UW-Madison linguist Cathy Stafford (Spanish, Second Language Acquisition) spoke about Heritage Languages in Wisconsin on the Morning Show with Wisconsin Public Radio. Listen to the full interview here: Heritage Languages in Wisconsin – Interview with …
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Digital Ho-Chunk Archive
Recent Linguistics Ph.D. graduate Andrea Cudworth was one of several UW-Madison students who worked on a project to create a digital inventory of existing Ho-Chunk language resources. The resulting catalogue has helped connect teachers and …
Native Origins of the name ‘Wisconsin’
Professor Valentine contributed to a Wisconsin Public Radio story on the Algonquian origins of the name of our state. The story is available to read or to listen to at the wpr website.
Congratulations to the Class of 2019!
Members of the class of 2019 gathered at the top of Van Hise Hall to celebrate the completion of their degrees. In addition to the large ceremony at Camp Randall, Language Sciences hosts a small …
Celebrating a semester of Sundanese in the Field Methods capstone course
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 …
SoundWaves: Hidden Worlds of the Human Body
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 …
Preserving the Native Languages of Wisconsin
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.
UW Linguists at MidPhon
A whole host of UW-Madison linguists attended MidPhon 23 this October, held this year at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Both students and faculty members from various UW units gave talks and posters about their …
Linguistics Fridays are Back!
Fridays at 4:30 in 201 Van Hise Linguistics Fridays are back this Fall with a great rotation of speakers and discussion groups. In September the Historical Linguistics Reading Group and the Phonology Reading Group will …
Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect
An interview with Professor Salmons is featured in a recent article in Milwaukee Magazine by Tom Tolan: Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect.