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Yale Linguistics welcomes new cohort of graduate students
August 28, 2015
The Yale University Department of Linguistics is proud to welcome four graduate students who begin their doctoral studies this fall. They were inducted into the Graduate...
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project featured in Boston Globe, Columbus Dispatch, and Slate
August 15, 2015
YGDP was featured in articles in the Boston Globe, the Columbus Dispatch, and on Slate’s Lexicon Valley blog.
Yale linguists attend 2015 LSA Summer Institute
August 10, 2015
Five members of the linguistics department participated in the 2015 LSA Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Chicago.
Claire Bowern creates a TedEd talk about the origins of the English language
July 16, 2015
A lesson by Claire Bowern on the basics of historical linguistics and the origins of the English language has been turned into a TedEd animation. Watch and listen to the...
Ashwini Deo and Gaja Jarosz present at GLOW
May 5, 2015
Ashwini and Gaja gave talks at the 38th GLOW colloquium in Paris.
Ryan Bennett presents at Brown, CLS, and UC Santa Cruz
May 4, 2015
Ryan presented talks on Irish palatalization and prosodic smothering in Macedonian and Kaqchikel.
Claire Bowern publishes new edition of linguistic fieldwork manual
April 16, 2015
Associate Professor Claire Bowern has published a new edition of her book Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide.

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