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.
Phonology
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
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.
NACLO at Yale 2017
Tomorrow, 51 students from local middle and high schools will arrive at Yale to compete in the Open Round of the 2017 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
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.
Naming initiative update
Our honorees include Catherine Browman, Fidelia Fielding, Mary Haas (PhD ’35), Osvaldo Jaeggli (BA ’76), Edward Sapir, and Kay Williamson (PhD ’64).
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.
Yale linguists present at NELS 47
Tomorrow, lecturer Hadas Kotek is giving a talk, undergraduate alumna Maria Kouneli is presenting a paper, and former faculty member Gaja Jarosz is delivering a plenary talk.
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