Faculty news

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...

The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people,...

As part of ongoing collaborations with students and teachers in the immersion program at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC),...

Current McGill affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year's Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2–6 at...

Jessica gave a talk at TED AI in San Francisco in the fall, "Lessons from linguistics for the future of AI", which was...

Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...

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....