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Photo credits: Miranda Vescio Final presentations were in full swing this week in our senior capstone course. In this small and interactive course, Linguistics majors spend a semester working closely with a professor to develop their data collection and analysis skills. This semester our capstone topic was “Algonquian Historical Phonology” and the course was taught …

Language Sciences will be offering a Badger Summer Scholars course as part of the Badger Precollege program – giving high school students from across the U.S. and the world an opportunity to explore college life on the UW–Madison campus this summer. The course is Human Language and Identity, which will run for 3 weeks from …

Our Linguistics Fridays Colloquia series is back this Fall, with a slight time shift to 3:00 pm. The weekly colloquia will remain online for the time being, with a tentative plan to transition to in person later this year. Here is the schedule: Linguistics Fridays (Most) Every Friday at 3:00 October 8 – Strategies for …

Itegrative Biology graduate student Sterling Martin and Post-doc Joanna Bundus co-founded the ENABLE project, which is working on translating a collection of technical biological terms into Diné bízaad (Navajo).

Language Sciences is pleased to welcome Rajiv Rao as our next Director, effective July 1st 2021. Dr. Rao received his PhD from the University of California-Davis, and began his faculty career at Northern Illinois University. He subsequently moved to UW–Madison in 2009. Dr. Rao is currently an associate professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. He formerly served as the director of the Spanish Language Program there, and his research …

Linguistics/Computer Science double major Alex Peseckis is the most recent student to be interviewed in the Computer Science double major feature series. In the interview, Alex talks about the synergy between his two majors, and his plans to pursue graduate school and ultimately work on language-related Artificial Intelligence projects. You can read the full interview …

The 27th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) is taking place from May 12-14, 2021. The conference is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is taking place online this year. A variety of UW–Madison students, faculty, and alumni are presenting at this year’s conference: Sophia Striethold, Julie Larson-Guenette, David Owen, Anna Knudten (UW–Madison students and …

We have an extra special class of graduating seniors this year! Read more about the memories and aspirations of these amazing Linguistics majors on our Class of 2021 Senior Profile Page. Wherever you go, go with all your heart!  

Dive into the linguistic diversity of our state at the new Multilingualism and Education in Wisconsin project. This website features interviews with over one hundred individuals discussing their experience teaching, learning, or studying the many languages that are spoken or used by communities across Wisconsin. A number of UW–Madison faculty and staff are represented – …