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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 1d

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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 4d

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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 5d

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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 5d

📢 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.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 13d

📣 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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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 14d

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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 14d

✨ 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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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 15d

Coming Dec 10 - take a deep dive into Super Bowl headliner Bad Bunny’s music & significance - reserve to join in person or online, free: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/deep-...

Deep Dive: Listening to Bad Bunny - Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Miguel Zenón in Conversation

Elebash Recital Hall

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 15d

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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 18d

🔬 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!

GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 20d

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)

GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 21d

🦑 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 22d

✨ 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 22d

🎉 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 25d

✨ 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 25d

💰 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 →

CUNY Academic Commons

The CUNY Academic Commons is an academic social network created by and for the City University of New York.

linguisthub.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 25d

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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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 26d

@lukewaltzer.bsky.social talks to @tanyadomi.bsky.social on The Thought Project about a project bringing together CUNY faculty to explore the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning, while creating space for reflection and experimentation in the classroom www.gc.cuny.edu/news/teachin...

Teaching for the Age of AI

Luke Waltzer, director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, discusses how a Google.org-funded initiative supports CUNY faculty and graduate student teachers as they experiment w...

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 26d

✨ 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 26d

📢 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...

GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 27d

We’re on Instagram! 🎉 Follow @gccuny.linguistics for program news, events, student & faculty spotlights, and resources for our community 🌍✨

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 27d

🌟 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...
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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats to Prof. Levitan, recipient of 2025 Google Cybersecurity Research Grant! 🎉

Read more about her exciting work →

Announcing the CUNY Winners of the 2025 Google Cybersecurity Grants

Faculty at the Graduate Center and throughout CUNY receive support for innovative work in AI, autonomous vehicle technology, smartphones, and wearable devices.

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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · 29d

📣 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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GC CUNY - Linguistics Program @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social · Sep 11

👏 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! 🌟

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