SSHRC Insight Grants Awarded

SSHRC recently released the official announcement of this year's Insight Grants competition, and two McGill linguists were successful. Jessica Coon received funding for her...
November 27, 2017

Bang et al. in Journal of Phonetics

A paper by Hye-Young Bang and co-authors (Morgan Sonderegger, Yoonjung Kang, Meghan Clayards, Taejin Yoon), "The emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in...
November 6, 2017

McGill at NELS

A sizeable contingent of McGill related linguistics attended the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 48) this past weekend....
October 30, 2017

McGill at CILLA

Justin Royer and Jessica Coon headed to the University of Texas at Austin last week for the 8th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin...
October 30, 2017

McGill at AMP 2017

McGill Linguists past and present presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology last month at NYU: Jeffrey Lamontagne, Heather Goad & Morgan...
October 9, 2017

Paulina Elias at SEURA symposium

Linguistics undergrad Paulina Elias was one of the first SEURA (Social Equity Undergraduate Research Award) recipients during this award’s first year at McGill. Paulina’s research...
October 9, 2017

McGill at MIT Workshop on Simplicity

McGill linguists presented at the MIT Workshop on Simplicity in Grammar Learning on Sep 23: Richard Futrell and Tim O'Donnell: "A generative model of phonotactics"...
October 2, 2017

McGill Ling at Montreal AI Symposium

McGill linguists past and present presented at the Montreal AI Symposium on Sep 26: Chris Bruno, Eva Portelance (BHons '17), Tim O’Donnell: "Unsupervised...
October 2, 2017

McGill at Manitoba Workshop on Person

McGill linguists presented last week at the Manitoba Workshop on Person in Winnipeg. Jessica Coon and Michael Wagner presented joint work with Stefan Keine (USC),...
September 25, 2017

Sonderegger, Bane, Graff in Language

A paper by Morgan Sonderegger, Max Bane, and Peter Graff, "The medium-term dynamics of accents on reality television", has been published in the...
September 25, 2017

McLing summer news

What did McGill linguists do this summer? Some answers can be found below. If you didn’t get your post in on time, email...
September 11, 2017

Welcome new lecturer Nico Baier!

McLing would like to welcome Nico Baier, who is joining the department this year as a Faculty Lecturer. Welcome, Nico! Nico is just...
September 11, 2017