COGEL (the committee for gender equity in linguistics) is an open committee of the LSA formed to track, promote, and ensure equity and inclusion. Their annual meeting is at the LSA on Friday 1/9 at 11:30 in the Balcony J room and on Zoom (bostonu.zoom.us/j/9723455052...). genderinlinguistics.org

We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting! For the full schedule with times and locations, you can check out the official program on the LSA website. #lsa2026

Congrats to Professor Lindsey who recently published in Open Text Collections at Language Science Press! Available for download: langsci-press.org/catalog/book... Compiled by the Ende Language Committee, the texts represent a diverse set of authors, illustrators, and translators from the community.

So, this marks our first 50 years. Thank you all for participating in the #BUCLD50 and for the contributions and support of our community! With all of you, we look forward to the next 50 years. Photos and other exciting materials are on the way! ##BUCLD50 #BUCLD #LanguageDevelopment

Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in CAS, applies theoretical and empirical methods from linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy to analyze, evaluate, and explain the linguistic capabilities and limitations of LLMs. Congrats, Prof. Hao! 2/2

BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship! This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU. www.bu.edu/articles/202... 1/2

Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025 Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!

Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation. Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...

PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!

Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.

Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.

The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.

Visiting Professor Michael Everdell coauthored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages" www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus! He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!

Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference! You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...

Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation. Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.

Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.

After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He will be joining their English department in the Fall of 2025!

PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume! You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...

Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled "What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?" sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...

Congratulations to all our graduates from this weekend! #graduation #linguistics #phd #convocation

Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding for his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...

At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!! #workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal

PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at @lavlang.bsky.social this summer in Manchester! She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!

PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Earlier this month, PhD student Romi Hill presented at Harvard's WOLF (Working on Language in the Field) lab! Her talk was on reduplication in Bantu.

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". Congrats!

Our master’s student Rebecca (Beck) Nowicki has officially committed to a PhD at another BU— @binghamtonu.bsky.social that is! Congratulations to Beck and we wish her good luck in her future endeavors.

Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations! Here is Lee-Ann and Kevin pictured with Advisor Danny Erker. Huge congrats to both! #phd #dissertation #defense #linguistics

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 popular poster talk titled "Inupiaq: a case study in passive standardization in revitalization."

PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse presented earlier this month at the 25th Sociolinguistic Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! His abstract was titled "The Graphemic Variation of /ŋ/ and Its Sociolinguistic Implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami". Congrats, Ousmane!

Professor Coppock presented with Law Professor Jill Anderson (UConn) last Friday at a one-day symposium on legal interpretation and data ("SOLID") at Georgetown. solid-symposium.github.io/2025/ They presented a talk entitled "'Any' problems: Lexical Vagueness or Structural Ambiguity?".

PhD student Romi Hill was recently published in the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) conference proceedings. She and her colleagues propose a method to integrate gradient language redundancy effects into a formal generative model of grammar. lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.ph...

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, our Visiting Assistant Professor, 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 map the typology of vowel and consonant harmony. Congratulations, Jenna!! en.uit.no/ansatte/pers...

Kudos to @jupitararay.bsky.social, whose abstract w/ Prof. @cbchang.bsky.social was accepted to @isbilingualism.bsky.social (#ISB15)! 🤩👏 Title: "Phonetic accommodation in Hindi–English & Telugu–English early sequential bilinguals" www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15... @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

This month, Professor Neil Myler presented at the CRISSP seminar with a talk titled "Romance Conjugation Class Features could be Syntactic (and on certain assumptions must be)" Couldn't make it? Luckily, he also did a debrief that you can watch on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcjG... #crissp

Attention prosepctive scholars of BlueSky! The Boston University Linguistics department is accepting applications for our MA program! Make sure you get yours in by March 15, 2025. Learn more: www.bu.edu/linguistics/... #gradschool #higherlearning #MA #mastersdegree #boston #linguistics #graduate

Professor Coppock, along with several of her colleagues, has published a new paper! Title: Beware of referential garden paths! The dangerous allure of semantic parses that succeed locally but globally fail URL: escholarship.org/uc/item/87v9...

Congrats to PhD candidate @jupitararay.bsky.social on winning a NSF DDRIG! Her PhD, advised by @cbchang.bsky.social, is "Phonetic Accommodation and Drift: A Study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English Early Sequential Bilinguals". Kudos, Jupitara! 🙌 jupitararay.github.io @bulinguistics.bsky.social 🐦🐦

The Boston University Department of Linguistics is currently accepting applications for its one-year MA program in linguistics. For full consideration for financial aid, please apply here by January 15th: www.bu.edu/cas/admissio... Please email [email protected] with any questions.

Our own Prof. Coppock was among the keynote speakers at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024! Her talk was entitled “Metrology and Mereology”. You can download the slides from the talk here: eecoppock.info/ac2024-ho-co...

Professor Elizabeth Coppock was selected as an invited speaker for the Amsterdam Colloquia! Her talk is titled: "Toward a common perspective on cyclic, categorical, and scalar division in natural language semantics". events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2024/

BU Linguistics is proud to announce that several members of our department are presenting at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in January! So many in fact, we can't fit them all here! Check out our Facebook announcement: facebook.com/share/p/1DXi...

New pub from Dr Felix Kpogo & Prof @cbchang.bsky.social: "Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children's and adults' production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã"! Free download: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kIISLixzz... @bulinguistics.bsky.social #linguistics

Congrats to BU Ling member Jupitara Ray on defending her dissertation prospectus!

Professor Coppock presented alongside UConn law professor Jill Anderson at the 2024 Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) Summit. Their talk involves the "Square of Litigation”--a tool that can help lawyers and judges clarify issues surrounding ambiguity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFVa...

Congrats to BU Linguistics Professor Neil Myler who just published the FIRST paper in a new journal called "Continua". His paper is titled: "Imagining Life without Rules of Exponence and the Elsewhere Condition". journals.psu.edu/continua/iss...