Faculty news
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
Jessica and Morgan at CRBLM movie night
Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for...
April 16, 2025
James Crippen interview with KSTK
An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!
April 15, 2025
McGill @ MOTH 2025
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,...
April 9, 2025
McGill @ [motʰ] 2025
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...
April 7, 2025
McGill at PLC 49
The 49th Penn Linguistics Conference took place April 5–6 at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica Coon gave a keynote titled "Invisible inanimates and...
April 7, 2025
Coon & Vázquez Álvarez in Glossa
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...
March 15, 2025
2024 ARIA poster presentations
Congratulations to Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who presented the results of the summer 2024 Arts Research Internship Awards last week at the...
October 15, 2024
Doucette et al. in Glossa
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...
October 13, 2024
McGill Obviation Workshop
McGill Linguistics hosted Understanding obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective October 4–6th, organized by Anne Bertrand and Jessica Coon. Slides and handouts from the talks...
October 7, 2024