Student news

PhD student Laurestine Bradford and Dzéiwsh James Crippen travelled to Teslin, Yukon (Tlingit: Deisleen [tèːslìːn]) for two weeks in July. They worked with fluent...

Michaela Socolof successfully defended her dissertation "Partial compositionality" on July 23. In September she will be starting a 2-year NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research...

Congratulaions to Will Johnston, who successfully defended his dissertation titled "Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong" on August 13th. Will with supervisors...

Congratulations to Jacob Louis Hoover, who successfully defended his dissertation titled “The Cost of Information: Looking beyond Predictability in Language Processing” on July...

McGill Linguists presented work this summer in various conferences, including: Les Francais d'Ici held at University of Moncton, Shippagan, New Brunswick Jeanne Brown...

A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled “The cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0...

Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,  “Free Choice Items: The view from Farsi”, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.

Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts”, supervised by Meghan Clayards and...

Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben's thesis was titled "Grounding Language in...

PhD students Terrance Gatchalian and Jonathan Palucci presented at the 34th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 34), held May 28–30th 2024...

The 2024 Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 16) took place this past weekend at the University of Toronto. Presentations and posters by current McGill...

McGill linguists presented work at the Acoustic Society of America Meeting (ASA) in Ottawa from May 13 to 17th. Wei Zhang: Duration Imitation...