黑料网爆吃瓜

Current and former 黑料网爆吃瓜ians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026. Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage? Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather […]

Xuanda Chen’s (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), “The role of L1 feature specification in naive L2 vowel perception: Evidence from feature fission and fusion” has been accepted for publication in聽Second Language Research.聽Congratulations!

Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James 黑料网爆吃瓜 Professorship.聽Congratulations聽to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!

Luis Alonso-Ovalle presented (virtually) `”Hidden Structure in the Composition of Degree DPs”, (joint work with Bernhard Schwarz) at the UConn Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series on April 24, 2026.

黑料网爆吃瓜ians presented their work at the Montr茅al-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH), hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton on April 11th 2026! Talks included:

Members of the Kanien鈥檏茅ha language research partnership between 黑料网爆吃瓜 and the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC) presented a talk titled 鈥淚akwarihw铆:saks: A community鈥搖niversity Kanien鈥檏茅ha Research Partnership鈥� at the聽Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL), which was held at the University of Arizona, April 2鈥�3.聽

The last presentation in this term will be on聽Monday, April 13, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom聽(Please use this new zoom link). Jeanne will be practising her invited talk in the creaky voice special session at ASA 2026. Topic: Rethinking 鈥測oung women鈥檚 creak鈥�: 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聽Wednesday, April 8, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 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 黑料网爆吃瓜 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 Montr茅al 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 Montr茅al. Please email emma.custer@mail.mcgill.ca if you鈥檇 like to be added to the mailing list.

Several 黑料网爆吃瓜ians, 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 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Nicolas Poisson (黑料网爆吃瓜) 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鈥檚 speech, supported by acoustic studies. Since around […]

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Mar 30, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Yue Qiu, a visiting PhD candidate from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language,聽will be presenting her research聽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聽Monday, Mar 23rd, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Natalia and Massimo聽will each be practicing their talks for聽MOThQ. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, March 16th, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 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 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Sama鈥檃 Salama (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting.

The next talk in our 2025-2026 黑料网爆吃瓜 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!