Penn Linguistics Conference

    Graduate students and early-career researchers in computer science, neuroscience, psychology, and related fields who have an interest in language and linguistics are invited to attend the 47th annual Penn Linguistics Conference. Hosted by the Graduate Linguistics Society of the Penn Linguistics Department, this conference provides an exceptional opportunity to present original research, connect with peers, and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in linguistics.

    The conference will be held in person for the first time since 2019 on March 18th and 19th, 2023. This year's conference program includes four talk sessions covering a wide range of topics in linguistics such as syntax, semantics, phonology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language processing. Additionally, there will be a poster session and opportunities to connect with other researchers during lunch and an evening dinner reception.

    We are excited to announce that this year's conference will feature keynote talks by two renowned linguists: Professor Keith Johnson and Professor Heidi Harley. Professor Johnson, a leading scholar in the fields of phonetics and speech science, developed the exemplar-based model of speech perception by combining ideas from theoretical linguistics and psychology. Professor Harley is a renowned syntactician who has made significant contributions to our understanding of the relationship between syntax and morphology within the Distributed Morphology framework. Her recent work on the understudied languages of the American Southwest, in addition to the empirical and theoretical contributions to linguistics, has been seminal in the documentation and preservation of these languages.

    We welcome you to join us for two days of engaging presentations, discussions, and opportunities to connect with fellow linguistics researchers from around the world.

    Keynote Speakers:

    Professor Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley)

    Professor Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)

    Previous Conferences

    Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.

This conference is made possible by generous funding from:

LDC University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
The Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania (SASGov) Graduate And Professional Student Association (GAPSA) MindCORE Center for Outreach, Researcha nd Education