Farewell WHITL
After 15 years of activity, the Toronto Linguistics Blog is retiring. Our first post was published on November 16th, 2009, and our last on December 31st, 2024. Almost 1800 posts and 700,000 views...
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RIP Bob Bayley
RIP Bob Bayley We are so sad to learn that Dr. Robert Bayley, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UC Davis, and an associate member of the Centre for Research on Language Contact at York University in...
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Department field trip to Niagara: My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival
Earlier this fall, the Department of Linguistics invited faculty members and graduate students to watch My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake. The musical is about a phonetics...
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Grad Writing Day
Group smiles for a job well done (or well on the way)On Friday, Dec 13, 2024, graduate students rallied in silence in the Lounge for a "Writing Day" retreat. Term papers, GPs, and data analyses...
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RIP William Labov
RIP William Labov Here are a few of the many tribute pages to Bill, who died on Dec. 17, 2024, at the age of 97.He influenced many of us in the Department, sometimes in ways we don't even recognize....
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Undergraduate Award Recipients 2023-2024
Please join us in congratulating our Undergraduate Linguistics Award recipients! The Jack Chambers Award is awarded to Robin Huo.The Henry Rogers Memorial Award is awarded to Lucy Meanwell (MA...
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Professor Naomi Nagy's Book Launch at the Canadian Language Museum
Professor Naomi Nagy (department chair) introduced her new work, Heritage Languages: Extending Variationist Approaches, earlier this semester at the Canadian Language Museum at Glendale College. This...
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NWAV 52 in Miami Beach, Florida
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52, the world's largest annual event in variationist sociolinguistics, was held in Miami Beach, Florida from November 7th to 9th, co-hosted by Florida International...
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Guest speaker: Isaac L. Bleaman (UC Berkeley)
The Department of Linguistics and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS) hosted a guest talk by Isaac L. Bleaman (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley) on Friday, November 22, 2024. He...
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Will Williams successfully defends Thesis Proposal!
On November 15, 2024, Will Williams (now PhD Candidate) presented his thesis proposal, "Presuppositions, entailments, and other inferences: The case of factive-implicatives". His supervisory committee...
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Pedro Mateo Pedro Publishes The Itza' Pedagogical Grammar
The department is pleased to congratulate Pedro Mateo Pedro (faculty) on the publication of the Itza' Pedagogical Grammar, in collaboration with the Comindad Lingüística Itza' of the Academia de las...
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Grad Convocation 2024
On October 28 and November 1, we celebrated the conferral of our graduate students' MA and PhD degrees. This marks the culmination of hard work, dedication, and perseverance. Your achievements are a...
View ArticleWelcoming the Linguistics Dept.'s New Social Media Coordinator
WHITL? has a new admin! Hi everyone, my name is Natasha Vujičić, and I’m the Linguistics Department’s Social Media Coordinator for this year. I’m beyond excited to start writing and bringing my vision...
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Song Jiang successfully defends Thesis Proposal!
On September 27, 2024, Song Jiang (now PhD candidate) presented his thesis proposal, "Articulatory variability in the articulation and coarticulation of Mandarin rhotic vowels"His supervisory...
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Linguistics Grad School Application Support Program for Black and Indigenous...
The Racial Justice Committee in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto is implementing a program to support students who identify as Black or Indigenous on applying to graduate...
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The Department of Linguistics celebrates the start of the 2024-25 academic year!
On Friday, September 13, 2024, UofT linguists participated in an all-day even celebrating the start of the new academic year and, more importantly, welcoming new members to the department!The day began...
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Linguistics Coffeehouse Recap!
During March of 2024, Jack Mahlmann, Claudia Raihert, and Mechelle Wu, graduate students of our department, organized a coffeehouse fundraising event. Raising over $1400 for Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa,...
View ArticleAI-Driven Hype in Classrooms: Navigating Ethical Issues - Presented!
During the summer of 2023, Lex Konnelly and Nathan Sanders presented on AI "hype" in classrooms to help instructors address issues bubbling to the surface as ChatGPT's range broadens with each question...
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The heat is on this summer - you need SPF!
The 2024 annual Summer Phonetics - Phonology Forum (SPF) took place on August 7th, and now we know why they call it SPF!UofT linguists, attendees and presenters alike, gathered for the reception,...
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Linguistics Spotlight: Myrto Grigoroglou
WHITL Blog just got caught up with Myrto Grigoroglou’s many recent publications, coming out of 3 streams of research foci in just as many languages! Speaking to Grigoroglou about her research these...
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