McGillians at GALA 17

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 17), at the Université de...
September 23, 2025

Alessio Tosolini at SIGTYP 2025

Alessio Tosolini presented a poster at the Special Interest Group on Typology at the Association for Computational Linguistics in Vienna titled "Analyzing the Linguistic Priors...
August 29, 2025

Ada Tur and Gaurav Kamath at NAACL 2025

Ada Tur (CS + Linguistics McGill undergraduate) and Gaurav Kamath presented their work entitled "Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences" at...
August 22, 2025

Brendan Gillon research travel to Japan, China, and England

Brendan Gillon travelled to Japan for the last two weeks of April. He made three stops there: first in Tachikawa, a satellite city...
August 22, 2025

Kuilin Li at PaPE 2025

PhD student Kuilin Li presented a poster titled “Cue Weighting in Mandarin Sibilant Perception & Imitation by Native Mandarin Speakers & Naïve English...
August 22, 2025

CLA Best Student Paper Award to McGill students

Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict (MA), Terrance Gatchalian (PhD '25), and Willie Myers (PhD) received the CLA Best Student Paper Award for their presentation called...
August 22, 2025

Austin Kraft in Indonesia and at ICML

This summer, PhD student Austin Kraft reunited with collaborators in Indonesia. They are pictured here in Pemalang, Central Java, and Ketapang, West Kalimantan. In...
August 21, 2025

Laurestine Bradford at SCiL

PhD student Laurestine Bradford presented a poster titled “Aspectual classes as lexically-conditioned predictors of aspectual choice” at the SCiL (Society for Computation in Linguistics)...
August 21, 2025

McGillians at EUROSLA

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 34), at the Arctic...
August 11, 2025

Austin Kraft at AFLA 32

PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year's 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took...
June 9, 2025

McGill hosts CLA 2025

The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people,...
June 6, 2025

McGill presentations at CLA 2025

Current McGill affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year's Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2–6 at...
June 6, 2025