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SWAMP 2015 hosted by Michigan Linguistics

Visit to Chippewa Community in Upper Peninsula

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Linguistic Institute

Deborah Keller-Cohen’s research featured on UM News website

Robin Queen and Julie Boland in “Linguistics Vanguard”

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Michigan alums take top honors in LSA Student Abstract Award

Robin Queen delivers keynote at "Language in the Media 6" in Hamburg, Germany

Congratulations, Dr. Sujeewa Hettiarachchi!

Congratulations, Dr. Jae-Young Shim!

Andries Coetzee deliver keynote at ICPP, Tokyo

Michigan at the "Linguistic Society of Southern Africa"

John Swales in "English for Specific Purposes"

Carmel O'Shannessy in Australia

Meet our incoming graduate students

In memoriam: Edward Mason Anthony Jr. (UM PhD, 1954)

Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL

A very busy summer for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy featured speaker at workshop on at Australian National University

Welcome to baby Ilona Ilieva Smirnova!

Debby Keller-Cohen in "Research on Aging"

Harim Kwon receives best paper award at ICPhS 2015

Productive fieldwork trip for Carmel O'Shannesy

LSA Program Committee meeting in Ann Arbor

Michigan at the ICPhS 2015

A new website for the Linguistics Department

Michigan at the “Second Language Research Forum”

Anne Curzan and Robin Queen at "Investing in Ability Week"

Anastasia Smirnova in “Linguistic Inquiry”

Moira Saltzman visits “Mango Languages”

Honorary doctorate for John Swales

Robin Queen Elected to the LSA Executive Committee

Anastasia Smirnova in Journal of Language and Politics.

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires present at BUCLD

Baxter/Sagart receive "Bloomfield Book Award" from LSA

Undergraduate Linguistic field work experience in Australia

Pires and Rothman recognized by "International Journal of Bilingualism"

Associate Professor Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper in Australia

Assistant Professor Nick Henriksen Published in January 2016 Edition of Phonetica

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting

Sally Thomason in the "Upper Swan Valley Historical Society" newsletter

Seven presentations for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy in "First Language"

Andries Coetzee at UC Berkeley and UC Merced

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger Hopes to Defend his Dissertation this Spring

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger is Working on a Dissertation on the Linguistic Properties of Idioms

A Festschrift for UM Emeritus Professor Robbins Burling Published

UM Linguistics Connects to High School Students in Maryland

Sally Thomason Takes Part in International Conference

From Doctoral Student to Student Services Coordinator, Jennifer Nguyen is a Wolverine Through and Through

Marjorie Herbert Earns First Publication for Her Work on German Sign Language

UM Professor San Duanmu Contemplates His Next Project

Professors From UM Linguistics Examine Reactions to Written Errors

Calling all Undergraduate Students Interested in Linguistics Research!

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Student Gives Two Talks at Penn Linguistics Conference 40!

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Lorenzo García-Amaya

Sally Thomason featured in The Paris Review!

New Volume on Language Contact in Australia Marks a New Era of Linguistic Work Edited by Carmel O’Shannessy

Nicholas Henriksen Publishes Co-Edited Volume on Ibero-Romance Intonation

Marjorie Herbert Receives Prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from National Science Foundation

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper at Australian Languages Workshop

Paper by Professor Acrisio Pires and PhD Alumnus Sujeewa Hettiarachchi in Proceedings of GALANA

San Duanmu Proposes a Solution to a Long-Standing Problem in Phonetic Transcriptions in His Newly Published Book!

Ling 497 Poster Session

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate Will Nediger Helps UM Quiz Bowl Team to National Championship Title!

What Do You Know About the Pre-Speech & Hearing Club?

UM Undergraduates Meet Online with Students at Sakhnin Teachers' College, Israel

Professor Marlyse Baptista and Ph.D. Candidate Marcus Berger Spoke at LSUGA II

Marcus Berger, Moira Saltzman, and Kate Sherwood Have Each Been Awarded Funding Grants to Further Their Research!

Marlyse Baptista is the New Guest Columnist for the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

UM Linguistics Professor Andries Coetzee Nominated as Next Editor of Language!

From Student to Candidate: Marcus Berger Successfully Completes His Qualifying Research Paper

End of Year Message from the Chair

What are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?

Justin Craft Participated in the Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP)

Associate Professor Ezra Keshet Presented on Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)

Hayley Heaton Gives Guest Talk on “Representing American Southern English in Fictional Television Dramas”

Eric Swanson Will Speak at the 2016 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistic Philosophy Conference Later This Week

Warlpiri Speakers and U-M Professor Participate in Kriol and Contact Languages Workshop in Australia

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents at Workshop on the Emergence of Modern Hebrew

Bilingual Communities in South America

U-M Linguists Starting a Project to Document the Language and Culture of Native Americans in Michigan

Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced!

U-M Linguistics Well Represented at Speech Prosody 2016

Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at the University of Brasilia

Jon Brennan and Coauthors Publish Paper on Neural Responses to Phonotactics in Autism Spectrum Disorder

University of Michigan Linguistics Community Well Represented at LabPhon15

Ezra Keshet and the Phenomenon of Language Peevishness in Epic Grammar Fails

Carmel O'Shannessy was a Keynote Speaker at BilForum 2016

Carmel O'Shannessy Published in Linguistic Variation

Andries Coetzee Publishes Paper on Phonological Variation in Phonology

Carmel O'Shannessy Involved in Project Awarded Funding by Australian Research Council

Marjorie Herbert Presents QRP Work on Contact Between Spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL) at LCILP

U-M Professor's Work Featured in British Museum Exhibition

Doctoral Student Marjorie Herbert and Professor Acrisio Pires Presented at BilForum 2016

Marlyse Baptista Has Been Named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Ariana Bancu Presents Research on Transylvanian Saxon at NWAV45 in Vancouver

GradeCraft Lets Students Fail Productively

Giving Blueday is November 29, 2016!

Andries Coetzee Elected Editor of "Language"

Jon Brennan Awarded an NSF Grant for Project on Neurocomputational Models of Natural Language Processing

New Directory for the Department of Linguistics Installed

U-M Linguistics Presents at Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America & the Acoustical Society of Japan

Nicholas Henriksen and Sarah Harper Published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Anne Curzan will be the 2017 Recipient of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award

Tamarae Hildebrandt Research Evolves Beyond Syntax to Phonetics and Phonology

Marjorie Herbert Presents Poster of QRP Project at LSA 2017

Chia-Wen Lo Awarded 2016-2017 Rackham International Student Fellowship / Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Will Nediger’s Research Evolves Due to Collaborative Environment at U-M Linguistics

Jelena Krivokapić Awarded NSF Grant for Project on Prosodic Structure

Interest in the Individual, the Place, and Language Drives Barbara Johnstone’s Research

Professor Emeritus John M. Swales Gave Plenary Talk for Conference at Moscow State University

PhD Student Justin Craft Just Wants to Be Happy

Naomi Gottschalk Traveled to Basque Country to Study Their Language Isolate

Dave Ogden Seeks to Make a Difference and Improve Lives with His Research

“Overcoming Empirical Challenges for an Extended Approach to Condition C” by Will Nediger Featured in Winter 2017 Volume of "Linguistic Inquiry"

William Baxter Travelled to Singapore, Germany, and China for Talks and Conferences

Two Teams Featuring Members from U-M Linguistics Awarded 2017 Proposal Development Grants

U-M Linguistics Doctoral Student Ariana Bancu Awarded 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Professor Samuel Epstein Gave a Talk Entitled “The Nature of Nurture and Non-Linguistic Language Variation” at The University of Arizona

Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty

Emily Atkinson Joins U-M Linguistics as Language Learning Assistant Professor

Savithry Namboodiripad to Join U-M as Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics

U-M Linguistics Was Well-Represented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table

Carmel O'Shannessy Gave Keynote Speech at Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany

Moira Saltzman and Carmel O'Shannessy Represented U-M Linguistics at ICLDC and ComputEL-2 in Hawaii

Dave Ogden Awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18 Academic Year

“Speaking in Code” Explores Where Computer Science Meets the Humanities

U-M Linguistics Reaches Out to Seaholm High School

PhD Student Emily Rae Sabo Organizing 2017 Andean Circle Conference

Jelena Krivokapic Publishes Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures

Jeff Heath Receives Funding From the National Endowment for the Humanities as Part of the Documenting Endangered Languages Program

U-M Linguistics Alumnus Chris Odato Featured on The Humanities PhD Project

Marlyse Baptista Gives Keynote Speech at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Marlyse Baptista, Rocky Meade and Sarah Thomason Pay Tribute to John Holm

Will Nediger Successfully Defends his Dissertation

Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Fieldwork in the Cape Verde Islands

Congratulations to Jelena Krivokapić on Her Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics

Ariana Bancu, From Student to Linguist

Marjorie Herbert Finds the Perfect Combination of Language and Science in Linguistics

Ariana Bancu Presents Paper at Michicagoan 2017

The Newest Little Linguist Has Arrived

Michael Opper to Join College of International Studies at Southwest University

University of Kelaniya Building Named After U-M Alumna Manique Gunesekera (PhD ‘89)

U-M Linguistics Remembers PhD Alumna Kazuko Inoue, One of the Leading Generative Linguists in Japan

End of Year Message from the Chair

In Exploring Activities With Her Border Collie, U-M Linguist Robin Queen Discovered a New Research Interest

Language of the Creole-Speaking People of Cape Verde Passed Down Through Generations in a Way Similar to Genetics

Acrisio Pires Co-Authors Journal Paper on "Bilingualism and Language Change: The Case of Pronominal Clitics in Catalan and Spanish"

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Deadline to Apply in October 2!

Alumn Lauren Squires in LSA's "Member Spotlight"

Carmel O'Shannessy publishes with De Gruyter

Michigan Linguistics very well represented at the LSA Annual Meeting

Multiple publications for Nick Ellis in 2014

Obata, Epstein and Baptista in "Lingua"

In print: Robin Queen's book on language in the popular media

Live Broadcast of Carmel O'Shannessy's presentation at "How Language Evolves" symposium

Nick Ellis and Dave Ogden in "Journal of Child Language"

Nick Henriksen in "Journal of Linguistic Geography"

Robin Queen and Andries Coetzee inducted as fellows of the LSA

Three recent publications for Sally Thomason

"Democrats and Republicans" or "Republicans and Democrats"? Ask Anastasia Smirnova if you want to know

Alum Focus: Eric Campbell

Anne Curzan in the New York Times

Carmel O'Shannessy at the "International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation"

Carmel O'Shannessy presents at the Australian Languages Weekend workshop

Ezra Keshet at DGfS

In memoriam: Peter J. Binkert (1942-2015)

Kevin McGowan accepts tenure track job at University of Kentucky

Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Acrisio Pires at two L2 conferences

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires at GASLA 13

Will Styler joining Michigan Linguistics community

"Speech Production Laboratory" launched in Romance Languages and Literatures

Anne Curzan nominated to become LSA Associate Dean for the Humanities

BA alum Di Wdzenczny awarded NSF grant

Carmel O'Shannessy "Visiting Research Fellow" at Australian National University

Carmel O'Shannessy's recent talk at UCSD online

Marlyse Baptista and Samuel Epstein inducted into Phi Kappa Phi

Coetzee, García-Amaya and Henriksen at "Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages"

Nick Henriksen in "Laboratory Phonology"

Linguistics graduates embarking on new adventures

Congratulations to Dr. Harim Kwon and Dr. Tridha Chatterjee

Chair’s End of Year Message: 2015

A new paper by Ariana Bancu

Acrisio Pires receives Michigan Humanities Award for AY 2014-15

Andries Coetzee at the LSA

Anne Curzan at the American Dialect Society

Krivokapic et. al. at the Acoustical Society of America

Pires and Lightfoot on Syntactic Change

Sally Thomason on "Historical Linguistics: 1924-2014"

Staff Spotlight: Sandie Petee

Will Nediger achieves Doctoral Candidacy

Acrisio Pires and colleagues in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Acrisio Pires and colleagues publish in the International Journal of Bilingualism

Alumna spotlight: Miki Obata (PhD 2010)

Faculty Spotlight: Deborah Keller-Cohen

Faculty Spotlight: Jeff Heath

In Memoriam: Charles J. Fillmore (PhD 1962)

John Swales publishes "Variation in Citational Practice in a Corpus of Student Biology Papers: From Parenthetical Plonking to Intertextual Storytelling"

Marlyse Baptista presents at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Conference

New Faces in the Front Office

Robin Queen discusses Language in the University Classroom

Save the Date! Celebrate MLing50

The Linguistic Society spotlights Andries Coetzee

U-M Launches New Program in Cognitive Science

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Nick Henriksen

Andries Coetzee Reports from South Africa

Carmel O’Shannessy hosts Workshop on Language Contact in Australia

Carmel O’Shannessy in Discover Magagzine

David Ogden presents at the Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics

Jae-Young Shim Wins Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Mark Sicoli (PhD 2006) Quoted in the New York Times

Nick Ellis presents keynote at the Georgetown Roundtable

Reconstruction workshop held March 14-16, 2014

Robin Queen Presents at the University of Chicago

Three Faculty Members to be Recommended to the Provost for Promotion

We’re celebrating our 50th anniversary!

Will Nediger presents at WCCFL

Annual Report for Language Learning

Bancu Gives Talk on Romanian-English Code-Switching

Berger at Penn Linguistics Conference

Brennan et. al in Brain and Language

Cati Fortin (Ph.D. 2007) Receives Tenure

Diane Larsen-Freeman Delivers Keynote Address

Hettiararchchi at FASAL 4

Joseph Tyler (PhD 2012) Accepts a Post-Doctoral Position

Linguistics Majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Marlyse Baptista at the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Marshall Weinberg gives 7.7 million to fund Weinberg Institute in Cognitive Science

Michigan Linguistics Celebrates 50 Years with Style

Tridha Chatterjee presents paper at the University of Bologna

Chair’s End of Year Message

Congratulations 2014 Graduates!

Elaine McNulty in LSA Today

Lin, Beddor and Coetzee in Laboratory Phonology

Marlyse Baptista at the University of Kentucky

A busy summer and fall for John Swales

Alan Ke at "GLOW in Asia X"

Anastasia Smirnova joins Michigan Linguistics

Anatasia Smirnova at the Cognitive Science Society

Andries Coetzee at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam

Bill Baxter's book on Old Chinese now in print

Carmel O'Shannessy on her Summer 14 fieldwork

Epstein et al. in "Linguistic Inquiry"

Jae-Young Shim in "Studies in Generative Grammar"

Judy Irvine in South Africa

LSA Program Committee meeting in Ann Arbor

Meet our new graduate students

Pam Beddor and Andries Coetzee receive NSF award

Sally Thomason on her very productive summer

Will Nediger in "Mosaic"

Alum Update: Tim Chou starts a tenure track position

Anastasia Smirnova in "Journal of Linguistics"

Andries Coetzee in "Language"

Anne Curzan at the Smithsonian

Anne Curzan's TED Talk approaching 1 million views!

Ariana Bancu at SALSA XII

Baxter and Sagart release 5000 reconstructions of Old Chinese words

Carmel O'Shannessy receives NSF award for Warlpiri documentation

Dave Ogden and Nick Ellis at 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Dragomir Radev leads US to victory in the International Linguistics Olympiad

Jon Brennan at the Neurobiology of Language Conference in Amsterdam

Nicholas Henriksen in "Probus"

Yang Dong and San Duanmu at MidPhon 19

Ben Fortson keynote speaker at UCLA Indo-European Conference

Bill Baxter's Old Chinese Handbook Phonology now available in Japanese

Debby Keller-Cohen in "Research on Aging"

Jelena Krivokapic in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society"

John Swales at University of Colombo

Linguistics visit Hillel Day School in Metropolitan Detroit

Michigan at "Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference"

Michigan at GWAMP 2104

Michigan well represented at NWAV 43

San Duanmu at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Three new babies in our Department!

Linguistics meets Genetics

Snir and Heaton complete QRP's

Andries Coetzee at Northwestern University

Andries Coetzee at Old World Conference in Phonology

Carmel O'Shannessy in "Journal of Language Contact"

Colloquium this week: Professor Lisa Levinson (Oakland University)

Jon Brennan receives competitive MCubed award

Michigan at the LSA

Tim Chou in Lingua

Andries Coetzee in "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory"

Colloquium this week: Professor Ezra Keshet

First 2013 meeting of Journal Club

HistLing/SoConDi: Sally Thomason on the Pacific Northwest

John Swales gets entry in "The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

John Swales presents plenary at TESOL SUDAN via video-conference

Jon Brennan in "Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum"

Kevin McGowan to Stanford University

Linguistic Institute Information Session: Friday (2/8), 4 pm

Linguistics faculty service outside of the Department

Marlyse Baptista at the University of Pennsylvania

Michigan hosting Mid-Phon 18

Phondi this Friday: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese

Phondi: Jon Yip on gestural-coordination Greek consonant clusters

Robin Queen in Language

Sally Thomason receives "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Pidgin and Creole Society

Sam Epstein named as Thurnau Professor

SoCondDi: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the American South

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group this week: Tim Chou and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi on Sinhala

Teaching accolades for Linguistic GSI's

Three graduate students progress to candidacy

2013 Weinberg Cognitive Science Symposium

Andries Coetzee at USC

Carmel O'Shannessy at International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation

Colloquium this week: Prof. Eric Russell Webb

Colloquium: Andrew Wedel on the evolution of phoneme inventories

David Medeiros in Lingua

Diane Larsen-Freeman in the "Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

Graduate students win competitive fellowships

Jeff Heath gives keynote at "Linguistics in the Gulf-4"

Mid-Phon 18 this weekend

Nick Ellis in the "Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

Registration for the 2013 Linguistic Institute now live!

Robin Queen at University of Wisconsin

Six Linguistic Undergrad Majors Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Tim Chou and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi at FASAL 3

A successful MidPhon at UM

Annual board meeting of "Language Learning"

Capstone Poster Session: Documenting Mandinka

Diane Larsen-Freeman at Carnegie Mellon University

Documentary on alum Mark Sicoli's work on the whistled language of Oaxaca

Ezra Keshet at 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium

Journal Club looks backward and forward

Mike Opper at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society meeting

Two international presentations by Marlyse Baptista

UM Linguists in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Will Nediger receives Rackham Centennial Fellowship

Michigan Linguistics at "Workshop on Sound Change Actuation"

Several international presentations by John Swales

Undergrad alum to be Bloch Fellow at Linguistic Institute

Welcome to Elliott Levinson-Brennan!

What comes after UM?

Chair's Message: Sally Thomason looks backward and forward

2013 Linguistic Institute recap

Carmel O'Shannessy's work on Light Walpiri makes international news

Chatterjee and Baptista on Copular Predicates

Congratulations Drs. Chou, Medeiros and Yip

Congratulations, Dr. Erica Beck!

Diane Larsen-Freeman at WorldCALL

Ezra Keshet at the International Congress of Linguists

Jae-Young Shim at the 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar

New Faculty Member, Jelena Krivokapic

San Duanmu and Mike Opper receive Fullbright Grants

Team USA at the 11th Annual Linguistics Olympiad

Welcome back for Fall 2013

Welcome New Graduate Students

"Researching children's acquisition of sociolinguistic competence" by Carmel O'Shannessy

Blue goes to Pittsburgh for NWAV 42

Carmel O'Shannessy at the workshop on Intentional Language Change

John Swales at University of Ghent

Marlyse Baptista and Rachel Bayer on argument drop in Cape Verdean Creole

New chapter on Language and Gender by Robin Queen

New Interdisciplinary Major in Cognitive Science

Pires and Coppess on Pro-Drop in Old English

Plenary Address by Diane Larsen-Freeman

Sally Thomason on Intentional Language Change

Steve Dworkin's ongoing research

UM Linguistics meets Stanford Genetics

A Linguist outside of Linguistics: Susan Gelman

Alumi Update: Aman Kumar

Ana Cristina Ostermann (PhD, 2000) receives Most Distinguished Researcher Award

Carmel O'Shannessy at the AAA in Chicago

Diane Larsen-Freeman at SLRF 32

Faculty Spotlight: Jelena Krivokapic

Jae-Young Shim at TLS 13

John Swales delivers keynote address at ICLALIS 2013

Linguistics Alums receive Fullbright awards

Marlyse Baptista contributes to the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures

Nick Henriksen (RLL) in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Where are our graduate alumni now?

A busy speaking schedule for Diane Larsen-Freeman this fall

Alum Hamid Ouali at Wayne State University, November 30

Carmel O'Shannessy on doing fieldwork in Northern Australia

Colloquium this week: Professor Rick Lewis

Corpus Linguistics Workshop at Michigan this Saturday (12/1)

Deborah Keller-Cohen at Gerontological Society of America

Film Screening: Spontaneous Language Creation in El-Sayed

HistLing: Bailey Doolittle on diachronic syntax

Jon Brennan at Neurobiology of Language Conference

Jon Yip presents at the ASA

Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of linguistic data

Linguistics Open House this Monday!

Michigan Linguistics well-represented at NWAV 41

Phondi: Mike Opper on English Compound Truncations

Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese

Professors Swales and Queen in the "Language and Rhetorical Studies" Group

Robin Queen at Wayne State's "Language and Immigration Group"

Sally Thomason on the joys (and perils) of linguistic fieldwork

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Speech in TV shows

SoConDi: Professor Karla Mallette on a lingua franca for the Mediterranean

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Professor Anne Curzan

A productive year thus far for Nick Ellis

Alumni Focus: Professor Alicia Beckford Wassink

Ben Fortson update from Berlin

Carmel O'Shannessy on the conference circuit this summer

Epstein, Kitahara and Seely in print again

Ezra Keshet to perform with Ann Arbor Civic Theater

First meeting of the new Journal Club (Friday 9/28, 4 pm)

Harim Kwon presents at Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm

Harim Kwon receives award at Acoustical Society meeting

Institute Workshops now online

John Swales 2012-roundup, thus far

Linguistics receives Diversity Grant from Rackham

Marlyse Baptista at the Society of Caribbean Linguistics

Meet our new graduate students

Michigan at "GLOW in Asia IX"

New Faculty Member: Jon Brennan

Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents

Successful first meeting of Journal Club

Tim Chou at the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics

Tridha Chatterjee at Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 in Berlin

Yan Dong at the International Association for Chinese Linguistics

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Professor Rick Lewis

Acrisio Pires presents at "International Workshop on Heritage Languages"

Alumni Focus: Dr. Loraine K. Obler

Colloquium this week: Prof. Loraine Obler

HistLing: Bill Baxter on reconstructing Old Chinese

Jeff Heath explores new frontiers in language documentation

Jon Brennan at BIOMAG 2012

Joseph Tyler at Qatar University

Linguistics Open House

Linguistics visit Hillel Day School in Metropolitan Detroit

Ljiljana Progovac presents at Syntax Support Group this Friday

Phondi: Andries Coetzee on Afrikaans obstruent voicing and sound change

Phondi: Jon Yip on ultrasound, lip cameras and Greek consonant clusters

Phondi: Nick Henriksen on the Syntax/Phonology interface in Spanish

Q&A with Prof. Alison Cornish in SoConDi this week

Sally Thomason honored by Yale University

Second meeting of the Linguistics Journal Club

SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment

Syn/Sem Discussion: Marisa Boston on the Syntax and Semantics of WatsonMD

Tridha Chatterjee in the field

Andries Coetzee at UC Santa Cruz

Carmel O'Shannessy at the University of Chicago

Ezra Keshet at "American Pragmatics" conference

Michigan Syntacticians at "Formal Approaches to Creole Studies"

Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on the development of phonological representations

Plenary address by Acrisio Pires at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Robin Queen in the Provost's Seminar on Teaching

Talk on the contact between French and Wolof in Senegal (Tuesday, 12/4)

Chatterjee and Hettiarachchi receive Rackham Centennial Summer Fellowships

Courtesy Appointments for Keshet (Philosophy) and Queen (English)

Emily Coppess to University of Chicago Linguistics

Medeiros receives Mellon/ACLS Fellowship

Pires at "Formal Approaches to Heritage Language"

Chatterjee at the Berkeley Linguistics Society

Linguistics grad's unusual job application

Tim Chou awarded Rackham Pre-Doc Fellowship

Tim Chou journal paper and conference

Congrats to Drs. Tyler, Zhang, & Szymanski

Keshet paper in Journal of Semantics

The Littlest Linguist

John Swales (Emeritus) update

Joseph Tyler receives Graduate Teaching Certificate

Michigan at the LSA Annual Meeting

Sally Thomason talk on Endangered Languages

San Duanmu update

Lauren Squires to OSU

Thomason at the Berkeley Linguistics Society

Alumnae News: appointment and marriage

U of M at LSA Annual Meeting

AAAL Award for Diane Larsen-Freeman

David Medeiros receives Predoctoral Fellowship

Faculty Research Award: Marlyse Baptista and Susan Gelman

Lecture: Robin Queen

Marlyse Baptista at Indiana U

Nico Baier at 45th ICSNL

Sabbatical Update: San Duanmu

Congratulations, Drs Hefright & Lin!

NSF Graduate Fellowships: Rule & Opper

Department Receives Undergraduate Initiative Award

Kong, Hauk thesis awards

Alumni News Roundup

Andries Coetzee Summer update

Diane Larsen-Freeman update

Eric Brown in Portugal, Cape Verde

Faculty Award: Pam Beddor receives Collegiate Professorship

John Swales (Emeritus) update

Joseph Tyler at the International Pragmatics Association

Marlyse Baptista, Institute for the Humanities Fellow

Medeiros and Keshet at CLS 47

Meet Anne-Michelle Tessier

O'Shannessy Update

Recent QRPs: Tim Chou, Erica Beck

Return of the Blog

Tridha Chatterjee and Yiwen Zhou at Michicagoan 2011

Joseph Tyler at ETAP 2

Kovelman, Yip, & Beck publish in NeuroReport

U-M Linguistics Tenure Track Position

Acrisio Pires paper in Lingua

Joseph Tyler at Lehiste Memorial Symposium

Julie Boland in the News

Michigan at MidPhon 17

O'Shannessy paper in Bilingualism

David Medeiros at Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory conference

Coetzee Award and Roundup

Conference Presentation: Featural analysis and working memory retrieval in on-line parsing

Conference Presentation: Feature Inheritance and Minimality

Conference Presentations: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV39)

New Assistant Professor: Lauren Squires

Remaining Summer roundup

Squires Paper in Journal Language in Society

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Colloquium Series

Discussion Group Events

Archived Events

SoConDi: Haley Heaton on "Prosody of Southern television characters"

HistLing: Sally Thomason on sound suppression and sound change

MLK Colloquium: Walt Wolfram (NC State)

Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on nasality and VOT

Pizza and a Movie: "First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee"

HistLing: Piotr Michalowski: Changing a dead language: the standardization of Sumerian

Colloquium: Acrisio Pires: "Syntactic competence and access to Universal Grammar by second language learners"

SoConDi: Group member introductions with prospective students

SynSem: Shim and Epstein on "Unification of Theta Relations"

Phondi: Dave Ogden: "Phonetic Context Effects in L2 Phonetic Category Discrimination"

Linguistics Journal Club: "How Nature Meets Nurture"

SonConDi: Eric Acton on pragmatics and social meaning

HistLing: English as a Viking Language

Phondi: Benjamin Swets on "Individual Variation in the Scope of Sentence Planning"

Colloquium: Lisa Green, UMass "Inversion in African American English: When Negation Isn’t Enough"

Phondi: Emily M. Provost, "Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior"

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

Colloquium: Meredith Tamminga (UPenn) "Towards a dynamic view of sociolinguistic production"

SoConDi: Anastasia Smirnova on "Linguistic biases survive a military conflict: Language ideology in Ukraine"

HistLing: Ben Fortson on "Reflections on retroflexion across word-boundary in the Rigveda: Knotty, naughty, and nutty nati."

Phondi: Sagan Blue

LINGFO: Linguistics Information Session

SynSem: Jan-Wouter Zwart presents

Linguistics Journal Club: Fodor on the mind and cognitive science

Phondi: San Duanmu "Phonological Analysis and Marginal Syllables"

Colloquium: Barbra Meek: Idealizing (NDN) language

SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee and Marlyse Baptista on :Copular predicates in Bengali"

SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on Language Change in German Sign Language

HistLing: Bill Baxter on Tangut

Phondi: Kate Sherwood

Capstone Seminar Poster Presentations

Colloquium: Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Batia Snir (Linguistics Graduate Students)

Phondi: Coetzee, García-Amaya and Henriksen: Rhythmic transfer in language contact: Spanish and Afrikaans in Patagonia

HistLing: Ben Fortson on the history of Burushaski

Phondi: Krivokapic et al: "Temporal effects of prosodic structure on articulatory and manual gestures"

Colloquium: Amy Schafer: "Processing coreference: Evidence from Korean, English, and Japanese/Korean learners of English"

Phondi: Pam Beddor & Andries Coetzee: "The relation between production and perception of coarticulation"

Department Holiday Lunch

Capstone Poster Sessions

Colloquium: Yan Dong and Will Nediger

SoConDi: Ariana Bancu on "Transylvanian Saxon in Romania"

HistLing: Ratliff and Taguchi on Mo Piu (North Vietnam)

Phondi: Theo Stern on South African English Vowels in the UK

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

SynSem: Batia Snir on "Coherence Relations"

HistLing: Marcus Berger on Proto-Zaparoan Syntax

Phondi: O'Shannessy/Bancu on the Phonology of Mixed Languages

Colloquium: Robert Podesva on the Three Waves in Sociolinguistics

SenSem: Smirnova on Evidentiality in Bulgarian

SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee on English acquisition by English-Bengali speakers

Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese

Faculty Brown Bag Lunch

Journal Club: Utopian for Beginners

Hist Ling: Ben Fortson reports on UCLA Indo-European Conference

SoConDi: Sandhya Narayanan on Quechua-Aymara-Spanish contact

Phondi: Arthur Brakel on Portuguese verb structure

Colloquium: Nicholas Henriksen on "Vowel harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish"

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Dialects on TV

Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House

Phondi: Harim Kwon on Korean stops

Journal Club Meeting

SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on German Sign Language

HistLing: Coptic in the history of Egypt

Colloquium: Patricia Keating (UCLA) - "Linguistic Voice Quality"

SoConDi/SynSem: Discussion about semantic fieldwork

Phondi: Henriksen et al. on falsetto in Andalusian Spanish

SynSem: Will Nediger presents

HistLing: Organizational & Sally Thomason on Pacific Northwest Languages

SoConDi: Organizational & Carmel on her fieldwork

Phondi: Theo Stern on high, front vowels in South African English

Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany -"How does the brain deal with language variability?"

Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "How does the brain deal with language variability?"

HistLing/SoConDi: Bilingual Language Development: Turkish and German in Berlin 1983-2013

Phondi: Organizational meeting

Capstone Poster Session

Grad Student Colloquium - Stephen Tyndall & Jae-Young Shim

Syntax/Semantics - Sujeewa Hettiarachchi

Colloquium: Heather Brookes - "Urban Youth ‘Languages’ in South Africa: A Case Study of tsotsitaal in a South African township"

SoConDi - Ariana Bancu

Department Journal Club

Colloquium: Robert Henderson - "Dependent Indefinites and Their Post-Suppositions"

SoConDi - Barb Meek (SALSA keynote)

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Syntax/Semantics

Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction

Colloquium: Jon Brennan - "Linking Linguistic and Neural Impairments in Autism"

SoConDi - Dave Ogden (Corpus Analysis of Child Language)

Syntax/Semantics - Marcus Berger

Department Journal Club

SoConDi - Daniel Davis (Teaching Courses on Arab American English)

Colloquium: Shigeru Miyagawa - "The Integration Hypothesis of Human Language Evolution and Its Implications for the Study of Contemporary Languages"

Syntax/Semantics - Danuta Allen

Department Journal Club

SoConDi - Language and Diversity on Campus Brainstorm

Colloquium: Carole Chaski - "Science and Conscience in Forensic Linguistics"

Syntax/Semantics: Ed Cormany

Graduate Student Colloquium - Tridha Chatterjee and Harim Kwon

SoConDi: Marlyse Baptista

PhonDi Research Group - Nick Henriksen

SoConDi: Inge Kral - Youth Language in Australia

PhonDi: Jelena Krivokapic

Agraphia Discussion Group

Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House

Colloquium: Mark Janse - "Definitely an Object? Differential Object Marking and Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek"

SoConDi: Robin Queen

HistLing: Mark Janse - "Wanna Be a Dennil Floss Tycoon? The development of dental fricatives in Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)

PhonDi: San Duanmu

Agraphia Discussion Group

Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group

PhonDi: Yan Dong

Cognitive Science Major Information Session

Department Journal Club Meeting

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton - Authenticity in the portrayal of Brenda Johnson in "The Closer"

Agraphia Discussion Group

Colloquium: John Hale - "Entropy Reduction and the Subject Advantage across East Asian Languages"

Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group

PhonDi: Theo Stern

Historical Linguistics Discussion Group

Agraphia Discussion Group

Colloquium: Rajesh Bhatt - "An Argument for Semantically Contentful Head Movement"

SoConDi: John Swales - Citation Practices

PhonDi: Jiseung Kim

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group

Colloquium: Marlyse Baptista, Susan Gelman & Erica Beck - "Testing the Convergence Hypothesis in Creole Genesis"

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group

Historical Linguistics Discussion Group

PhonDi: Harim Kwon

Dissertation Defense: Erica Beck - "The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children"

Journal Club Meeting: Infant and Pet Directed Speech

SoConDi: Anne Curzan on Prescriptivism

HistLing: Stephen Tyndall on Akkadian Gender Morphology

Phondi: Nick Henrickson on the prosody of Manchego Spanish

Colloquium: Andrew Wedel

Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on phonetic imitation

Joint Phondi/SoConDi Meeting: Amy Hemmeter on Vocal Fry

HistLing Meeting: Bill Baxter on Tibetan Tonogenesis

Colloquium speaker: Eric Russell Webb

SoConDi: Nick Emlen presents

HistLing Meeting: Discussion of Bowern's paper on syntactic change

Phondi: Sagan Blue and Kate Sherwood present

SoConDi Meeting: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the South

Colloquium: Ezra Keshet on the Effect of Context on Meaning

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: Chou and Hettiarachchi presents

Joint HistLing/SoConDi Meeting: Sally Thomason presents

Phondi: Jon Yip presents

Journal Club Meeting: McConnel-Ginet on "Words in the World"

SoConDi meeting: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa

HistLing Meeting: Nick Emlen

Phondi: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese

Linguistic Institute Information Session

Colloquium speaker: Lisa Levinson

SoConDi: Research roundup

Phondi Meeting: (i) Mike Opper presents, (ii) Information about MidPhon

MLK Colloquium with Ann Charity Hudley

Phondi Meeting: Kuniko Nielsen presents

SoConDi: Hayley Heaton presents

HistLing Meeting:Stephen Tyndall presents

Phondi Meeting: Mike Opper presents

Colloquium: Rick Lewis (U-M Psychology Department)

Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of data in syntax

SoCondi: Karla Mallette on Lingua Franca

HistLing Meeting: Bailey Doolittle on Middle English Syntax

Phondi Meeting: Yan Dong presents

Film Screening: Voices from El-Sayed

Phondi Meeting: Nick Henriksen presents

Syn/Sem Discussion: Presentation by Marisa Boston

SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment

HistLing: Bill Baxter presents on Chinese etymology

Phondi Meeting: Andries Coetzee on voicing co-ocurrence in Afrikaans

Journal Club Meeting: Poplack on syntax and language contact

Phondi Meeting: Jon Yip presents

Rackham Centennial Colloquium: Loraine Obler (The City University of New York)

SoConDi: Q&A with Alison Cornish

Syntax Support Group: Presentation by Ljiljana Progovac

HistLing: Sound change in Elvish

Department Coffee Hour

Phondi Meeting: Discussing paper by Andrew Wedel

Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents

First meeting of the new Journal Club

HistLing Meeting: Mythbusters

SoConDi: Organizational meeting

Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: David Medeiros to present

Fall Welcome Picnic

Departmental Round Table Colloquium

Phondi: Organizational Meeting

Recruitment Colloquium-department speaker TBD

En Nuestra Lengua: L1 acquisition of object pronouns in Heritage Spanish-English speakers

Linguistic Methodology in Editing Old English Laws

Tracking Choice

Linguistic Structure and Linguistic Working Memory

Linguistic Masking in Speech-in-Speech Perception

Colloqium, Round Table Discussion

Syllable Onsets in Haitian and Saramaccan: Between Substrate and Superstrate

Majoring and Minoring in Linguistics

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