Yale honors linguists at Commencement
Two linguists were honored at this year’s Yale University Commencement.
Undergrad Students
YGDP inspires Tom McCoy's latest New York Times crossword puzzle
The crossword puzzle that appears in today’s New York Times is the creation of senior linguistics major Tom McCoy, a member of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project.
NACLO at Yale 2017
Tomorrow, 51 students from local middle and high schools will arrive at Yale to compete in the Open Round of the 2017 North American Computational Linguistics Open competition.
Yale linguists to participate in the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Several current and former members of our department will be taking part in the annual meeting of the LSA and its sister societies, held this year in Austin, TX.
Yale linguists to compete in New Haven Reads Spelling Bee
The event, a fundraiser for New Haven Reads, is 7-9pm (doors open at 6) on Friday, October 21, at the Yale School of Management.
Yale linguists present at NELS 47
Tomorrow, lecturer Hadas Kotek is giving a talk, undergraduate alumna Maria Kouneli is presenting a paper, and former faculty member Gaja Jarosz is delivering a plenary talk.
A busy summer for Yale linguists
Members of our department traveled all over the world for summer institutes, conferences, and fieldwork, and we hosted several visiting undergraduate researchers on campus.
Yale linguistics hosts students from The Leadership Alliance
Two students, Shawntel Barreiro and Amber Lopez, will be working in the department this summer as part of The Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative. They will be doing language documentation and historical work on the Algonquian languages of Southern New England under the supervision of Claire Bowern.
Second annual "grammar boot camp" for advanced undergraduates accepting applications
The Department of Linguistics is happy to announce that Claire Bowern and the Historical and Pama-Nyungan Lab will be hosting a second annual ‘grammar boot camp’ in July 2016. Over the course of four weeks, participants will work collaboratively to produce a sketch grammar of an Australian Aboriginal language, using an extensive database of field notes and recordings.
