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Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025
In this issue
Welcome to our new graduate students!
Løsha Baklanov has just completed an MA in Linguistic Theory and Language Description at HSE University in Moscow. He is particularly interested in areal linguistics, and especially language…
OSU at the LSA Institute
Every other year, the Linguistic Society of America holds its Summer Institute, bring together faculty and students from around the world for 4-6 weeks of courses, workshops, and lectures. This past…
Shari Speer's retirement
Dr. Shari Speer, OSU’s preeminent psycholinguist, has decided to retire.Since receiving a PhD in Human Experimental Psychology from the University of Texas at…
Faculty Publications
Brian JosephVictor A. Friedman & Brian D. Joseph. 2025. The Balkan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Jacqueline Marshall & Brian D. Joseph. 2025.…
Graduate Student Presentations and Publications
Clark, ChristianClark, C, Oh, B-D, and Schuler, W. 2025. “Improved Reading Time Predictions from Word-Level Contextual Entropy”. Presented at Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting. December 18,…
Updates
On April 24, 2025, Brian was inducted as a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learnèd society in the United States. Technically elected in 2019, due to COVID restrictions…
Events and Happenings
On Sept 27th, 2025, the department hosted the Linguistics Welcome Picnic at Whetstone Park. Everyone enjoyed some Bibibop, dessert, and a lot of great visiting…