Student news
Liam Rinehart ARIA presentation
Undergraduate student Liam Rinehart will present his ARIA project, "Tonal phenomena in Igala", supervised by Martina Martinović, at this year's Annual Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research...
October 3, 2023
Clint Parker dissertation defense
Congratulations to Clint Parker, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "A Grammar of the Shughni Language", last Friday, September 22nd. Congratulations Clint! Clint...
September 24, 2023
Welcome Grad Research Trainee Anne Bertrand!
McLing is happy to welcome Anne Bertrand to the Linguistics Department. Anne is a UBC graduate student finishing up her dissertation, and will...
September 15, 2023
Jacob Hoover to MIT
Jacob Hoover will be spending the Fall 2023 semester as a visiting student at MIT in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab working with Prof Roger Levy....
September 11, 2023
2023 MA picture-moving ceremony
Congratulations to Claire Henderson and David Shanks, who successfully completed their MA theses this year and will be graduating in October. The occasion...
September 8, 2023
Welcome new MA student Kanontienéntha’ Brass
McLing is happy to welcome Kanontienéntha' Brass to the Ad Hoc MA program in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Kanontienéntha' completed her BA in CogSci...
September 7, 2023
Welcome incoming graduate students
McLing is pleased to welcome this year's incoming group of graduate students! George Bennett (he/him) is primarily interested in syntax, morphology and prosody,...
August 27, 2023
Fieldwork in Senegal
Martina Martinović and Brandon Chaperon spent 5 weeks in Senegal conducting fieldwork on Wolof. Here they are in St. Louis with two language...
June 11, 2023
2023 Student Awards
We are very happy to announce this year’s student awards recipients. Cremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Jasper Jian Lara Riente Memorial Prize: Michaela...
June 11, 2023
Willie Myers Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Finalist
Congrats to PhD student Willie Myers, who was selected as one of the 30 finalists for the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship. Here's the announcement....
June 11, 2023
Summer Conferences II
The 20th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023) will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 7th - 13th. The research...
June 4, 2023
McGill linguists @ CLA 2023
McGill linguists presented work at this year's meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), held at York University May 31–June 3rd as part...
June 2, 2023