Month: October 2024

An interview by G Sorensen, Language Sciences undergraduate student multimedia intern Language Sciences is excited to welcome our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Kelly Wright! Dr. Wright is an Experimental Sociolinguist and Lexicographer. She got her two-year associate’s degree at Pellissippi State Community College before swiftly moving on to get her Bachelor’s Degree from Maryville …

The Linguistics Student Organization announces online publication of the UW–Madison LSO Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 12: Proceedings of WiGL 2023! See the Working Papers in Linguistics page for the full list of volumes published by our student organization over the years.

The Linguistics Student Organization is running a fundraising campaign to support their activities which provide social, academic, and professionalization opportunities for students at all levels interested in linguistics on our campus! or Venmo @LSOUWmadison What does the LSO do? Read below for a summary written by LSO officers of all their amazing activities and accomplishments …

Photo credits: Eric Raimy UW–Madison once again sent a robust crew to the annual MidPhon meeting (29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Meeting), which in 2024 was hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on October 4-5. This year the following UW–Madison linguists from various departments gave posters or presentations at the meeting: This conference …

Congratulations to our Linguistics students who received awards this year from the Linguistic Society of America! We had multiple undergraduates and one graduate student receiving awards this year – wow! The following undergraduate Linguistics majors won a Committee on Ethnic Diverstiy in Linguistics (CEDL) Travel Grant: The CEDL Travel grant provides up to $1000 to …

The Linguistics Student Org has announced dates for the upcoming WiGL (Workshop in General Linguistics): the 19th annual meeting of our student conference will be Friday-Saturday March 14-15 in 2025, followed by online workshops on Sunday March 16. Abstracts for papers or workshops are due by January 17, 2025. See the Call for Papers for …