Kate Lindsey to present at SLE
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled “Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi”. Many congrats to Professor Lindsey!
Beck Nowicki accepts PhD offer at Binghamtom University
Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU—Binghamton University that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.
Kevin Samejon and Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas defend their dissertations
Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations! – Kevin Samejon: “National identity and regionality among Philippine English speakers in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu: A variationist study of alveolar fricative production” – Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas: Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociophonetic Study of Liquid Production in Boston Spanish” […]
Becca Wheeler poster talk at ICLDC
In early March, several BU Linguistics members presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Hawai’i. Pictured here, PhD student Becca Wheeler had a very popular poster talk titled “Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization.” Her project was borne out of Prof. O’Connor’s course on Language Revitalization. […]
Ousmane Cisse presents at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY)
PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse’s abstract titled “The Graphemic Variation of /ŋ/ and Its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami,” was accepted at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY). His presentation was earlier this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congrats to Ousmane on the great achievement!
Professor Coppock presents at SOLID Georgetown
Professor Coppock presented with Law Professor Jill Anderson (University of Connecticut) last Friday at a one-day symposium on legal interpretation and data (“SOLID”) at Georgetown. https://solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ They presented a talk entitled “‘Any’ problems: Lexical Vagueness or Structural Ambiguity?”.
Romi Hill published in Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG)
PhD student Romi Hill was recently published in the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) conference proceedings. She, along with her colleagues during her master’s degree at Konstanz University in Germany, propose a method to integrate gradient language redundancy effects into a formal generative model of grammar. You can read the paper here: https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/article/view/60
Aditya Yedetore presents at Brown
In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI, Neuro, and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled “Classical computation in connectionist models” and you can read more about it and watch a recording here: brown-ancor.github.io
Jenna Conklin accepts post-doc position at the Arctic University of Norway
Jenna Conklin, one of our visiting assistant professors, recently accepted a post-doc position at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). She will be working with Martin Krämer to use artificial grammar learning to better map the typology of vowel and consonant harmony. You can learn more about Martin’s work on the university’s website. Congratulations, Jenna!!
Professor Neil Myler presents at a CRISSP seminar
This month, Professor Neil Myler presented at the CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) seminar on Theme Vowels, Categories, and Categorization. His talk was titled “Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be)” If you couldn’t make it, he also did a debrief that you can watch […]