Student news
Royer & Coon and Myers in Language and Linguistics Compass
Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD...
October 15, 2025
McGillians at Sinn und Bedeutung 30
The program of Sinn und Bedeutug 30, held at Goethe University, Frankfurt, features several McGillians, listed below for your information: Austin Kraft: "Two...
September 27, 2025
Collaborative Kanien’kéha summer projects
This summer, several McGill students and professors organized workshops in collaboration with Kanien’kehá:ka organizations Ionkwahronka’onhátie and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC). On June 12th, 19th,...
August 29, 2025
Alessio Tosolini at SIGTYP 2025
Alessio Tosolini presented a poster at the Special Interest Group on Typology at the Association for Computational Linguistics in Vienna titled "Analyzing the Linguistic Priors...
August 29, 2025
Welcome incoming graduate students!
McLing is pleased to welcome this year's incoming group of graduate students! (In no particular order!) Emma Custer Emma Custer (she/her) is passionate about...
August 25, 2025
Ada Tur and Gaurav Kamath at NAACL 2025
Ada Tur (CS + Linguistics McGill undergraduate) and Gaurav Kamath presented their work entitled "Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences" at...
August 22, 2025
PhD dissertation defense, 8/5 — Xuanda Chen
Congratulations to Xuanda Chen, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Linguistic Experience and the Representation of Phonological Features: Perception, Processing, and Second Language Acquisition,”...
August 22, 2025
PhD dissertation defense, 8/8 — Connie Ting
On August 8th, Connie Ting successfully defended her dissertation, “Investigating Cross-linguistic Patterns of Intrinsic F0 Effects in Production and Perception.” Congratulations, Connie! Connie...
August 22, 2025
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
