Several members of the U-M Linguistics community presented their research at the Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting 2026 held from June 22nd-23rd, 2026 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. 

U-M research presented at MMMM is given below:

  • “Bilingual language models as models of bilingualism: Reflecting on techniques”
    Author: Naomi Shapiro (U-M Linguistics faculty)
  • “Modeling language comprehension in heritage bilingualism using large language models: A neurocomputational approach”
    Authors: Wei-Hung Lin, Nuo Chen, Molly Leachman, Chi-Lin Yu, Tai-Li Chou, Jonathan Brennan (U-M Linguistics faculty), Ioulia Kovelman (U-M Linguistics faculty associate)
  • “Bilingual code-switch processing in natural conversation with EEG”
    Authors: James Baybaş (U-M Linguistics graduate student), Dorothy Yuxi Lin (U-M undergraduate student), Sharon Lu (U-M undergraduate student) Jonathan Brennan (U-M Linguistics faculty)
  • “Parameter-Based Grammar Competition Models as Models of (Un)balanced Multilingualism”
    Author: Sid Bhushan (U-M Linguistics graduate student)