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 […]
Jupitara Ray defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD student Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”. You can read more about Jupitara and her work on her website: https://jupitararay.github.io/
Shaked Gabbay presenting on Ladino
Congrats to student Shaked Gabbay who presented her work on Ladino to Northeastern University! Her talk was entitled “Documenting and creating learning materials for a dying language, the special case of Ladino”.
Journal article co-authored by Professor Daniel G. Erker and PhD student Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas
The department is excited to share that a new journal article co-authored by Professor Daniel G. Erker and PhD candidate Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas has been published in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics! DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2024-2010Congrats to Lee-Ann and Danny!
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 […]