Author: rashields

Story by Lang Sci student Media Intern G Sorensen; photos by Monica Macaulay and Eric Raimy The Linguistic Society of America held its annual conference in New Orleans over the past winter, where many UW linguists were able to learn and share their work. The LSA annual conference co-occurs with the American Dialect Society; the …

Ada Deer Professor of Language Sciences Monica Macaulay reflects on her career of working with indigenous communities in this recent Madison.com article “Partnering in language revitalization“!

Congratulations to undergraduate English major Matthew Pennington, who has been awarded a Hilldale undergraduate/faculty research fellowship for an independent study project he will conduct in 2026-2027! Under the supervision of Lang Sci faculty Dr. Kelly Wright and Dr. Eric Raimy, Matthew will be exploring whether negative terms directed towards AI systems and automatons are recognized …

story by Grace “G” Sorensen and Rebecca Shields, photos by Rachyl Hietpas The 20th annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL) took place over this past weekend, running from Thursday afternoon to Saturday evening March 12-14. At this annual student conference, organized and run by the UW–Madison Linguistics Student Organization, both undergraduate and graduate students meet …

The schedule is now available for our student linguistics conference WiGL 20, which will take place from Thursday-Saturday March 12-14, 2026, with some sessions held in person and some online. The link to free registration is now also live. See the WiGL 20 conference website for more information!