Bulldog Days are in full swing! Learn more about the Linguistics Major at the Academic Fair today, from 1:30-3:30 at Payne Whitney gym.
For more info, see the Yale Linguistics Department Academic Fair information page.
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:
YaleNews recently published a nice video about our ASL program that features Julia Silvestri and several students from the ASL classes. Congratulations to Julia, Frances, and Andrew, who have contributed so much to creating such an interesting and dynamic program!
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.
Linguistic major Jackson Petty ‘22 and Bob Frank presented a talk on models of learning for anaphoric dependencies at the 3rd Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC).
Linguistics major Josephine Holubkov ‘24 has won Babel magazine’s Young Writers’ Competition. Josephine is a member of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project and has served as NACLO chair of the Yale Undergraduate Linguistics Society. As described on its website, “Babel is the quarterly language magazine that brings you cutting-edge linguistic research in an accessible and colourful format”.
The Yale linguistics department is well-represented at the coming Annual Meeting of the LSA, January 2-5, 2020 in New Orleans. But apart from the many current members of the department who will be attending, we are also hoping to connect with previous department members. A meet-up will be organized, with more information below:
