SSHRC Insight Grant to Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner (PI) and Duane Watson (Vanderbilt University, collaborator) were awarded a new SSHRC Insight Grant. The project is titled 'The incremental mind: Prosody as...
August 24, 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

McGill at LabPhon 17

LabPhon 17 was virtually held in Vancouver, July 6-8. There were several presentations by current and recent McGillians: Heather Goad (invited speaker) –...
August 24, 2020

McGill at SULA 2020

Current and former McGill linguists attended the 11th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 11), hosted virtually by El Colegio de...
August 17, 2020

Tanner, Sonderegger, and Stuart-Smith in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

An article co-authored by James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger, and Jane Stuart-Smith has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of...
August 17, 2020

Goad, Guzzo, and White in Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Heather Goad, Natália Guzzo and Lydia White’s paper, "Parsing Ambiguous Relative Clauses in L2 English: Learner Sensitivity to Prosodic Cues" has been accepted for publication in...
June 8, 2020

Tanner, Sonderegger, Stuart-Smith, and Fruehwald in “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence”

A new paper by James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), and Josef Fruehwald (Kentucky), entitled “Toward ‘English’ phonetics: variability in pre-consonantal voicing...
June 1, 2020

Kilbourn-Ceroun, Clayards, and Wagner in Laboratory Phonology

Congratulations to coauthors Oriana Kilbourn-Ceroun (PhD '17), Meghan Clayards, and Michael Wagner, who have just had their paper "Predictability modulates pronunciation variants through speech planning effects:...
April 27, 2020

Sonderegger, Stuart-Smith, Knowles, Macdonald, and Rathcke in Language

"Structured heterogeneity in Scottish stops over the twentieth century", a paper by Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, Thea Knowles (McGill BA 2012, Asst Prof at U. Buffalo),...
April 27, 2020

Coon and Keine to appear in Linguistic Inquiry

McLing is happy to report that Jessica Coon and Stefan Keine's paper "Feature Gluttony" has been accepted for publication in the journal Linguistic Inquiry....
April 20, 2020

Michael Wagner in Snippets

A new paper by Michael Wagner was recently published in the journal Snippets. The full citation and link are: Wagner, Michael (2019). Disjuncts must be...
March 16, 2020

Morgan Sonderegger and James Tanner at SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop

Morgan Sonderegger and James Tanner traveled to Glasgow to give two talks at the SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop, held at the University of Glasgow 20-21st February:  Morgan...
March 2, 2020