Marshall Chasin featured in Giants of Audiology

We are proud to announce that Marshall Chasin, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics, has been featured in Giants of Audiology, a segment of hearinghealthmatters.org. 

Marshall received a BA in Mathematics and Linguistics from the University of Toronto, and a Doctorate in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences. Throughout his career, he has published over 200 articles and 8 books. He is now Associate Professor at Western University and also teaches students at his alma mater (in our Department). 

Navigate to the video below to learn more about Marshall's life and career.

 https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/2023/giants-audiology-marshall-chasin

Also, for those interested in the intersection between music, culture, and mathematics, Marshall has appeared in another short segment detailing his work on technology. It's being exhibited at Munich airport for Oktoberfest 2023. Check out the fun acoustics in the video below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGgMl6S8h3U 

MoMOT @ UofT

Last weekend UofT hosted the 7th annual Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Morphology Meeting (MoMOT). This meeting was organized by members of the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.  The two-day event welcomed some new and familiar faces as they presented their work on a range of topics in morphology. 

The keynote speakers this year were:

Ivana Kučerová (McMaster) who presented her work on The syntax of gender features: The morphologist’s guide to feature-bundling traps

and 

James Crippen (McGill) who presented his work entitled Verb morphology in Tlingit is ordinary syntax

Other presenters included both current and former UofT students (see list of presenters below). Be sure to ask them about their work when you see them!

Martin Renard (PhD Student). Two Types of Noun Incorporation in Kanien’kéha: A Categorization Analysis

Samuel Jambrović (PhD Candidate). Capturing the third-person gap in Spanish pronoun-noun constructions

Will Oxford (Alumni). When a 1 > 2 hierarchy is actually a 2 > 1 hierarchy

Patrick Kinschular (Undergrad). Morphological Alternation in Kinyarwanda External Possession Constructions

Liam Donohue (PhD Candidate). Perfect Readings in the Absence of Perfect Morphology

Big thanks to the organizers, volunteers, presenters, and attendees for making this meeting a success!

Laura Griffin wins NWAV Prize

 Laura Griffin joins of UofT linguists* being recongized by the

LILLIAN B. STUEBER STUDENT NWAV PRESENTATION PRIZE

"This is a prize for the best student presentation that treats variation in languages that have been missing from or are less frequently represented at NWAV."  (NWAV51 website)

Laura won this for her HLVC talk, 

"They’re j/u/st about the same!: Vowel Shift in Heritage and Homeland Seoul Korean."

Laura describes her reaction, Naomi looks on proudly.

Holman Tse, a member of the Stueber Prize Committee, joins in for a photo.

 

Along with talks by Yoonjung Kang and her colleagues, Laura helped bring the number of talks about Korean up to 3 at this NWAV, contributing to the diversity of languages at this NWAV [see purple Korean slice in graph].

*Previous UofT winners and runners-up:

Justin Leung, NWAV49

Chris LeGerme, NWAV49

Robert Prazeres, NWAV48

NWAV51 in NYC!

U of T linguists have a strong presence at 

NWAV51 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), 

North America's premier sociolinguistics conference, this year!

Beekhuizen, Woolford: Intensifiers never go out of style: quantifying style and its effects on lexical variation

Franco, Tagliamonte: Getting socialized: Variation and change in the passive in Canada

Hachimi, Small: Stylized performance of prepositions: a potential innovation in comedy talent show (withdrawn)

Kang, Gao, Yun, Ryu: An apparent-time study of Daejeon Korean stop laryngeal contrasts

Kang, Yun, Ryu: VOT merger in progress and speech rate accommodation in perception: a case study of Daejeon Korean  

Sali Tagliamonte: The ‘1984’ of linguistic change: A sociolinguistic shock point in the late 20th century.

Kaleigh Woolford: Taking center stage: Measuring variation and change across the center and periphery of lexical fields  

Mechelle Wu: The floating bubble: Linguistic innovations of the highly mobile Third-Culture Kids (TCKs)

And from the HLVC Project: 

Griffin, L. /o/! They’re j/u/st about the same!:  

  Vowel Shift in Heritage and Homeland Seoul Korean

Leung, J. Setting {straight} the record {straight}: Acceptability of alternative word orders in resultatives by heritage Cantonese speakers

Nagy, N. Extending variationist approaches to more languages: Problems & Possibilities

Petrosov, Nagy. (Heritage) Russian case-marking: Variation and paths of change

Tse, H. AM/P~OM/P merger in Hong Kong vs. Toronto Cantonese: An under-documented homeland sound change in a heritage language context

Umbal, P. Stability in the face of contact: Evidence from Heritage Tagalog /u/

 

Prior department members:  

Carrier, J.: Split ergativity and loss of rich verbal agreement 

Muthukumarasamy and Narayan: Exploring variation in heritage Tamil retroflex perception and production 

Neuhausen, M.: “My safe word will be[ʍ]iskey!” – An acoustic approach to the whine-wine split  

Pabst, K.: Northern Maine as a transition zone: Evidence from rhoticity in Southern Aroostook County English

 

That's a a lot of sociolinguistics on October 13-15, 2023!