Yale linguists speak at ICHL
Professor Claire Bowern, Professor María Piñango, and graduate student Martín Fuchs spoke at this year’s International Conference on Historical Linguistics.
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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.
Rikker Dockum presents at SEALS
Ph.D. candidate Rikker Dockum presented research on the Tai Khamti language at the 2017 meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS).
YGDP research presented at Dartmouth and Virginia Tech
Professor Raffaella Zanuttini and Assistant Professor Jim Wood presented research from the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project at Dartmouth College and Virginia Tech.
Jim Wood and Matt Tyler publish in WCCFL proceedings
A paper by Assistant Professor Jim Wood and graduate student Matt Tyler has been published in the Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
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.
Yao-Ying Lai, Sabina Matyiku, and Leandro Bolaños defend their dissertations
Congratulations to Yao-Ying Lai, Sabina Matyiku, and Leandro Bolaños, who successfully defended their PhD dissertations this week!
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 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.
Hannah Haynie and Claire Bowern publish article in PNAS
Their paper, ”Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems,” was also featured in this week’s YaleNews.
