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A&S psycholinguist Myrto Grigoroglou investigates how young children acquire language

March 12, 2021

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8 by highlighting the groundbreaking contributions and unique stories of A&S women. All week, we’ll shine a spotlight on the vibrant women of our community.

Undergraduate researchers Jonathan Ng, Mira Chow and Kate Cheung.

From Hong Kong to Toronto: undergrad researchers study variation and change in Cantonese

January 29, 2020

Famous for its ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, Toronto is an ideal location for examining how and why — and if — languages change across the generations of immigrants and their descendants who make the city their home.

Photo of Sali Tagliamonte in front of book cases in her department office

Goodness gracious, the language is changing! U of T linguists study 'g-word' usage in Ontario

July 22, 2019

As expressions go, “gosh” seems tame enough. But when Sali Tagliamonte was a teenager in summer camp, uttering even a more polite version of the word “God” landed her in trouble.

Gregory Antono, centre, works with speakers of Macuxi, an Indigenous language spoken in the area between Brazil and Guyana

'Piecing together a puzzle': Undergraduate students travel to Brazil to document and preserve Indigenous languages

July 08, 2019

Indigenous Peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s estimated 6,700 languages, but language scholars predict at least half – likely more – of those languages will go extinct by the year 2100.

New Paper: Moulton and Shimoyama (2019)

January 10, 2019

Keir Moulton (faculty) and colleague Junko Shimoyama (McGill University) have a paper out in Glossa, 4(1): "On the Inverse Trace Conversion and maximal informativeness analysis of Japanese internally-headed relative clauses: A reply to Erlewine and Gould."

New Paper: Denis and Tagliamonte (2018)

December 19, 2018

Derek Denis (faculty) and Sali A. Tagliamonte (faculty) have a paper out in English Language & Linguistics, 22(3): "The changing future: Competition, specialization, and reorganization in the contemporary English future temporal reference system."

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