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Congratulaions to Will Johnston, who successfully defended his dissertation titled “Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong” on August 13th. Will will start a post-doc at UQAM this fall. Congratulations Will!

Congratulations to Jacob Louis Hoover, who successfully defended his dissertation titled 鈥淭he Cost of Information: Looking beyond Predictability in Language Processing鈥� on July 22. Jacob has accepted a 2-year聽NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, to work with Roger Levy in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.聽 The position starts in September, and focuses […]

Junko Shimoyama presented her joint work with Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (NTNU) and Keir Moulton (U of Toronto), 鈥淎naphoric propositional expressions: Nominalized clauses and proforms鈥�, at Keio University in Tokyo, as well as at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama. Junko also gave an outreach talk in Tokyo, to high school students at Junior & Senior High […]

不良研究所 Linguists presented work this summer in various conferences, including: Les Francais d’Ici held at University of Moncton, Shippagan, New Brunswick Jeanne Brown & Morgan Sonderegger: Une 茅tude sociophon茅tique de la voix craqu茅e en fran莽ais laurentienMassimo Lipari, Peter Milne, & Morgan Sonderegger: Les 芦 donn茅es trouv茅es 禄 et la variation phon茅tique en fran莽ais qu茅b茅cois LabPhon […]

Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer (2024) Modal Indefinites and Semantic Variation: Lessons from Chuj, Semantics and Pragmatics.

A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled 鈥淭he cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects鈥�, will appear in Language. This article is based on Connie鈥檚 second evaluation paper, supervised by Morgan and Meghan.

Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,聽 鈥淔ree Choice Items: The view from Farsi鈥�, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.

Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淧honetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts鈥�, supervised by Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger on August 6th.聽 Congratulations, Wei!

Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben’s thesis was titled “Grounding Language in Vision using Modular Probabilistic Representations鈥� supervised by Tim聽O’Donnell. He will be starting a PhD in EECS at MIT in Fall 2025. Olivia’s thesis is 鈥淎n experimental investigation of focus prosody in Akan […]

Morgan Sonderegger received a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Speech Variability, to be held 2023-2028. Congratulations Morgan!

Morgan Sonderegger co-authored a paper with聽Shahin Tavakoli聽et al., “Statistics in phonetics”聽(preprint), that has been accepted for publication in聽Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. A chapter co-authored by Morgan Sonderegger and聽James Kirby, “Actuation without production bias” (preprint), has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming book,聽Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change.