Eurosla 31 update

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...
August 29, 2022

Faculty grants news

McLing is happy to report on some new research grants awarded to department faculty members over the past year: Charles Boberg was awarded...
August 22, 2022

Hirsch and Schwarz at “New trends in semantics” workshop

On June 16, Aron Hirsch (postdoc 2017-19) and Bernhard Schwarz jointly gave an invited talk at the workshop “New trends in semantics”, held...
August 22, 2022

David Shanks to Whitehorse

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...
August 22, 2022

White, Goad, Garcia, Guzzo, Smeets, and Su at EuroSLA and GASLA

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...
August 22, 2022

Li and Goad in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

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...
August 22, 2022

James Crippen in Linguistics Vanguard

James Crippen has a new article coauthored with Amanda Cardoso and Gloria Mellesmoen, both at the University of British Columbia. The article, published...
August 22, 2022

Coon and Martinović at Workshop on Copular Sentences

Jessica Coon and Martina Martinović each presented work at the Workshop on Copular Sentences Across Languages, held in Paris in June. Jessica's talk was "Agreement...
August 22, 2022

McGill @ CLA 2022

McGill linguists presented at this year's Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) annual meeting, held virtually June 1st–4th. Presenters included: Terrance Gatchalian – The composition...
June 6, 2022

McGill at GASLA 16

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, (PhD '17) Natália Guzzo, (Post-doc '18–'19) Liz Smeets (PhD '19) and Jiajia Su (PhD '19) presented a paper at Generative Approaches to...
May 27, 2022

McGill at New Sounds 2022

McGill linguists of past and present gave talks at New Sounds 2022 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, which...
April 25, 2022

Mokha and Goad at (F)ASAL 12

Avleen Mokha (BAhon 2020) and Heather Goad presented a talk titled "A structured approach to obstruent+approximant+vowel strings in Hindi" at the virtual (Formal) Approaches to South Asian...
April 25, 2022