Kristen Syrett

When language plays a role in compartmentalizing people based on where they are from, it affects how one perceives themselves. Prof. Syrett weighs in on how seemingly harmless ‘compliments’ end … Read More

Tatevik Yolyan (2nd year) and Adam McCollum will be presenting their work `The expressivity of liquid dissimilation in Yidiny‘ at the upcoming 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm), to be held … Read More

Adam McCollum recently published two papers in the journal Laboratory Phonology.  First, Vowel harmony and positional variation in Kyrgyz , this paper investigates harmony and vowel reduction in Kyrgyz, finding that non-initial … Read More

Ziling Zhu (2nd year) and Prof. Kristen Syrett presented their work titled “Do Mandarin nouns and classifiers individuate? Experimental evidence from a quantity judgment task” at the 12th Dubrovnik Conference … Read More

Robert Esposito, one of our undergraduate seniors has been awarded the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for his outstanding performance on his senior year research project. Prof. Mariapaola D’Imperio was his main faculty … Read More

Troy Messick and Sreekar Raghotham (3rd year) presented their joint work at CLS – 57 held from May 7th – 9th 2021. Their talk titled `Morphosyntax values itself ‘ discussed Telugu data, … Read More

Shiori Ikawa has been awarded this year’s prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Congratulations Shiori and all the best!

Hazel Mitchley (6th year) presented her work titled `A new way of introducing the external argument, and its implications for bundling‘  in the Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) held on … Read More

Prof. D’Imperio was elected as a board member of the International Speech Communication Association. The election was held in the month of April and the selected members would be a … Read More

Two of our Rutgers Linguistics members will be presenting their works at this year’s SALT 2021, to be held virtually at Brown University from May 7 – May 9, 2021. … Read More