Language & Brain Lab members present at OSUCHiLL
María Piñango, Martín Fuchs, and Sara Sánchez-Alonso discussed their results on variation and change in Spanish with Ashwini Deo of the Ohio State University.
Linguistic Variation
Graduate students present at PhoNE
Graduate students Sarah Babinski and Samuel Andersson and PhD candidate Chris Geissler discussed the relationship between phonology and phonetics.
Yale linguists publish paper on YGDP
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, Jason Zentz, and Larry Horn’s open-access article introduces the motivation, methodology, and results of the YGDP.
YGDP members speak about linguistic prejudice
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, and Jason Zentz spoke to the Center for Teaching and Learning on the pernicious effects of linguistic prejudice and ways to combat it.
Claire Bowern and Rikker Dockum at ALT
Claire and Rikker showcased their results from the Pama-Nyungan Laboratory at the Association for Linguistic Typology.
Rikker Dockum presents at XLanS
Rikker talked about how tonal systems change over time, using statistical analysis on a large dataset he compiled to identify a strong phylogenetic signal.
Yale hosts Meaning in Flux workshop
Scholars from a wide range of institutions and disciplines came to Yale to discuss the cognitive foundations of variation and change in meaning.
Jim Wood speaks at University of Calgary
Jim presented an analysis of extended benefactives, part of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project’s ongoing research on morphosyntactic microvariation.
Three new graduate students join Yale
We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!
Jim Wood publishes two papers on Icelandic
Assistant Professor Jim Wood published a paper in the journal Syntax and co-authored a chapter in the book Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.
