Our next MCQLL meeting will take place Nov 24th at 2pm in room 002. Alessio’s talk is titled聽Prominence strengthening in Todos Santos Mam.

This week’s MCQLL talk will take place Nov 17th at 2pm in room 002. Massimo will present his work, titled: Apparent vocal tract length vs /s/ acoustics in a large multilingual corpus.

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, Nov 18, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom.  Jeanne will present her thesis ideas in sociophonetics. All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Anna Carolina Almeida, Raimundo (Ray) Cox-Casals, and Michael Wagner will be presenting 鈥淐umulative agreement in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.鈥�

The聽Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab)聽is meeting聽Thursday, November 20 at 4PM in Pavillon Lionel-Groulx (3150 Jean Brillant St) room C-9019 of the Universit茅 de Montr茅al聽(great chance to use the new REM line!). We will have three presentations, followed by a social hour.聽 Talks include: IMPORTANT : For a chance to play a Kanien’k茅ha language learning […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 11, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ George Bennett (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淎rgument structure of emission verbs in Scandinavian.鈥� Here is the abstract: In this talk, I present some early-stage data and thoughts on […]

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, Nov 11, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Josh will present his work. Presenter: Josh Lee Topic: High vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, November 4, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Presenter: Morgan Sonderegger Title: A survey of the corpus phonetics pipeline Abstract: Morgan will give the first lecture of his LSA 2025 course, described here — covering speech corpora and available tools for doing corpus phonetics, in current practice, at a high level. The full schedule […]

Professor Kriszta Eszter Szendr艖i (University of Vienna) will give a guest presentation in the Syntax-Semantics meeting on November 4, at 3:00-4:20pm. A reception will follow at 4:30pm in Thomson House. The 3:00pm meeting will be held in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Kriszta will be presenting on 鈥淭he typology […]

The next talk in our 2025-2026 91黑料网 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by聽Dr. M谩rton S贸skuthy聽(The University of British Columbia) next Friday,聽November 7th聽at聽3:30pm聽at聽Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Sound change and lexical shifts in the emergence of聽Zipf鈥檚 Law of Abbreviation in English Abstract: Zipf鈥檚 Law of Abbreviation is a famous […]

On Wednesday Oct 29th Michael Wagner gave a colloquium talk at the University of Ottawa, titled Prosodic focus and syntactic alternative projection. Abstract: Prosodic focus is often analyzed as flagging expressions for which alternative semantic meanings are salient in context. These alternative meanings can then compose pointwise, and are taken to play a crucial role […]

Morgan Sonderegger presented a tutorial, “PolyglotDB: a library for representing and analyzing speech data” at the University of Zurich, as well as a talk, “Cross-linguistic patterns of intrinsic F0 and sibilant dynamics”, at the University of Zurich and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Oct. 15 and 16).

Belated congratulations to Irene Smith, who successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淕radience in English pre-nasal allophony,” on September 12!

Congratulations to Amanda Doucette, who successfully defended their dissertation, 鈥淐ompensation and causation in the lexicon,鈥� on October 24!

Our next presentation will be this Tuesday, October 28, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Massimo will present his work. Title: Patterns of variation in sibilant acoustic dynamics Abstract: According to conventional wisdom, sibilant fricatives require relatively long articulatory–and thus, acoustic–steady states due to their complexity. Recent studies have called this into question, however, finding gradual, continuous change in the […]

The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, October 30 at 4PM in DS-1950* on the UQAM campus, followed by a social happy hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you鈥檇 like to join the mailing list, please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.

91黑料网ians presented at the 56th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, NELS 56, held this past weekend at NYU. Presentations by current 91黑料网 affiliates included:

The next talk in our 2025-2026 91黑料网 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Simon Charlow (Yale University) on Friday, October 24th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Effect-oriented interpreters for natural language Abstract: Computer programs are often factored into ‘pure’ components — simple, total functions from inputs to outputs — and components that […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, October 21, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Varya Tiutiunnikova (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淏are NPs are choice functions in Uralic languages.鈥� Here is the abstract: Chierchia (1998) and Dayal (2004) proposed a unified approach to […]

Our next presentation will be on聽Tuesday, October 21,聽from聽1-2 pm聽in聽room 002聽and on聽Zoom. Tony will present a paper (attached below). Paper: Natvig, D. (2021). Modeling heritage language phonetics and phonology: Toward an integrated multilingual sound system. Languages, 6(4), 209.