Brown Linguistics was amply represented at the Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON) by undergraduate students Adam Brandt '24, Talia Sherman '26, and Ariel Stein '24, who each presented papers at the conference, held March 9-10 on the University of Toronto campus. TULCON is an annual international undergraduate conference held at the University of Toronto; it is one of the oldest undergraduate linguistics conferences in North America. This year's keynote theme was African linguistics.

Ariel Stein presented a paper titled "Dissecting the Frog: A Typology of Pragmatics-Based Humor” examining the types of pragmatic violations that are common in comedy and analyzing how these violations contribute to the experience of humor. Talia Sherman's paper was titled "Such a Southern Woman: Hillary Clinton’s Change in Monophthongization of the PRICE Vowel 1969-2000" and explored the sociolinguistics construction of Hillary Clinton's political persona. Finally, Adam Brandt presented a phonetic analysis exploring phonological factors influencing the realization of vowels in A'ingae (an indigenous language of Ecuador) with a talk titled "Stress and Nasality as Conditioning Factors for ‘Free’ Variation in A’ingae Vowels".