Faculty news

McGill linguists were involved in a group presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), which took place virtually...

Congratulations to Bernard Schwarz, whose article “Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)” has just been published in Natural Language &...

A new paper co-authored by Esmail Moghiseh, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael Wagner has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society...

Jessica gave colloquium talks at UCSD and NYU last week. The title of the talk was "Agreement restrictions through feature gluttony", the abstract...

McGill linguists of past and present were in Göttingen, Germany for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 53), held...

McGill linguists presented work at Sinn und Bedeutung 27, hosted September 14–16th at Charles University in Prague. Recent post-doc Alexander Göbel and Michael...

Professor James A. Crippen presented a talk titled Ḵaachx̱an.áakʼw X̱ʼéidáx̱: Some Dialect Features Of Wrangell Tlingit, detailing some distinctive dialect features of the undocumented...

James Tanner (PhD '20), Morgan Sonderegger and Jane Stuart-Smith presented "Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects" at the SIGMORPHON 2022 workshop at NAACL 2022, which won the workshop's Best...

LabPhon 18 was held virtually June 22-25.  There were several presentations by department members: Gwen Brekelmans, Nadine Lavan, Haruka Saito, Meghan Clayards and Elizabeth Wonnacott --...

Former MCQLL MA student (2021), Emily Goodwin traveled to ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland to present her paper Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing,...

Congrats to Martina Martinović, who received an FRQSC grant and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to continue her work on the Volta-Niger language Igala.

Jeff Lamontagne (PhD 2020) and Heather Goad's article "Weight sensitivity and prominence in Laurentian French" will appear in the journal Glossa. The full abstract appears...