We are thrilled to announce the 2023 LSA Summer Institute's named professors! They are Aditi Lahiri (Collitz Professor), Enoch Aboh (Sapir Professor), Lisa Matthewson (Hale Professor), and Veneeta Dayal (Fillmore Professor).

Congratulations to LABLab DPhil Huinan Zeng, who has been awarded a Trinity Graduate prize!

Would you like to take part in linguistics studies? You can express your interest in receiving invitations to participate in both our in-person and online experiments here! https://t.co/XCKcOB3ih5

Publication: Kim, Y., Kotzor, S. & Lahiri, A. (2022) Disambiguating Effects of Syllable Position and Neighborhood Size: Contributions of Hanja During Sino-Korean Processing. J Psycholinguist Res (2022).

Welcome back for MT2022 and a special welcome to our new linguists joining us this term! Watch this space for some exciting news and updates over the next few weeks.

The Lab is delighted to announce our Director, Professor Aditi Lahiri has become the first @UniofOxford academic to be awarded a third prestigious advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)! https://t.co/RHesrl9a4d

Publication: Lahiri, A. & Plank, F. (2022). Phonological Phrasing: Approaches to grouping at lower levels of the prosodic hierarchy. In Dresher, B. E., & van der Hulst, H. (Eds.). (2022). The Oxford History of Phonology. Oxford University Press.

Publication: Dresher, B. E., & Lahiri, A. (2022). The foot in the history of English. English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL, 358, 41.

So this is exciting! Forthcoming in the 2022 LSA Proceedings, I propose that the absence of generic articles cross-linguistically results from the inability to lexicalize the quantificational and modal components of GEN. Comments welcomed! https://t.co/C5hUzkiDoa

Oh, this is actually important (unlike many of my recent tweets): Early Bird Registration ends ⚠️tomorrow ⚠️ (April 15) for #ICHL2022 !!! https://t.co/x2F6V3DFuu #historicallinguistics @OxfordLABlab @oxfordlinguists

Publication: Fritz, I., Lahiri, A., & Kotzor, S. (2021). The role of metrical stress differences in learner word recognition. ExLing 2021: pp. 85-88.

Publication: Althaus, N., Kotzor, S., Schuster, S., Lahiri, A. (2022). Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections. Cognition 222 (2022), 104963. Link:

Interested in how orthography can influence mental phonological representations? Check out our new paper below @ueapsychology @OxfordLABlab #reading #phonology #morphology

So excited for this year's John Locke Lectures by @AngelikaKratzer on Reports of what we say, know, or believe!

https://t.co/qzIPJSUli8

In this video, Yoolim Kim & @OliverWithAnI explain the scientific project behind glyph ( https://t.co/OpLVjUcFyI), and the rules of the game.

Very excited about the two #HSP2022 lightning talks from my students today in Block 8a/8b Elkhorn Slough: Yang Fan, Memory retrieval and illusions of recovery in garden-path reanalysis; and Zirui Huang, Negative islands do not block active gap filling

"Researchers in Professor Lahiri's Language and Brain Laboratory, which she established soon after she arrived in Oxford some 14 years ago, address questions on how the brain processes language structure..." https://t.co/I3i6Ya8V52

publication: Meng, Y., Kotzor, S., Xu, C., Wynne, H., & Lahiri, A. (2021). Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of asymmetric processing of consonant duration in fake Mandarin geminates. Neuropsychologia. https://t.co/s3qgLsN1FT

publication: Kim, Y., Kotzor, S., Lahiri, A. (2021). Is Hanja represented in the Korean mental lexicon?: Encoding cross-script semantic cohorts in the representation of Sino-Korean. Lingua (2021). Link: