Student news
Andrei Munteanu et al. in Romania
Andrei Munteanu presented the results of a project conducted by last year's LING 630 class at the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied...
September 23, 2024
McGill @ Interspeech 2024
Irene Smith and James Tanner (PhD 2020) presented at Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, in Kos, Greece. The titles of the talks are below....
September 16, 2024
Brandon Chaperon @ SNAG 2024
Last week, Brandon Chaperon presented work-in-progress titled "Irrealis mood enclosed negation in Igala" at the SNAG 2024 workshop, held September 5-6 by the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle...
September 9, 2024
Summer fieldwork travel 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...
September 1, 2024
Michaela Socolof dissertation defence + post-doc
Michaela Socolof successfully defended her dissertation "Partial compositionality" on July 23. In September she will be starting a 2-year NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research...
August 24, 2024
Will Johnston dissertation defence + post-doc
Congratulaions to Will Johnston, who successfully defended his dissertation titled "Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong" on August 13th. Will with supervisors...
August 24, 2024
Jacob Hoover dissertation defence + post-doc
Congratulations to Jacob Louis Hoover, who successfully defended his dissertation titled “The Cost of Information: Looking beyond Predictability in Language Processing” on July...
August 24, 2024
Summer Conferences
McGill Linguists presented work this summer in various conferences, including: Les Francais d'Ici held at University of Moncton, Shippagan, New Brunswick Jeanne Brown...
August 24, 2024
Ting et al. in Language
A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled “The cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0...
August 24, 2024
Esmail Moghiseh dissertation defence
Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation, “Free Choice Items: The view from Farsi”, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.
August 24, 2024
Wei Zhang dissertation defence
Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts”, supervised by Meghan Clayards and...
August 24, 2024
Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong MA thesis defences
Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben's thesis was titled "Grounding Language in...
August 24, 2024