BU Linguistics at ACAL 57
Our department had a great time a few weeks ago at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) in Buffalo!
BU Linguistics at 13th annual Speech Prosody conference
Speech Prosody 2026 was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and our department had quite the representation! Recent PhD graduate Jackson Kellogg was tied for best paper with our former BU undergrad Kendall Lowe, now a PhD student at Michigan. They won out of 174 candidate papers! If that’s not enough, Chris Lee […]
BU Linguistics at ACAL
The University at Buffalo will host the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) on May 21–23, 2026! We are proud to have several department members and alumni presenting. – Jackson Kellogg: Considering evidence for word stress via intonational peak alignment in Amharic- Rebecca Dufie Bonney: Talking to Children in their L1 Matters: Lasting […]
Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW)
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW) a success! The BU Linguistics department was honored to host.
Professor Coppock at Princeton – Rutgers Semantics workshop
Last month, Professor Coppock was invited to the Princeton – Rutgers Semantics workshop to provide comments on Hans Kamp’s paper! https://philosophy.princeton.edu/events/princeton-rutgers-semantics-workshop-0
BU Linguistics to host the Boston Morphology Workshop
This Friday and Saturday, May 1-2 2026, BU Linguistics will be hosting the Boston Morphology Workshop (the fourth in the series of Exo-Words workshops, which have previously been hosted at Penn State, Princeton, and UQAM). The schedule and other information can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonmorphologyworkshop/ The talks will be taking place in Room […]
Sungjun Kim at Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)
One of our undergraduate students, a Junior majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science, was accepted to the Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)! https://linguistics.emory.edu/news/eulc.html The conference took place virtually in April and Sungjun’s talk was entitled “Hangeul as a Computational Medium”. Congrats!
Professor Kate Lindsey at ALT-2026
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open! https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
BU Linguistics at SULA-TripleA conference
BU Linguistics at SULA-TripleA conference in Vancouver (May 12-15): Two of our department’s alumni will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year https://blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/program/: Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown): Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree https://sites.google.com/view/yuhao-dai/home Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former […]
Rebecca Dufie Bonney at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled “African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research” this past February in Los Angeles. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University). You can read a summary of her paper below: This paper examines how African heritage languages, such as Yoruba and Akan, […]