Student news

Ziru Chen (she/her) is interested in phonetics and laboratory phonology, particularly topics in speech production and perception. She is from Zhejiang, China. She...

Willie Myers and Brandon Chaperon (MA '25) both have papers published in the new volume 'Pamoja tena' Together again: African linguistics after COVID, a...

June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference's 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More...

Alex Zhai has accepted a two-year instructor position at the University of Manitoba –– congratulations Alex!

McGill linguists had a number of successful PhD defenses this summer. These included: Alex Zhai, 7/28 – "Are Some Listeners More Lexical Than...

Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of...

McGillians attended the 18th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop on May 22nd at l'Université de Montréal. Talks included: Derived Object Predication: A new Type-Shifting Operation for...

McGill linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages...

Laurestine Bradford presented a talk about Tlingit progressive aspect at the conference on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (NAMED) at the Université...

Belated congratulations to Irene Smith, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Gradience in English pre-nasal allophony," on September 12! Picture-moving ceremony Irene with supervisor...

Congratulations to Amanda Doucette, who successfully defended their dissertation, “Compensation and causation in the lexicon,” on October 24! Picture-moving ceremony Amanda with supervisor...

McGillians presented at the 56th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, NELS 56, held this past weekend at NYU. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included:...