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.
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 […]
Kate Lindsey to present at SLE
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled “Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi”. Many congrats to Professor Lindsey!
Jenna Conklin accepts post-doc position at the Arctic University of Norway
Jenna Conklin, one of our visiting assistant professors, recently accepted a post-doc position at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). She will be working with Martin Krämer to use artificial grammar learning to better map the typology of vowel and consonant harmony. You can learn more about Martin’s work on the university’s website. Congratulations, Jenna!!
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/
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Meet our visiting assistant professor: Jenna Conklin
We are very lucky to have two visiting faculty members this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English
BU Professor Jon Barnes, along with colleagues Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, published an article in “Language and Speech” entitled “Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English”. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00238309241255319