Martín Fuchs and Sara Sánchez participate in the 2016 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Their presentations report on experiments conducted through the Yale Language & Brain Lab.
Linguistic Variation
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.
Sara Sánchez Alonso gives talk on copular variation in Spanish
She is at a heritage language acquisition workshop in Tromsø, Norway, presenting joint work with Ashwini Deo and Maria Piñango.
Yale linguists attend Cognitive Structures in Düsseldorf
Sara Sánchez Alonso, Martin Fuchs, and Maria Piñango are all giving talks based on their work in the Yale Language & Brain Lab.
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.
Jason Shaw and Jim Wood join the Yale Linguistics Faculty
We are thrilled to announce that Jason Shaw and Jim Wood will be joining the faculty of the Yale Linguistics department as Assistant Professors starting in Fall 2016.
Matt Tyler, Jim Wood, Faruk Akkuş present at WCCFL
Three Yale linguists presented at the West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL34), held at the University of Utah on April 29-May 1, 2016. Graduate student Matt Tyler and postdoctoral associate Jim Wood delivered a joint presentation, “The ‘Have Yet To’ construction: a micro-comparative acco
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.
