Year: 2023

Photos courtesy of Rachyl Hietpas and Charlotte Vanhecke Several members of Lang Sci were fortunate enough to travel to beautiful Banff, Canada for the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference this spring! Multiple UW–Madison linguists presented research papers at this year’s conference: Although they were certainly kept very busy with networking and other conference activities, the conference …

Photo credits: Miranda Vescio The focus of our Capstone in Linguistics course this semester was “Topics in Menominee Grammar.” Menominee is an Algonquian language indigenous to the areas now known as the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois. The language is spoken by a number of elders and learners on the Menominee Reservation in northern …

A recent Cap Times news article discusses our new American Sign Language program.

by Miranda Vescio | Language Sciences Multi-Media Intern Introduction The geographical region where the state of Wisconsin now lies is and has been home to a number of diverse indigenous peoples since ancient times. Tragically, our history of colonialism has often obscured if not eradicated a substantial number of the people and traditions that are …

We were extremely proud to have multiple Linguistics majors and students participate in the Undergraduate Symposium this year! The annual symposium allows undergraduates from across the university to share and celebrate the creative, original research projects that they work on with a faculty mentor. Many projects draw on the students’ expertise and interest in multiple …

Photos by Language Sciences Multimedia intern Miranda Vescio, unless otherwise noted The 17th annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) was back again in 2023 after several years of pandemic-related hiatus, and it was probably our biggest and most successful WiGL to date! WiGL is a fully student-run conference which was founded by the UW–Madison Linguistics …

Language Sciences is very excited to launch our new American Sign Language (ASL) course this summer! ASL is one of the world’s many signed languages used by Deaf and other individuals as their primary means of communication. ASL is the native language of many Deaf people in the United States. Signed languages use a visual-gestural, …