Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
Rodrigo Ranero is at the 9th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America, talking about sluicing in Kaqchikel: “Truncamiento en kaqchikel: consecuencias para la identidad en la elipsis."
Say hello to faculty visitor Elena Simonato, Senior Lecturer of Russian linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Suyoung Bae is at the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics discussing "The syntax of classifiers and Korean and cyclic linearization."
Congrats to Rachel Dudley *17, who starts a 2-year research postdoc at the Central European University, in its Department of Cognitive Science and Cognitive Development Center at the Hungarian capital of Budapest. With Ágnes Kovács and Ernő Téglás, and su
Listen to Rodrigo Ranero discuss linguistics, Mayan languages, and emigration from Guatemala on ConCriterio, a weekly radio program.
Leslie Li, a Rochester undergrad and Summer visitor at UMD, will be presenting her joint work with Thomas Schatz and Naomi Feldman at the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology.
Anton Malko *18 takes a postdoctoral position with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency.
The Linguistic Association of Great Britain has recognized Justin Malčić's "The Asymmetry and Antisymmetry of Syntax" as one of this year's three Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertations.
Craig Thorburn and Thomas Schatz present a poster on joint work with Naomi Feldman, "A quantitative model of the language familiarity effect in infancy" at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
Learn about Filler-gap dependency comprehension at 15 months from Laurel Perkins and Jeffrey Lidz in the new issue of Language Acquisition.