New Linguistics journal!

Semantics of Natural Languages@semnatlangs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA. snl-journal.org The Editors Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz

Quynh-Giang Dang awarded Student Presentation Excellence Award at #GLOW48! quynhgiangdang.github.io

Le Xuan Chan (sites.google.com/view/lexuanc...) is a finalist in the upcoming Penn Grad Talks on March 27th! Le Xuan’s talk, titled "Can We Identify Someone's Background from Just a Single Word?”, will be in the Natural Sciences section at 3pm. pan-school.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-ta...

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Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America 2025, Philadelphia

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Penn Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life! www.34st.com/article/2025...

The Number Agreement Rule That Started It All

Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life.

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Registration is currently open for the Penn Linguistics Conference (sites.google.com/sas.upenn.ed...)! Register here for a really exciting line up of talks: www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-lingu...

#NewPaper by Jonathan Lee: Lok, C., Lee, J. H. N., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism. (Online first) doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-English bilingual children - Charles Lok, Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip, 2026

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study investigates mismatched responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions produced by Cantonese-English biling...

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Read about Penn Linguistics student Jonathan Lee's work in @sas.upenn.edu's Omnia Magazine! omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/pause-...

Pause and Effect

Disfluency, or irregularities and breaks in speech, are part of life—but do they affect how we perceive each other? Fourth-year linguistics PhD student Jonathan Lee is trying to find out.

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Congratulations to the four Penn Linguistics grad students passed their proposal defenses at the end of 2025! Alex Hamo (www.alexanderhamo.org) Annika Heuser (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/annik...) Jonathan Lee (www.ling.upenn.edu/~jonhnlee) Héctor Vasquez Martinez (www.ling.upenn.edu/people/hecto...)

Delighted to announce that Anna Papafragou has been elected a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society! cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

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! www.ling.upenn.edu/~pikyu/

Delighted to announce that Penn linguist Mingyang Bian has been awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award for Fall 2025! www.mingyangbian.com

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Penn Linguists at #NWAV53!

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? www.sas.upenn.edu/events/60-se...

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. www.ling.upenn.edu/news/2025/07...

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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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”.

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) saltconf.github.io/salt35/confe...

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The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory

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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)

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! sereikaite.com

Delighted to announce that the Penn linguist Marlyse Baptista has been elected a 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-pe...

Five from Penn elected 2024 AAAS Fellows | Penn Today

Professors from the School of Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Engineering and Applied Science are among 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators being recognized by the Am...

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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" pan-school.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-ta...

Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn! apply.interfolio.com/162306

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.

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.

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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