News

September 5, 2016
Both presentations represent joint work with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (NUS) and are titled ”Untangling Tanglewood using covert focus movement.”
September 2, 2016
One talk discussed computational modeling of Khamti tone, and the other examines how syntactic borrowing may explain similarities between Khmer and Thai numeral classifiers.
August 25, 2016
We are delighted to have Sarah Babinski (Swarthmore ’16), Yiding Hao (UChicago ’15), Dan Schwennicke (Oxford ’16), and Andy Zhang (Yale ’15) join our department.
August 25, 2016
This year, Hadas will be teaching Semantics I & II, a seminar on questions and focus, and a freshman seminar. Her work focuses on the semantics/pragmatics interface.
June 28, 2016
Congratulations to PhD candidate Gregg Castellucci, who has been awarded the 2016 Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science from the Acoustical Society of America!
June 17, 2016
Two students, Shawntel Barreiro and Amber Lopez, will be working in the department this summer as part of The Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative. They will be doing...
June 3, 2016
We are thrilled to announce that Jason Shaw and Jim Wood will be joining the faculty of the Yale Linguistics department as Assistant Professors starting in Fall 2016.