Members of the Kanien’kéha language research partnership between McGill and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC) presented a talk titled “Iakwarihwí:saks: A community–university Kanien’kéha Research Partnership” at the Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL), which was held at the University of Arizona, April 2–3. 

The last presentation in this term will be on Monday, April 13, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom (Please use this new zoom link). Jeanne will be practising her invited talk in the creaky voice special session at ASA 2026. Topic: Rethinking “young women’s creak”: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence Abstract: Since the early 2010s, popular narratives alongside […]

Congratulations to Myriam Lapierre who just had two papers accepted for publication! The first has been accepted to Journal of Phonetics (with Alessio Tosolini) and the second has been accepted to Laboratory Phonology. Lapierre, M., De Falco, E., Tosolini, A., & Steffman, J. (accepted). Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in […]

Since next Monday is Easter Monday, our meeting will be temporally moved to Wednesday, April 8, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Naomi Sacks will be presenting her study Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Mora-Timed Languages: Determining the Syllabicity of Adjacent Vowels in Japanese. Abstract: Vowel hiatus, or adjacent, heterosyllabic vowels, are a crosslinguistically dispreferred phenomenon. Vowel hiatus may be resolved in […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 9th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Brandon Chaperon will be presenting “Generic argument-structure head in the Wolof causative-benefactive syncretism.” Here is the abstract: This work provides an account for the crosslinguistically […]

The Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) will meet on Thursday, April 9th at 4PM in room 406 of Thomson House. There will be three talks followed by a social hour. Talks include: This event is open to all linguists across Montréal. Please email emma.custer@mail.mcgill.ca if you’d like to be added to the mailing list.

Several McGillians, past and present, attended MOThQ Phonology and Phonetics Workshop in Quebec City on March 27-28. The program can be found here: https://mothq2026.netlify.app/program.html

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 2nd, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Nicolas Poisson (McGill) will be presenting. Abstract is below. The original Carlsonian claim that bare plurals unambiguously denote kinds received much support from Chierchia (1998), […]

The article “Disentangling acoustic and social biases in creaky voice perception: The effects of f0 and face gender on creakiness ratings”, co-authored by Jeanne Brown and Meghan Clayards, has just appeared online at Laboratory Phonology: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.24285. The abstract is below. Creaky voice has historically been associated with men’s speech, supported by acoustic studies. Since around […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 30, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Yue Qiu, a visiting PhD candidate from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, will be presenting her research ReadCalibration: Exploring the Links between Reading Acquisition and Speech Sound Processing. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 23rd, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Natalia and Massimo will each be practicing their talks for MOThQ. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Next presentation will be on Monday, March 16th, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Alex will be presenting research from her thesis Lexical Recruitment in Perception: Effects of L1 Background, Contrast Type, and Proficiency. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, March 19th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Sama’a Salama (McGill) will be presenting.

The next talk in our 2025-2026 McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Mark Baker (Rutgers University) on Friday March 20th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Obligatory Control into Propositional Complements Abstract: This paper considers three puzzles about obligatory control (OC) with so-called propositional verbs like claim in English (Chris claimed (to the judge) to […]

On Sunday, some linguists enjoyed x-country skiing on Mont Royal!

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 9th, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Kuilin will be presenting Schertz, J. (2025). Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101376 (attached). All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Congratulations to Siva Reddy who has won a prestigious 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers! You can read all about it here.

The next P* group presentation will be on Monday, Feb 23, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom. Natalia will be presenting her Honours Thesis (attached), Impoverished Nuclei in Lushootseed: A CVC Analysis.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 19th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz (McGill) will be presenting “Hidden structure in the composition of degree DPs”. Here is the abstract:

GLAM kicked off the new term with a winter outing that brought together new arrivals and returning members of the Department for an afternoon of skating and pizza in downtown Montreal on January 31st. Everyone laced up their skates and enjoyed the crisp January air at Esplanade Tranquille. Check out the photos below! After skating, […]