Faculty news

Jessica was at the University of Calgary last week where she gave a colloquium talk, "Feature Gluttony and the Syntax of Hierarchy Effects"...

McGill Linguists, past and present, attended Sinn und Bedeutung 23, hosted by the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on September 5-7, 2018. Presentations included: Luis...

McGill linguists did a lot of linguistics this summer! Here is a selection of summer news: In early July, Amelia Bruno and Eva...

The department hosted a reunion of some of Lydia White’s students at Thomson House, August 31st-September 1st. Lydia officially retired August 31st but will still continue...

Two faculty have been awarded NSERC Discovery grants for 2018-2023: Tim O'Donnell: "Towards Robust Unsupervised Language Learning" Michael Wagner:  "Three dimensions of sentence...

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Linguistics will be hosting the Symposium on Second Language Acquisition in Honour of Lydia White,...

Meghan Clayards gave a colloquium talk at UMass Amherst Linguistics on April 18, entitled "Flexibility and individual differences in speech perception".  

McGill linguists past and present gathered at UCLA this past weekend to present their research at the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal...

Meghan Clayards' Phonetica paper, "Individual Talker and Token Covariation in the Production of Multiple Cues to Stop Voicing" (December 2017), has been selected...

Morgan Sonderegger gave a colloquium talk at Boston University on April 30, entitled "Towards large(r) scale cross-linguistic study of speech: case studies of segmental...

Daniel Goodhue's paper "Must p is felicitous only if p is not known" has recently been published in Semantics & Pragmatics. Daniel Goodhue...

Jessica Coon received a National Geographic Explorers Grant to fund research and documentation on Ch'ol (Mayan) during her time in Mexico this year....