FestEval 2020

This year's annual FestEval took place via Zoom. Masashi Harada, Jacob Hoover, Will Johnston, Esmail Moghiseh, Matthieu Paillé, Justin Royer, and Michaela Socolof all...
September 21, 2020

Dissertation defense, Henrison Hsieh – 9/4

Our graduate student Henrison Hsieh is defending his PhD thesis online at 10 am this Friday, September 4, 2020. His thesis title is:...
August 31, 2020

Beginning-of-year welcome Zoom

This year, the annual beginning-of-year Linguistics pizza+introductions gathering was replaced with... a Zoom meeting and break-out sessions. Students, faculty, postdocs, and staff paused...
August 31, 2020

McGill at SALT 30

McGill Linguistics was well represented at the recent Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30), held online from August 17–20, and hosted by Cornell University....
August 24, 2020

2020/2021 Linguistics Colloquium Series

Here is our colloquium schedule for the upcoming academic year. As always, talks will take place Fridays at 3:30 (room/Zoom url TBA). Mark...
June 25, 2020

Colloquium, 2/28 — Andrés Salanova

We are pleased to announce that the next talk in our 2019-20 McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be by Andrés Salanova (University of Ottawa) on Friday, February 28 at...
February 24, 2020

MCQLL Meeting, 10/16 — Michaela Socolof

This week at MCQLL, Michaela Socolof will lead a discussion on the paper "A noisy-channel model of rational human sentence comprehension under uncertain...
October 15, 2019

P* Reading Group, 10/7 — Wei Zhang

Wei will lead a discussion of Baeser-Berk & Morrill's (2019) "Perceptual consequences of variability in native and non-native speech", on Monday (Oct. 7)...
October 7, 2019

MCQLL, 10/9 — Siva Reddy

At the meeting of MCQLL this week, Siva Reddy will discuss ongoing work on Measuring Stereotypical Bias in Pretrained Neural Network Models of...
October 7, 2019

Fieldwork Lab Meeting, 10/11

The first meeting for the Fieldwork Reading Group is Friday, Oct 11th at 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m. in DS-3470 at UQAM. All interested parties are welcome...
October 7, 2019

Syntax/Semantics Reading Group, 9/30 — Will Johnston

The next syntax-semantics reading group meeting will take place Monday (09/30) at 14:30 in room 002. Will will be presenting work in progress...
September 30, 2019

P* Group, 9/30

This week, Michael will lead a discussion of Turnbull et al's (2018) Nasal place assimilation trades off inferrability of both target and trigger...
September 30, 2019