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Spring 2025
Spring 2025
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Buckeye Language Network Symposium
Buckeye Language Network Symposium: Fostering Cross-Departmental CollaborationThe Buckeye Language Network (BLN) Symposium, held annually at Ohio State University, serves as a vibrant platform for…
Pedagogy Lecture
The department has hosted an annual pedagogy lecture since 2001. This lecture series brings linguists from around the world to the department to share their insights into excellence and innovation in…
The Linguistics of the Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel, written almost 100 years ago by the author and linguist J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon, a historical linguist, and an author of…
Interview: Lifeng Jin
Lifeng Jin graduated with a PhD in 2020, and is currently working at Scale AI. Lifeng agreed to talk about what he’s been up to and give advice for current students.What kind of work do you do?I am a…
Faculty Publications
Mary BeckmanBeckman, Mary E. 2024. Connecting prosody and duality of patterning in diachrony, typology, phylogeny, and ontogeny. In Felicitas Kleber & Tamara Rathcke, eds., Speech dynamics:…
Graduate Student Presentations and Publications
Clark, ChristianClark, C., Oh, B-D., and Schuler, W. 2025. “Effects of Recency Bias on Transformers' Predictions of Reading Times”. Presented at The 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence…