Language Sciences professors Tom Purnell and Anja Wanner (English) recently appeared on NBC 15 news discussing the spread of new COVID-19 related vocabulary. You can watch the story here: https://www.nbc15.com/2021/03/26/linguists-explain-how-covid-vocabulary-spread-around-the-world/
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Undergraduate Research Positions Available
Professor Monica Macaulay is looking for two linguistics majors to be Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students for the academic year 2021-2022. The REU students will be part of the research team on my NSF …
Linguistics major Phi Beta Kappa nominees
Congratulations to the following Linguistics majors, who have been nominated to join the UW-Madison chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society! Rachel Fedorchak Elena Groves Jason Jenson Phi Beta Kappa is a national honor …
Caroline Niziolek joins Lang Sci faculty
We are happy to welcome Professor Caroline Niziolek (Communication Sciences & Disorders) to the Language Sciences faculty! Dr. Niziolek conducts research on the Neurolinguistics of speech, focusing on the relationship between auditory processing and motor …
Linguistics Fridays Colloquia – Spring 2021 Schedule
Our Linguistics Fridays Colloquia series is back this Spring, with a great lineup of diverse and interesting talks. Talks or reading groups are held (almost) every Friday from 4:00-5:00 between February 26-April 30. Linguistics Fridays …
UW-Madison Linguists at MidPhon 2021
Several UW-Madison language science graduate students will be presenting their research at the upcoming MidPhon 25 conference, held in a virtual format this year, and organized by hosts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. …
Menominee Language Course
We are very excited and proud that one of our alumni, Ota͞eciah Luke Besaw, will be teaching a beginning level Menominee class at UW-Madison in the Spring! This three credit course is offered in the …
Mixtec Digitization Project
The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (UC-Berkeley) reports that they have successfully digitized several collections of Mixtec fieldwork, including some collections from UW-Madison Language Sciences Professor Monica Macaulay. The digitized materials are available …
52nd Algonquian Conference – Registration Open
Registration is now open for the 52nd Algonquian Conference! 1) CONFERENCE DETAILS The conference will be held October 23–25, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be entirely online via Zoom. …
LangSci at the Algonquian Conference
A number of Language Sciences students and faculty will be presenting their work at the upcoming 52nd Algonquian Conference, hosted online this year from October 23-25 at UW-Madison. Ryan Henke (LangSci faculty) – Marking number …