Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann will both be presenting on a panel at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) this Thursday at Florida State University!
You can catch them at the "Dialogues at a crossroads" panel at 2:00-3:20. mllgraduatestudentconference.wordpress.com
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open at alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en!
Professor Coppock recently presented at LangCog (Harvard University):
Title: Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar
Newar is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley region of Nepal with a rich classifier system.
Neil Myler's abstract for his talk
Professor Neil Myler @ CRISSP
CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series:
Title: Morphomes, look-ahead, and what to do about them: Illustrations from Romance
www.crissp.be/events/the-m...
COGEL (the committee for gender equity in linguistics) is an open committee of the LSA formed to track, promote, and ensure equity and inclusion.
Their annual meeting is at the LSA on Friday 1/9 at 11:30 in the Balcony J room and on Zoom (bostonu.zoom.us/j/9723455052...).
genderinlinguistics.org
Flyer showing our talks for Day 1 (Friday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
Flyer showing our talks for Day 2 (Saturday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
Flyer showing our talks for Day 3 (Sunday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting!
For the full schedule with times and locations, you can check out the official program on the LSA website.
#lsa2026
Congrats to Professor Lindsey who recently published in Open Text Collections at Language Science Press! Available for download: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Compiled by the Ende Language Committee, the texts represent a diverse set of authors, illustrators, and translators from the community.
So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years.
Photos and other exciting materials are on the way!
##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment
Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in CAS, applies theoretical and empirical methods from linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy to analyze, evaluate, and explain the linguistic capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
Congrats, Prof. Hao!
2/2
BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship!
This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
1/2
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.
Visiting Professor Michael Everdell coauthored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages"
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group
Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...
@bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦
Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!
Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference!
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
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.
4 BU Ling members posing in front of a door. Text says 'BU LING AT ACAL May, 2025 | University of Minnesota University TALKS: Felix Kpogo and Rebecca Bonney: Doubly-articulated Stops are not Immune to Segmental Reduction: Evidence from Gã Children's Speech Ousmane Cisse: Graphemic Variation of /n/ and its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami POSTERS •Romi Hill: Syntactic Constraints on the Morphophonology of Reduplication Jackson Kellogg: Paradigmatic initial strengthening of voiced, voiceless, and ejective stops in Amharic
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.
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!
PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume!
You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...
Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled "What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?"
sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...
A sign that says "CAS Linguistics Convocation & Reception"
Three of our professors smiling next to our two doctoral graduates
Congratulations to all our graduates from this weekend!
#graduation #linguistics #phd #convocation
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding for his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...
Poster with the talks for MorphoMO workshop in Montreal
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at @lavlang.bsky.social this summer in Manchester!
She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!
