Week of September 6

Zhang at AMLaP 2021

Yuhan Zhang gave a talk titled "A noisy-channel explanation for depth-charge illusions" (joint work with Rachel Ryskin and Edward Gibson) at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2021 (AMLaP), hosted at the Université de Paris, France on September 2-4.

 

Harvard at ECIEC

Over the summer, two graduate students in our department, Niels Kuehlert and Zach Rothstein-Dowden, gave talks at the 40th East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC), held on June 17-19, co-hosted by Virginia Tech and Cornell University, held virtually.  ECIEC abstracts are limited to invitation only submissions.

ECIEC also featured talks from our professors:

 

Spring 2021 Teaching Awards

The following Harvard Linguistics members received awards from the Bok Center for their teaching in Spring 2021:

  • Certificate of Distinction in Teaching:
    • Deniz Satik for LING 101: The Science of Language
    • Niels Torben Kuehlert for LING 107: Introduction to Indo-European
    • Jessica Tanner for LING 73b Beginning American Sign Language II
  • Certificates of Teaching Excellence: