Language Sciences is very excited to launch our new American Sign Language (ASL) course this summer! ASL is one of the world’s many signed languages used by Deaf and other individuals as their primary means …
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Ho-Chunk elder Cecil Garvin to receive honorary doctoral degree
Bi-campus Irish Culture Week 2023
Professor Joe Salmons talks to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about Milwaukee English
Lang Sci at Languages of the World Day
On March 1, 2023 over 500 Wisconsin high school students visited UW-Madison for the biennial Languages of the World Day, organized by The Language Institute. The students participated in interactive workshops with language faculty and …
Professor Cho receives Vilas Associates Award
Congratulations to English and Language Sciences professor Jacee Cho, who was awarded a prestigious Vilas Associates award for 2023-2024! The Vilas Associates award supports faculty research at UW-Madison in a wide variety of disciplines. Awardees …
Language Discrimination on Campus
In this recent article by Aaron Conklin, Dianna Murphy (The Language Institute) and Professors Joe Salmons (Language Sciences) and Tom Purnell (English and Language Sciences) discuss the efforts of the new Language Ideologies and Language …
Linguistics Capstone: Wisconsin English
Photo credits: Miranda Vescio The focus of our Capstone in Linguistics course this semester was “Development of Wisconsin English.” The course was taught by Professor Joseph Salmons. The capstone course is an opportunity for undergraduate …
Undergraduate Research in Language Sciences
One of the things we are most proud of in our program is the impressive number of undergraduate students who go beyond the classroom and conduct original research in language sciences. Participating in research is …
Lang Sci at MidPhon 2022 in St. Louis
Two of our Linguistics PhD students presented their research at the annual MidPhon conference last weekend. MidPhon 27 took place October 7-8, 2022 at Washington University in St. Louis. Jae Weller presented joint work on …