Faculty news

McGillians presented at the 56th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, NELS 56, held this past weekend at NYU. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included:...

Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD...

Jessica Coon spent the first few weeks of the semester in Chiapas, Mexico working with Ch’ol speakers and local collaborators on a project on...

Michael Wagner presented two talks, "Prosodic focus and syntactic alternative projection" on October 2 at the Universität Wien and "The Iambic-Trochaic Law Revisited"...

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...

This summer, several McGill students and professors organized workshops in collaboration with Kanien’kehá:ka organizations Ionkwahronka’onhátie and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC). On June 12th, 19th,...

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

A paper by Michaela Socolof (PhD '24), Timothy O'Donnell, and Michael Wagner, "The idiom processing advantage is explained by surprisal," recently appeared in...

A paper by PhD student Gaurav Kamath with co-authors (including faculty Siva Reddy and Morgan Sonderegger), "Semantic change in adults is not primarily...

A paper by PhD student Massimo Lipari and Morgan Sonderegger, "A new perspective on the development of Quebec French rhotic vowels", has been...

PhD students Jeanne Brown Massimo Lipari attended the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute in Eugene, Oregon. Both received LSA Institute Summer...

A paper by PhD student Jeanne Brown and Morgan Sonderegger, "A sociophonetic study of creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian...