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Sonderegger and Keshet (2012) on automatic phonetic measurement

A new paper co-authored by Morgan Sonderegger has appeared.  Congratulations! Sonderegger, Morgan and Joseph Keshet. “Automatic discriminative measurement of voice onset time using discriminative...

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Coon, Little, and McClay present at ICLDC 3

Jessica Coon, Carol Little, and Elise McClay traveled to Honolulu to present collaborative work on Mi’gmaq at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 3) at...

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Jessica Coon’s article in Language and Linguistics Compass

Jessica Coon’s two-part article entitled “TAM Split Ergativity” has just appeared in the March issue of the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. Congratulations Jessica!

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FQRSC grant news

Jessica Coon has been awarded a three-year FQRSC (Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs) grant. The title of her project is “Personne et nombre dans les langues Mi’gmaq et Kaqchikel:...

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Joyce Xiao receives Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Award

Current U1 BA student Joyce Xiao just received an Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Award (ARIA). Joyce will spend her summer working with Professor Jessica Coon on verbal morphology in Chuj...

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Heather Goad returns from Newfoundland

Heather Goad just returned from giving two colloquia talks at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her talks were titled “A cross-linguistic examination of the unusual behaviour of s” and “Children’s...

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Mina Sugimura accepts position in Kyoto

Recent McGill PhD, Mina Sugimura, has recently begun a position as assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Kyoto Notre Dame University. Congratulations Mina!  

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Lisa Travis returns from Madagascar

Lisa Travis returned last week from three weeks of fieldwork and teaching in Madagascar. Lisa reports on 21 days, three cities (Diego, Mahajanga, Antananarivo), 44 hours of flying and 30 hours of...

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McGill at GASLA

As we recently reported, a number of current and former McGill linguists presented at GASLA 12 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition) at the University of Florida in April. Here they...

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Michael Wagner in LA and Frankfurt

Michael Wagner is just back from the University of Southern California where we gave a colloquium talk titled “A Generalization of Hurford’s Constraint.” He will travel to Frankfurt next week where we...

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Computational Field Workshop, May 27th and 28th

McGill will host a workshop on computational methods and fieldwork Monday and Tuesday, May 27th and 28th. Plenary speaker Alexis Palmer will give a talk and a hands-on workshop. The Computational Field...

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2012–2013 BA Honours thesis round-up

This term, 43 linguistics undergraduates––including honours, joint honours, majors, and minors––are graduating from McGill. We are happy to report on some of this year’s Honours Theses: Olivia...

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Mi’gmaq Research Project members present in Nova Scotia

Last week, members of the Mi’gmaq Research Project traveled to St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia to attend the L’nui’sultinej Conference. The name of the conference translates to...

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McGill at New Sounds: International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second...

Several current and former McGillians presented at New Sounds at Concordia this past weekend: Walcir Cardoso, Guilherme Garcia, Heather Goad, Dan Goodhue, Hyekyung Hwang, Takako Kawasaki, Moti...

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Chen Qu successfully defends PhD dissertation

We are happy to report that Chen Qu successfully defended her PhD dissertation last Tuesday, May 21st. Her dissertation is titled “Representation and Acquisition of the Tonal System of Mandarin...

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CLA practice talks, today 5/27

Today, on Monday May 27th, we will have four practice presentations for the CLA conference in Victoria, BC next week. Presentations will take place in room 117 in the Linguistics building from...

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SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to Coon, Bale, and Wagner

McLing is happy to report that a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant was awarded to Jessica Coon, Alan Bale, and Michael Wagner, in partnership with the Listuguj Education Directorate and support from...

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McGill at the CLA

McGill Linguistics was well represented at this year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, which took place earlier this month at the University of Victoria. The following talks and...

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Heather Newell accepts phonology position at UQAM

McLing is pleased to announce that Heather Newell (McGill PhD 2009) has just accepted a tenure-track position in phonology at the Université du Québec à Montreál. She begins July 1st. Félicitations...

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New issue of McGWPL

The latest issue of McGWPL is now available online: https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgwpl/current-issue. This volume, edited by Alanah McKillen and Brian Buccola, is a collection of papers presented at the...

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