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!
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!!
Jupitara Ray defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD student Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”. You can read more about Jupitara and her work on her website: https://jupitararay.github.io/
Recordings of Taeme available on PARADISEC
After linguist Philip Tama made recordings in 2012 of Taeme (a Pahoturi River language), Professor Kate Lindsey and student Brady Dailey compiled and cleaned the dataset. The recordings are now public in the PARADISEC archive! Without their efforts, this dataset would have remained inaccessible. Now, the Taeme community and researchers have access to this important […]
Meet our visiting assistant professor: Jenna Conklin
We are very lucky to have two visiting faculty members this year: meet Professor Jenna Conklin!
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English
BU Professor Jon Barnes, along with colleagues Alejna Brugos, Nanette Veilleux, and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, published an article in “Language and Speech” entitled “Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English”. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00238309241255319