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Boston University's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines.
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This month, Professor Neil Myler presented at the CRISSP seminar with a talk titled "Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be)" Couldn't make it? Luckily, he also did a debrief that you can watch on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcjG... #crissp

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Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/... #gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate

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Professor Coppock, along with several of her colleagues, has published a new paper! Title: Beware of referential garden paths! The dangerous allure of semantic parses that succeed locally but globally fail URL: escholarship.org/uc/item/87v9...

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Congrats to PhD candidate @jupitararay.bsky.social on winning a NSF DDRIG! Her PhD, advised by @cbchang.bsky.social, is "Phonetic Accommodation and Drift: A Study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English Early Sequential Bilinguals". Kudos, Jupitara! 🙌 jupitararay.github.io @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

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The Boston University Department of Linguistics is currently accepting applications for its one-year MA program in linguistics. For full consideration for financial aid, please apply here by January 15th: www.bu.edu/cas/admissio... Please email [email protected] with any questions.

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Our own Prof. Coppock was among the keynote speakers at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024! Her talk was entitled “Metrology and Mereology”. You can download the slides from the talk here: eecoppock.info/ac2024-ho-co...

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Professor Elizabeth Coppock was selected as an invited speaker for the Amsterdam Colloquia! Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/

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BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January! So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...

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New pub from Dr Felix Kpogo & Prof @cbchang.bsky.social: "Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children's and adults' production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã"! Free download: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIISLixzz... @bulinguistics.bsky.social #linguistics

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Congrats to BU Ling member Jupitara Ray on defending her dissertation prospectus!

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Professor Coppock presented alongside UConn law professor Jill Anderson at the 2024 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit. Their talk involves the "Square of Litigation”--a tool that can help lawyers and judges clarify issues surrounding ambiguity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFVa...

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Congrats to BU Linguistics Professor Neil Myler who just published the FIRST paper in a new journal called "Continua". His paper is titled: "Imagining Life without Rules of Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition". journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...

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BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented their poster: "Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers". 1/2 #EMNLP #NLP #conference

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Are you interested in a Master's in Linguistics at BU? Join us next week for an information session! www.facebook.com/share/1AsFns... #masters #linguisticsmasters #MAinlinguistics #highereducation #linguistics

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We are excited to host another Colloquium Talk this friday! This time we'll hear from Tanya Bondarenko from Harvard. www.facebook.com/share/19Pgh7...

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Congrats to student Shaked Gabbay who presented her work on Ladino to Northeastern University last week! Her talk was entitled "Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino".

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This weekend, three members of BU Linguistics are presenting at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) in Miami: Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas, and Kevin Samejon! Check out the website for their talk information: www.nwavmiami.org

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After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor @katelynnlindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive!

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We are very lucky to have two visiting professors this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin! Professor Conklin will be speaking at our colloquium on Friday at 3:30. Stop by to hear about her work!

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Join us this Friday for another colloquium talk! www.facebook.com/events/41139...

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Meet one of our visiting lecturers, Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! 👋 After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department. You can learn more about him at his website: michael-everdell.github.io.

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PhD student Lee-Ann Vidal Covas will be giving a talk this Saturday (Oct 19th) at The International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes (IDEOLING). Her talk title is "Investigating salience and ideologies in Greater Boston: A sociophonetic analysis of liquid variation."

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BU Linguistics seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in Computational Linguistics as part of a cluster hiring initiative led by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). Learn more and apply! ling.bu.edu/about/search... #academicjobs #hiring #professor #computationallinguistics

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PhD student Vasileios Michos is presenting today at the 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)! His talk title is 'Mesoclisis across Modern Greek dialects; proclisis, enclisis, or neither?'

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Join us this Friday at 3:30 pm for our second talk in our Fall Colloquium series featuring Rajiv Rao! www.facebook.com/share/d6QYkV...

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We have very exciting news: as of today, Megan Brown-Bousfield has successfully defended her PhD dissertation "CLI and transfer in a trilingual context: Acquisition and development of L3 German grammatical gender". Congratulations, Megan!

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Recent BU Ling PhD alum Felix Kpogo will be giving an invited lecture at Georgia Tech on October 11. The event will happen from 12-1 pm on Zoom at gatech.zoom.us/j/93446804353 Congratulations to Felix!

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Join us on Friday September 20 at 3:30 for the first talk in our Fall 2024 Colloquium series!

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Update from the Linguistic Society of America: the LSA has filed an amicus brief as part of a Florida circuit court case on pronoun use in classrooms. Read the press release and full amicus brief below: www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

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Kudos to Felix Kpogo, Alex Kohut, & Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social on their publication "Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences"! 👏👏👏 langsci-press.org/catalog/book... @bulinguistics.bsky.social #Akan #English #Bilingualism #OpenScience

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Congratulations to Elizabeth Coppock, who has been promoted to associate professor of linguistics with tenure! Liz specializes in formal semantics, addressing foundational topics in truth, reference, quantification, and measurement through the lens of specific empirical puzzles.

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Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is coauthor on "Gender effects in the social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese", to be presented by PolyU PhD student Meixian Li & Prof. Yao Yao in the Day 3 poster session at #LabPhon19 in Seoul 🇰🇷 labphon.org/labphon19/pr... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

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We're pleased to announce that for the next academic year Jenna Conklin will be joining us as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Phonetics and Phonology. Welcome, Jenna!

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Big congrats to Felix Kpogo on successfully defending his PhD @bulinguistics.bsky.social, “Investigating sound change in Twi vowel harmony: A sociophonetic study of age, gender, and locality effects”! 👏🎊🎉 #linguistics Post-defense with committee members Profs. Kate Lindsey & @cbchang.bsky.social :

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Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social is one of the guest scientists speaking at this weekend's #AAPIMonth celebration at @museumofscience.bsky.social! www.mos.org/events/asian... #AAPIHM #AAPI #Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social @bucas.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social

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"Introducción a la Lingüística: Curso para investigadores de lenguas indígenas de Bolivia", published in print last year by Página y Signos, is a Spanish-language introduction to linguistics and contains a chapter on syntax by BU's Professor Neil Myler. Download free as a PDF here:

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BU's Professor Barnes promoted to Full Professor! Jonathan Barnes' “Tonal Center-of-Gravity” theory has gained international attention as a powerful tool for prosodic analysis. He also played a major role in the founding of the Department of Linguistics in 2018, serving as its chair since 2020.

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Congrats to @bulinguistics.bsky.social PhD students Jupitara Ray, Felix Kpogo & Jackson Kellogg on their recent awards/fellowships! - for Jupitara: Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (BU GRS) - for Felix: Graduate Student Award (BUCH) - for Jackson: FLAS Fellowship Kudos to all! 👏👏👏 #Linguistics

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Congratulations to linguistics Ph.D. student Ying Gong for winning a BU Center for the Humanities Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2024-2025!

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#BUCLD49 Call for submissions is now open. We look forward to receiving your 500-word abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters. Symposium proposals are likewise welcome. Submission guide lines here: bu.edu/bucld/abstra...

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We are thrilled to announce that starting in September 2025, we will be joined by Dr. Anthony Yacovone as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Dr. Yacovone specializes in language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Welcome to BU, Anthony!

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We're thrilled to announce that our own Felix Kpogo has accepted a 2-yr Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, where he'll be based in the #Linguistics Program. Congrats, Felix! We're so proud! 👏👏👏 felixkpogo.com @bulinguistics.bsky.social

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BU linguistics professor Elizabeth Coppock and Ph.D. student Ying Gong have just published an article in Natural Language Semantics titled, "Is degree abstraction a parameter or a universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese." Congratulations to them both! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A paper co-authored by BU professors Neil Myler and Zoliswa Mali, titled "Accounting for the Mirror Principle and its Exceptions in Causative/Applicative Interactions: The Case of isiXhosa" has appeared in the April 2021 Proceedings of 50 ans de linguistique à l’UQAM: archipel.uqam.ca/17539/

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Take a listen to this interview with Professor Daniel Erker on BU's The Brink podcast, where he discusses language variation and BU's Spanish in Boston Project! www.bu.edu/articles/202...

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Congratulations again to the students and faculty who represented Boston University at the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting! Clockwise from top left: Amelia Tighe, Liza Sulkin, Alexandra Kohut, Jackson Kellogg, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas, Megan Bousfield, Ying Gong, Danielle Dionne, Charles Bond Chang

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