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Congratulations to our Fall 2022 DURF Award Winners

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NYU LINGUISTS AT NWAV50 NYU LINGUISTS AT NWAV50 The NYU Sociolab had a strong showing at the 50th New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference, hosted by Stanford University from October 13–15! Current lab members (noted with *), alumni, and friends presenting at the conference included: Project launch: Mocking or ...

Cournane in Journal of Semantics Cournane in Journal of Semantics Cournane & UMD colleagues  Annemarie van Dooren (1st author), Anouk Dieuleveut, & Valentine Hacquard in Journal of Semantics, "Figuring Out Root and Epistemic Uses of Modals: The Role of the Input" Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffac010

Laziz Nchare publishes in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Laziz Nchare publishes in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Our PhD alum Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare has published a paper with Jason Kandybowicz on Integrated Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Shupamem in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Hagen Blix in Glossa Hagen Blix in Glossa Glossa just published a new paper by Hagen Blix, "Interface Legibility and Nominal Classification: A Nanosyntactic Account of Kipsigis Singulatives". Read it here: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5825/

Mary Robinson's dissertation defense and new position Mary Robinson's dissertation defense and new position On July 28, Mary Robinson successfully defended her dissertation, "Negative concord as a window into social perception of morphological and syntactic variables." Her committee consisted of Laurel MacKenzie (co-chair), Gary Thoms (co-chair), Ail....

Sarah Phillips's Dissertation Defense and New Position Sarah Phillips's Dissertation Defense and New Position On June 21st, 2022, Sarah Phillips successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Composing Mixed-Language Expressions in the Bilingual Mind." Her committee consisted of Liina Pylkkänen (chair), Ailís Cournane, Alec Marantz, Gary Thoms, and...

Tenure, Sabbatical for Bowman Tenure, Sabbatical for Bowman Sam Bowman was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, effective this fall. Sam will spend a sabbatical year on leave as a visiting researcher at the private language modeling research lab Anthropic during AY 2022–23.

Zvjezdana Vrzić’s forthcoming activities Zvjezdana Vrzić’s forthcoming activities Zvjezdana is co-organizing and presenting or lecturing at the following events in the course of this June and July, : the Multilingual, multilectal, multiscriptal seminar to be held from June 20-24, 2022 at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croa...

NYU Semanticists at SALT 32 NYU Semanticists at SALT 32 NYU semanticists will be giving four presentations at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32,  co-hosted by El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City on June 8 – 10, 2022.  Our own Violeta Vázquez Rojas...

Soo-Hwan Lee and Selikem Gotah give talks at UChicago, Yale, and UC Berkeley Soo-Hwan Lee and Selikem Gotah give talks at UChicago, Yale, and UC Berkeley Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) talk & poster (http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/public/CLS_58.pdf) "Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) Agent Nominalization" Selikem Gotah & Soo-Hwan Lee "Linearly adjacent allomorphs & syntacti...

Yining Nie accepts tenure track position at San Jose State Yining Nie accepts tenure track position at San Jose State Yining Nie (PhD 2020), now a Postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor job offer from San Jose State University for the fall of 2023.

Greg Guy paper in Language and Linguistics Compass. Greg Guy paper in Language and Linguistics Compass. "Globalising the study of language variation and change: A manifesto on cross-cultural sociolinguistics", by Greg Guy and Aria Adli, has just been published in Language and Linguistics Compass, Vol. 16, issue 5-6.   https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc...

Greg Guy book published Greg Guy book published The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning, edited and with an introduction by Gregory Guy and Karen Beaman, has been published by Routledge:  https://www.routledge.com/The-Coherence-of-Linguistic-Communities-Orderly-Heterogeneity-and...

Repetti-Ludlow and MacKenzie in Linguistics Vanguard Repetti-Ludlow and MacKenzie in Linguistics Vanguard Linguistics Vanguard has just published an article by Chiara Repetti-Ludlow and Laurel MacKenzie, "Regularization in the face of variable input: Children's acquisition of stem-final fricative plurals in American English." You can read it here: h...

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2022 LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS! CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2022 LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS! Please join us in congratulating the following students. Brynn Hutchinson and Jean Park has been named this year's recipient of the Edward Sapir Award, presented to an outstanding senior in Anthropology and Linguistics. Mica Clause...

Welcome Grad Class of 2022! WELCOME GRAD CLASS OF 2022! We are pleased to announce our incoming class of PhD students for Fall 2022.  We will be joined by: Shasteny Cabrera Roldan (Universidad De Puerto Rico) Jessica Goebel (Queen Mary, University of London) Christine Gu (University of Chicago) Auromita Mitra (English & Fore...

Maxime Tulling's dissertation defense and new position at University of Montreal Maxime Tulling's dissertation defense and new position at University of Montreal Maxime Tulling has successfully defended her dissertation 'Neural and developmental bases of processing language outside the here-and-now'. Her committee consisted of Ailís Cournane (Co-Chair), Liina Pylkkänen (Co-Cha...

Maddie Gilbert's Postdoc at Labex Paris Maddie Gilbert's Postdoc at Labex Paris Maddie Gilbert has accepted a postdoctoral research position at the Laboratory of Excellence "Empirical Foundations of Linguistics", where she will be working on the Phonetic and Phonological Complexity project. She will be starting in September 2022. Congra...

Recent publications by alum Haoze Li Recent publications by alum Haoze Li Our 2020 PhD alum, Haoze Li has had two journal articles published recently: Relative measurement and scope in Mandarin. Glossa 7/1. (2022) Mandarin wh-conditionals. A dynamic question approach. Natural Language Semantics 29, 401-451. (2021) Congrats, Haoze!

Naomi Lee Accepts Job at Baruch College Naomi Lee Accepts Job at Baruch College Naomi Lee has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of English at Baruch College, starting August 2023. Congratulations, Naomi!

NSF DDRI grant for Pylkkänen & Parrish NSF DDRI grant for Pylkkänen & Parrish Prof. Liina Pylkkänen and PhD student Alicia Parrish were awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the project "The interaction between conceptual combination and linguistic structure."

Gillian Gallagher promoted to Full Professor Gillian Gallagher promoted to Full Professor The Linguistics Department is proud to announce that Gillian Gallagher has been promoted to full professor. Congratulations, Gillian!

Michael Marinaccio in Lifespans and Styles Michael Marinaccio in Lifespans and Styles Michael Marinaccio, who received our department's Robert A. Fowkes Prize in 2020, has had a paper published in Lifespans and Styles, a peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate work in sociolinguistics. The paper, De LaurentESE: A diachronic study of the idi...

Khan, Rivera, and Winship receive DURF Grants Khan, Rivera, and Winship receive DURF Grants Congratulations to the following Linguistics students for receiving a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (DURF) from the NYU College of Arts and Science!  Raef Khan Research Project: Is Your Speech Prestigious? Understanding Prestige Bias....

Stanton in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Stanton in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory “Allomorph selection precedes phonology: Evidence from Yindjibarndi”, by Juliet Stanton, has recently appeared in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. You can read the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-021-09531-0

Bowman Gives Talks about Data and Evaluation in NLP Bowman Gives Talks about Data and Evaluation in NLP Sam Bowman is finishing up a series of invited talks about data and evaluation in NLP, which includes in-person talks at UT Austin, University College London, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, Technion, and the Hebrew University; online tal...

Phillips & Pylkkänen publish in eNeuro Phillips & Pylkkänen publish in eNeuro New paper by Sarah Phillips and Liina Pylkkänen shows how bilinguals recruit the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) when composing both single- and mixed-language expressions without exhibiting language switching effects. It was selected by the publishing soc...

José Álvarez Retamales presented their work for NYU GSAS (We)Search: Mocking or 'Relajo?' Identity and in-group joking in Latinx Communities José Álvarez retamales presented their work for NYU GSAS (We)Search: Mocking or 'Relajo?' Identity and in-group joking in Latinx Communities José Álvarez-Retamales, is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics, who presented their research "Mocking or 'Relajo?' Identity and in-group jo...