NO classes are scheduled this Wednesday, 10/1 and Thursday, 10/2 in observance of Yom Kippur.

✨ Last Thursday's Linguistics Colloquium ✨ Thank you to Claire Bowern (Yale University) for presenting "When sound change does (and doesn't) happen". Stay tuned for the next event in our Fall series! Next up: Athulya Aravind (Yale University), Oct 16. Don’t miss it!

Coming Dec 10 - take a deep dive into Super Bowl headliner Bad Bunny’s music & significance - reserve to join in person or online, free: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/deep-...

Thinking about grad study in linguistics? 👀 Join our Open House @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Oct 16! What to expect? 📖 Semantics I (Al Khatib) 🍴 Lunch + Q&A w/ @cece-cutler.bsky.social & students 📚 Field Methods II (Kaufman) 🎤 Colloquium RSVP 👉 tinyurl.com/2md7pwp4

🔬 Inside the Lab: Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL) We’re kicking off a new series on the research labs that drive our program. First up: SLAL, where students & faculty investigate bilingualism, heritage languages, and second language learning. ✨ Stay tuned for more labs!

Tomorrow! 🎓 Our first Fall ’25 Linguistics Colloquium: Claire Bowern (Yale university) – When sound change does (and doesn't) happen 📅 Thu, Sept 25, 4:15–6:15pm 📍 Room 8301/8304, CUNY GC + Zoom (reg required)

🦑 Throwback Tuesday! Last semester, SQUID (Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development) returned after 5 years. It’s our department’s tradition where students & faculty share playful works-in-progress and creative experiments. Can’t wait for the next one!

✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change. 📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm 📍 GC, Room 9206 🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f

🎉 Congrats to our grad students Matt Malone & Celeste Escobar! They’ll present on the morphosyntax of Guaraní, a project that grew out of our Field Methods course, at Effects of Grammatical System on the Lexicon (Unison, Hermosillo 🇲🇽, Nov 13–14) 🌍

✨ Friday Reads ✨ Our pick this week is a new release: Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela (Routledge, 2025). 👩‍🏫 Prof. Miki Makihara (QC; CUNY GC Anthropology, Linguistics, LAILAC) 👨‍🏫 Prof. Juan Luis Rodriguez (QC Anthropology)

💰 Funding Friday! Looking for support for research or conference travel? Prof. Jason Kandybowicz compiled a fantastic list of fellowships & grants for linguistics grads ✨ 📎 Explore it here →

Here’s the abstract for our first Fall 2025 Colloquium! 📝 Claire Bowern (Yale) will speak on sound change, why it happens (and doesn’t). Curious to know more? Join us in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social or on Zoom (register here: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)

@lukewaltzer.bsky.social talks to @tanyadomi.bsky.social on The Thought Project about a project bringing together CUNY faculty to explore the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning, while creating space for reflection and experimentation in the classroom www.gc.cuny.edu/news/teachin...

✨ First Colloquium of the Semester ✨ We’re kicking things off next week! Don’t miss our first Linguistics Colloquium of Fall 2025. 📅 September 25, 4:15-6:15pm 📍Room 8301/8304 💻 Zoom (registration mandatory): tinyurl.com/cunylingcoll... Stay tuned, the abstract is coming soon!

📢 The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship is accepting applications — due Oct 2. Open to doctoral students in any field whose dissertation research focuses on education. Learn more & apply: naeducation.org/naed...

We’re on Instagram! 🎉 Follow @gccuny.linguistics for program news, events, student & faculty spotlights, and resources for our community 🌍✨ www.instagram.com/p/DOteXNtDvB...

🌟 Are you a student in our program? Do you want to be featured in our Student Highlight series? Share your story, research, and passions with our community → forms.gle/5KLMmY2uAN... It only takes 5–10 minutes to fill out!

Congrats to Prof. Levitan, recipient of 2025 Google Cybersecurity Research Grant! 🎉 Read more about her exciting work →

📣 Endangered Language Association Presents: Voices of Enlhet Memory and the Enenlhet / Voces de la memoria Enlhet y los Enenlhet Sept 26 · 3–4:30 PM ET 💻 Virtual or watch party @ ELA NYC 🗣️ EN/ES interpretation 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dW7Dy4U9 🌱 More information at: www.enlhet.org | @e.nnengkoo

👏 Huge congrats to PhD Candidate Aidan Malanoski! This Fall they are presenting at @nwavconference.bsky.social (2 talks!), giving an invited talk at NYU SocioLab, and guest lecturing at JHU, PSU Brandywine & CUNY. So proud! 🌟

Our own Kyle Gorman will present at the LSA Presidential Research Forum on Logical Phonology! 🗓️ Sept 15, 1–2:30 PM ET Open to all — no membership needed! Register here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

📢 Join us Sept 17, 6:30pm (Room 5307 & online) for Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Post-Digital Publishing & Platform Capitalism. Speakers include alum Angie Waller (MA CompLing ’19). No registration needed for in-person attendance, but required for online attendance: tinyurl.com/gcling

Can you believe it’s already been a week since the semester started? 😱 The first week flew by! It was such a joy welcoming our new students and reconnecting with familiar faces! Sharing some snapshots from orientation 📸

The Graduate Center community mourns the passing of our colleague Dianne C. Bradley, professor emerita of Linguistics and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria... @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social

🎓 New semester, new opportunities! Check out this piece from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, featuring insights from our very own @cececut.bsky.social, along with alumni and colleagues, on navigating grad school and thriving in academia. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/how-mak...

🎉 Welcome back, the Fall semester is here! Excited to kick off a new semester of learning, research, and collaboration at GC Linguistics. 🌟

🧭 What does ethical fieldwork in linguistics really look like? Join us for a talk by GC alum Prof. Ignacio Montoya (University of Nevada, Reno) on how academic theory can support more ethical, community-centered language work. Open to all!

🎉 Congrats to our 2025 MA graduates! Today, they successfully defended their thesis projects: 🗣️ When Suffixes Collide – Simon Zuberek 🧠 Depressive Patterns in Italian Discourse (NLP) – Annapia Borraccino 🧪 Function Words & Implicit Learning – Daniel Schwartz 🎧 ASR on Louisiana French – Emily Chiu

📢 Join us May 10 @ 10am (EST) for a hybrid talk by Cynthia Montaño (UC Berkeley) on her work documenting Da’an Davi (Mixtec, S. Puebla) via a digital dictionary. Hosted at ELA + GC CUNY D&I Committee. 🔗 Registration here: forms.gle/cP8vFNLn92Lg...

🎉 Exciting news! Zhilang Liu’s abstract on noun selection after no in English has been accepted to the Language and Method Conference at The New School (Apr 25–26). Congrats on this amazing achievement!

What do shop signs say about power, place & religion? Join us for Prof. Shonna Trinch’s talk, “Signs of (Ir)reverence”: Place-Making, Social Semiotics, and Religion in Public Space 🗓 Fri, Mar 28 | 🕑 2–4PM 📍 CUNY Grad Center Rm 7102 💻 Zoom: ID 854 6122 6724 | Code 578481

📢 Join the Spring 2025 ELA Seminar on March 21! 🎙️ "Circles of Oral Knowledge in Digital Motion in Guarani (Tupi-Guarani)" 📍 Hybrid Event – In person & Zoom 📅 March 21, 2025 | 📍 NYC 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dcK8qxAR Explore how Guarani oral traditions evolve in digital spaces. See you there! 🌍✨

Zhilang Liu’s abstract, "Adjective Formation and Reduplication in Ekhwa Adara," has been accepted for a talk at ACAL 56! 🗣️✨ She’ll be presenting at the University of Minnesota (May 15–17), contributing to the study of African languages. Congrats, Zhilang (PhD Student)!

Natalia Tyulina (PhD student) will be speaking at the Academic Bridges online conference this March! Her talk, "Tweeting War and Peace: A Linguistic Analysis of Competing Narratives on Russian Twitter" explores how language shapes conflict narratives. More info here: www.academicbridges.sbs

🚀 Exciting news! Jie Sheng (PhD student) will be presenting her poster, "Atypical Antipassives in Gaahmg," at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 2025)! 🗣️🌍 📍 Where? University of Minnesota 📅 When? May 15-17, 2025 Huge congratulations to Jie! 🎉👏

📢 Linguistics Colloquium tomorrow, Feb 20! Join us for Celeste Escobar’s talk on educational resources for displaced Indigenous languages. 📍 CUNY GC, Room C201 ⏰ 4:15-6 PM | Hybrid option available (Register here: tinyurl.com/3zt6nscb) 🍷 Come for the linguistics, stay for the wine & cheese!

Getting this application out of the way before Valentines is a very romantic gesture to your future self!

How do older adults engage with language change? Join us for the first Sociolinguistics Lecture of the Spring! Laurel MacKenzie (NYU) will explore Sir David Attenborough’s /r/-tapping over six decades. Don't miss it! 👀 📅 Friday, February 14, 2 - 4 pm 📍 Room 7102 or Zoom (tinyurl.com/ypahvm7a)

Professor Garley's research was featured in the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social news! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/kendric...

🤖 Interested in Conversational AI? Join us for a talk by Dr. Nava Shaked on Conversational & Multimodal AI Systems! 📅 Feb 6, 4:15-6 PM 📍 Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center Learn about speech interfaces, emotion detection, and AI-driven interactions—plus real-world industry applications!

🌟 Linguistics & Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Community Meet-Up! 🌟 Join your colleagues every Monday for coffee, tea, and snacks! ☕🍪 📍 Room 7400 ⏰ 1PM - 3PM Swing by before or after class, or take a break to chat and connect! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉

📢 Spring semester is here, and so is the first Colloquium! Join us tomorrow at 4:15 PM in Room C201 for Prof. Garley’s talk: 🎤 “It’s Just Big Me”: Discourse, Authenticity & Identity in the Drake-Kendrick Lamar Beef 🍷 Wine & cheese reception after! 💻 Zoom available: tinyurl.com/4t7f3h5a

🌷 Update: Today's colloquium ("It’s Just Big Me”: Discourse, Authenticity, and Identity in the Drake-Kendrick Lamar Beef) is postponed to Spring 2024! We’re making this change to bring you an even better experience. Stay tuned for details – we can’t wait to see you there! 🌟 #EventUpdate #Spring2025

🎉 Let’s wrap up the semester together! 🎉 Join us on Tues, Dec. 17th for: 🗣️ Town Hall: 4-5:30 PM (Room 7102 / Zoom) 🎊 End-of-Semester Party: Right after (Room 7400) Come celebrate and connect! 🌟

🌟 Grad Students, this one's for you! Need help perfecting your conference abstracts? 📝 Join us on Thursday for a workshop on Writing Conference Abstracts at the Graduate Center! 🔗 Details here: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/writi... Don't miss out—your future conference submissions will thank you! 💡

🌍 Our PhD student, Celeste Escobar, is presenting at the Symposium on Ecolinguistics today & tomorrow in Ecuador! 🌱 Watch live: (www.youtube.com/@uazuay19 Explore abstracts: simposio-ecolinguistico.uazuay.edu.ec 🎉 Congrats Celeste!

Excited to share that our students Matt Malone, Celeste Escobar, and Margaret R. Matte will represent us at SYNC 2024 on Dec 7 at NYU! Don’t miss it! 🌟 Register here: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/sync... #SYNC2024

Join us for our next Colloquium with Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs (USC)! 🗣️ "When Number & Gender Compete: Agreement Features in Heritage Bilinguals" 📅 Dec 5, 2024 | ⏰ 4:15-6 PM 📍 ROOM 9205 | 💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/2auwa5r9 👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/2kr2tvby See you there! 🎉

Who’s Your Linguistics Inspiration? 🌟 This Thanksgiving week, we want to know: 👉 Who’s the one person who most influenced your journey in linguistics? Comment below and let’s celebrate the mentors, friends, and supporters who shaped us! 🍁