Faculty news

McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the McGill Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining...

McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....

A new paper by Morgan Sonderegger and Márton Sóskuthy (UBC) titled "Advancements of Phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis" has just...

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...

Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for...

An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!

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,...

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...

The 49th Penn Linguistics Conference took place April 5–6 at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica Coon gave a keynote titled "Invisible inanimates and...

Jessica Coon's paper, "Embedding, extraction, and clausal pied-piping in Ch'ol", with collaborator Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) was just published in Glossa, available...

Congratulations to Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who presented the results of the summer 2024 Arts Research Internship Awards last week at the...

Doucette, A., O'Donnell, T. J., Sonderegger, M. & Goad, H., (2024) “Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions”, Glossa: a journal of...