Matthew Tyler publishes paper in Glossa
PhD student Matthew Tyler has published a paper on the syntax-prosody interface in the journal Glossa.
Phonology
Yalies present their work at #LSA2019
Many members of the Yale linguistics department made a mass exodus to the the recent LSA annual meeting in New York City, where they gave 19 oral and poster presentations at the main meeting, workshops, and sister society meetings. These included:
Rikker Dockum gives 2018 Homecoming Lecture at Dartmouth
Ph.D. candidate Rikker Dockum delivered an invited talk at his undergraduate alma mater, Dartmouth College. His talk, titled “The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in Historical Linguistics”, deals with his work extending the traditional Comparative Method to deal with evidence from sound change in tone systems.
Jason Shaw's work featured by LabPhon
Jason has published an article in the Association for Laboratory Phonology’s journal and presented a talk at its annual meeting.
Four graduate students join PhD Program
We are excited to work with Caitlyn Antal, Marisha Evans, Randi Martinez, and Jared Sharp as they pursue their graduate studies!
Yale phonologists present in Manchester
Jason Shaw, Chris Geissler, and Samuel Andersson spoke about various topics in phonetics and phonology at the Manchester Phonology Meeting.
Exploring the genetics of speech
Chris Geissler and Kevin Zhang joined nine collaborators from Yale and other institutions to study a gene that may influence the way we perceive consonants.
Sarah Babinski and Matt Tyler speak about North American languages
The two graduate students spoke about syntax in Choctaw and prosody in Southern East Cree, respectively.
Yale linguists in Philadelphia
Results on syntax and phonology by Jim Wood, Matt Tyler, and Yiding Hao were showcased at the Penn Linguistics Conference in March.
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 at the LSA
Sixteen presentations and posters from current and former Yale faculty and students were showcased at the annual meeting of the LSA.
Claire Bowern and Rikker Dockum at ALT
Claire and Rikker showcased their results from the Pama-Nyungan Laboratory at the Association for Linguistic Typology.
Tenure-track position for Kevin Tang
Kevin has joined Zhejiang University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation.
Sarah Babinski presents at Algonquian conference
Sarah traveled to Montreal to speak about stress assignment in Southern East Cree.
Yale hosts annual student conference
Graduate students from Stony Brook University, NYU, and CUNY came to Yale University’s main campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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 accepting applications for junior phonologist
Interested candidates for a tenure-track junior position should submit an application online by December 1, 2017.
Yale linguists attend NELS
Jim Wood, Matt Barros, and Matt Tyler presented two talks and a poster.
CLAY members appear at Scandinavian venues
Results on TAG parsing and finite-state Optimality Theory were presented at TAG+, FSMNLP, and EMNLP.
Yale presents a strong showing at AMP
Yale-affiliated linguists showcased seven different presentations—more than any other university.
Three new graduate students join Yale
We are delighted to welcome Samuel Andersson, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir, and Randi Martinez to our department!
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).
Language & Brain Lab members showcase research
María Piñango, Martín Fuchs, Yao-Ying Lai, Sara Sánchez Alonso, and Andy Zhang have presented a diverse array of research projects at various venues.
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.
Honoring Stephen Anderson
The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson.
Sarah Babinski and Andy Zhang receive student fellowships
Two Yale graduate students have been awarded fellowships in recognition of their outstanding work.
Graduate students present qualifying papers
Throughout the month of April, Yale linguistics graduate students presented their qualifying papers in a series of Friday Lunch Talks.
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
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