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Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer (2024) Modal Indefinites and Semantic Variation: Lessons from Chuj, Semantics and Pragmatics.

A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled 鈥淭he cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects鈥�, will appear in Language. This article is based on Connie鈥檚 second evaluation paper, supervised by Morgan and Meghan.

Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,聽 鈥淔ree Choice Items: The view from Farsi鈥�, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.

Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淧honetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts鈥�, supervised by Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger on August 6th.聽 Congratulations, Wei!

Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben’s thesis was titled “Grounding Language in Vision using Modular Probabilistic Representations鈥� supervised by Tim聽O’Donnell. He will be starting a PhD in EECS at MIT in Fall 2025. Olivia’s thesis is 鈥淎n experimental investigation of focus prosody in Akan […]

Morgan Sonderegger received a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Speech Variability, to be held 2023-2028. Congratulations Morgan!

Morgan Sonderegger co-authored a paper with聽Shahin Tavakoli聽et al., “Statistics in phonetics”聽(preprint), that has been accepted for publication in聽Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. A chapter co-authored by Morgan Sonderegger and聽James Kirby, “Actuation without production bias” (preprint), has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming book,聽Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change.

McLing will be on summer break starting this week. We will return in the next academic year. Please keep sharing your fellowship, conference, publications, and other news with us at mcling.linguistics@mcgill.ca. Have a great summer!

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year鈥檚 award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Chase Boles, William Zumchak Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award: Sophia FlaimAward for Academic Leadership: Alex ItoAward for Department Citizenship: Yanran MouAward for Excellence in Research: Yanran Mou