New Publication: Gender Bias In Linguistics Textbooks

Congratulations to Katharina Pabst (PhD) and colleagues for their new paper in the most recent volume of Language. The paper entitled 'Gender Bias In Linguistics Textbooks' investigates cases of gender bias and stereotypes found in syntax textbooks and linguistics journals. A news release has been made by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) announcing the paper. See the following link for more details:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937011

The article, which is published open access, may be found here:

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/03_97.4Cepeda.pdf

This is a must-read!

Cépeda, P., Kotek, H., Pabst, K., & Syrett, K. (2021). Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? Language 97 (4).

New publication: Urban-rural dimensions to variable-body/-one

Bridget Jankowski (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (Faculty) have recently had a paper published in Urban Matters: Current Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Their paper "Urban - rual dimension to variable - body/-one", looks at how social and geographic space influence linguistic change! 

Jankowski and Tagliamonte examine speakers form across Ontario. After reading their paper you'll be sure to pay more attention to speakers from different areas of the province! 

Celebrating the end of the semester

 Students in LIN 456/1156 put together a delicious fondue party at Naomi's house to celebrate the arrival of snow, the completion of a great set of research projects and the end of classes. 

New skills were shared: how to open an orange, how to grate Swiss cheese, and how to eat more fondue than we thought humanly possible.

Around the table, from the left: Haili, Amanda, Runze, Arshan, Naomi and Aki.

(Photo credit: Craig Diegel)

New Heritage Language Papers!

Naomi Nagy (Faculty) and Timothy Gadanidis (PhD candidate) have published a sociolinguistic paper in the Heritage Language Journal! 

The paper focuses on complexity from a comparative variationist perspective, a sociolinguistic approach that examines the different ways of saying the same thing! 

A great read for those interested in sociolinguistics! 

Nagy, N., & Gadanidis, T. (2021). Heritage Language Variation and Change–How Complex Is It?. Heritage Language Journal, 18(2), 1-27.

In the same week, Pocholo Umbal (also a PhD student) and Naomi published a paper on another angle of heritage language variation, formulating a framework to disentangle possible sources of variation:

Umbal, P. & N. Nagy. 2021. Heritage Tagalog phonology and a variationist framework of language contact. Languages 6(4), 201; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040201.

 

New Publication: Perception and imitation of prevoicing across language backgrounds!

Emily J. Clare (postdoc) and Jessamyn Schertz (Faculty) have published a paper in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America!  Their paper entitled "Perception and imitation of prevoicing across language backgrounds" looks at speakers' ability to perceive and imitate prevoicing, testing contrastive statue of speakers voicing amongst different languages.   

This is a great read for those interested in phonetics! 

Clare, E. J., & Schertz, J. (2021). Perception and imitation of prevoicing across language backgrounds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A43-A43.

Audiology blog!

 Marshall Chasin (Faculty) has been featured on The Hearing Review Blog! 

His post What did Skinner & Miller Have to Say About Hearing Aid Fittings? is an article review on an iconic audiology paper!

Be sure to read his post to get an insight into the world of audiology! 

MoMOT 5!

UofT had a strong graduate presence at MoMOT 5! 

Nadia Takaganova (PhD Student) presented  'Adopositions in bilingual speech: the case of Spanish de in Náhuatl'. 

Omar Gamboa Gonzalez (PhD student in the department of French) shared 'Double aspect of French converted nominalizations'. 

Martin Renard (PhD student)  presented virtually in a poster session regarding 'The "Root Word Method": Theoretical implications of the use of a morpheme-based teaching method in L2 Indigenous Language Revilatlization'.

Great work everyone!

Undergraduate Awards!

CONGRATS to our incredible undergraduate linguists who are the recipients of the following scholarships and awards for the 2020-2021 academic year: 

Ryan Alexander is the recipient of the Henry Rogers Memorial Scholarship Fund, awarded based on financial need and academic merit. 

Kevin Huynh is the recipient of the Jack Chambers Undergraduate Scholarship in Linguistics, awarded based on financial need and academic merit. 

Lee Jiang is the recipient of the McNab Scholarship in Linguistics. This scholarship goes to an outstanding third-year student possessing an A average and who is enrolled in a Major, Specialist or joint Specialist program in Linguistics to contribute to their fourth year of study. Jiang also received the Elaine Gold Award, in recognition of Outstanding Achievements in the required 200-level linguistic courses. 

Huge congratulations to our students! We cannot wait to see what else they can achieve!