher manuscript held at Yale’s Beinecke Library. The talks covered basic material about the manuscript, as well as ways that linguistics can be used in decipherment. Both talks are now available online: talk at Beinecke; talk as Alumni association lecture.
Kullilli Language Work Featured in News Article
Claire Bowern and lab members (including Juhyae Kim and Sam Lopez) have been working with Toby Adams and Kullilli community members of language support. They have been writing language lessons and working on the Kullilli dictionary. This work was recently featured in an article written by Maddelin McCosker for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news.
