Bulldog Days are in full swing! Learn more about the Linguistics Major at the Academic Fair today, from 1:30-3:30 at Payne Whitney gym.
For more info, see the Yale Linguistics Department Academic Fair information page.
The Fieldwork Group in the department has just released the third video in a series aimed at language communities that talks about different ways that a linguist could support different projects. This video is about how linguists can help with various kinds of language apps.
Watch the video in the series playlist here.
The series so far includes:
The Yale Daily News just published an article about the newly-created Computing and Linguistics major. As the article notes, the new major combines coursework in Linguistics, Computer Science and Statistics and Data Science, and enables undergraduate students to focus their studies on computational linguistics and its applications. Bob Frank is the DUS for the new major, and interested students should reach out to him.
Dongmei Rao, former visiting scholar (19-20), and Jason Shaw published a paper entitled “The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: Acoustic evidence from a dialect island”. The paper reports new phonetic data linking synchronic variation in the production of velar and labiodental fricatives to patterns of diachronic merger of these sounds found across Southwestern Mandarin varieties.
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.
On 25 October 2021, Milena Šereikaitė published a paper in Linguistic Inquiry entitled, “Active Existential in Lithuanian: Remarks on Burzio’s Generalization”.
On Thursday, July 23rd, Matt Tyler successfully defended his PhD dissertation. The defense, which was held virtually on Zoom, presented Matt’s dissertation entitled Argument Structure and Argument-Marking in Choctaw, supervised by Jim Wood. The committee members were Raffaella Zanuttini, Bob Frank, and Aaron Broadwell. Congratulations, Matt!
The linguistics department sends warm congratulations to all of our students graduating this year! The graduating cohort consists of Rikker Dockum, Dolly Goldenberg, and Martín Fuchs. Congratulations to all of you! While the in person celebration will happen later, a virtual celebration will be hosted on the afternoon of May 18.
The Yale linguistics department is well-represented at the coming Annual Meeting of the LSA, January 2-5, 2020 in New Orleans. But apart from the many current members of the department who will be attending, we are also hoping to connect with previous department members. A meet-up will be organized, with more information below:
