Sean Gleason presenting in Rome
PhD Student Sean Gleason is presenting a paper at the 17th Colloquium on Latin Linguistics held in Rome next week at the Tor Vergata University and the British School at Rome.
Grad Students
Yale Linguists Traveling to Iceland
Sabina Matyiku, Jim Wood, and Raffaella Zanuttini are traveling to the University of Iceland this week to present their papers at the 25th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics.
Claire Bowern and Jason Zentz paper published in Anthropological Linguistics
Claire Bowern and Jason Zentz have published their paper Diversity in the Numeral Systems of Australian Languages in the current issue of Anthropological Linguistics.
E-Ching Ng teaches Singlish to Yale-NUS Faculty
E-Ching Ng recently gives a Singlish lesson to the Yale-NUS faculty at an event co-sponsored by ROJAK, a Yale-NUS faculty reading group, and the Malaysian and Singaporean Association (MASA).
Sabina Matyiku travels to GLOW
This week, our PhD student will present a poster on her research into negative inversion in West Texas English at the 36th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) colloquium in Lund.
Jason Zentz Presenting at GURT/ACAL
PhD Student Jason Zentz will be presenting his paper Bantu wh-agreement and the case against probe impoverishment this week at Georgetown University.
Emily Gasser presenting at ICLDC 3
PhD Student Emily Gasser will be presenting her work this week at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC).
Emily Gasser researches Wamesa in West Papua, Indonesia
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 West Papua, Indonesia. While Wamesa is more widely spoken than many other languages of the area, younger speakers are switching over to Papuan Malay for daily use. With research funding from the NSF, Emily plans to spend a total of seven months recording the language in order to produce a grammar and dictionary of the language.
Argyro is Going to Germany
Congratulations to Argyro Katsika on her postdoc position. She will be joining Diamandis Gafos’s lab in Potsdam, Germany, this fall.
NECPHON 2011
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 of computational phonology. For more information on this event please visit our Calendar of Events and the NECPHON 2011
