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.
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 research in phonetics and phonology: Sarah Bakst (& co-authors) – Native language differences in adaptation to altered auditory feedback Andrea …
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 have their first meetings. Colloquium talks will begin in October, with more reading group meetings added later in non-colloquium weeks. …
An interview with Professor Salmons is featured in a recent article in Milwaukee Magazine by Tom Tolan: Mil-talk-ee: Inside the Milwaukee Dialect.
We are happy to announce the unleashing of another cohort of Linguistics majors onto the world! Graduating in Spring of 2018 was this fantastic group of seniors: Mariah Blake Mercedes Endres Allison Fujimoto Cady Gansen Mathea Jaslowski Hang Jia John Martinez Melissa Moy Bella Newman Katherine Pickup Daniel Quigley Brendan Reichhoff Professors, family, and friends …