2025 Student Awards
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year’s award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Emma Custer & Sophia FlaimLara Riente Memorial Prize: Terrance Gatchalian Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award: Kira Tess PavlidisAward for Academic Leadership: Max BlackburnAward for Department Citizenship: Ina ZengAward…
June 3, 2025
CLA at McGill
McGill is hosting the 2025 CLA conference, which will take place June 3-6th. In addition to a full program of talks and posters, this year the conference is hosting events including a special session on transcription challenges for Indigenous languages, a panel on AI tools for under-resourced languages and a full day of intensive…
May 23, 2025
Jessica Coon at TED AI
Jessica gave a talk at TED AI in San Francisco in the fall, "Lessons from linguistics for the future of AI", which was...
May 20, 2025
McGill at TOM 17
The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. McGill was well represented by PhD students Laurestine...
May 12, 2025
Alonso-Ovalle and Moghiseh in Semantics and Pragmatics
Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...
May 7, 2025
Welcome incoming new faculty member Myriam Lapierre
McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the McGill Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining...
May 6, 2025
Austin Kraft wins Best Student/Junior Scholar Abstract award at AFLA 32
PhD student Austin Kraft’s abstract, “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak questions,” has been selected as the best abstract by a student or junior scholar...
May 5, 2025
Monthly MULL: 5/8
The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, May 8 at 4PM in Rm 404 of Thomson House on the McGill Downtown campus. We will have...
May 5, 2025
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....
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...
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