Faculty news

McGill Linguistics alum and current PhD candidate at Western, Thea Knowles, was the lead author on a paper published in the Journal of...

Jessica Coon's article, "Building verbs in Chuj: Consequences for the nature of roots" was just published in the 2019 winter issue of Journal of...

An article by Martha Schwarz (MA alum 2017), Morgan Sonderegger, and Heather Goad has just been accepted to Journal of Phonetics: "Realization and representation...

The Handbook of Dialectology, co-edited by Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, and Dominic Watt was published by Wiley-Blackwell earlier this year.

On November 13, Bernhard gave an invited presentation “How and why: a case study in meaning”  in the Cognitive Science speaker series,x organized...

Michael is back from at talk at LINGUAE at ENS in Paris, and presenting a joint keynote at the Workshop on Prosody & Meaning and SemDial in Aix en...

Congratulations to Lisa Travis, who will be retiring at the end of this year. Last week, current and former students and colleagues gathered...

Junko Shimoyama gave a colloquium talk on Friday, Nov. 2 at the University of Ottawa, on positively biased negative polar questions in Japanese...

Morgan Sonderegger was at University of Oregon's Department of Linguistics October 25-26, where he gave a workshop entitled "Topics in fitting and using mixed-effects regression...

Junko Shimoyama gave an invited talk at the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at MIT last week (Oct. 19-21), which was preceded by a...

McGill linguists were at New Ways of Analyzing Variation, NWAV 47 last week at NYU where they gave talks and ran a workshop. Workshop:...

The paper "Examining Factors Influencing the Viability of Automatic Acoustic Analysis of Child Speech," by Thea Knowles (McGill BA 2012; now at Western...