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Thinking about grad study in Linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House on Thursday, Oct 16!
🍴 Lunch + Q&A with students
🧭 Tour our labs and spaces
📍 CUNY Graduate Center 🕛 9.30am-6:15pm

Come meet the community behind GC Linguistics!
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Big week ahead at GC Linguistics!

🎓 Oct 16 – Open House + Colloquium
🗽 Oct 17 – Launch of the CUNY Corpus of NYC English

Mark your calendars!
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Next week’s Colloquium: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) on Under-agreement in child grammars 🗓 Oct 16, 4:15–6:15 PM (Room 4116 | Zoom)
Don’t miss it - register via QR code or link in bio!
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📢 Call for Abstracts: SYNC 2025
Dec 6 @ CUNY Graduate Center 🎓
Annual linguistics conference for grad students from Stony Brook, Yale, NYU & CUNY.
Submit your abstract by Oct 19!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reviewers welcome too — details on the SYNC site.
docs.google.com
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📣 Calling all GC Linguistics students!
📅 Oct 9: Prof. Cece Cutler leads a workshop on Article-based vs. traditional dissertations. Learn the pros & cons of each format as you plan your dissertation path.
👉 Current students only.
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NO classes are scheduled this Wednesday, 10/1 and Thursday, 10/2 in observance of Yom Kippur.
No classes scheduled. Wednesday, October 1 - Thursday, October 2. Yom Kippur.
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✨ Last Thursday's Linguistics Colloquium ✨
Thank you to Claire Bowern (Yale University) for presenting "When sound change does (and doesn't) happen". Stay tuned for the next event in our Fall series!
Next up: Athulya Aravind (Yale University), Oct 16. Don’t miss it!
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Thinking about grad study in linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Oct 16!
What to expect?
📖 Semantics I (Al Khatib)
🍴 Lunch + Q&A w/ @cece-cutler.bsky.social & students
📚 Field Methods II (Kaufman)
🎤 Colloquium
RSVP 👉 tinyurl.com/2md7pwp4
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🔬 Inside the Lab: Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL)
We’re kicking off a new series on the research labs that drive our program. First up: SLAL, where students & faculty investigate bilingualism, heritage languages, and second language learning. ✨ Stay tuned for more labs!
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Tomorrow! 🎓 Our first Fall ’25 Linguistics Colloquium:
Claire Bowern (Yale university) – When sound change does (and doesn't) happen
📅 Thu, Sept 25, 4:15–6:15pm
📍 Room 8301/8304, CUNY GC + Zoom (reg required)
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🦑 Throwback Tuesday! Last semester, SQUID (Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development) returned after 5 years. It’s our department’s tradition where students & faculty share playful works-in-progress and creative experiments. Can’t wait for the next one!
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✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change.
📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm
📍 GC, Room 9206
🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f
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🎉 Congrats to our grad students Matt Malone & Celeste Escobar!
They’ll present on the morphosyntax of Guaraní, a project that grew out of our Field Methods course, at Effects of Grammatical System on the Lexicon (Unison, Hermosillo 🇲🇽, Nov 13–14) 🌍
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✨ Friday Reads ✨
Our pick this week is a new release: Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela (Routledge, 2025).

👩‍🏫 Prof. Miki Makihara (QC; CUNY GC Anthropology, Linguistics, LAILAC)
👨‍🏫 Prof. Juan Luis Rodriguez (QC Anthropology)
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💰 Funding Friday!
Looking for support for research or conference travel?
Prof. Jason Kandybowicz compiled a fantastic list of fellowships & grants for linguistics grads ✨

📎 Explore it here →
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Here’s the abstract for our first Fall 2025 Colloquium! 📝
Claire Bowern (Yale) will speak on sound change, why it happens (and doesn’t).
Curious to know more? Join us in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social or on Zoom (register here:
gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)
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✨ First Colloquium of the Semester ✨
We’re kicking things off next week! Don’t miss our first Linguistics Colloquium of Fall 2025.
📅 September 25, 4:15-6:15pm
📍Room 8301/8304
💻 Zoom (registration mandatory): tinyurl.com/cunylingcoll...

Stay tuned, the abstract is coming soon!
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📢 The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship is accepting applications — due Oct 2.
Open to doctoral students in any field whose dissertation research focuses on education.
Learn more & apply: naeducation.org/naed...
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🌟 Are you a student in our program? Do you want to be featured in our Student Highlight series?
Share your story, research, and passions with our community → forms.gle/5KLMmY2uAN...
It only takes 5–10 minutes to fill out!
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📣 Endangered Language Association Presents:

Voices of Enlhet Memory and the Enenlhet / Voces de la memoria Enlhet y los Enenlhet
Sept 26 · 3–4:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual or watch party @ ELA NYC
🗣️ EN/ES interpretation
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dW7Dy4U9
🌱 More information at: www.enlhet.org | @e.nnengkoo
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👏 Huge congrats to PhD Candidate Aidan Malanoski!
This Fall they are presenting at @nwavconference.bsky.social (2 talks!), giving an invited talk at NYU SocioLab, and guest lecturing at JHU, PSU Brandywine & CUNY. So proud! 🌟