Rikker Dockum presents at XLanS
Rikker talked about how tonal systems change over time, using statistical analysis on a large dataset he compiled to identify a strong phylogenetic signal.
Grad Students
Yale to host SYNC in December
The 2017 Stony Brook–Yale–NYU–CUNY conference will be held at Yale’s Dunham Laboratory.
Yale linguists attend NELS
Jim Wood, Matt Barros, and Matt Tyler presented two talks and a poster.
Yale hosts Meaning in Flux workshop
Scholars from a wide range of institutions and disciplines came to Yale to discuss the cognitive foundations of variation and change in meaning.
Claire Bowern speaks at LILY Lab workshop
Claire spoke about how she applies methods from computational phylogenetics to study the history of the Pama-Nyungan languages.
Summer Spotlight: Luke Lindemann
Luke spent the summer at the University of Texas at Austin, working on the Texas German Dialect Project.
Natalie Schrimpf gives Homecoming Lecture at Dartmouth
The lecture is given each year by a Dartmouth alum who is currently engaged in linguistics research or related work.
CLAY members appear at Scandinavian venues
Results on TAG parsing and finite-state Optimality Theory were presented at TAG+, FSMNLP, and EMNLP.
Yale presents a strong showing at AMP
Yale-affiliated linguists showcased seven different presentations—more than any other university.
Rashad Ullah joins faculty at SCSU
As a member of the Department of World Languages and Literatures, Rashad will be teaching the university’s only linguistics course.
