College of Letters & Science
UW–Madison linguist Cathy Stafford (Spanish, Second Language Acquisition) spoke about Heritage Languages in Wisconsin on the Morning Show with Wisconsin Public Radio. Listen to the full interview here: Heritage Languages in Wisconsin – Interview with Cathy Stafford
Recent Linguistics Ph.D. graduate Andrea Cudworth was one of several UW–Madison students who worked on a project to create a digital inventory of existing Ho-Chunk language resources. The resulting catalogue has helped connect teachers and learners of Ho-Chunk to helpful language learning materials. Read more about this project from Andrea in her feature article on …
Professor Valentine contributed to a Wisconsin Public Radio story on the Algonquian origins of the name of our state. The story is available to read or to listen to at the wpr website.
Members of the class of 2019 gathered at the top of Van Hise Hall to celebrate the completion of their degrees. In addition to the large ceremony at Camp Randall, Language Sciences hosts a small gathering each year for our graduates and their family and friends, where students receive their diploma cover from the Language …
Our upper-level linguistics majors enjoyed a special celebration to mark the end of their Field Methods capstone course, as well as their time studying linguistics here at UW–Madison. The focus language this year was Sundanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of Java in Indonesia. The Sundanese language consultant, Priza Marendraputra, kindly …
Professors Salmons and Purnell participated in the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery’s SoundWaves: Music and Science Together program. Their contribution discussed language variation and change, and was titled Hidden Worlds of Language Variation: ‘Subliminal Accent’. You can watch a recording of the entire program in the SoundWaves video archive by searching for the Hidden Worlds of …
Professor Macaulay is quoted in this recent article from Milwaukee Magazine: ‘Wisconsin’s Native Tribes are Taking Action to Keep their Languages from Dying Out’ by Tom Tolan.