Three new graduate students join Yale
We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!
Phonetics
Just a test.
Dialectal variation study published in JASA
Assistant Professor Jason Shaw published a paper with Arwen Blackwood Ximenes and Christopher Carignan examining influences on F1 and F2 other than tongue position.
Yale linguists present at CLS
Assistant Professor Jason Shaw, Postdoc Matt Barros, Lecturer Hadas Kotek, and graduate students Matt Tyler and Josh Phillips presented at CLS 53.
Kevin Tang gives invited talks in Hong Kong
Kevin Tang gave invited talks at three venues, presenting joint work with Ryan Bennett, John Harris, and Andrew Nevins on speech production.
Yale honors linguists at Commencement
Two linguists were honored at this year’s Yale University Commencement.
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!
Matt Tyler and Rikker Dockum present at BLS 43
Matt’s talk is “In Choctaw, everyone’s a clitic.” Rikker’s is “Prosodic context in computational modeling of tone: citation tones vs. running speech.”
Kevin Tang co-authors article in the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
Ryan Bennett contributes to Language & Linguistics Compass special issue on Mayan linguistics
He provides an overview of Mayan phonology and, together with Jessica Coon and Robert Henderson, an introduction to Mayan linguistics.
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.
Kevin Tang and Ryan Bennett present at Annual Meeting on Phonology
Their talk, titled “Against phonetic realism as the source of root co-occurrence restrictions,” presents an acoustic analysis of data drawn from a spoken corpus of Kaqchikel.
Hadas Kotek and collaborators publish article in Brain Research
The paper examines whether classroom second-language instruction results in improvement in Japanese vowel duration contrast discrimination.
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.
Gregg Castellucci wins scholarship from the Acoustical Society of America
Congratulations to PhD candidate Gregg Castellucci, who has been awarded the 2016 Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science from the Acoustical Society of America!
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.
Graduate students to present at Qualifying Paper Symposia
[Updated April 18, 2016]
On two Fridays, April 15 and April 22, Yale linguistics graduate students in their second and third years will give talks based on their qualifying papers. These papers, one of which is required in each of the second and third years and which cover two different areas of linguistics, represent significant original research culminating in a work of publishable quality.
Yale linguists present at PLC, PhoNE
A number of Yale linguists presented at PLC 40, the Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania:
Ryan Bennett to present invited talks at WSCLA, SSMCA; Ryan Kasak to present at WSCLA
Ryan Bennett will present work on Kaqchikel phonetics and phonology. Ryan Kasak is presenting on Siouan templatic morphology.
Gregg Castellucci publishes in Scientific Reports
The paper, co-authored with colleagues in Neuroscience, studies the role of the Foxp2 gene in mouse vocalizations.
Ryan Bennett invited alumni speaker at UC Santa Cruz LASC 2016
Assistant Professor Ryan Bennett presented the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture at Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2016 on Saturday, March 5. The annual LASC conference showcases the research of current Santa Cruz linguistics students, and features a Santa Cruz PhD alum as an invited speaker.
Yale linguists present at 2016 LSA Annual Meeting
Several Yale linguistics faculty, students, and alumni presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA).
Ryan Bennett invited speaker at COLMEX
Ryan will present a talk “Algunas estructuras fonéticas de las vocales de kaqchikel de Sololá, Guatemala” at COLMEX on September 7.
Proceedings of SSMCA workshop published online
We are pleased to announce the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America (SSMCA). The workshop was hosted by our department last spring.
Yale linguists present at 2015 LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will give talks, present posters, and receive awards.
Ryan Bennett to present talk and poster at FAMLi III in Mexico City
The talk is titled “The prosody of Kaqchikel person marking,” and the poster is titled “A phonetic study of Uspanteko accent.” Both are joint work with Robert Henderson.
Erich Round and Michael Proctor receive DECRA Fellowships
Erich and Michael, recent PhD graduates, have been awarded three-year research fellowships in Australia.
Hannah Haynie to deliver homecoming linguistics lecture at Dartmouth College
The lecture, titled “Sound Symbolism in Australian Languages: Phonetic Iconicity Re-examined,” will be given at the Dartmouth College Linguistics Department on Thursday, October 16th.
Ryan Bennett receives NSF grant to study Irish Gaelic palatalization
The award is part of a collaborative NSF grant with linguists at UC Santa Cruz.
