Linguistics Society of America 96th Annual Meeting
 Michigan Linguistics was well represented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held virtually and in person from January 6-9. LSA 2022 featured seventeen organized sessions and a virtual poster session, in addition to annual meetings of the American Dialect Society and the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, as well as other special events. Read a summary of departmental participation at LSA 2022.
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Deborah Keller-Cohen coauthors paper in Advances in Mental Health
The paper characterizes suicide-related self-disclosure by peer specialists
Deborah Keller-Cohen, Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Women's Studies, coauthored the paper titled “Characterising suicide-related self-disclosure by peer specialists: a qualitative analysis of audio-recorded sessions,” with Casimir Klim, C. Ann Vitous, Eduardo Vega, Jane Forman, Adrienne Lapidos, Kristen M. Abraham, and Paul N. Pfeiffer. The paper was published online in the journal Advances in Mental Health in December 2021. Read the abstract.
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 Professor Robin Queen gave a presentation titled "Words We Use" as part of the ADVANCE Program’s 20th Anniversary on February 16.
Read the abstract.
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Marlyse Baptista presents at NWAV 49, Boston University, MIT
Professor and associate chair Marlyse Baptista gave three invited presentations during Fall 2021. She was a plenary speaker for the virtual confe rence New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 49) in October 2021. Her presentation was titled “Out of Many Voices, One Language.” In November, Marlyse delivered a colloquium presentation for the Linguistics department at Boston University titled “On the Emergence of Creole Pronominal Systems: Social and Linguistic Factors.” With Abel Djassi Amado of Simmons University, Marlyse gave an invited presentation on “Cabo Verdean Creole in Education” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (watch the video) for professor Michel DeGraff's seminar on Linguistics and Social Justice. Read the abstracts.
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$12M calligraphy gift transforms UMMA’s Asian art collection
The University of Michigan Museum of Art recently received a gift of Chinese calligraphy from the family of Lo Chia-Lun valued at more than $12 million — the largest gift of art in the university’s history. The collection was donated by the Chia-Lun Lo family, which also funded the namesake Rackham fellowship that was awarded to several of our linguistics PhD students — PhD alumna Dr. Chia-Wen Lo, and PhD candidates Tzu-Yun Tung and Lucy Chiang. Read the full story in the University Record.
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PhD Student Profile
Joy Peltier
For graduate student Joy Peltier, an interest in language developed from an early age—particularly while growing up in Georgia, surrounded by a large, extended family. 
“When one of my parents was on the phone, I could always tell if a family member was on the other end of the line,” Joy recalls, “because the melodies of African American English or Kwéyòl Donmnik would float down the hallway.” Read Joy's profile.
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PhD Student Profile
Yushi Sugimoto
 Graduate student Yushi Sugimoto earned his B.A. degree in English and American Literature from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, and his M.A. degree in Linguistics from Sophia University, also in Tokyo. He has been a doctoral student in the U-M Linguistics department since September 2018. Under the direction of advisors Marlyse Baptista and Acrisio Pires, Yushi’s research interests focus on theoretical linguistics, syntax, and generative grammar, the theory of language cognition first developed by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s. Read Yushi's profile.
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Aditya Vageesh is an LSA senior double majoring in Neuro-science and Cognitive Science.
