University of Toronto Department of Linguistics Blog
December 31, 2024
Farewell WHITL
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After 15 years of activity, the Toronto Linguistics Blog is retiring. Our first post was published on November 16th, 2009, and our last on D...
RIP Bob Bayley
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RIP Bob Bayley We are so sad to learn that Dr. Robert Bayley , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics , UC Davis, and an associate member of t...
December 27, 2024
Department field trip to Niagara: My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival
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Earlier this fall, the Department of Linguistics invited faculty members and graduate students to watch My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival ...
December 24, 2024
Grad Writing Day
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Group smiles for a job well done (or well on the way) On Friday, Dec 13, 2024, graduate students rallied in silence in the Lounge for a ...
December 20, 2024
RIP William Labov
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RIP William Labov Here are a few of the many tribute pages to Bill, who died on Dec. 17, 2024, at the age of 97. He influenced many of ...
December 6, 2024
Undergraduate Award Recipients 2023-2024
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Please join us in congratulating our Undergraduate Linguistics Award recipients! The Jack Chambers Award is awarded to Robin Huo. The Henr...
December 2, 2024
Professor Naomi Nagy's Book Launch at the Canadian Language Museum
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Professor Naomi Nagy (department chair) introduced her new work, Heritage Languages: Extending Variationist Approaches , earlier this seme...
November 29, 2024
NWAV 52 in Miami Beach, Florida
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New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 , the world's largest annual event in variationist sociolinguistics, was held in Miami Beach, Florida...
November 26, 2024
Guest speaker: Isaac L. Bleaman (UC Berkeley)
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The Department of Linguistics and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS) hosted a guest talk by Isaac L. Bleaman ( Assistant Pr...
November 18, 2024
Will Williams successfully defends Thesis Proposal!
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On November 15, 2024, Will Williams (now PhD Candidate) presented his thesis proposal, "Presuppositions, entailments, and other inferen...
November 16, 2024
Pedro Mateo Pedro Publishes The Itza' Pedagogical Grammar
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The department is pleased to congratulate Pedro Mateo Pedro (faculty) on the publication of the Itza' Pedagogical Grammar , in collabor...
November 8, 2024
Grad Convocation 2024
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On October 28 and November 1, we celebrated the conferral of our graduate students' MA and PhD degrees. This marks the culmination of ha...
October 24, 2024
Welcoming the Linguistics Dept.'s New Social Media Coordinator
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WHITL? has a new admin! Hi everyone, my name is Natasha Vujičić, and I’m the Linguistics Department’s Social Media Coordinator for t...
October 21, 2024
Song Jiang successfully defends Thesis Proposal!
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On September 27, 2024, Song Jiang (now PhD candidate) presented his thesis proposal, "Articulatory variability in the articulation...
October 11, 2024
Linguistics Grad School Application Support Program for Black and Indigenous Students
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The Racial Justice Committee in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto is implementing a program to support students who...
October 1, 2024
The Department of Linguistics celebrates the start of the 2024-25 academic year!
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On Friday, September 13, 2024, UofT linguists participated in an all-day event celebrating the start of the new academic year and, more impo...
September 2, 2024
Linguistics Coffeehouse Recap!
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During March of 2024, Jack Mahlmann , Claudia Raihert , and Mechelle Wu , graduate students of our department, organized a coffeehouse fundr...
August 28, 2024
AI-Driven Hype in Classrooms: Navigating Ethical Issues - Presented!
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During the summer of 2023, Lex Konnelly and Nathan Sanders presented on AI "hype" in classrooms to help instructors address issues...
August 12, 2024
The heat is on this summer - you need SPF!
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The 2024 annual Summer Phonetics - Phonology Forum ( SPF ) took place on August 7th, and now we know why they call it SPF! UofT linguists, a...
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