Jackson Lee will be presenting “The (non-)blocking of non-TETU tonal overwriting in Cantonese attenuative reduplication” at the Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honor of Glyne Piggott conference at McGill University on May 7-9, 2011. Congrats!

In addition to Rebekah being named the Bloch Fellow, several other grad students (Andrea Beltrama, Jackson Lee, and Martina Martinovic) have also received LSA fellowships to attend the Linguistics Institute in Boulder, CO, this summer. Congrats to all!

5th year PhD student Thomas Grano has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the next academic year. This is a national competition among students from all areas of the humanities. Congratulations, Tommy!

3rd-year PhD student Rebekah Baglini has been named the 2011-13 Bloch Fellow. This award goes to the person who is, in the eyes of the LSA Summer Institute fellowship selection committee, “the most promising applicant for fellowships” at the Institute. The Bloch Fellow receives an institute fellowship (obviously), and then serves as a voting member of the LSA Executive Committee for two years. Wow!

Congrats to Julia Thomas for successfully defending her qualifying paper, “Styeshifting in African American English: Theoretical Implications from a phonetic analysis of /ai/ monophthongization”!