The Fieldwork Group in the department has just released the third video in a series aimed at language communities that talks about different ways that a linguist could support different projects. This video is about how linguists can help with various kinds of language apps.
Watch the video in the series playlist here.
The series so far includes:
Our very own Sammy Andersson is the recipient of the 2023 Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize Award for Student Excellence in Phonology from the Linguistic Society of America!
The LSA Committee of Phonologists reported that they took into consideration the originality, breadth, and productivity of research in phonology of each nominated candidate. Their decision to award Samuel Andersson this year was unanimous.
Jim Wood and Catarina Soares their paper “Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations” in Palermo, Italy, on May 26th.
Michael Stern published a paper with co-authors LeeAnn Stover (CUNY Graduate Center), Ernesto Guerra (University of Chile), and Gita Martohardjono (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled “Syntactic and Semantic Influences on the Time Course of Relative Clause Processing: The Role of Language Dominance”.
Five papers were published by Yale linguists in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference:
Samuel Andersson: Abkhaz Stress as a Segmental Property
Joseph Class: Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque
Catarina Soares and Jim Wood: Locative Causatives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations
Claire Bowern and lab members (including Juhyae Kim and Sam Lopez) have been working with Toby Adams and Kullilli community members of language support. They have been writing language lessons and working on the Kullilli dictionary. This work was recently featured in an article written by Maddelin McCosker for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news.
Three presentations were given by Yale linguists at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL).
