Yale linguists present at AMP
A group of Yale linguists traveled to Stony Brook to attend the Annual Meeting on Phonology earlier in October. There were a total of four Yale presentations, listed below with links to the abstracts:
Computational & Mathematical Linguistics
Yale and Haskins linguists present at ICPhS 2019 in Melbourne
Many students, faculty, and alumni of Yale linguistics, as well as colleagues from nearby Haskins Laboratories, presented their work at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Melbourne, Australia, earlier this month. They contributed at least 14 talks and posters to the conference and enjoyed a full week of presentations about phonetics, connecting with colleagues and friends from all over the world.
Yale linguists present at ACL
Seven Yale linguists presented six posters and two invited talks, highlighting their own research as well as projects from CLAY.
Bob Frank receives NSF grant to study inductive bias in neural networks
Bob Frank has been awarded a grant by the NSF on the topic of “Inductive Biases for the Acquisition of Syntactic Transformations in Neural Networks.” This work, in collaboration with Tal Linzen of Johns Hopkins, will explore the degree to which explicit innate biases are needed to learn linguistic mappings, whether between linguistic forms (e.g., active/passive or declarative/interrogative) or between forms and meanings.
Pama-Nyungan lab members publish paper on forced alignment
Members of the Pama-Nyungan lab recently published a write-up of their results on forced alignment algorithms. Their paper on “A Robin Hood approach to forced alignment: English-trained algorithms and their use on Australian languages” was recently published in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. They show that for some purposes, English-trained models can be used without crucial loss of accuracy.
Yalies present their work at #LSA2019
Many members of the Yale linguistics department made a mass exodus to the the recent LSA annual meeting in New York City, where they gave 19 oral and poster presentations at the main meeting, workshops, and sister society meetings. These included:
Four graduate students join PhD Program
We are excited to work with Caitlyn Antal, Marisha Evans, Randi Martinez, and Jared Sharp as they pursue their graduate studies!
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.
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.”
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.
