For the last few years, Yale linguistics participated in the New Haven Reads Spelling Bee. Last year, we were eliminated in the final round (with the Australian work quokka...
Graduate Student Sarah Babinski and Professor Claire Bowern recently published a paper on mergers and contextual probability in sound change in the journal Linguistics ...
The Linguistic Society of America has established a student bursary fund in memory of Warren Cowgill, a former member of our department. From the LSA’s statement:
The pilot ASL language program has been a success, and the ASL language program has been made permanent. In the Linguistics Department will hire a lector in ASL for a three-...
Recordings of the Sign Languages and the Mind panel held last month have now been fully captioned and released. The video is available in two parts on the Yale University...