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…
Henry Osborne presents at MILS Michol Miller and Armando Molina Gomez at MILS Rui Yamawaki presents at MILS Students in the Department of Linguistics co-hosted the 1st Mānoa Interdepartmental Language Symposium (MILS), April 5-7, 2024. MILS was organized by students…
PhD student Louward Zubiri has received the 2024 Student Award for Excellence in Research at the Doctoral Level. This is an annual competition hosted by the UHM Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, and recognizes Louward's many…
Dr. Khairunnisa Dr. Khairunnisa, who also goes by “Nisa,” completed her PhD in the Department of Linguistics in 2022 and has recently joined BRIN, The National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, as a permanent researcher. BRIN is the sole…