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Boston University's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines.

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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our 2026 Fall Colloquium series will kick off with a talk by Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik of Harvard University, titled "Inclusive Imperatives in Itelmen (and beyond): some Implications." Hope to see you there! www.facebook.com/events/14372...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Check out Professor Coppock's new publication, "Unifying mereological and arithmetic division," published in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, volume 30!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our department had a great time a few weeks ago at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) in Buffalo!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our department had a huge success at this year's Speech Prosody conference in Pennsylvania! Read more here: www.bu.edu/linguistics/...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BU linguistics alum Yuhao Dai, currently a PhD student at Georgetown, presented at SULA-TripleA on May 12-15 at the University of British Columbia. His poster was entitled "Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree". Here he is pictured with Lisa Matthewson!
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Kpogo to Wayne State! 🎉 Lab alum Felix Kpogo (PhD 2024, currently at Brown) has accepted a new job at Wayne State U., starting as a Pre-Faculty Fellow and then moving to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship. Congrats to Felix! 👏👏 www.felixkpogo.com #langsky 🐦🐦 @bulinguistics.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
BU Linguistics at ACAL The University at Buffalo will host the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) on May 21–23, 2026! We are proud to have several department members and alumni presenting. For the full schedule, see: sites.google.com/view/acal57/...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our department has had four PhD candidates pass their dissertation defenses! Andre Batchelder-Schwab: Topics in African Whistled Languages Liza Sulkin: Acoustic correlates of gender presentation and sexuality 1/2
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congrats to Jupitara Ray (@jupitararay.bsky.social) on successfully defending her PhD, "Phonetic plasticity in Indian English bilinguals: How L2 accommodation alters L1 production and perception"! Well-done, Jupitara! 👏👏 Read more: jupitararay.github.io @bulinguistics.bsky.social #langsky 🐦🐦
Jupitara Ray post-defense with her dissertation committee: Drs. Kate Lindsey, Charles B. Chang, & Esther de Leeuw (not pictured).
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW) a success! The BU Linguistics department was honored to host.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Last month, BU Professor Kate Lindsey presented at the CUNY Graduate Center with a colloquium called "Two Lies and a Truth: Uncovering the Facts about Chuvash Stress". Congrats!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Last month, Professor Coppock was invited to the Princeton - Rutgers Semantics workshop to provide comments on Hans Kamp's paper! philosophy.princeton.edu/events/princ...
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Princeton - Rutgers Semantics Workshop
SESSION 19:00-11:15Josh Dever(comments from Matthew Stone) LUNCHSESSION 212:30-2:45Dag Westerståhl(comments from Zoltán Szabó) SESSION 33:00-5:15John Hawthrone(comments from Paolo Santorio) SESSION 45...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, BU Linguistics will be hosting the Boston Morphology Workshop! View the schedule and register on the website: sites.google.com/view/bostonm...
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Boston Morphology Workshop
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We are proud to announce that four of our students won Boston University Center for the Humanities awards!! Undergraduate students: Noah Darby and Maclain Rockett www.bu.edu/humanities/o... Graduate students: Jackson Kellogg and Liza Sulkin www.bu.edu/humanities/o... Congratulations to all!
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Chronology: Undergraduate Student Award Recipients | Center for the Humanities
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sungjun Kim, a Junior majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science, was accepted to the Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)! linguistics.emory.edu/news/eulc.html The conference took place in April and Sungjun's talk was entitled "Hangeul as a Computational Medium." Congrats!
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Emory Linguistics Conference
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open! alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en&fbcl...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Two alumni and one professor will be presenting at SULA-TripleA this year! blogs.ubc.ca/sulatriplea/... - Yuhao Dai (former MA student at BU, now a PhD student at Georgetown) - Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen (former MA student; now PhD student at Rutgers) - Prof. Elizabeth Coppock
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Program – SULA-TripleA 2026
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2026-2027 academic year! She will be working on her book, "A Speaker-Focused Grammar of Ende, A Language of Papua New Guinea." She is the first linguist since 1993! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national...
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National Humanities Center Announces 2026–27 Fellows | National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center (NHC) is pleased to announce the appointment of 29 Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges i...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
That's a wrap on Giving Day 2026! Thank you so much to those who made donations this Giving Day. Because of your generous support, we were able to raise $2,060 for our students, surpassing our goal!!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Today is Giving Day! We have currently raised $535! Thank you so much to all our donors so far. To close the gap, we still need your help! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/.../arts-sci.... Your support uplifts our students, such as Vasileios Michos, who was able to attend CoLang2024 with the support of the department. Watch the video below to hear his own testimony about the experience!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tomorrow is BU Giving Day! Visit our Giving Day page now to make an early donation, or save the link for tomorrow! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page to donate early give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Giving Day: April 8, 2026! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost... Our students ask fundamental questions about one of humanity's most remarkable abilities: language. They are already making an impact—presenting at conferences, conducting fieldwork, and running studies in our labs. @bualumni.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost.... We appreciate your support! @bualumni.bsky.social
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Save the date for Giving Day: April 8, 2026! Our goal is to raise $2,000 for: ✈️ Graduate student conference travel 🌍 Fieldwork on languages around the world 🎓 Undergraduate research opportunities 🧠 Participants in student language research Visit our Giving Day page at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Congrats to PhD student Rebecca Dufie Bonney who presented a paper titled "African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research" at the Fifth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. She co-presented with Matthew Ajibade (Indiana University).
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann presented at LINC last week as part of the "Beyond Fracture" conference!
Liza and Chloe standing next to each other. Liza has red hair and is wearing a black floral dress. Chloe has black curly hair and is wearing a black cardigan and blue shirt.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Liza Sulkin and Chloe Guttmann will both be presenting on a panel at the Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC) this Thursday at Florida State University! You can catch them at the "Dialogues at a crossroads" panel at 2:00-3:20. mllgraduatestudentconference.wordpress.com
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Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference (LINC)
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Professor Kate Lindsey will be teaching Phonological Typology at ALT-2026 (16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology) in Lyon. Registration is now open at alt-2026.sciencesconf.org?lang=en!
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16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology - Sciencesconf.org
DDL has a long history of studying minority languages, writing grammatical descriptions, doing field research in South America, Africa, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Caucasus and Europe, and working on phonological, grammatical and semantic typology. The conference will take place in the old part of the Lumière University, a beautiful venue located in a very dynamic part of the city with the possibility to sit in the garden or walk along the Rhône river. There are excellent public transport links (metro and tram) to other parts of the city, and numerous city bike stations are located nearby. Lyon is the culinary capital of France and a World Heritage Site, with numerous Roman vestiges, a Romanesque Old Town, and a new quarter boasting spectacular modern architecture. The vineyards of Burgundy and the Beaujolais as well as the Cotes du Rhone are only short train rides away, as are the Alps and the Massif Central. We look forward to welcoming you in Lyon next year!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Professor Coppock recently presented at LangCog (Harvard University): Title: Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar Newar is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley region of Nepal with a rich classifier system.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Professor Neil Myler @ CRISSP CRISSP (Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology) is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Title: Morphomes, look-ahead, and what to do about them: Illustrations from Romance www.crissp.be/events/the-m...
Neil Myler's abstract for his talk
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
Flyer showing our talks for Day 1 (Friday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"Flyer showing our talks for Day 2 (Saturday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"Flyer showing our talks for Day 3 (Sunday). For the details, go to the LSA website's official program and filter by "Boston University"
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Boston University Conference on Language Development @bucld.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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
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Boston University Names Seven Junior Faculty Career Development Professors
This year’s recipients study from AI to the structure of the universe
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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...
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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...
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SuB30 Program
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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!
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2025 Conference
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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.
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages
Across languages, words with the meanings of adjectives in English (property concept lexemes; Thompson 1989) often have translational equivalents that are nominal or verbal instead (Dixon 1982). Regar...
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PAMLab at CityU @pamlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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 🐦🐦
Scatterplot of /l/ tokens in Ray & Chang (2025), by word position, task, and group
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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!
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BU Linguistics @bulinguistics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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