FYIs

Profs. Elena Filatova and Cece Cutler will  host NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Open competition) 2024 @ CUNY on Thursday, January 25, 2024, 10am – 1pm.
More information on NACLO can be found here: https://naclo.org/.
To participate in NACLO at the CUNY site and to get the announcements related to the CUNY NACLO site, choose the City University of New York (New York, NY) when registering for NACLO: https://naclo.org/registration_page.php

Prof. Kyle Gorman (et al) received a $150,000 start-up grant from the US – Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project titled “Diacritization for the World's Scripts”

Simon Zuberek (CL M.A. student) will be leading a workshop titled “A Calculator for Writing: Harnessing Generative AI to Develop Instructional Content for Foreign Language Writing” at the VI Consortium Workshop for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL) at Princeton University, Oct. 6-7, 2023.

Simon's podcast episode titled, Corpora and Data in the Language Classroom, (S12E8) was released in October, on Speaking of Language from Cornell University’s Language Resources Center.

Students and faculty presented at the Heritage Languages at the Crossroads (HL@Cross): cultural contexts, individual differences and methodologies conference on May 29^th in Istanbul, Turkey: 

1. Emeritus Prof. Gita Martohardjono, Michael Johns, Daniela Castillo, Pamela Franciotti, Ilaria Porru presented: "Language Use Modulates Processing of Island Constraints in Heritage Speakers and Late Bilinguals"
2. LeeAnn Stover, Prof. Irina Sekerina, Emeritus Prof. Gita Martohardjono presented: "Language Experience Impacts L2 English Scope Computation"

This July, Prof. Christina Hagedorn will be presenting her work, “The Role of High-Performance Low Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Management of Tongue Cancer,” at the American Head and Neck Society’s 11th International Conference on Head and Neck Surgery in Montreal, Canada.

Prof. Jason Kandybowicz was invited to deliver a plenary talk at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics 54 (University of Connecticut), June 12-14, 2023. The title of his talk is: Escaping African ‘Islands’

Dr. Suzanne van der Feest is the recipient of a PSC-CUNY Traditional A award for the project "Learning New Sounds: Individual Differences Influencing Productions of Turkish as a New Language". The grant will be used for conducting acoustic and morpho-phonological analyses as part of a larger project in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Brooks and Dr. Valerie Shafer. 

Dr. Suzanne van der Feest and colleagues' paper was accepted for publication in the 47th BUCLD proceedings volume (Boston University Conference on Language Development). 

Van der Feest, S.V.H., Median, G., Maryutina, E., Davidovich, I., Bloder, T., Barrière, I., & Shafer, V.L. (2023). Acoustic Correlates of Central Vowels in Russian-English and Spanish-English Bilingual Children. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, Sommerville, MA.

Clara McMahon and her co-author Alex Kohut (Boston University) will be presenting their paper “Disambiguating Double and Single Negation Readings in Russian” at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS‑18) from August 24 – 26, 2023 in Bratislava. 

Prof. Cece Cutler was granted a PSC-CUNY grant ($7868.60) which will fund 1-2 students to analyze data from the New York City Metro Area Language Survey and attend a conference to present the data.