Claire Bowern and Yale Biomedical Engineering student Kevin Zhou have published a paper examining the evolution of numeral systems in the indigenous languages of Australia. “Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems” appears in the September 2015 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
YGDP was featured in articles in the Boston Globe, the Columbus Dispatch, and on Slate’s Lexicon Valley blog.
Ashwini’s paper on diachronic semantics is included in the inaugural volume of the Annual Review of Linguistics.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Claire Bowern, who has been elected vice president of the Endangered Language Fund.
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
Graduate students Josh Phillips and Rikker Dockum represented the department at SYNC 2014, the annual linguistics conference that brings together graduate students from SUNY Stony Brook, Yale, NYU, and the CUNY Graduate Center. It was held at Stony Brook on December 6th.
Professor Raffaella Zanuttini and Associate Professor Claire Bowern have recently written op-ed articles for a number of media outlets.
