2013 Senior Essay Presentations Begin this Week
This week, the senior undergraduate students in the department begin their final project presentations as they get set for graduation.
Historical Linguistics
Yale Linguists Awarded NSF Grant
Maria Piñango and Ashwini Deo, along with colleagues in Statistics and Probability and at the Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center have been awarded an NSF grant.
Stephen Anderson to speak at the AAAS
On February 15, Stephen Anderson will be speaking in a session he has organized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Yale Linguists in Language
Two of Yale’s linguists have papers in the most recent issue of Language, the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Claire Bowern’s work (with co-author Quentin Atkinson) uses Bayesian inference to propose divisions within the Pama-Nyungan language family of Australia, while Dennis Ryan Storoshenko (with co-author Chung-hye Han) argues for a novel account of the Korean anaphor caki, which has a 30-year history of conflicting analyses in the literature.
Wilbur Cross Medal Talk
The Yale University Linguistics Department was pleased to welcome back to campus its distinguished alumna Sally Thomason ‘68 (Linguistics PhD) University of Michigan. Professor Thomason was honored by the Yale Graduate School with its Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. To make the occasion, Professor Thomason gave a talk on her work (see title and abstract below) on Thursday, October 11th, 2012.
Phylogenetics Workshop
Friday, December 14, 2012 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Charles Nunn (Harvard EEB), Erich Round (UQ), and Claire Bowern (Yale)
The aim of the workshop is to present an overview of methods and showcase recent work in the area. More details will be provided a bit closer to the time.
NECPHON 2011
The Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop (NECPHON) took place on October 15th, 2011 and it is an informal gathering of scholars working on or interested in any aspect of computational phonology. For more information on this event please visit our Calendar of Events and the NECPHON 2011
Claire Bowern: "Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics" Talk
We are pleased to announce that Professor Bowern will be giving a talk entitled “Serial Founder Effects in Genetics and Linguistics” in the anthropology department this Thursday at 5pm at 10 Sachem St, rm 105.
