Honoring Stephen Anderson
The Department of Linguistics recently held a symposium celebrating the retirement of Professor Emeritus Steve Anderson.
Phonology
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.”
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.
