Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for Research on the Brain, Language, and Mind (CRBLM) at the Cinémathèque Québécoise on April 15th. They consulted on the film in 2015.

An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!

After a bit of a pause, meetings of the Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics (MULL) Lab are back! Starting with a special kick-off event in May, and then continuing in the new school year, MULL meetings will be returning with a slightly updated schedule and focus. Going forward, MULL meetings will be monthly and provide opportunities for a mix of […]

Two JournalLing (the McGill linguistics undergraduate journal) volumes, the 2023-2024 edition (Volume 3) and the 2024-2025 edition (Volume 4), were released this past Friday at the undergraduate Wine and Cheese social event. Jackson Corfield served as the Editor-in-Chief on the 2023-2024 JournalLing Team, and Allison McFarlane and Sophia Flaim served as Co-Editors-in-Chief on the 2024-2025 […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, April 14 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. This meeting is the final regularly scheduled meeting of McGill’s Winter 2025 term. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Professor James Crippen (McGill) will be giving a presentation with the title “Optional ergative is subject focus in […]

The Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH) was be held on April 7 and 8, 2025 at the University of Toronto. Presentations by McGill students, faculty, and alumni included:

This year’s Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop ([motʰ] 2025) was held at the University of Toronto on April 4 and 5. Presentations by McGill students and faculty included:

Over the weekend, LingUA hosted the 11th edition of the McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates (McCCLU). The event featured numerous talks and poster presentations from undergraduates in the department, showcasing the strength and diversity of undergraduate research at McGill. The conference also saw attendance from students from UdeM, UOttawa, and UMass. Students additionally had […]

The 49th Penn Linguistics Conference took place April 5–6 at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica Coon gave a keynote titled “Invisible inanimates and problems for polysynthesis in Kanien’kéha”, and recent McGill MA graduate Claire Henderson gave a talk (with Jennifer Nycz) “More on the menu than just p/æ/sta and p/ɑ/sta: phonetic gradience in second dialect […]

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Jeanne Brown will present “Investigating a face-gender effect in creaky voice perception.” We will be meeting this Wednesday, April 9, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: In surveying the vast literature on creaky voice as […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, April 7 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Laurestine Bradford (McGill) will be discussing “So many ways to be done: Culmination and maximality in Tlingit.” Here is Laurestine’s abstract: Tlingit perfectives do not generally entail culmination of the […]

Our last meeting will be Tuesday April 8th at 10 am in room 117. Xuanda will be presenting the work “Neural Encoding of Speech Contains Both Phonemic and Alternation Information: ERP Evidence from Second Language Learning”. There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1 Meeting ID: 841 […]

For the first time in five years, LingUA is hosting the 11th edition of the McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates (McCCLU). The conference will take place April 5-6th, showcasing the work of linguistics undergraduates at McGill and elsewhere. All members of the department are invited to attend! The full schedule of the conference is as […]

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Austin Kraft will present “Motivating morphology in semi-supervised tokenization.” We will be meeting this Wednesday, April 2, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: Tokenization is fundamental for computational linguistics and NLP. An input text is […]

Our next meeting will be Tuesday April 1st at 10am in room 117. There will be practice talks and feedback sessions for MOTh. Massimo and Irene will be doing presentations. There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1 Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214 Passcode: 674595

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 31 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Jonny Palucci (McGill) will be discussing “Functional relative clauses and pseudo-scope.” Here is Jonny’s abstract: Sentences where a definite DP is modified by a relative clause containing a universal quantifier (relativized […]

This coming week, we have our last installment in the McGill Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! The talk will be given by Dr. Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University) on Friday, April 4 at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: On the semantic representation of contrast: insights from sign language (and spoken language) anaphora Abstract: […]

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Amanda Doucette will present “Unzipping the Causality of Zipf’s Law and Other Lexical Trade-offs.” We will be meeting this Wednesday, March 26, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on Zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: There are strong constraints on the structure […]

Johanne Paradis, from the University of Alberta, will be giving a talk entitled “Resilience and Vulnerability in the Arabic-English Bilingual Development of Syrian Refugee Children and Youth” on Thursday, March 27, 2025 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM. In EDUC 120, Learning Commons Education Building | 3700 McTavish For all bilingual children, individual variation in their bilingual development […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 24 at 3 pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Emma Custer (McGill) will be discussing “Causee-less causatives in Wolof.” Here is Emma’s abstract: In this talk, I investigate argument structure in Wolof causative constructions, focusing on the relationship […]