UPenn Linguistics

10/08/2026

Cool work by Penn Linguistics PhD Mikaela Belle Martin and former Penn Postdoc Andrea Beltrama!

Penn Ph.D. student Mikaela Belle Martin and University of Delaware collaborator Andrea Beltrama assessed how Black identity factors into previous findings that ‘nerdy’ speakers are deemed more precise than ‘chill’ ones.

05/19/2026

Some linguists pictured here! Congratulations, everyone!

04/23/2026

Quynh-Giang Dang awarded Student Presentation Excellence Award at !
https://quynhgiangdang.github.io/

03/18/2026

03/18/2026

Work by Penn Linguistics PhD P*k Yu May Chan (https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~pikyu/) on the front cover of JASA!

JASA

The December cover is here! It features the Musical Acoustics article, "Principal component analysis of the interaction between spectral band power and pitch in classical singing voices" (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041780)!

Also highlighted on the cover:
- "Effect of angle of incidence on backscatter methods of ultrasonic bone assessment" (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041862)
- "Fluid dynamic and acoustic processes in a single chamber silencer: Transmission loss and heat recovery" (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041821)
- "Mechanisms of auditory enhancement in younger and older adults" (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041788)
- "Axially focused (glory) scattering from surface waves on spheroids: Model and experimental confirmation using a brass spheroid" (https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0041869)

All cover articles are free to read for a month!

University of Pennsylvania

03/16/2026

Le Xuan Chan (https://sites.google.com/view/lexuanchan/) is a finalist in the upcoming Penn Grad Talks on March 27th! Le Xuan’s talk, titled "Can We Identify Someone's Background from Just a Single Word?”, will be in the Natural Sciences section at 3pm.

https://pan-school.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-talks

Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America 2025, Philadelphia

01/29/2026

Penn Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life!

Linguistics professor Katie Schuler brings the motto “a rising tide lifts all boats” to life.

01/23/2026

Registration is currently open for the Penn Linguistics Conference (https://sites.google.com/sas.upenn.edu/plc50/home)!

Register here for a really exciting line up of talks: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-linguistics-conference-50-plc50-tickets-1978303818977

01/22/2026

February 11: Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at University of Connecticut and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories at Yale University, Diane Lillo-Martin, joins us for her presentation on The Truth about Sign Language Acquisition.

The presentation will show what it looks like for a child to become a bimodal bilingual, using two languages in two modalities (speech and sign), and how hearing parents can be part of this journey.

Lillo-Martin studies the structure and acquisition of American Sign Language and looks at the process of language acquisition across different languages. Her current focus is language acquisition by deaf children in hearing families. She is a hearing L2 signer of ASL.

Presented in collaboration with ASL and Deaf Studies in UPenn Linguistics.

Wednesday, February 11 - 5:30pm
Stiteler Hall 261, 208 South 37th Street
Free and open to the public
Presented in ASL with ASL/English interpretation provided

https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lillo-martin

01/08/2026

by Jonathan Lee:
Lok, C., Lee, J. H. N., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism. (Online first)

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study investigates mismatched responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions produced by Cantonese-English biling...