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William Johnston gave a colloquium talk on Friday, November 11, at the University of Minnesota. The talk was titled: “The verb phrase in...

MULL Lab will meet in its regular time this coming week -- Oct. 18 at 3:30PM in room 002. Additionally, we will be having an in-person...

Six current McGill Linguistics students received prestigious SSHRC and FRQSC fellowship this summer, lasting 1-3 years: Canada Graduate Scholarship -- Doctoral: Terrance Gatchalian FRQSC Bourse...

James Tanner (PhD '20), Morgan Sonderegger and Jane Stuart-Smith presented "Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects" at the SIGMORPHON 2022 workshop at NAACL 2022, which won the workshop's Best...

LabPhon 18 was held virtually June 22-25.  There were several presentations by department members: Gwen Brekelmans, Nadine Lavan, Haruka Saito, Meghan Clayards and Elizabeth Wonnacott --...

Former MCQLL MA student (2021), Emily Goodwin traveled to ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland to present her paper Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing,...

The proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28), co-hosted by McGill University and National University of...

Congratulations to Gouming Martens, who defended his dissertation "What about those B-accents and hat patterns? Form and meaning of contrastive topics in English,...

McLing is happy to welcome our new incoming cohort of graduate students! Jeanne Brown: Jeanne Brown is interested in language variation and change,...

MA student David Shanks traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to conduct fieldwork with speakers of Dän k'è' (Southern Tutchone, Dene/Athabaskan) in June. Over two weeks, David...

Congratulations to Mathieu Paillé, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Strengthening Predicates" August 3rd, supervised by Bernhard Schwarz and Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Mathieu will be...

Congratulations to Justin Royer, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Elements of (in)definteness and binding: A Mayan perspective", supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Jessica Coon,...