News

Emily Gasser researches Wamesa in West Papua, Indonesia
November 28, 2012
Emily Gasser is spending the fall semester in the field to document Wamesa, an endangered Austronesian language with approximately 5000 speakers on the eastern Bird’s Head of...
Wilbur Cross Medal Talk
October 11, 2012
The Yale University Linguistics Department was pleased to welcome back to campus its distinguished alumna Sally Thomason ‘68 (Linguistics PhD) University of Michigan....
Argyro is Going to Germany
September 18, 2012
Congratulations to Argyro Katsika on her postdoc position. She will be joining Diamandis Gafos’s lab in Potsdam, Germany, this fall.
Movie Night "The Linguists"
September 10, 2012
We are pleased to annouce that our Linguistics Trivia Night which took place March 29, 2012 was a huge success! Please visit our picture gallery to check out some pictures...
NECPHON 2011
September 9, 2012
The Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop (NECPHON) took place on October 15th, 2011 and it is an informal gathering of scholars working on or interested in any aspect...
Claire Bowern: "Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics" Talk
August 17, 2012
We are pleased to announce that Professor Bowern will be giving a talk entitled “Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics” in the anthropology department this...
Emily Finn (Yale 2009) publishes a NYTimes article
July 20, 2009
Emily Finn (Yale ‘09) published a NYTimes article called “How I learned to stop worrying and love linguistics”.

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