Prof. McInnes on Ojibwe Language Revitalization

UW-Madison Professor Brian McInnes (SOHE) talks about how Ojibwe language revitalization efforts have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in this recent Badger Herald article: Language revitalization efforts for Ojibwe continue despite COVID-19 challenges – …

New Language Career Course

A new career and professionalization course aimed at undergraduates with a background in language study is launching this Fall. African 275: Lead with Language – Putting Language Skills to Work is a 1-credit course which …

COVID vocabulary

Language Sciences professors Tom Purnell and Anja Wanner (English) recently appeared on NBC 15 news discussing the spread of new COVID-19 related vocabulary. You can watch the story here: https://www.nbc15.com/2021/03/26/linguists-explain-how-covid-vocabulary-spread-around-the-world/

Undergraduate Research Positions Available

Professor Monica Macaulay is looking for two linguistics majors to be Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students for the academic year 2021-2022. The REU students will be part of the research team on my NSF …

Linguistics major Phi Beta Kappa nominees

Congratulations to the following Linguistics majors, who have been nominated to join the UW-Madison chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society! Rachel Fedorchak Elena Groves Jason Jenson Phi Beta Kappa is a national honor …

Caroline Niziolek joins Lang Sci faculty

We are happy to welcome Professor Caroline Niziolek (Communication Sciences & Disorders) to the Language Sciences faculty! Dr. Niziolek conducts research on the Neurolinguistics of speech, focusing on the relationship between auditory processing and motor …

UW-Madison Linguists at MidPhon 2021

Several UW-Madison language science graduate students will be presenting their research at the upcoming MidPhon 25 conference, held in a virtual format this year, and organized by hosts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. …