Alumni Yuhao Dai at SULA-TripleA
BU linguistics alum Yuhao Dai, currently a PhD student at Georgetown, presented at SULA-TripleA on May 12-15 at the University of British Columbia. His poster was entitled “Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree”. Here he is pictured with Lisa Matthewson!
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 […]
2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) talks and posters
BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January! Talks: Robert Bayley, Xinye Zhang, Daniel Erker, Rafael Orozco and Gregory Guy: Subject pronoun expression and heritage languages: The effects of language and dialect contact. ADS Morphosyntax session, January […]
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 […]
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!