Four Linguistics department students win BUCH awards
We are proud to announce that four of our students won Boston University Center for the Humanities awards!! Undergraduate Student Awards recognize outstanding students majoring in a humanities or humanities-adjacent discipline: The Robert E. Yellin Award was awarded to both Noah Darby and Maclain Rockett in our department! https://www.bu.edu/humanities/opportunities/undergrads/student-awards/past-award-winners/ Graduate Student Awards recognize outstanding work […]
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!
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, […]
Liza Sulkin & Chloe Guttmann at LINC
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) at Florida State University. This year’s conference theme was “Beyond Fracture”. Both presented at the “Dialogues at a crossroads” panel.
Rebecca Wheeler defends her qualifying paper
Congratulations to our PhD candidate Rebecca Wheeler who successfully defended her qualifying paper titled “Effect of Non-native Articulation Rate on English Foreigner-directed Speech Production”!
Yulu Qin accepted to NeurIPS
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is “Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It”. You can learn more about NeurIPS here: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025. Congrats Yulu!
Jackson Kellogg passes his dissertation prospectus defense
Congratulations to our PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
Ousmane Cisse defends his dissertation prospectus
Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus! His dissertation is based on the preliminary results of his second qualifying paper (QP2). As part of this work, he is investigating graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. His data is from the NEH Mandinka […]
Liza Sulkin defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation. Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and assigned female at birth (AFAB) non-binary (NB) people.
BU Ling at ACAL 2025
Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.