News

Exploring the genetics of speech
May 24, 2018
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.
Sarah Babinski and Matt Tyler speak about North American languages
May 13, 2018
The two graduate students spoke about syntax in Choctaw and prosody in Southern East Cree, respectively.
Language & Brain Lab members present at OSUCHiLL
May 6, 2018
María Piñango, Martín Fuchs, and Sara Sánchez-Alonso discussed their results on variation and change in Spanish with Ashwini Deo of the Ohio State University.
Yale linguists in Philadelphia
April 18, 2018
Results on syntax and phonology by Jim Wood, Matt Tyler, and Yiding Hao were showcased at the Penn Linguistics Conference in March.
Graduate students present at PhoNE
April 11, 2018
Graduate students Sarah Babinski and Samuel Andersson and PhD candidate Chris Geissler discussed the relationship between phonology and phonetics.
Yale linguists publish paper on YGDP
March 23, 2018
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, Jason Zentz, and Larry Horn’s open-access article introduces the motivation, methodology, and results of the YGDP.
Claire Bowern publishes an editorial on the origins of Pama-Nyungan
March 12, 2018
Claire Bowern adds an article on the origins of Pama-Nyungan to The Conversation.

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