Faculty news

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...

As reported in a recent post, Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia (PhD 2017), Natália Guzzo (post-doc 2016-2019), Liz Smeets (PhD 2020) and Jiajia Su (PhD 2019) presented a paper ('Effects of stress on...

McLing is happy to report on some new research grants awarded to department faculty members over the past year: Charles Boberg was awarded...

On June 16, Aron Hirsch (postdoc 2017-19) and Bernhard Schwarz jointly gave an invited talk at the workshop “New trends in semantics”, held...

MA student David Shanks traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to conduct fieldwork with speakers of Dän k'è' (Southern Tutchone, Dene/Athabaskan) in June. Over two weeks, David...

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia (PhD 2017), Natália Guzzo (post-doc 2016-2019), Liz Smeets (PhD 2020) and Jiajia Su (PhD 2019) presented two collaborative papers...

Ying Li (post-doc 2018-2020) and Heather Goad's paper, "Naïve English-speaking learners’ use of indirect positive evidence: The case of Mandarin plural marking" appeared in Linguistic Approaches...

James Crippen has a new article coauthored with Amanda Cardoso and Gloria Mellesmoen, both at the University of British Columbia. The article, published...