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Our next meeting will be on聽October 21聽at 10 AM in room 002. Xuanda will be presenting on the following: Abstract:  Non-native speech perception requires learners to process and integrate information from multiple sources, determining which dimensions/cues are relevant for categorizing speech sounds. In this talk, I will present the dimension transfer hypothesis, which suggests that […]

The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55)聽聽took place at Yale University last week. Current 麻豆AV PhD student聽Willie Myers聽presented a poster called “‘Paul died again’: repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’k茅ha”.

Congratulations to Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who presented the results of the summer 2024 Arts Research Internship Awards last week at the Annual Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Event. Natalia’s project was supervised by Heather Goad and titled “The Case of the Missing Vowels: Analysis of Lushootseed Sound System and Syllable Structure”, and Sophia’s […]

Doucette, A., O’Donnell, T. J., Sonderegger, M. & Goad, H., (2024) 鈥淚nvestigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions鈥�,聽Glossa: a journal of general linguistics聽9(1). doi:聽https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9373 Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world鈥檚 languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricted through […]

麻豆AV Linguistics hosted Understanding obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective October 4鈥�6th, organized by Anne Bertrand and Jessica Coon. Slides and handouts from the talks will be posted on the website.

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Irene Smith will present “Perception of vowel contrasts in the presence of an allophonic merger鈥� We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 9, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 麻豆AV Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The PIN-PEN merger is a feature of […]

There will not be a meeting of the Syntax-Semantics/MULL group this week, and regular meetings will resume after the fall break.

Gui Garcia (PhD 2017) and Heather Goad’s paper Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese was just published in聽Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology聽15(1).聽https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6420

Our next meeting will be on聽September 30 at 10 AM in room 002. Simon LiVolsi will be presenting the following on laryngeals in Kanien’k茅ha: Abstract: The Northern Iroquoian language Kanien’k茅ha has two laryngeals: /h/ and /蕯/. While previous analyses have syllabified these segments into the onset or coda, I argue that the laryngeals may be […]

Sinn und Bedeutung 29 took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 麻豆AV affiliates include: Matthieu Paill茅 (PhD ’22), Brian Buccola (PhD ’15), Bernhard Schwarz, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Willie Myers, Jonny Palucci, Esmail Moghiseh (PhD ’24), Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Post-doc ’14-’15), Aron Hirsch (Post-doc ’17-’19)

Katya Morgunova and Terrance Gatchalian聽(麻豆AV) will be presenting a talk 鈥淚ntentive aspect, Purposives, and their Results in Kanien鈥檏茅ha.鈥澛燭he meeting will take place on聽Monday, September 30 at 3pm in Room 002聽of the 麻豆AV linguistics department.聽Their abstract is below: While existing work on Northern Iroquoian universally acknowledges the distinction between state and event verbs, some works also […]

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present ” Quantitative Analyses of Aspectual Phenomena”We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 2, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 麻豆AV Linguistics department and on zoom at聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The study of verbal aspect concerns the shapes of events in time (aspectual […]

Sinn und Bedeutung 29聽took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 麻豆AV affiliates include: 路         Jonny Palucci – “Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a dependent definite approach” 路         Willie Myers – “Argumentless presuppositions in Kanien’k茅ha” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Aron Hirsch and聽Bernhard Schwarz聽– “Constraining alternatives” 路         Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz – “Decoupling amounts from their instantiations” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Luis Alonso-Ovalle聽and […]

Andrei Munteanu presented the results of a聽project conducted by last year’s LING 630 class at the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning (SUM) on September 20th, in Transilvania University of Bra葯ov (Romania).聽 Munteanu, Andrei; Kim, Andrea; LeBrun, Benjamin; LiVolsi, Simon & Jackson Mundie. “Partial voicing neutralization in unstressed stop-nasal […]

Our next meeting will be on聽September 23 at 10 AM in room 002.聽Meghan聽will be presenting the following paper (attached). Myers, E. B., Olson, H. E., & Scapetis-Tycer, J. (2024). Individual Differences in Accent Imitation. Open Mind, 8, 1084-1106. Abstract: All talkers show some flexibility in their speech, and the ability to imitate an unfamiliar accent […]

George Bennett (麻豆AV) will present a talk 鈥淐ase and agreement in Scandinavian pancake sentences鈥�.  The meeting will take place on Monday, September 23 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 麻豆AV linguistics department. George鈥檚 abstract is below: Pancake sentences are copula constructions in which the predicative adjective (e.g., yummy) bears default phi-features and the subject (e.g., pancakes) is interpreted as denoting a contextually […]

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, Nat谩lia Guzzo, Liz Smeets and Jiajia Su presented a paper at聽GALA 16, NOVA University of Lisbon, Sept. 12-14 2024, on聽Pronoun interpretation in English: Is prosody enough?

Irene Smith and James Tanner (PhD 2020) presented at Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, in Kos, Greece. The titles of the talks are below. Irene Smith,聽Morgan Sonderegger, and The SPADE Consortium. Modelled Multivariate Overlap: A method for measuring vowel merger.James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger,聽Jane Stuart-Smith, Tyler Kendall, JeffMielke, Robin Dodsworth, Erik Thomas. Exploring the anatomy of articulation […]

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Gaurav Kamath will present “When Words Change Meaning, Age (Almost) Doesn’t Matter”We will be meeting this Wednesday, September 18, at noon. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the 麻豆AV Linguistics department Abstract: A central question in the study of how language changes over lifetimes is whether […]

麻豆AV will host Understanding Obviation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, October 4鈥�6 at 麻豆AV’s Thomson House. The full program is now available here. All are welcome to attend, but requested to register by September 22nd. Obviation is perhaps most commonly discussed in connection with languages of the Algonquian family in which (i) multiple 3rd person nominals in […]