Dr. Mary Walworth earned her PhD in linguistics in our department in 2015, and has since become a leader in linguistic research with speakers of Oceanic languages. She is currently a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for…
Dr. Anna Belew, who graduated with a doctorate from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Linguistics in 2020, is currently the Executive Director of The Endangered Languages Project (ELP), a nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals and organizations worldwide…
Dr. Katsura Aoyama (PhD 2000) has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of North Texas. Katsura's research interests include phonological acquisition in typically-developing children, second language acquisition, and prosody of language. Our congratulations…
Hoʻomaikaʻi to our Spring 2024 graduates! BA: Sarah Ku MA: Margaret Asperheim, Angeli Noelle Cabrera, Justin Hong, Jezzabella Jimenez, Amanda Le, Yihan Li, Kianu Schwerdtfeger PhD: A. Blake, Amber Camp, Kaiying Lin, Akari Ohba, N. Haʻalilio Solomon, Christina Truong, Dannii…
Three graduates of our department – Sumittra Suraratdecha (Mahidol University), Nala Lee (National University of Singapore), and Sejung Yang (Jeju National University), were among those invited to speak at a prestigious international symposium held at UCLA in early May. Entitled…
Professor Andrew Cheng was recently interviewed by NBC News about his research for a news story entitled "Some say they can hear an 'Asian American' accent, others deny it exists." The article appeared on May 2, 2024. The story addresses…
The 5th NINJAL-UHM Linguistics Workshop was held here on the Mānoa campus (St. John 11) between April 27 and 28, 2024. This is the 5th workshop that the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) and UHM co-organized, and…
Doctoral students Anu Reddy and Youngin Lee presented at the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 2-4, 2024). Youngin's paper was titled "How adults interpret disjunction under negation…
Professor Andrew Cheng (Linguistics) and Professor Haʻalilio Solomon (Kawaihuelani) have been awarded a $10,000 Mentoring Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Work from UROP. The project, "Undergraduate-led Linguistics Researchin Hawaiian Phonetics at the Kūpinaʻi Language Center” will fund research…
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce the soft launching of the Kūpinaʻi Language Center (Moore Hall 151), which took place on April 23, 2024. The event was the first installment of the Lauhoe Speaker Series, funded by the…