Faculty news

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...

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...