News about faculty and students’ publications.
Ph.D. candidate Matthew Tyler has recently published two journal articles concerning his work on clitics in Choctaw (Muskogean). One, published in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, is titled “Absolutive Promotion and the Condition on Clitic Hosts in Choctaw”; this article proposes a morphosyntactic analysis of Choctaw clitics.
Jason has published an article in the Association for Laboratory Phonology’s journal and presented a talk at its annual meeting.
Graduate Student Sarah Babinski and Professor Claire Bowern recently published a paper on mergers and contextual probability in sound change in the journal Linguistics Vanguard. The journal special issue – on predictability in shaping sound patterns in human language – was co-edited by linguistics department faculty member Jason Shaw and Shigeto Kawahara.
The translations make available some of the earliest writings on the theory of word formation.
Based on field research and a translation of the Bible, Joshua’s paper investigates the difference between the first-person pronouns ai and mi.
Chris Geissler and Kevin Zhang joined nine collaborators from Yale and other institutions to study a gene that may influence the way we perceive consonants.
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, Jason Zentz, and Larry Horn’s open-access article introduces the motivation, methodology, and results of the YGDP.
The paper investigates the effect of predictability on vowel duration in Japanese.
The article investigates the articulation of devoiced /u/ in Japanese.
The article reflects on Larry’s career by recounting stories of the words he has coined.
Results on TAG parsing and finite-state Optimality Theory were presented at TAG+, FSMNLP, and EMNLP.
Assistant Professor Jim Wood published a paper in the journal Syntax and co-authored a chapter in the book Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.
Assistant Professor Jason Shaw published a paper with Arwen Blackwood Ximenes and Christopher Carignan examining influences on F1 and F2 other than tongue position.
Two papers by Assistant Professor Jim Wood appear in the latest edition of Linguistic Inquiry.
Joint work by Professor Claire Bowern on the geographical distribution of Australian languages was featured in The Conversation.
A chapter by Assistant Professor Jim Wood, co-authored with Professor Alec Marantz of New York University, has been published in a book entitled The Verbal Domain.
A paper by Assistant Professor Jim Wood and graduate student Matt Tyler has been published in the Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
The papers appear in conference proceedings for Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), and the North East Linguistic Society (NELS).
He provides an overview of Mayan phonology and, together with Jessica Coon and Robert Henderson, an introduction to Mayan linguistics.
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek have published ”Even-NPIs in Dharamsala Tibetan” as part of a special issue on South Asian languages.
The paper is titled ”Covert pied-piping in English multiple wh-questions.”
Their paper, ”Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems,” was also featured in this week’s YaleNews.
The paper examines whether classroom second-language instruction results in improvement in Japanese vowel duration contrast discrimination.
She is one of several authors on an article in Nature about the genomic history of Aboriginal Australia, and her contributions to that paper were profiled in Science.
Her paper is titled “Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations.”
Yale assistant professor Ryan Bennett published an article in the latest issue of the journal Linguistic Inquiry, alongside collaborators Emily Elfner and Jim McCloskey. The article, “Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish” explains the apparent rightward movement of certain Irish pronouns as the result of prosodic factors.
The paper, co-authored with colleagues in Neuroscience, studies the role of the Foxp2 gene in mouse vocalizations.
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett and colleagues Jessica Coon (McGill) and Robert Henderson (Arizona) have published an article titled “Introduction to Mayan Linguistics” in Language and Linguistics Compass. The article is available online now, and is part of a special issue of L&LC.
Associate Professor Claire Bowern and her Pama-Nyungan Lab have completed the first phase release of CHIRILA (Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia), a lexical and morphological database. The name CHIRILA is based on the word tyirilya, a widespread term for ‘echidna’ in
