Linguistics Opportunity Award now open

Applications are now being accepted for our scholarship for Linguistics majors, the Linguistics Opportunity Award! The award is best for current juniors Simple application requires a short essay describing your accomplishments in language sciences, academic …

Welcome to Professor Kelly Wright!

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 …

LSO publishes 12th volume of Working Papers

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 …

Lang Sci at MidPhon 2024

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 …

Linguistics students receive multiple LSA awards!

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 …

WiGL 19 Call for Papers

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 …