Publications
Hadas Kotek publishes 4 proceedings papers on the interpretation of A-bar structures
The papers appear in conference proceedings for Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), and the North East Linguistic Society (NELS).
Ryan Bennett contributes to Language & Linguistics Compass special issue on Mayan linguistics
He provides an overview of Mayan phonology and, together with Jessica Coon and Robert Henderson, an introduction to Mayan linguistics.
Hadas Kotek co-authors Linguistic Analysis article on Tibetan NPIs
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek have published ”Even-NPIs in Dharamsala Tibetan” as part of a special issue on South Asian languages.
Linguistic Inquiry publishes article by Hadas Kotek and Michael Erlewine
The paper is titled ”Covert pied-piping in English multiple wh-questions.”
Hannah Haynie and Claire Bowern publish article in PNAS
Their paper, ”Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems,” was also featured in this week’s YaleNews.
Hadas Kotek and collaborators publish article in Brain Research
The paper examines whether classroom second-language instruction results in improvement in Japanese vowel duration contrast discrimination.
Claire Bowern's research featured in Nature and Science
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.
Hadas Kotek publishes article in first issue of Glossa
Her paper is titled “Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations.”
Ryan Bennett publishes in Lingusitic Inquiry
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.