Alex Zhai at The University of Tokyo

Supported by the Graduate Mobility Award, Alex Zhai spent the summer at The University of Tokyo. She participated in Professor Yuki Hirose and...
August 22, 2025

Kuilin Li at PaPE 2025

PhD student Kuilin Li presented a poster titled “Cue Weighting in Mandarin Sibilant Perception & Imitation by Native Mandarin Speakers & Naïve English...
August 22, 2025

LING315 Languages of the World — Final Projects

Some of the final projects from last semester's LING315: Languages of the World (taught by PhD student Willie Myers) can be seen here. In...
August 22, 2025

CLA Best Student Paper Award to McGill students

Arihwí:saks Colin Benedict (MA), Terrance Gatchalian (PhD '25), and Willie Myers (PhD) received the CLA Best Student Paper Award for their presentation called...
August 22, 2025

PhD dissertation defense, 8/5 + postdoc — Terrance Gatchalian

Congratulations to Terrance Gatchalian, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “A temporal grammar of Kanien’kéha: Aspects and consequences” on Tuesday, August 5th. Terrance...
August 22, 2025

Kamath et al. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America

A paper by PhD student Gaurav Kamath with co-authors (including faculty Siva Reddy and Morgan Sonderegger), "Semantic change in adults is not primarily...
August 21, 2025

Lipari and Sonderegger in Laboratory Phonology

A paper by PhD student Massimo Lipari and Morgan Sonderegger, "A new perspective on the development of Quebec French rhotic vowels", has been...
August 21, 2025

Student fellowship news

McLing is happy to recognize graduate students who have received prestigious fellowships over the past few months: Jeanne Brown : Bourses de doctorat...
August 21, 2025

McGill at LSA Institute 2025

PhD students Jeanne Brown Massimo Lipari attended the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute in Eugene, Oregon. Both received LSA Institute Summer...
August 21, 2025

Brown and Sonderegger in Journal of Phonetics

A paper by PhD student Jeanne Brown and Morgan Sonderegger, "A sociophonetic study of creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian...
August 21, 2025

Sama’a Salama in Dakar

PhD student Sama'a Salama spent four weeks in Dakar, Senegal conducting fieldwork on Sereer. Sama'a with four language consultants in Dakar.
August 21, 2025

Austin Kraft in Indonesia and at ICML

This summer, PhD student Austin Kraft reunited with collaborators in Indonesia. They are pictured here in Pemalang, Central Java, and Ketapang, West Kalimantan. In...
August 21, 2025