Liza Sulkin presenting at LavLang31
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang31) this summer in Manchester! Her talk is on the preliminary results of her dissertation work. LavLang is the only conference dedicated to queer linguistics/language & sexuality. She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with […]
Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF
Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]
Romi Hill presents at WOLF lab
Earlier this month, PhD student Romi Hill presented at Harvard’s WOLF (Working on Language in the Field) lab! Her talk was on reduplication in Bantu.
Beck Nowicki accepts PhD offer at Binghamtom University
Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU—Binghamton University that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.
Kevin Samejon and Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas defend their dissertations
Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations! – Kevin Samejon: “National identity and regionality among Philippine English speakers in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu: A variationist study of alveolar fricative production” – Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas: Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociophonetic Study of Liquid Production in Boston Spanish” […]
Becca Wheeler poster talk at ICLDC
In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai’i. Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a very popular poster talk titled “Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization.” Her project was borne out of Prof. O’Connor’s course on Language Revitalization. […]
Ousmane Cisse presents at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY)
PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse’s abstract titled “The Graphemic Variation of /ŋ/ and Its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami,” was accepted at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY). His presentation was earlier this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congrats to Ousmane on the great achievement!
Romi Hill published in Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
PhD student Romi Hill was recently published in the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) conference proceedings. She, along with her colleagues during her master’s degree at Konstanz University in Germany, propose a method to integrate gradient language redundancy effects into a formal generative model of grammar. You can read the paper here: https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/article/view/60
Aditya Yedetore presents at Brown
In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI, Neuro, and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled “Classical computation in connectionist models” and you can read more about it and watch a recording here: brown-ancor.github.io
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 […]