PhD student Anongnard Porpla Nusartlert and Professor Kamil Deen presented a paper at the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in May 2023. Their paper was entitled "Intergenerational Transmission of Isan and Thai: The Passive Voice as…
PhD student Emma Breslow presented her poster "The macher wears a yarmi: A comparative study of Australian and American familiarity with Jewish English lexical items" at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in 2023. Congratulations, Emma!
In 2023, PhD students Blaine Billings and Jacob Hakim were each awarded the American Institute for Indonesian Studies - Council of American Overseas Research Centers (AIFIS-CAORC) Research Fellowship for fieldwork in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia working with Nasal speakers to…
On November 1-3, 2023 the department hosted a meeting of the Governance Council of the the Endangered Languages Project, welcoming three new Council members: Gabriela Perez-Baez (University of Oregon), Madoka Haminne (Meio University) and Nicholas Barla (Adivasi language advocate).
PhD student Olivia Waring has been selected to teach a workshop at CoLang 2024 which will be hosted by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the University of Arizona in June 2024. The class is titled "Community Radio and…
PhD student Carolyn Siegman presented at the NWAV conference held at Queen's College in October 2023. Her paper was titled "Variation in /st/ cluster production of Western Andalusian Spanish." Congratulations, Carolyn!
Professor Andrew Cheng has had multiple papers published or accepted for publication in recent months: Jeon, L. & Cheng, A. (Forthcoming). American English phonology. In K. Bolton (Ed.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Cheng, A., McClay, E. , Yeung,…
Professor Shelece Easterday recently delivered a two-part plenary address at the 6th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology in December 2023. Her talk was entitled "Can we talk? Bridging the divide between phonological typology and historical phonology." Her talk addressed ways…
Professor Kamil Deen was invited to give the plenary address at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2-5, 2023. Professor Deen's address was titled "The Fingerprints of Universal Grammar." The abstract of his…
UH was well-represented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia conference in Hong Kong, December 1-3, 2023. Akari Ohba and Kamil Deen presented "Why children (incorrectly) accept inverse scope: Inverse scope derived from generalized distributivity." Anupama Reddy and…