New publications
Hot out of the press! Two new publications by Prof. Chris Hammerly! Check below for more. Citation: Hammerly, C. (2023) A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy. Language, 99(1), 38-80. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/884309 Blurb: This paper provides an analysis that ties together three closely linked systems in Ojibwe: person (which distinguishes types of conversational participants), obviation (which makes […]
New publication by Profs. Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson
Check out our newest publication by Joash Gambarage and Lisa Matthewson. Gambarage, Joash & Matthewson, Lisa, (2022) “The Bantu-Salish connection in determiner semantics”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7685
New publication by Chris Hammerly
A new paper authored by Chris Hammerly has just come out. Check out the details below. Title: Person-based prominence guides incremental interpretation: Evidence from obviation in Ojibwe Authors: Christopher Hammerly, Adrian Staub, Brian Dillon Journal: Cognition Date: August 2022 Short Blurb: (How) do we construct the meaning of a sentence before it is complete? A […]
“Nobody’s Perfect”: New paper out
New paper out by Bertrand, Aonuki, Chen, Davis, Gambarage, Griffin, Huijsmans, Matthewson, Reisinger, Rullmann, Salles, Schwan, Todorovic, Trotter & Vander Klok (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 2022, 7, 148. Impressive teamwork! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148/pdf
Statement on the Kamloops Indian Residential School atrocity
The department has a long-term commitment to Indigenous communities as they work to recover from the residential school era and its aftermath. We are horrified and saddened by the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children… [Click for full statement.]
Nicolai and Lo win international pronunciation prediction competition
Garrett Nicolai and Roger Lo have won the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for low-resource languages. The challenge was to develop a computational system that predicts the pronunciation of words from their spelling. Their submission trained on Adyghe, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Khmer, Latvian, Maltese, Romanian, Slovene, and Welsh.
Abdul-Mageed in the Globe and Mail on Twitter and COVID-19
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed contributed a piece to the Globe and Mail on what Twitter reveals on COVID-19, to be republished on the Royal Society of Canada website.
Bryan Gick named AAAS Fellow
Bryan Gick has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of experimental phonetics, notably for advances in multimodal perception and biomechanics. Congratulations, Bryan!
Samuel Akinbo on talking drums
Linguistics grad student Samuel Akinbo’s research on ‘talking drums’ is profiled in an interesting and entertainingly pun-filled discussion on the Language Sciences site. The crucial observation is that the gángan, a drum used in Nigeria, can convey a rich array of linguistic information about spoken Yorùbá.
Sóskuthy and Abdul-Mageed receive infrastructure grants
Assistant professors Marci Sóskuthy and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed both received funding to support digital infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund. Read more about it here.