Reporting for the story was conducted by Lang Sci media intern G Sorensen, and the story was co-written by G Sorensen and Rebecca Shields We are incredibly proud of Lang Sci’s Lingusitics Student Org, which received a generous travel grant from Associated Students of Madison (ASM) to help support student travel to the Linguistic Society …

Congratulations to Language Sciences Assistant Professor Ryan Henke, who is one of 20 UW faculty to receive a 2025-2026 Vilas Associates award. According to the Vilas Associates Competition website, the award “recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Benefits of the award include research funds to be used over a two …

You’ve probably seen the news about making English ‘the official language’ of the US. Here’s a statement from the Linguistic Society of America giving some of the reasons this attack on linguistic diversity is problematic. It’s an issue you’re likely to talk to non-linguists about and the statement gives you arguments and evidence to draw …

The 19th Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 19), the Linguistics Student Organization’s (LSO) annual student research conference, is coming soon. The conference will take place in-person in 6191 Helen C. White Hall in the afternoon on Friday, March 14th and all day on Saturday, March 15th. This year the conference also includes a day of …

We are thrilled to announce that Language Sciences Director Rajiv Rao, who is a faculty member in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Language Sciences, has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. According to the Provost’s office, this title recognizes “UW–Madison faculty members whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and …

Applications are now being accepted for our scholarship for Linguistics majors, the Linguistics Opportunity Award!

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 her two-year associate’s degree at Pellissippi State Community College before swiftly moving on to get her Bachelor’s Degree from Maryville …

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 by our student organization over the years.

The Linguistics Student Organization is running a fundraising campaign to support their activities which provide social, academic, and professionalization opportunities for students at all levels interested in linguistics on our campus! or Venmo @LSOUWmadison What does the LSO do? Read below for a summary written by LSO officers of all their amazing activities and accomplishments …

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 October 4-5. This year the following UW–Madison linguists from various departments gave posters or presentations at the meeting: This conference …