Welcome incoming graduate students!

McLing is happy to welcome a new cohort of graduate students to the Department of Linguistics! Xuanda Chen is interested in phonetics, speech science...
August 24, 2020

McGill at MOTH 2020

McGill linguists attended and presented at the 2020 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax Workshop, hosted virtually by the University of Toronto, August 17-18, 2020. Madelaine...
August 24, 2020

Jiang, Clayards, and Sonderegger in Laboratory Phonology

Binger Jiang and co-authors Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger published a paper in Laboratory Phonology, titled: "Individual and dialect differences in perceiving multiple...
August 24, 2020

Two new papers from Speech Prosody conference

Two new papers by McGill Linguistics coauthors were published in the proceedings of this years Speech Prosody Conference, held May 25 to August 31, 2020....
August 24, 2020

McGill at LabPhon 17

LabPhon 17 was virtually held in Vancouver, July 6-8. There were several presentations by current and recent McGillians: Heather Goad (invited speaker) –...
August 24, 2020

McGill at SALT 30

McGill Linguistics was well represented at the recent Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30), held online from August 17–20, and hosted by Cornell University....
August 24, 2020

McGill at AFLA 27

Mathieu Paillé gave a talk at AFLA 27 called "Tucking-in and nominative-third word order." Ileana Paul (undergraduate and graduate alum) presented joint work with Diane...
August 24, 2020

Clint Parker in Glossa

Clint Parker's article, "Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement" appeared in the journal Glossa this summer, available...
August 24, 2020

McGill at SULA 2020

Current and former McGill linguists attended the 11th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA 11), hosted virtually by El Colegio de...
August 17, 2020

Tanner, Sonderegger, and Stuart-Smith in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

An article co-authored by James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger, and Jane Stuart-Smith has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of...
August 17, 2020

Congratulations Dr. James Tanner!

Congratulations to James Tanner, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Structured phonetic variation across dialects and speakers of English and Japanese". The virtual...
August 17, 2020

2019–2020 student awards

We are pleased to announce the 2019-2020 winners of our undergraduate student awards. Undergraduate award winners: Emma Gibson: Cremona Memorial Fellowship in Linguistics...
June 8, 2020