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Next week’s Colloquium: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) on Under-agreement in child grammars 🗓 Oct 16, 4:15–6:15 PM (Room 4116 | Zoom)
Don’t miss it - register via QR code or link in bio!

📢 Call for Abstracts: SYNC 2025
Dec 6 @ CUNY Graduate Center 🎓
Annual linguistics conference for grad students from Stony Brook, Yale, NYU & CUNY.
Submit your abstract by Oct 19!
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reviewers welcome too — details on the SYNC site.

📣 Calling all GC Linguistics students!
📅 Oct 9: Prof. Cece Cutler leads a workshop on Article-based vs. traditional dissertations. Learn the pros & cons of each format as you plan your dissertation path.
👉 Current students only.

No classes scheduled. Wednesday, October 1 - Thursday, October 2. Yom Kippur.

NO classes are scheduled this Wednesday, 10/1 and Thursday, 10/2 in observance of Yom Kippur.

✨ Last Thursday's Linguistics Colloquium ✨
Thank you to Claire Bowern (Yale University) for presenting "When sound change does (and doesn't) happen". Stay tuned for the next event in our Fall series!
Next up: Athulya Aravind (Yale University), Oct 16. Don’t miss it!

Deep Dive: Listening to Bad Bunny - Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Miguel Zenón in Conversation Elebash Recital Hall

Coming Dec 10 - take a deep dive into Super Bowl headliner Bad Bunny’s music & significance - reserve to join in person or online, free: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/deep-...

Thinking about grad study in linguistics? 👀
Join our Open House @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Oct 16!
What to expect?
📖 Semantics I (Al Khatib)
🍴 Lunch + Q&A w/ @cece-cutler.bsky.social & students
📚 Field Methods II (Kaufman)
🎤 Colloquium
RSVP 👉 tinyurl.com/2md7pwp4

🔬 Inside the Lab: Second Language Acquisition Lab (SLAL)
We’re kicking off a new series on the research labs that drive our program. First up: SLAL, where students & faculty investigate bilingualism, heritage languages, and second language learning. ✨ Stay tuned for more labs!

Tomorrow! 🎓 Our first Fall ’25 Linguistics Colloquium:
Claire Bowern (Yale university) – When sound change does (and doesn't) happen
📅 Thu, Sept 25, 4:15–6:15pm
📍 Room 8301/8304, CUNY GC + Zoom (reg required)

🦑 Throwback Tuesday! Last semester, SQUID (Showcasing Quirky and Unusual Ideas in Development) returned after 5 years. It’s our department’s tradition where students & faculty share playful works-in-progress and creative experiments. Can’t wait for the next one!

✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change.
📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm
📍 GC, Room 9206
🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f

🎉 Congrats to our grad students Matt Malone & Celeste Escobar!
They’ll present on the morphosyntax of Guaraní, a project that grew out of our Field Methods course, at Effects of Grammatical System on the Lexicon (Unison, Hermosillo 🇲🇽, Nov 13–14) 🌍

✨ Friday Reads ✨
Our pick this week is a new release: Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela (Routledge, 2025).

👩‍🏫 Prof. Miki Makihara (QC; CUNY GC Anthropology, Linguistics, LAILAC)
👨‍🏫 Prof. Juan Luis Rodriguez (QC Anthropology)

💰 Funding Friday!
Looking for support for research or conference travel?
Prof. Jason Kandybowicz compiled a fantastic list of fellowships & grants for linguistics grads ✨

📎 Explore it here →

Here’s the abstract for our first Fall 2025 Colloquium! 📝
Claire Bowern (Yale) will speak on sound change, why it happens (and doesn’t).
Curious to know more? Join us in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social or on Zoom (register here:
gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)

Teaching for the Age of AI Luke Waltzer, director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, discusses how a Google.org-funded initiative supports CUNY faculty and graduate student teachers as they experiment w...

@lukewaltzer.bsky.social talks to @tanyadomi.bsky.social on The Thought Project about a project bringing together CUNY faculty to explore the impact of generative AI on teaching and learning, while creating space for reflection and experimentation in the classroom www.gc.cuny.edu/news/teachin...

✨ First Colloquium of the Semester ✨
We’re kicking things off next week! Don’t miss our first Linguistics Colloquium of Fall 2025.
📅 September 25, 4:15-6:15pm
📍Room 8301/8304
💻 Zoom (registration mandatory): tinyurl.com/cunylingcoll...

Stay tuned, the abstract is coming soon!

📢 The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship is accepting applications — due Oct 2.
Open to doctoral students in any field whose dissertation research focuses on education.
Learn more & apply: naeducation.org/naed...

We’re on Instagram! 🎉 Follow @gccuny.linguistics for program news, events, student & faculty spotlights, and resources for our community 🌍✨

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Announcing the CUNY Winners of the 2025 Google Cybersecurity Grants Faculty at the Graduate Center and throughout CUNY receive support for innovative work in AI, autonomous vehicle technology, smartphones, and wearable devices.

Congrats to Prof. Levitan, recipient of 2025 Google Cybersecurity Research Grant! 🎉

Read more about her exciting work →

📣 Endangered Language Association Presents:

Voices of Enlhet Memory and the Enenlhet / Voces de la memoria Enlhet y los Enenlhet
Sept 26 · 3–4:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual or watch party @ ELA NYC
🗣️ EN/ES interpretation
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/dW7Dy4U9
🌱 More information at: www.enlhet.org | @e.nnengkoo

👏 Huge congrats to PhD Candidate Aidan Malanoski!
This Fall they are presenting at @nwavconference.bsky.social (2 talks!), giving an invited talk at NYU SocioLab, and guest lecturing at JHU, PSU Brandywine & CUNY. So proud! 🌟

Our own Kyle Gorman will present at the LSA Presidential Research Forum on Logical Phonology!
🗓️ Sept 15, 1–2:30 PM ET
Open to all — no membership needed!
Register here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...

Library of Artistic Print on Demand (Online) Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Post-Digital Publishing and Platform Capitalism

📢 Join us Sept 17, 6:30pm (Room 5307 & online) for Library of Artistic Print on Demand: Post-Digital Publishing & Platform Capitalism. Speakers include alum Angie Waller (MA CompLing ’19). No registration needed for in-person attendance, but required for online attendance: tinyurl.com/gcling

Image 1: A group of students sit around a rectangular table in the lounge of the linguistics department, smiling at the camera. The table has snacks, drinks, and flowers. Bookshelves line the walls in the background.

Image 2: Students are seated in a lecture space, attentively listening to an orientation session.

Image 3: The EO of the program, Cece Cutler, together with Prof. Caplan and MA student stand together smiling in the lounge. Behind them are bookshelves and other tables in the room.

Can you believe it’s already been a week since the semester started? 😱 The first week flew by! It was such a joy welcoming our new students and reconnecting with familiar faces! Sharing some snapshots from orientation 📸

In Memoriam: Professor Emerita Dianne Bradley An influential psycholinguist is remembered as an inspiring mentor and teacher who held herself, her students, and her colleagues to high standards.

The Graduate Center community mourns the passing of our colleague Dianne C. Bradley, professor emerita of Linguistics and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria... @gccunylinguistics.bsky.social

How to Make the Most of Grad School Faculty and alumni share their best advice on perseverance, publishing, public impact, and more.

🎓 New semester, new opportunities! Check out this piece from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, featuring insights from our very own @cececut.bsky.social, along with alumni and colleagues, on navigating grad school and thriving in academia.
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/how-mak...

🎉 Welcome back, the Fall semester is here!
Excited to kick off a new semester of learning, research, and collaboration at GC Linguistics. 🌟