Penn Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life!
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Penn Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life!
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Registration is currently open for the Penn Linguistics Conference (sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...)!
Register here for a really exciting line up of talks: www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-lingu...
#NewPaper by Jonathan Lee:
Lok, C., Lee, J. H. N., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism. (Online first) doi.org/10.1177/1367...
Read about Penn Linguistics student Jonathan Lee's work in @sas.upenn.edu's Omnia Magazine!
omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/pause-...
Congratulations to the four Penn Linguistics grad students passed their proposal defenses at the end of 2025!
Alex Hamo (www.alexanderhamo.org)
Annika Heuser (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/annik...)
Jonathan Lee (www.ling.upenn.edu/~jonhnlee)
Héctor Vasquez Martinez (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/hecto...)
Anna Papafragou
Delighted to announce that Anna Papafragou has been elected a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/
Mark Liberman, May Chan, Meredith Tamminga, and Jianjing Kuang
May's committee consisted of Meredith Tamminga, and her advisors Jianjing Kuang and Mark Liberman
May Pik Yu Chan
Congratulations to May Pik Yu Chan, who successfully defended her #dissertation, entitled "Pitch-dependent variation in vowel production and perception: revisiting the source-filter theory", on Nov 18, 2025!
www.ling.upenn.edu/~pikyu/
Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025!
www.mingyangbian.com
A collection of Penn linguists in front of a wood-paneled wall
Penn Linguists at #NWAV53!
Penn Linguistics's @garicgymro.bsky.social will be giving this year's first 60-Second Lecture at noon on September 3, 2025, entitled How Old is Language?
www.sas.upenn.edu/events/60-se...
Gene Buckley
A touching piece by Rolf Noyer in memory of our colleague and friend Gene Buckley, who died in June and will be very deeply missed.
www.ling.upenn.edu/news/2025/07...
The video of the memorial for William Labov, held at the LSA Annual Meeting January 9, 2025, is now available on the LSA website: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=fe7...
From left to right: Florian Schwarz, Ria Subramanian, Dan Shevchenko, Eric Tao, Joyce He, Petros Kaklamanis, and Phoebe Leung
Huge congratulations to our graduating majors (here pictured with our Undergraduate Chair Florian Schwarz)! We're proud but we'll miss you!
Gareth giving his talk to a large audience
On Wednesday, May 14, Gareth Roberts was the featured speaker at the Penn Club of Metro NJ’s Wesley A. Stanger, Jr. Annual Spring Dinner, with a talk entitled "Unlocking the Secrets of Language”.
On Tuesday, May 20, Florian Schwarz gave an invited talk entitled "Fun filtering facts, if not presupposition projection” at the 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 35)
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Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)
Current and former Penn linguists at WCCFL 43 in Seattle!
From left to right: Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)
Eric Tao showing off his certificate with Penn Linguistics faculty members Florian Schwarz and Katie Schuler
Congratulations to Eric Tao, Linguistics major and 2025 Dean's Scholar!
Milena Šereikaitė
Huge congratulations to former Penn Linguistics PhD Milena Šereikaitė, who has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at Cornell!
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Delighted to announce that the Penn linguist Marlyse Baptista has been elected a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow!
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Congratulations to Penn Linguistics's May Pik Yu Chan, who is the winner in the Natural Sciences category of the 2025 Penn Grad Talks. her talk was entitled "When High Notes Challenge Speech: What Opera Singers Teach Us About Language"
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Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn!
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We are delighted to report that Gillian Sankoff was honored on Saturday, January 11, with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. A very well-deserved recognition of her long and influential career!
John Baugh recalled Bill once expressing an ambition to share with Socrates the trait of always being referred to in the present tense. There was widespread agreement that this is a good way to honor him.
It was clear, as a series of speakers shared fond, touching, and funny memories of their friend, colleague, and mentor, that Bill had changed the course of multiple people's lives and, through them, the field.
A memorial was held for Bill Labov on the evening of Thursday, January 9, at the 2025 LSA Meeting in Philadelphia. There were many laughs as well as tears.
Gillian Sankoff has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. The award will be presented at 3:15 today (Sat, Jan 11) at the #LSA, in conference rooms 407-408 of the conference Marriott. Please join us to help celebrate her lifetime of achievements!
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Gillian and the family; they are in our thoughts as we share their deep loss.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Bill Labov. He shaped the field of variationist sociolinguistics and helped countless linguists on their paths to stellar careers. His kindness, generosity, and brilliance have been a profound source of inspiration for so many of us.
The Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship honors the memory of Professor Raymond H. Stetson, a pioneer investigator in phonetics and speech science. The purpose of the scholarship is to facilitate the research efforts of promising graduate students. Congratulations, May!