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News and announcements from the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.
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!
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November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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!
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Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025!
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November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025!
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Penn Linguistics's @garicgymro.bsky.social will be giving this year's first 60-Second Lecture at noon on September 3, 2025, entitled How Old is Language?
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60-Second Lectures | How Old Is Language?
The 60-Second Lectures is generously funded by the Adolf and Felicia Leon Fund, which supports Penn Arts & Sciences programming and lecture series.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Penn Linguistics's @garicgymro.bsky.social will be giving this year's first 60-Second Lecture at noon on September 3, 2025, entitled How Old is Language?
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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.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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.
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The video of the memorial for William Labov, held at the LSA Annual Meeting January 9, 2025, is now available on the LSA website: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=fe7...
Memorial for William Labov, held at the LSA Annual Meeting January 9, 2025
William Labov passed away on December 17, 2024 with his wife, Gillian Sankoff, by his side. His pioneering studies of language change in progress positioned the vernacular and its speakers at the cent...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The video of the memorial for William Labov, held at the LSA Annual Meeting January 9, 2025, is now available on the LSA website: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=fe7...
Huge congratulations to our graduating majors (here pictured with our Undergraduate Chair Florian Schwarz)! We're proud but we'll miss you!
May 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Huge congratulations to our graduating majors (here pictured with our Undergraduate Chair Florian Schwarz)! We're proud but we'll miss you!
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”.
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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”.
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)
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The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory
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May 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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)
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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)
From left to right: Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)
April 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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)
From left to right: Thomas McFadden (PhD 2004), Matthew Hewett (Assistant Professor 2025), Lefteris Paparounas (PhD 2023), Luke James Adamson (PhD 2019)
Congratulations to Eric Tao, Linguistics major and 2025 Dean's Scholar!
April 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Congratulations to Eric Tao, Linguistics major and 2025 Dean's Scholar!
Huge congratulations to former Penn Linguistics PhD Milena Šereikaitė, who has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at Cornell!
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April 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Huge congratulations to former Penn Linguistics PhD Milena Šereikaitė, who has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at Cornell!
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Delighted to announce that the Penn linguist Marlyse Baptista has been elected a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow!
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March 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Delighted to announce that the Penn linguist Marlyse Baptista has been elected a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow!
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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"
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February 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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"
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Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn!
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January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn!
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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!
January 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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!
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.
January 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
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!
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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!
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.
December 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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.
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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November 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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-...)!
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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November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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.
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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November 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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!
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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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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November 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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
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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November 25, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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
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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November 25, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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!