Yale linguists in Philadelphia
Results on syntax and phonology by Jim Wood, Matt Tyler, and Yiding Hao were showcased at the Penn Linguistics Conference in March.
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Yale linguists at the LSA
Sixteen presentations and posters from current and former Yale faculty and students were showcased at the annual meeting of the LSA.
Yale hosts annual student conference
Graduate students from Stony Brook University, NYU, and CUNY came to Yale University’s main campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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.
Language diversity research featured in The Conversation
Joint work by Professor Claire Bowern on the geographical distribution of Australian languages was featured in The Conversation.
Claire Bowern promoted to full professor
As of today, Professor Claire Bowern will assume the role of full professor in the Department of Linguistics.
Yale honors linguists at Commencement
Two linguists were honored at this year’s Yale University Commencement.
Graduate students present qualifying papers
Throughout the month of April, Yale linguistics graduate students presented their qualifying papers in a series of Friday Lunch Talks.
Bob Frank and Raffaella Zanuttini give talks at Incontro di Grammatica Generativa
Bob’s invited talk is ”Top-down, bottom-up or inside-out? Direction and grain size in syntactic derivation” and Raffaella’s talk is “The structure of presentatives.”
Matt Tyler and Rikker Dockum present at BLS 43
Matt’s talk is “In Choctaw, everyone’s a clitic.” Rikker’s is “Prosodic context in computational modeling of tone: citation tones vs. running speech.”
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 Olympiad.
Graduate students showcase their research at fall venues
Rashad Ullah, Martín Fuchs, Josh Phillips, Andy Zhang, Dan Schwennicke, Yiding Hao, and Rikker Dockum presented their work at four different conferences and workshops.
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.
Claire Bowern's research featured in Nature and Science
She is one of several authors on an article in Nature about the genomic history of Aboriginal Australia, and her contributions to that paper were profiled in Science.
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.
Rikker Dockum presents at SEALS 26 and an Austroasiatic workshop
One talk discussed computational modeling of Khamti tone, and the other examines how syntactic borrowing may explain similarities between Khmer and Thai numeral classifiers.
Yale Linguistics welcomes four incoming graduate students
We are delighted to have Sarah Babinski (Swarthmore ’16), Yiding Hao (UChicago ’15), Dan Schwennicke (Oxford ’16), and Andy Zhang (Yale ’15) join our department.
Rikker Dockum to attend Quantitative Methods Spring School at Max Planck Institute
Rikker will travel in May to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
Graduate students to present at Qualifying Paper Symposia
[Updated April 18, 2016]
On two Fridays, April 15 and April 22, Yale linguistics graduate students in their second and third years will give talks based on their qualifying papers. These papers, one of which is required in each of the second and third years and which cover two different areas of linguistics, represent significant original research culminating in a work of publishable quality.
Claire Bowern delivers keynote at Ohio State MLK Day Symposium
Claire Bowern recently delivered the keynote address at Ohio State University’s 13th Annual Martin Luther King Day Linguistics Symposium. This annual event is organized around a different theme each year, with this year’s being ”Mathematical/Computational Tools in and for Historical Linguistics.”
Claire Bowern delivers plenary talk at workshop in Leiden
Associate Professor Claire Bowern will be giving a plenary at the workshop Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics, which will be held October 26-30, 2015, at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Netherlands.
Yale linguists present at 2015 LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
Shira Calamaro and Gaja Jarosz publish article in Cognitive Science
The paper, titled “Learning General Phonological Rules From Distributional Information: A Computational Model,” appears in the journal Cognitive Science.
Yale Linguistics welcomes five new graduate students
Welcome to Faruk Akkuʂ (Boğaziçi ’12, ’14), Parker Brody (Kentucky ’08, ’14), Martin Fuchs (Buenos Aires ’13), Chris Geissler (Swarthmore ’13), and Josh Phillips (UNSW ’11)!
Commencement 2014
Congratulations to our linguistics degree recipients!
Measured Language volume includes chapter by Emily Gasser
Her chapter is titled “Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The case of Bima-Sumba.”
Local students coming to Yale for NACLO
These students will solve linguistics puzzles, hoping to earn a place on the US team at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
TopiCS publishes commentary by Tamás Biró
The essay argues that cognitive and computational approaches have a role to play in the study of culture.
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