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News and announcements from the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.
John Baugh recalled Bill once expressing an ambition to share with Socrates the trait of always being referred to in the present tense. There was widespread agreement that this is a good way to honor him.
January 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It was clear, as a series of speakers shared fond, touching, and funny memories of their friend, colleague, and mentor, that Bill had changed the course of multiple people's lives and, through them, the field.
January 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our heartfelt condolences go out to Gillian and the family; they are in our thoughts as we share their deep loss.
December 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
The Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship honors the memory of Professor Raymond H. Stetson, a pioneer investigator in phonetics and speech science. The purpose of the scholarship is to facilitate the research efforts of promising graduate students. Congratulations, May!
November 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
June Choe (with Anna Papafragou) has a talk titled "Children's sensitivity to informativeness in naming: basic-level vs. superordinate nouns".
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Tyler Knowlton (joint work with John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou) has a talk titled "The strength of conservativity: Evidence from learnability experiments".
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee (in joint work with Madison Paron and Anna Papafragou) has two talks, "Conceptual and linguistic factors affect how learners name entities with non-canonical structure" and "Conceptions of individuation in objects and events are shared across languages".
November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM