Congrats to Caroline Andrews, who was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Research Grant! Caroline’s project examines how we represent & access syntactic representations in short-term and long-term memory. The grant will help support the experimental component of her thesis.

Welcome to Ana Arregui & María Biezma, who will be joining us in January of 2019! Ana will be joining the Linguistics faculty, and María will be joining the Spanish and Portuguese faculty in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. We can’t wait for you to arrive!

Welcome back, Linguistics Undergraduates club! If you have burning questions for the club or want to join the mailing list, contact undergradlingclub (at) umass (dot) edu.

The first Lingle (Linguist Mingle) for undergraduate majors will happen 8/20 at 4:30 pm in N400. Meet your peers and faculty, have the opportunities to ask questions about the major and receive information on the academic program. All are welcome!

Ivy Hauser has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant titled “Doctoral Dissertation research: Effects of phonological contrast on phonetic variation.” Congratulations, Ivy! ow.ly/Q5s030lNpxa

PhD students Ivy Hauser and Katie Tetzloff are offering first-year undergraduate seminars this semester. Hauser and Tetzloff are both offering courses in the College of Natural Sciences program. More info at the link. Congrats, Ivy and Katie! ow.ly/e1JL30lNpmG

Congratulations to Gaja Jarosz, who has received a conference grant from the NSF to fund three special sessions at the next meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, to be held alongside the LSA annual meeting January 3-6, 2019. ow.ly/QIWU30lNpBe

Congratulations to Rodica Ivan, who has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant titled “Reinterpreting Condition B: An Investigation of Pronominal Reference in Romanian.” ow.ly/I5Uf30lNpHy

Pete Alrenga, our Semantics guru, will present the first talk in this year’s GLSA colloquium series, "Implicature Suspension and Ignorance: When Redundancy Isn’t Enough". It will take place at 3:30 in ILC N400, and a reception will follow. ow.ly/nVQq30m0pRn

Brian Dillon presented a talk on “Rebels without a clause: Processing reflexives in fronted wh-predicates” at the Ana-Log Workshop on anaphoricity and logophoricity at Harvard on Saturday Sept. 22. ow.ly/gPmk30m0pVm

Congratulations to Barbara Partee for receiving the Neil and Saras Smith Medal on Sept. 24 during a ceremony in London. She is the fifth recipient of this prestigious recognition of "lifetime achievement in the scholarly study of linguistics". ow.ly/Xs6v30m0q38

On Saturday Sept. 22, PhD student Coral Hughto presented a talk on “Emergent avoidance of cumulativity and variability in phonological typology” at the Stanford workshop on Analyzing Typological Structure: From Categorical to Probabilistic Phonology. ow.ly/XlEk30m0q0m

Linguistics at UMass is hiring in Psycholinguistics! This is a core part of our mission in cognitive science. Please see especially the second post in Brian's thread, emphasizing our commitment to diversity.

Excited for our workshop on prosody in African American English at UMass Amherst next Wednesday! etap4.krisyu.org/aae @mixedlinguist @ProfessorBreen Meghan E. Armstrong Heather Pon-Barry Corpus of Regional African American Language Linguistics at UMass #etap4

(Correction!) Experimental & Theoretical Advances to Prosody 4 started today and goes on until 10/13 at UMass. More info here: etap4.krisyu.org

PhD student Christopher Hammerly is appearing in Human Brain Mapping with a paper entitled The temporal dynamics of structure and content in sentence comprehension: Evidence from fMRI-constrained MEG. More info: ow.ly/1ekA30mbmMm

The Sound Systems of Latin America conference is being held at UMass 10/19-10/20. blogs.umass.edu/ssola3/program/

Deniz Özyildiz gave an invited talk on `Unselected Embedded Questions‘ at the WAFL 14 conference that was held at MIT Oct. 19-21, 2018. The full program can be found here: wafl14.mit.edu/program

Professor Tom Roeper has just returned from a trip to Germany which involved talks in Wuppertal, Dortmund, and Berlin. Program: ow.ly/DI5e30mm8nL

Read about UMass Linguistics at CreteLing 2018: ow.ly/mPLb30mm8rC