Autumn 2015

Autumn 2015

In  August, the Department of Linguistics  moved into its temporary home in the Ohio Stadium (between gates 20 and 24, first floor, Stadium East). After renovations that are slated to take two years…
At the end of June, we welcomed alumni and former faculty back to campus for the 50th anniversary of the graduate program in linguistics at Ohio State. Brian Joseph (faculty…
Björn Köhnlein is the newest assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics.  His core expertise is phonology – particularly interactions of metrical structure, (intonational) tone and…
L to R: Carly Dickerson, Nandi Sims, Elena Vaikšnoraitė, Willy Cheung, Daniel Puthawala, Jessi Jones, Clint Awai Clinton Awai is working on an MA in Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa…
Congratulations to faculty member Mary Beckman, who was awarded the 2015 ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement for her contributions in phonological acquisition and her leadership in the Association…
Carly Dickerson. "Shprehja gjuhësore e identitetit gjinor: Burrneshat e Shqipërisë" (The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's Sworn Virgins), presented at Albanian Studies in America…
Mary Beckman Andrew R. Plummer & Mary E. Beckman (2015). “Framing a socio-indexical basis for the emergence and cultural transmission of phonological systems.” Journal of Phonetics, 53: 66-78…
Elizabeth Allyn Smith (PhD, ’10) has received tenure and been promoted to ‘professeure agrégée’ (associate professor) at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She has received grants from the SSHRC…
Workshop: Faculty members Carl Pollard and Bob Levine, along with visiting scholar Yusuke Kubota, hosted “Dynamic Semantics: Modern Type Theoretic and Category Theoretic Approaches” at the end of…