On April 1, 2026 the department welcomed a group of high school students from Effie Kokrine Charter School in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school incorporates Alaska Native Cultural Values into the curriculum, programs and teaching methods; and several of the students have been…
The 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing: Exploring Taiwan’s Diversity and Beyond included multiple presentations by faculty and alumni from the Department of Linguistics in November 2025. Amy Schafer gave a keynote address: “Psycholinguistics everywhere: Enriching…
The Boston University Conference on Language Development celebrated its 50th year this November. Many UHM faculty, students, and alumni were involved in research presentations, including PhD student Wataru Sugiura who was selected as a recipient of the CJS Graduate Student…
Melody Ann Ross (PhD, 2017) recently organized the 16th Linguistic Landscape (link: https://www.ll16-ude.de/) workshop held at the University of Duisburg-Essen. This followed a strong history of UHM connection to the LL Workshop, which has included many research presentations by faculty…
Bradley McDonnell, PhD students Blaine Billings, Sebastian (Sebi) Ohara-Saft, and Yumi Standlee gave invited presentations at LRSS 2025, which took place at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, between June 13 and 16. The symposium…
UH Mānoa Linguistics had a strong showing at the 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 27), held August 18-22 in Santiago, Chile. Leah Pappas presented the paper "The development of voice marking in Hawu" co-authored with Tamisha Tan (Nanyang…
Christina Truong (PhD., 2024) just published her new book, Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions, from the Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects series of the Brill publishing. This open access series was established through a collaboration among the National Institute for…
Congratulations to PhD student Shirley Mordechai, who received a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture! This award will support her dissertation, "Documentation of the Judeo-Arabic of Marrakech, Morocco, and Description of Phonetic Topics."
Andrew Cheng co-authored a chapter with Elise McClay and Henny Yeung in an edited volume entitled "Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation". The chapter is titled "Mothers and Creak" and is about creaky voice (vocal fry) in mothers' voices…
PhD student Carolyn Siegman won an award for Best Student Oral Presentation for her paper “Acoustic and perceptual quality of taps in English-Korean bilingual speech” at NWAV-Asia Pacific in Singapore on August 6, 2025. Mie Hiramoto (PhD, 2006) delivered the…