McGill @ WCCFL 43
McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included: A'-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed: Jasper Jian & Martina Martinović Bleeding Condition C in Kanien'kéha: Chase Boles McGill linguists of past…
April 28, 2025
Sonderegger & Sóskuthy in Journal of Phonetics
A new paper by Morgan Sonderegger and Márton Sóskuthy (UBC) titled "Advancements of Phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis" has just been accepted to the Journal of Phonetics. A preprint is available here. Abstract: Phonetic research in the 21st century has relied heavily on quantitative analysis. This article…
April 21, 2025
Tur, Kamath, & Reddy selected to win a SAC award at NAACL 2025
Congratulations to Ada Tur, Gaurav Kamath and Siva Reddy! Their paper, ‘Language models largely exhibit human-like constituent ordering preferences’, was selected to win a...
April 21, 2025
Wei Zhang to School of Foreign Studies
Wei Zhang (PhD, 2024) has received an Assistant Professor position at the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University. Congratulations, Wei!
April 18, 2025
Jessica and Morgan at CRBLM movie night
Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for...
April 16, 2025
James Crippen interview with KSTK
An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!
April 15, 2025
MULL Lab news
After a bit of a pause, meetings of the Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics (MULL) Lab are back! Starting with a special kick-off event in May,...
April 15, 2025
JournalLing Vol 3 and Vol 4
Two JournalLing (the McGill linguistics undergraduate journal) volumes, the 2023-2024 edition (Volume 3) and the 2024-2025 edition (Volume 4), were released this past...
April 15, 2025
Syntax-Semantics Group, 4/14 — James Crippen
The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, April 14 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. This meeting is the...
April 13, 2025
McGill @ MOTH 2025
The Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH) was be held on April 7 and 8, 2025 at the University of Toronto. Presentations by McGill students,...
April 9, 2025
McGill @ [motʰ] 2025
This year’s Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop ([motʰ] 2025) was held at the University of Toronto on April 4 and 5. Presentations by McGill students...
April 7, 2025