News

TopiCS publishes commentary by Tamás Biró
November 15, 2013
The essay argues that cognitive and computational approaches have a role to play in the study of culture.
Yale phonologists participate at Phonology 2013
November 6, 2013
Gaja Jarosz will present a talk, and ​Shira Calamaro, Claire Bowern, and Emily Gasser will present posters.
Bob Frank heads to Italy for workshop on open questions in syntax
November 6, 2013
The workshop, called “Can there be a Hilbert List of Syntax (yet)?”, is organized by the IUSS Center for Neurocognition and Theoretical Syntax in Pavia.
Lingua publishes paper by Jim Wood
October 31, 2013
The paper investigates the syntax of English verbal “rather,” noting its similarity to parasitic participle constructions found elsewhere in Germanic.
Ashwini Deo and Kate Davidson to speak at Workshop on Semantic Variation
October 24, 2013
The workshop will be held at UChicago on October 25-26.
Kate Davidson publishes paper in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
October 24, 2013
Kate, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler argue that the spoken English development of children with cochlear implants is not impaired by exposure to sign language.
Yale linguists presenting at NELS
October 17, 2013
The conference, held this weekend at UConn, will feature a talk by Jim Wood and posters by Claire Bowern, Erich Round, and Raffaella Zanuttini.

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