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Please join us in congratulating our latest Ph.D. alumni, Elisa Kreiss and Chantal Gratton!
Elisa’s dissertation was titled “The...
Congratulations to Brandon Waldon for his successful dissertation defense on Friday, June 23! His dissertation is titled “Probabilistic Language Understanding...
Cleo Condoravdi and Paul Kiparsky both taught courses at The 5th Crete Summer School of Linguistics, held from July...
Actuality Inferences: Causality, Aspect, and Modality by alumna Prerna Nadathur (Ph.D. ’19) was recently published by the Oxford University Press...
Alumna Devyani Sharma (Ph.D. ’03) was one of 86 Fellows elected to the British Academy this year, recognized as part...
Alum Scott Grimm (Ph.D. ’12) was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The fellowship will...
Alumna Annette D’Onofrio (Ph.D. ’16) was cited for her work on the “kiki/bouba” effect in a New York Times article...
The Graduate School of Education recently published an article about Courtesy Professor Anne Harper Charity Hudley’s BAD Lab internship...