Publications

A paper by Michaela Socolof (PhD '24), Timothy O'Donnell, and Michael Wagner, "The idiom processing advantage is explained by surprisal," recently appeared in...

A paper by PhD student Gaurav Kamath with co-authors (including faculty Siva Reddy and Morgan Sonderegger), "Semantic change in adults is not primarily...

A paper by PhD student Massimo Lipari and Morgan Sonderegger, "A new perspective on the development of Quebec French rhotic vowels", has been...

A paper by PhD student Jeanne Brown and Morgan Sonderegger, "A sociophonetic study of creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian...

Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...

A new paper by Morgan Sonderegger and Márton Sóskuthy (UBC) titled "Advancements of Phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis" has just...

Two JournalLing (the McGill linguistics undergraduate journal) volumes, the 2023-2024 edition (Volume 3) and the 2024-2025 edition (Volume 4), were released this past...

Jessica Coon's paper, "Embedding, extraction, and clausal pied-piping in Ch'ol", with collaborator Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) was just published in Glossa, available...

Willie Myers's paper "The form and force of Kirundi exclamatives" was just published online in Linguistic Variation (and will be in an upcoming print...

Doucette, A., O'Donnell, T. J., Sonderegger, M. & Goad, H., (2024) “Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions”, Glossa: a journal of...

Gui Garcia (PhD 2017) and Heather Goad's paper Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese was just published in Laboratory...

A new article by Martina Martinović was published online in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-023-09605-1) Title: Exhaustive control as movement: The case...