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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's not too late to give some great linguistics books and journal issues a new home on your shelf--for FREE! The Great Oxley Linguistics Book Giveaway will continue Wednesday, Aug 26, in the lobby area of Oxley Hall. Come one, come all! 📚

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our undergrads are excited to share with you their COSI Language Pod summer research! There's still time to catch their flash talks from 1-2pm today in Oxley Hall, Room 103. 🤓 For more about the Pod, follow the link below:

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Language Pod | The Buckeye Language Network

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Congratulations to OSU Linguistics Assoc Prof Dan Parker on his multi-year NSF award! 🥳 The 3-year grant, "Integrating retrieval and prediction in sentence processing using attention-based LLMs", will use LLMs to test and develop psycholinguistic theories of human sentence processing.

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, OSU Linguistics faculty member, on her promotion to the rank of Professor! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congrats to OSU Linguistics grad student Tomiris Kaumenova who has received a Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summer Graduate Scholarship! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congrats to OSU Linguistics grad students Sara Court and Yi-Chien Lin who have received Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summer Graduate Awards! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congrats to OSU Linguistics grad student Tomiris Kaumenova who has received a Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Summer Graduate Scholarship! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Dr. Ash Lewis, who recently defended her PhD in Comp Ling here at OSU, has accepted a 3-yr postdoc in Prof. David Schlangen's Foundations of Computational Linguistics Lab at the U. of Potsdam. She’ll be continuing to work on hallucination evaluation in dialogue, among other topics. Congrats, Ash! 🥳

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Ashley (Ash) Lewis | PhD in Computational Linguistics

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

OSU linguistics major Quinn Seitz has been awarded an Undergrad Research Scholarship for the thesis project "Polyfunctionality of English derivational affixes". Congrats, Quinn! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Interested in the debate around modularity in linguistic grammar? Want to hear from leading (inter)national researchers with a range of perspectives on the topic? 😎 Join us this Thurs, May 7 for the Modularity in Grammar workshop! 🎉 9am to 5:30pm in Oxley 103; see link below for full details.

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Modularity in Grammar

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Come hear our undergraduates present their research next Tuesday, April 28, at our Undergraduate Research Seminar Miniconference! 😎 The event will be held from 1-5pm in Jennings Hall (Room 040), right across Neil Avenue from Oxley Hall.

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join us this Thursday for a Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Lunch & Learn with Dr. Anna Babel: "Bolivian migrants to Spain: Why we (should) care about linguistic awareness". Lunch will be provided, and registration is required!

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Bolivian migrants to Spain: Why we (should) care about linguistic awareness

Please join us for this Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Lunch & Learn featuring Dr. Anna Babel, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Babel will s...

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Join us today @ 2pm in the Ohio Union for the Buckeye Language Network (BLN) Annual Symposium / the Center for Cognitive and Brain Science (CCBS) Spring Event! 🎉 Take a stroll through the graduate and undergraduate poster sessions, and enjoy a 4pm invited talk by Adam Aleksic (the Etymology Nerd). 🤓

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Events | The Buckeye Language Network

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Join us this Friday, March 6, for a colloquium talk by one of our very own OSU Linguistics faculty members, Karee Garvin, entitled "Coupling enhancement: Effects of co-speech gesture on the magnitude and stability of oral gestures." Abstract and event details at the link below!

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Karee Garvin (The Ohio State University)

Coupling enhancement: Effects of co-speech gesture on the magnitude and stability of oral gestures Humans rarely speak without producing co-speech gestures of the hands, head, and other parts of the b...

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thank you, Katherine Howitt (U of Maryland) for your colloquium talk! Next week, join OSU Linguistics for TWO MORE colloquia: on MONDAY, Feb 23, we'll hear from Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and on FRIDAY, Feb 27, Adam Singerman (Syracuse U) will present. Receptions to follow!

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Upcoming Events | Department of Linguistics

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Join us next week for TWO colloquium talks: on MONDAY, Feb 9, we'll hear from Eva Neu (UMass Amherst), and on FRIDAY, Feb 13, Jessi Grieser (UMich) will present. Come hear about their research at 3:55pm in Oxley Hall, Room 103. Receptions to follow both events!

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Laura Siragusa (Asst Prof of Teaching) + collaborators Octavian Robinson & Margaret Price were awarded an OSU Feminist Research, Education and Engagement Center grant entitled "Care Linguistics Network" to study pedagogical approaches that enhance student training before/after fieldwork. Congrats! 🎉

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Laura Siragusa | Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Linguistics major Charlie Rowe (advisors: Maria Copot, Andrea Sims) was awarded an Arts & Humanities Small Grant to fund travel to the LSA Annual Meeting for a talk based on their BA thesis “Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness: A study of Peninsular Spanish verbs” 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Connor Rouillier, OSU LING graduate student, was awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant by the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures to help fund dissertation data collection in Saudi Arabia on individuation as encoded in Najdi Arabic agreement variation. Congratulations, Connor! 🥳

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Connor Rouillier | Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Dan Parker, OSU Linguistics Associate Professor, has been awarded a College of Arts & Sciences Research Instrumentation and Infrastructure Grant Program Grant for his proposal "Advancing language science research and training with EEG". Congratulations, Dan! 🥳

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Dan Parker | Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Join us this Friday, Dec 12, as graduate student Sahil Patel presents his Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!

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QP Presentation: Sahil Patel

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Linguistics major Charlie Rowe has been awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for their thesis project “Missing or mixed up? What judgements to Spanish verbs reveal about defectiveness”. Congratulations, Charlie! 🥳

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Join us this Friday, Dec 5, as graduate students Ziyuan Cao and Ellie Wren-Hardin present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!

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QP Presentations: Ziyuan Cao, Ellie Wren-Hardin

Qualifying paper presentations

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us this Friday, Nov 21, as graduate students Tianyi Ni and Yasemin Fincan present their Qualifying Paper research. Reception to follow!

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QP Presentations: Tianyi Ni, Yasemin Fincan

Qualifying paper presentations

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Undergrads, come say hello to OSU LING faculty members and collect treats from them during our Trick or Treat and Greet event, October 27-31! (Costumes are not required.) Times and room numbers in Oxley Hall are listed on the flyer below for participating faculty members.

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Please join us at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge from 4-6pm on Oct 29 for Dr. Björn Köhnlein's Inaugural Lecture, "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems". Wine and cheese will be provided! For more info, click below:

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Inaugural Lecture: Björn Köhnlein, "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems"

Björn Köhnlein, professor in the Department of Linguistics, gives a lecture titled "How timing, melody and prominence interact in sound systems."

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Interested in the Afro-Asiatic language family? If you'd like to learn more about Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Berber, Chadic, and Omotic languages, please attend the North Atlantic Conference on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, hosted Sept 26-28 here at Ohio State! For more info, follow the QR code below:

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Ohio State Linguistics @ohiostateling.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Join OSU Linguistics on Friday, Sept 26 for our first colloquium of the semester! We're excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich) and to hear his talk "The Underlying Logic of Language Models". Click below for further details:

linguistics.osu.edu

Colloquium: Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich)

Title: The Underlying Logic of Language Models

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