Brown Linguistics faculty kept busy this summer publishing papers, conducting fieldwork, and preparing new courses for the coming year.

This past month, Felix Kpogo attended the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics' (ACAL) 57th Annual Meeting at The University at Buffalo, NY as well as at the International Child Phonology Conference's (ICPC) 47th Meeting at The University of Madison, Wisconsin.

Faculty member Scott AnderBois together with co-authors -- including undergrad alum Nathaniel Scott '24 and current undergrad Claire Robertson '27 -- presented two papers at Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA) in Vancouver.

Felix Kpogo co-published a paper in Language Variation and Change

Linguistics (co-)sponsored two talks last week with speakers with Hollywood connections: David and Jessie Peterson, who created conlangs for Game of Thrones and many other shows, and Jessica Coon, who consulted on the movie Arrival.

Secondary Linguistics Faculty Member Masako Fidler has been acknowledged for her work in Czech studies.

Faculty member Scott AnderBois and co-authors Nathaniel Scott '24 and Shen Aguinda (Comunidad Cofán Dureno) spoke at the 4th International Linguistics Colloquium in Bolivia in La Paz. AnderBois also spoke to undergrads at Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba in a separate event.

Professor Jacobson has recently published a paper in Linguistic Inquiry