Postdoc opportunity in syntax at Penn! https://t.co/qwWNF88xZp

We are delighted to report that Gillian Sankoff was honored on Saturday, January 11, with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. A very well-deserved recognition of her long and influential career!

John Baugh recalled Bill once expressing an ambition to share with Socrates the trait of always being referred to in the present tense. There was widespread agreement that this is a good way to honor him.

It was clear, as a series of speakers shared fond, touching, and funny memories of their friend, colleague, and mentor, that Bill had changed the course of multiple people's lives and, through them, the field.

A memorial was held for Bill Labov on the evening of Thursday, January 9, at the 2025 LSA Meeting in Philadelphia. There were many laughs as well as tears.

The @americandialect Word of the Year: RAWDOG To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with

As the final day of #LSA2025 unfolds, we can’t help but feel inspired, grateful, and energized by the connections, ideas, and memories we've created together. There are still many activities and sessions to engage in today, from student networking, a final poster session, and

Another great day at #LSA2025! Today’s sessions spanned a fascinating range of topics, from Discourse Analysis to sessions specifically geared toward high school students. Each speaker brought fresh insights, sparking meaningful conversations. One more day of talks, posters, and

Gillian Sankoff has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. This will be presented at 3:15 today (Jan 11) at the #LSA in rooms 407–408 of the conference Marriott. Please join us to help celebrate her lifetime of achievements!

Our heartfelt condolences go out to Gillian and the family; they are in our thoughts as we share their deep loss.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Bill Labov. He shaped the field of variationist sociolinguistics and helped countless linguists on their paths to stellar careers. His kindness, generosity, and brilliance have been a profound source of inspiration for so many of us.

The Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship honors the memory of Professor Raymond H. Stetson, a pioneer investigator in phonetics and speech science. The purpose of the scholarship is to facilitate the research efforts of promising graduate students.

We are delighted to report that May Pik Yu Chan ( https://t.co/b6j8HkGazg) has been awarded the Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science ( https://t.co/Mk3bqiLNMe)!

June Choe (with Anna Papafragou) has a talk titled "Children's sensitivity to informativeness in naming: basic-level vs. superordinate nouns".

Tyler Knowlton (joint work with John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou) has a talk titled "The strength of conservativity: Evidence from learnability experiments".

Sarah Hye-yeon Lee (in joint work with Madison Paron and Anna Papafragou) has two talks, "Conceptual and linguistic factors affect how learners name entities with non-canonical structure" and "Conceptions of individuation in objects and events are shared across languages".

Jonathan Lee (with Anna Papafragou) has a talk titled "Social evaluation of disfluency in naturalistic speech".

The Language & Cognition Lab ( https://t.co/UECcpnQHwz) will have a strong presence in January at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America with five abstracts accepted as talks!

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We are delighted to report that Uğurcan Vurgun, who successfully defended his thesis titled, "From Words to Worlds: Telicity and the Malleability of Event Representations” in August, has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Penn Medicine!