NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation)
BU represented at the 52nd annual NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation)!From left to right: Chris Lee, Lee-Ann Vidal Covas, Danielle Dionne (alumna), Kevin SamejonChris Lee: “Regional variation among Standard Mandarin listeners’ perceptual cue weighting for prosodic focus marking: Comparing Beijing, Jilu, and Zhongyuan Mandarin”Lee-Ann Vidal Covas: “How Salience Influences Dialectal Persistence and Covariation: Insights from […]
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented a poster titled “Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers”. Professor Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, also won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper […]
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Write the Docs conference: Chloe Guttmann
Congratulations to master’s student Chloe Guttmann who presented at the conference Write the Docs Atlantic 2024. Her presentation was titled “From morphemes to manuscripts: how linguistics can make you a better writer”. Write the Docs is a global community of people who care about documentation: Programmers, Tech Writers, Customer Support, Designers, Project Managers, Developer Advocates, […]
Meet our visiting assistant professor: Jenna Conklin
We are very lucky to have two visiting faculty members this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Meet our visiting lecturer: Michael Everdell
Meet our visiting lecturer Michael Everdell (he/him/his)! After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, Mike has been teaching courses in the BU Linguistics department including Field Methods and Lexical Semantics. He also is managing the SULa (Structures of Understudied Languages) Lab. We are thrilled to have him this year! You can […]
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English
BU Professor Jon Barnes, along with colleagues Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, published an article in “Language and Speech” entitled “Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English”. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00238309241255319
10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT)
PhD student Vasileios Michos presented at the 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory (MGDLT). His title is ‘Mesoclisis across Modern Greek dialects; proclisis, enclisis, or neither?’ The conference took place in three Griko speaking villages of Southern Italy. Congrats to Vasileios!
Dissertation: Megan Brown-Bousfield
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!
Talk: Felix Kpogo
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. Felix will be presenting his work on Age & Gender Dynamics in Sound Change: Perspectives from an Understudied Community. Congratulations to Felix!