Child Phonology talk at 2025 LSA Annual Meeting

At the January 2025 LSA meeting in Philadelphia: Kaili Vesik presented part of her dissertation research, entitled “General-over-specific markedness bias as a balancing force in GLA-style learning” Anne-Michelle Tessier spoke as part of an organized session on Computational Models of Learnability and Acquisition of Morphology and Phonology, giving a talk entitled “What can acquisition data […]

Gazelle Khalaji talk at the 2024 CLA meeting

This spring in May, Gazelle Khalaji gave a talk “Artificial morpho-phonological learning: a study based on French Liaison” at the 2024 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association at Carleton University in Ottawa. Congrats!

Lab forest walk with Bagel

To celebrate the end of the spring 2024, many lab members accompanied special guest Bagel on a walk in a Pacific Spirit park. Treats were enjoyed, as were trees.

Zhang and Tessier (2024) published in Frontiers in Language Sciences

Sijia Zhang and Anne-Michelle Tessier have published a paper “Modeling the consequences of an L1 grammar for L2 production: simulations, variation, and predictions” in the April 2024 volume of Frontiers in Language Sciences: Bilingualism, in a special topics issue on “Formal Approaches to Multilingual Phonology”  

Sijia Zhang advances to candidacy

Sijia is now a fully-formed doctoral candidate! Her dissertation prospectus, entitled “Phonological learning in a second language: first language variability and computational simulations” was accepted at the end of August 2024, so she is now officially ABD and free to do the scary thing. Hooray!