Welcome new GRT Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida
Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida is a PhD student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil, whose research focuses on the phonetic and phonological aspects of Apurinã, an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil. Her work involves collaborative language research and documentation, developed through nearly a decade of collaboration with the…
September 6, 2026
Fall 2026 MULL meetings
The Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is happy to announce meetings for this term. MULL-Lab is a group of linguists at universities in Montréal who work on underdocumented languages. We convene once a month, and meetings are open to anyone interested.The scheduled dates and locations for this semester’s meetings are: Fri,…
September 6, 2026
Summer fieldwork
Myriam Lapierre and UW graduate students Sunny Ananthanarayan and Jessa Jeter spent four weeks conducting fieldwork with the Panãra community in Brazil this...
September 6, 2026
Tewarihwí:saks workshops
McGill Linguistics affiliates partnered with the grassroots Kanien'kéha language group Ionkwahrhonkha'onhátie' to present three workshops in Akwesasne this summer. The first was on...
August 30, 2026
Welcome incoming graduate students!
Ziru Chen (she/her) is interested in phonetics and laboratory phonology, particularly topics in speech production and perception. She is from Zhejiang, China. She...
August 30, 2026
2026/2027 Linguistics Colloquium Schedule
This year's colloquium speaker line-up is... October 2nd – Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM) November 6th – Maria Gouskova (NYU) January 15th – Jason Shaw...
August 30, 2026
Myers and Chaperon in ACAL conference volume
Willie Myers and Brandon Chaperon (MA '25) both have papers published in the new volume 'Pamoja tena' Together again: African linguistics after COVID, a...
August 30, 2026
LabPhon 20 in Montreal
June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference's 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More...
August 23, 2026
McGill @ Linguistics summer schools
Edward Flemming (MIT) and Michael Wagner co-taught a class on Prosody at the The 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics in Rethymno, Crete, July 18–31. Jessica Coon taught a...
August 23, 2026
Alex Zhai to U Manitoba
Alex Zhai has accepted a two-year instructor position at the University of Manitoba –– congratulations Alex!
August 23, 2026
Summer dissertation defenses
McGill linguists had a number of successful PhD defenses this summer. These included: Alex Zhai, 7/28 – "Are Some Listeners More Lexical Than...
August 23, 2026
