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UPenn Linguistics The Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest modern linguistics department in the United States.

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!
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

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

01/22/2026

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

by Jonathan Lee:Lok, C., Lee, J. H. N., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-...
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...

Read about Penn Linguistics student Jonathan Lee's work in Penn Arts & Sciences's Omnia Magazine!
01/08/2026

Read about Penn Linguistics student Jonathan Lee's work in Penn Arts & Sciences's Omnia Magazine!

Disfluency, or irregularities and breaks in speech, are part of life—but do they affect how we perceive each other? Fourth-year linguistics PhD student Jonathan Lee is trying to find out.

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