Cognitive Science at UM

Another publication from the CogSci team.

Adventures in /Ɂ/ The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for lexical pitch accents. These unusual properties often provide possibilities for deriving predictions t...

The Department of Cognitive Science is hosting an international workshop on rhotics (/r/-sounds), 'r-atics 8, to be held 22-23 of May 2025. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 21st of January.

Check it out:

'r-atics 8, Valletta, Malta 'r-atics is a workshop intruiged by the variation of rhotics sounds over and within the world's languages. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning /r/ sounds. It is an international workshop that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly enviro...

Recently, the founder of the field of socio-linguistcs, William Labov, passed away. There is an amazing tribute video from his last PhD student on his legacy, well worth watching:

S*x, Death, and Moral Outrage: remembering Bill Labov Today, I'm remembering Bill Labov, the founder of sociolinguistics, and the linguist who may have had the largest impact of anybody in the 20th century. If y...