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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Quynh-Giang Dang awarded Student Presentation Excellence Award at #GLOW48! quynhgiangdang.github.io

Photo of slide listing two awardees: Quynh-Giang Dang and János Egressy

Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Le Xuan Chan (sites.google.com/view/lexuanc...) is a finalist in the upcoming Penn Grad Talks on March 27th! Le Xuan’s talk, titled "Can We Identify Someone's Background from Just a Single Word?”, will be in the Natural Sciences section at 3pm. pan-school.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-ta...

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Le Xuan

Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America 2025, Philadelphia

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Registration is currently open for the Penn Linguistics Conference (sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...)! Register here for a really exciting line up of talks: www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-lingu...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Congratulations to the four Penn Linguistics grad students passed their proposal defenses at the end of 2025! Alex Hamo (www.alexanderhamo.org) Annika Heuser (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/annik...) Jonathan Lee (www.ling.upenn.edu/~jonhnlee) Héctor Vasquez Martinez (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/hecto...)

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Alexander Hamo

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Delighted to announce that Anna Papafragou has been elected a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society! cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Congratulations to May Pik Yu Chan, who successfully defended her #dissertation, entitled "Pitch-dependent variation in vowel production and perception: revisiting the source-filter theory", on Nov 18, 2025! www.ling.upenn.edu/~pikyu/

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025! www.mingyangbian.com

Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A touching piece by Rolf Noyer in memory of our colleague and friend Gene Buckley, who died in June and will be very deeply missed. www.ling.upenn.edu/news/2025/07...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Huge congratulations to our graduating majors (here pictured with our Undergraduate Chair Florian Schwarz)! We're proud but we'll miss you!

From left to right: Florian Schwarz, Ria Subramanian, Dan Shevchenko, Eric Tao, Joyce He, Petros Kaklamanis, and Phoebe Leung

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

On Wednesday, May 14, Gareth Roberts was the featured speaker at the Penn Club of Metro NJ’s Wesley A. Stanger, Jr. Annual Spring Dinner, with a talk entitled "Unlocking the Secrets of Language”.

Gareth giving his talk to a large audience

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

On Tuesday, May 20, Florian Schwarz gave an invited talk entitled "Fun filtering facts, if not presupposition projection” at the 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 35) saltconf.github.io/salt35/confe...

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The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Current and former Penn linguists at WCCFL 43 in Seattle! From left to right: Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)

Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congratulations to Eric Tao, Linguistics major and 2025 Dean's Scholar!

Eric Tao showing off his certificate with Penn Linguistics faculty members Florian Schwarz and Katie Schuler

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Huge congratulations to former Penn Linguistics PhD Milena Šereikaitė, who has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at Cornell! sereikaite.com

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Congratulations to Penn Linguistics's May Pik Yu Chan, who is the winner in the Natural Sciences category of the 2025 Penn Grad Talks. her talk was entitled "When High Notes Challenge Speech: What Opera Singers Teach Us About Language" pan-school.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-ta...

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Penn Grad Talks

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn! apply.interfolio.com/162306

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We are delighted to report that Gillian Sankoff was honored on Saturday, January 11, with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. A very well-deserved recognition of her long and influential career!

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A memorial was held for Bill Labov on the evening of Thursday, January 9, at the 2025 LSA Meeting in Philadelphia. There were many laughs as well as tears.

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Gillian Sankoff has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. The award will be presented at 3:15 today (Sat, Jan 11) at the #LSA, in conference rooms 407-408 of the conference Marriott. Please join us to help celebrate her lifetime of achievements!

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Bill Labov. He shaped the field of variationist sociolinguistics and helped countless linguists on their paths to stellar careers. His kindness, generosity, and brilliance have been a profound source of inspiration for so many of us.

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to report that May Pik Yu Chan (www.ling.upenn.edu/~pikyu/) has been awarded the Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science (acousticalsociety.org/fellowships-...)!

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May Chan

Advisors: Dr. Jianjing Kuang, Dr. Mark Liberman

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Language & Cognition Lab (langcoglab.com) will have a strong presence in January at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America with five abstracts accepted as talks.

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Home | langcoglab

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to report that Uğurcan Vurgun, who successfully defended his thesis titled, "From Words to Worlds: Telicity and the Malleability of Event Representations” in August, has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Penn Medicine! Congratulations, Uğurcan!

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Exploring the Mind 🧠 Through Language 💬

Personal website for Dr. Uğurcan Vurgun, PhD, MA #language #cognition #NLP #AI #ML #bioinformatics #Autism, #PennIBI, #PennMedicine, #Wharton

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to report that Tyler Knowlton has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Alon Hafri in the Linguistics & Cognitive Science department at the University of Delaware. Congratulations, Tyler! tylerknowlton.com

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Tyler Knowlton

Hi! I'm a psycholinguist interested in natural language meaning, its acquisition, and how it interfaces with non-linguistic conceptual systems. I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher in the departmen...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to report that Andrea Beltrama has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics and Cognitive Science department at the University of Delaware. Congratulations, Andrea! andreabeltrama.com

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Andrea Beltrama

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to report that Le Xuan Chan (ling.upenn.edu/people/le-xu...) was a finalist for best student paper at this year’s New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference!

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Le Xuan Chan | Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics 3401-C Walnut Street, Suite 300, C Wing University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228

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MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Busy Friday this week featuring 3 scientists! Oct 25 10:15 - Linguistics Speaker Series: Ann Bradlow 12:00 - MindCORE/DDDI Seminar: Mala Murthy 1:30 - ILST Seminar: Iris Nowenstein Details for all: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu @pennlinguistics.bsky.social

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

#CallForPapers open for the 49th Penn Linguistics Conference, to be held from April 5 to 6, 2025, with keynotes from Jessica Coon and Annette D'Onofrio! Abstract deadline is November 18, 2024 More details here: sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Congratulations to Christine Soh Yue, who passed her proposal #defense on September 12, 2024! Her title is "Learning Variation and Systematicity in Language" and she is advised by Charles Yang. Anna Papafragou, Marlyse Baptista, and Kathryn Schuler sat on her committee.

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Congratulations to Gwen Hildebrandt, who passed her #PhDDefense today (June 24)! Her dissertation was entitled "Distributional cues to syntactic structure: case studies in Korean", and she was advised by Charles Yang. Julie Anne Legate and Martin Salzmann served on her committee. www.penngwen.net

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Gwen Hildebrandt

PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Congratulations to George Balabanian, who passed his #PhDDefense today (June 20)! His dissertation was entitled "A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology", and he was advised by Don Ringe. www.ling.upenn.edu/people/georg...

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George Balabanian | Department of Linguistics

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Congratulations to Daoxin Li (daoxinli.github.io), who passed her #PhDDefense yesterday (June 17)! Her dissertation was entitled "Distributional learning of syntactic generalizations", and she was advised by Charles Yang.

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Daoxin Li

Personal website.

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Congratulations and good luck to our graduating students!

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Lots of PhD student success to list!

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

#NewPaper: Sunghye Cho et al. (2024). Automatic classification of AD pathology in FTD phenotypes using natural speech. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. doi.org/10.1002/alz....

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Four Penn Linguistics presenters at 10th MACSIM (April 6, 2024): June Choe, Minyang Bian, Jonathan Lee, Uğurcan Vurgun macsim.us/the-10th-mac...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Penn Alumni Global Discovery series talk by @garicgymro.bsky.social at noon on March 6! www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

New #publication Agmon, G., Pradhan, S., Ash, S., Nevler, N., Liberman, M., Grossman, M., and Cho, S. (2024) Automated measures of syntactic complexity in natural speech production: Older and younger adults as a case study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi.org/10.1044/2023...

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Penn Linguistics @pennlinguistics.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Syntax for the 2024-2025 academic year! Review of applications will begin February 10, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. The expected start date is July 1, 2024. Full details here: apply.interfolio.com/139608

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