College of Letters & Science
Our upper-level linguistics majors enjoyed a special celebration to mark the end of their Field Methods capstone course, as well as their time studying linguistics here at UW–Madison. The focus language this year was Sundanese, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of Java in Indonesia. The Sundanese language consultant, Priza Marendraputra, kindly …
Professors Salmons and Purnell participated in the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery’s SoundWaves: Music and Science Together program. Their contribution discussed language variation and change, and was titled Hidden Worlds of Language Variation: ‘Subliminal Accent’. You can watch a recording of the entire program in the SoundWaves video archive by searching for the Hidden Worlds of …
Professor Macaulay is quoted in this recent article from Milwaukee Magazine: ‘Wisconsin’s Native Tribes are Taking Action to Keep their Languages from Dying Out’ by Tom Tolan.