We are delighted to introduce to you our very accomplished incoming class! Here they are:

• Özge Bakay, who says:
  “I am Özge from Istanbul, Turkey. I work on Turkish and Laz. My interests are in psycholinguistics, prosody and computational linguistics.” 
   
• Alessa Farinella, who says:
  “I’m Alessa, former backpacker and sometimes singer from New York. My interests are in prosody, especially in Austronesian, as well as fieldwork and documentation.”
   
• Angelica Hill, who says:
  “I’m Angelica (Jelly, for short). I’m originally from Rochester New York but I’m currently finishing my MSc Logic in Amsterdam. I like verbs and Beyonce.”
   
• Cerys Hughes, who says:
  “I’m Cerys, and I’m from Cincinnati, Ohio. I just graduated with my bachelor’s in linguistics and computer science from Ohio State, and I really enjoy computational linguistics, phonology, and phonetics.”
   
• Polina Kasyanova (HSE), who says:
  “I’m Polina and I’m from Moscow. I do field research on several languages but mainly on Chukchi. I like linguistic typology, polysynthesis (whatever this is supposed to mean), and trying out things just out of curiosity. Yesterday I found out that putting Tabasco sauce into your coffee is not as bad as it seems, though I probably won’t do this again.”
   
• Mari Kugemoto, who says:
  “I’m Mari Kugemoto. I studied at UC San Diego last year as an exchange student and recently graduated from International Christian University, Japan. I like singing in a choir and studying psycholinguistics. “
   
• Jia Ren (UCL/CUHK), who says: 
  “Hi I’m Jia from the northeast part of China. I do syntax and stay open to the possibilities of it. I live and err with a love for wisdom.”