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.
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Graduate Program Webinar Held
Yale’s Linguistics Department, in conjunction with Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Office of Student Development and Diversity (OGSDD) hosted a free webinar for prospective graduate students. Students and faculty from the department discussed the admissions process, life in the department, research opportunities, and living in New Haven. The webinar was recorded and is now available for later viewing here.
Sarah Babinski and Claire Bowern publish paper in Linguistics Vanguard
Graduate Student Sarah Babinski and Professor Claire Bowern recently published a paper on mergers and contextual probability in sound change in the journal Linguistics Vanguard. The journal special issue – on predictability in shaping sound patterns in human language – was co-edited by linguistics department faculty member Jason Shaw and Shigeto Kawahara.
Prof. María Piñango gives plenary talk
Prof. Maria Piñango gave a plenary talk at a conference in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Her talk focused on ‘mismatches’ as context construal demands and described recent lab work on child language acquisition and semantic change in the Spanish copulas estar and ser.
Stephen Anderson publishes translation of René de Saussure
The translations make available some of the earliest writings on the theory of word formation.
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.
Claire Bowern receives Graduate Mentor Award
The award “honors faculty members at Convocation for their exemplary qualities as mentors.”
Language & Brain Lab members present at OSUCHiLL
María Piñango, Martín Fuchs, and Sara Sánchez-Alonso discussed their results on variation and change in Spanish with Ashwini Deo of the Ohio State University.
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 publish paper on YGDP
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, Jason Zentz, and Larry Horn’s open-access article introduces the motivation, methodology, and results of the YGDP.
Endangered Data Week at Yale
Faculty members Claire Bowern, María Piñango, and Jim Wood and PhD candidate Rikker Dockum will be holding a panel discussion on the issue of reproducibility.
Sign language courses in full swing
The ASL pilot program proves to be a resounding success as all spots in Jessica Tanner’s introductory-level course are filled.
YGDP members speak about linguistic prejudice
Raffaella Zanuttini, Jim Wood, and Jason Zentz spoke to the Center for Teaching and Learning on the pernicious effects of linguistic prejudice and ways to combat it.
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.
Raffaella Zanuttini in Geneva
At a workshop honoring Liliane Haegeman, Raffaella discussed her research on presentatives.
Jason Shaw publishes in Language and Speech
The paper investigates the effect of predictability on vowel duration in Japanese.
Sign language courses at Yale
American Sign Languages will be taught at the L1 and L2 levels during the upcoming Spring Term by Jessica Tanner.
Bob Frank in Leipzig
Bob Frank visited the University of Leipzig to attend a dissertation defense and speak about sluicing.
Kenneth Pugh receives award from NIH
The MERIT award will support Kenneth’s research on reading and reading disabilities for five to ten years.
Jason Shaw publishes in Journal of Phonetics
The article investigates the articulation of devoiced /u/ in Japanese.
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.
Yale to host SYNC in December
The 2017 Stony Brook–Yale–NYU–CUNY conference will be held at Yale’s Dunham Laboratory.
Yale linguists attend NELS
Jim Wood, Matt Barros, and Matt Tyler presented two talks and a poster.
Yale hosts Meaning in Flux workshop
Scholars from a wide range of institutions and disciplines came to Yale to discuss the cognitive foundations of variation and change in meaning.
Faculty issues statement on diversity and inclusion
The statement responds to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed against the University of Rochester.
Claire Bowern speaks at LILY Lab workshop
Claire spoke about how she applies methods from computational phylogenetics to study the history of the Pama-Nyungan languages.
Jim Wood speaks at University of Calgary
Jim presented an analysis of extended benefactives, part of the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project’s ongoing research on morphosyntactic microvariation.
Raffaella Zanuttini speaks at CUNY colloquium
Raffaella spoke about joint work with Jim Wood on the syntactic structure of presentatives.
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