Raffaella Zanuttini at WAFL
Raffaella Zanuttini was an invited speaker at this year’s Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 14), held at MIT October 19–21.
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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.
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.
