Linguistics Professor Scott AnderBois is the recipient of the 2024 Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Award for his community centered language documentation work with A'i communities in Ecuador.

Brown University Linguistics hosted the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition, a first for the academic program.

Scott AnderBois published in Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II

Students, faculty, postdocs and more came together on November 4th to discuss current papers and projects centering around Linguistics.

Scott AnderBois spoke in the Linguistics Department at UT Austin

AnderBois and Harvey present papers at the 10th Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica (Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America)

Members of our community both attended and presented at the 51st annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference in Queens, New York.

The Brown Daily Herald recently featured an article on the new Program in Linguistics!

Polly Jacobson gave an invited talk at the conference "English Language and Linguistic Theory: A Tribute to Geoff Pullum" held at the University of Edinburgh on Aug. 31.

Brown Linguistics is excited to welcome two new faces to our community for Fall 2023: Jaime Benheim and Chaya Nove.

The A’ingae Language Documentation Project (ALDP) team convened outside of Lago Agrio, Ecuador for a phonetics and orthography workshop and traveled downriver to Zábalo for recordings relating to nasality in A’ingae.

Together with colleagues Kyle Mahowald (Univ. of Texas Linguistics) and Nicholas Tomlin (AB ‘19; currently UC Berkeley Computer Science PhD program), Scott AnderBois published a piece in The Atlantic on “The Unspoken Language of Crosswords”.

In June, Scott AnderBois traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to give an intensive introduction to formal semantics as part of an intensive workshop-course on Quantification.

Polly Jacobson published in June a guest blog on Chris Collins’ (NYU) blog “Ordinary Working Grammarian”.

Holly Zheng (Linguistics AB, 2022) and Scott AnderBois’s chapter titled “Definiteness in A’ingae and Its Implications for Pragmatic Competition” appeared in the book Formal Approaches to Languages of South America, edited by Andrés Saab and Cilene Rodrigues (Springer).

Polly Jacobson gave a talk at MIT Linglunch entitled “A Categorial Grammar view of syntactic categories: Some happy coordination surprises”.

Uriel Cohen Priva and Emily Strand just published an open access paper on vowel reduction in Journal of Phonetics, which shows that schwa’s acoustic location is driven by more than just coarticulatory pressures.