Faculty news

Meghan Clayards and Michael Wagner (Co-Applicants) were awarded a 4-year SSHRC Insight Grant ($240,750): "Breaking into the Acoustic Stream: The role of allophonic...

Emily Elfner and Michael Wagner (Co-Applicants) were awarded a 1-year Connection Grant ($14,610) for the upcoming conference "Exploring the Interfaces 3:  Prosody and...

A new study in Neurolinguistics–"Phonetic Feature Encoding in Human Superior Temporal Gyrus"–is featured as the lead article in this week's Science Magazine (library link: http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca/content/343/6174/1006)....

A research collaboration among Alan Bale (Concordia University), Jessica Coon (McGill) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard University) was among the 14 Digging Into Data Challenge winners this year. The COULD...

Professor Emeritus Glyne Piggott just gave and invited talk, "Words as the exponents of complex syntactic heads: evidence from minimality" at the workshop on Theoretical...

Michael Wagner is giving an invited talk today at a workshop called 'Focus Sensitive Expressions from a Cross Linguistic Perspective', organized by Yael Greenberg...

Yosef Grodzinsky and Bernhard Schwarz were in Cambridge Massachusetts this past weekend for the McGill–MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and...

Alan Bale (Concordia) and Jessica Coon's paper "Classifiers are for numerals not for nouns: Consequences for the mass-count distinction" has been accepted for...

Heather Goad returned last week from the Second Language Research Forum in Utah where she was an invited panelist in a colloquium on...

Lisa Travis was just in Leiden for the Little v Workshop, for which she was a keynote speaker. The title of her talk is...

Lydia White hast just returned from presenting joint work with McGill alumna Roumyana Slabakova (Iowa) at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification at the...

Michael Wagner returned from giving an invited colloquium talk at MIT this past Friday. The title of his talk was "Additivity and the...