BU Linguistics
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Boston University's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines.
Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in CAS, applies theoretical and empirical methods from linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy to analyze, evaluate, and explain the linguistic capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
Congrats, Prof. Hao!
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Congrats, Prof. Hao!
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BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship!
This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Boston University Names Seven Junior Faculty Career Development Professors
This year’s recipients study from AI to the structure of the universe
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October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in CAS, applies theoretical and empirical methods from linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy to analyze, evaluate, and explain the linguistic capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
Congrats, Prof. Hao!
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Congrats, Prof. Hao!
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BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship!
This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Boston University Names Seven Junior Faculty Career Development Professors
This year’s recipients study from AI to the structure of the universe
www.bu.edu
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
BU Ling's own Prof. Sophie Hao @profsophie.bsky.social was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship!
This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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This professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting interdisciplinary work and hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU.
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
October 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base
Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU this month, sharing his insights about the "pɨx" particle in Tohono O'odham!
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation.
Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24! If you'd like to join via Zoom, register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...
SuB30 Program
Home Call for Abstracts Special Sessions LingDem PhilLingNeg Program Registration Practical Information Hamburger Toggle Menu BOOK OF ABSTRACTS PDF VERSION OF THE PROGRAM tue (lingdem) wed (Main 1)…
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September 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: vicom.info/sub30-progra...
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!
2025 Conference
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September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: neurips.cc/Conferences/.... Congrats Yulu!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Congratulations to PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Anthony Yacovone joins us as a new Assistant Professor! Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023 and his research involves the use of methods like neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling.
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.
August 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Prof. Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models. You can learn more about her research at notaphonologist.com.
Visiting Professor Michael Everdell coauthored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages"
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages
Across languages, words with the meanings of adjectives in English (property concept lexemes; Thompson 1989) often have translational equivalents that are nominal or verbal instead (Dixon 1982). Regar...
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July 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Visiting Professor Michael Everdell coauthored a new publication in Glossa: "Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages"
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...
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Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...
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June 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Our own @jupitararay.bsky.social had a poster w/ Prof @cbchang.bsky.social at last week’s #ISB15 @isbilingualism.bsky.social! Missed it? View “Phonetic accommodation in Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”: jupitararay.github.io/img/isb15pos...
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Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Last month, PhD candidate Ousmane Cisse successfully defended his dissertation prospectus!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!
He investigated graphemic variations in the representation of engma and their sociolinguistic implications in Casamance Mandinka Ajami. He will also be collecting additional data during the summer in Senegal!
Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference!
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Professor Michael Everdell and his colleague Prerna Nadathur presented a popular poster at the SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference!
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
You can view their handout on Mike's website: michael-everdell.github.io/files/SALT35...
Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation.
Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.
Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.
May 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Congratulations to PhD candidate Liza Sulkin who defended her dissertation prospectus! A prospectus is a preliminary description of a proposed dissertation.
Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.
Her dissertation work investigates how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality.
Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.
May 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Four BU Ling members (and an alum!) presented at The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) this month! Pictured left to right is Ousmane Cisse, Romi Hill, Rebecca Bonney, and Jackson Kellogg.
After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He will be joining their English department in the Fall of 2025!
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
After receiving his PhD this month, Kevin Samejon has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He will be joining their English department in the Fall of 2025!
PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume!
You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...
You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
PhD student Vasilis Michos' work on VO compound morphology is now printed as part of a proceedings volume!
You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...
You can read his work at ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_P...
Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled "What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?"
sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...
sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...
10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP
The 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP 2025) will be hosted by NAACL 2025 and held on 4th May 2025. The workshop is being organised by Vaibhav Adlakha, Alexandra Chronopoulou,...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled "What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?"
sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...
sites.google.com/view/repl4nl...
May 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding for his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research | American Philosophical Society
The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation.
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May 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Congratulations to Andre Batchelder-Schwab, one of our PhD candidates who was recently awarded a Lewis and Clark field scholarship from the American Philosophical Society. He will use this funding for his research on a whistled register of the Kinande language! www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis...
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At the beginning of May, Professor Neil Myler presented at MorphoMO, a workshop in Montreal. His talk was titled "The Spanish PYTA morphome dissolved". Congrats!!
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
#workshop #conferences #morphology #morphoMO #montreal
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at @lavlang.bsky.social this summer in Manchester!
She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!
She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!
May 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at @lavlang.bsky.social this summer in Manchester!
She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!
She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with gender presentation and sexuality for a group of women and NB AFAB people. Congrats, Liza!
PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation!
GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
May 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation!
GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Earlier this month, PhD student Romi Hill presented at Harvard's WOLF (Working on Language in the Field) lab! Her talk was on reduplication in Bantu.
April 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Earlier this month, PhD student Romi Hill presented at Harvard's WOLF (Working on Language in the Field) lab! Her talk was on reduplication in Bantu.
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled "Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi". Congrats!
April 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Professor Kate Lindsey was accepted to present at Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) in August. Her presentation is titled "Exploring Reality-Refuting Particles: The Multifunctionality of Ende Ka and Areal Parallels in Komnzo and Idi". Congrats!