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.
Kevin Samejon accepts tenure-track position
After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He will be joining their English department in the Fall of 2025!
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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!