Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility at U-M
Natasha Ab ner helped organize the virtual event series Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy, which took place throughout Disability Community Awareness month in October. She was a member of the October 5th panel, Disability Studies Futures at U-M, and a faculty representative at the October 27th event on Requesting Accommodations.
Robin Queen was a member of the October 13th panel, Dismantling Ableism across Academic Spaces and Hierarchies. 
All of the events were conducted as Zoom webinars with live CART captioning and ASL-English interpreting. Recordings of the event are archived on the Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy website and available for viewing.
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Teresa Satterfield Featured in November LSA Member Spotlight
 Linguist Teresa Satterfield, Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is featured in the Linguistic Society of America’s member spotlight for November 2021. Professor Satterfield is a psycholinguist with a broad background in language development in bilingual children. See the LSA member spotlight.
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Emily Atkinson to Begin New Position at UTM
 In January 2022, Linguistics Lecturer Emily Atkinson will join the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga as Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Dr. Atkinson currently teaches two courses in the Linguistics department and is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science. She has been a part of the U-M Linguistics community since 2017. Congratulations, Emily, and best of luck in your new position!
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'How I Got Here and Where
I'm Going Next'
 The latest article by Sarah G. (Sally) Thomason, Bernard Bloch Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics, has been accepted for publication in the Annual Review of Linguistics. In the autobiographical article, “How I Got Here and Where I’m Going Next,” professor Thomason takes a spirited and often humorous approach to describing her fifty-year career as a linguist. Professor Thomason retired from U-M on May 31, 2021.
Read an Advance Review of the article.
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Andrew McInnerney Authors Paper on Parentheticals
 Linguistics PhD candidate Andrew McInnerney has authored a paper titled "Parenthetical Niching: A Third-Factor Phonosyntactic Analysis." The paper is currently in press with the journal Syntax. The paper was accepted for publication in October 2020. Read the abstract.
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Yourdanis Sedarous Awarded Predoctoral Fellowships
 Congratulations to PhD candidate Yourdanis Sedarous, who has received an MIT Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The fellowship will enable Yourdanis to spend the 2021-22 academic year at MIT where she is working on her dissertation research.Yourdanis also received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. The prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral candidates working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful. Read more.
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Kelly Wright Gives Virtual Talk
at UC Berkeley
In a hybrid event on October 18, PhD candidate Kelly E. Wright gave a talk for the University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics Department entitled "Raciolinguistic Ideologies as Institutionaized Linguistic Racism." The talk was part of the colloquium series called TABLE (Toward a Better Linguistics Environment), which aims to give space to socially and theoretically important topics that are historically neglected within the fields of linguistics and language studies.
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Graduate Student Spotlight
Justin Craft
 For PhD candidate Justin Craft, attending community college had a lasting impact on his life—not only by instilling self-confidence but also by providing a foundation for his later interest in Linguistics and, specifically, phonetics.
Justin grew up in Long Beach, California, and received his Associates degree from Long Beach City College in radio and television production. While there, he briefly managed the student radio station, KLBC. Read more.
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Alumni Profile
Beatrice Teodoro Oshika
Linguistics alum Beatrice Teodoro Oshika (BA 1963, MA 1964, PhD 1973), credits her U-M education with providing the foundation of her life, beginning with her mother who came to Ann Arbor in 1933 from the Philippines as a Barbour Scholar. Read more about Beatrice’s early campus activities, what it was like to be a U-M student in the 1960s, and her long career in linguistics. Read more.
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Chinese and his mother tongue is English. In order to practice Chinese, he tries to speak Chinese in our apartment because I am a native Chinese speaker, but he often makes grammatical mistakes. One day, he told me:
