News

Claire Bowern offers course at the LSA Summer Institute
August 15, 2013
Slides for her course on language documentation methodology are now available online.
Steve Anderson delivers keynote in China
August 14, 2013
This weekend Steve Anderson will present a keynote address about birdsong and the human language faculty at the International Conference on Language and Cognition.
Shira Calamaro presenting at CogSci 2013
July 25, 2013
Shira will travel to Berlin next week to present “A Computational Model of General Rule Learning with Unnatural Classes” at CogSci 2013.
Ryan Bennett publishes paper in NLLT
July 24, 2013
Ryan Bennett and his co-author Robert Henderson have published their paper “Accent in Uspanteko” in the current issue of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT).
Yale linguists participating in the International Congress of Linguists
July 19, 2013
Four of our faculty members will be representing Yale at the 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) in Geneva next week.
Yale Grammatical Diversity Project featured in Yale Alumni Magazine cover story
July 15, 2013
Positive anymore, drama so, needs washed, multiple modals, and negative concord are among the phenomena highlighted.
Why Major in Linguistics?
July 3, 2013
Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications has recently produced a video on our linguistics major. Thanks to Julia Myers ’12 and the class of 2013!

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