Claire Bowern receives Graduate Mentor Award
The award “honors faculty members at Convocation for their exemplary qualities as mentors.”
Faculty
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.
Laurence Horn publishes autobiographical article
The article reflects on Larry’s career by recounting stories of the words he has coined.
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.
Yao-Ying Lai and Maria Piñango win JCHAT award
The award is given to the best paper presented at the annual conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences.
Jim Wood publishes two papers on Icelandic
Assistant Professor Jim Wood published a paper in the journal Syntax and co-authored a chapter in the book Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian.
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.
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