Congratulations to PhD student Louward Zubiri on multiple news items: Louward was part of the Philippine panel at the 7th International Conference on Language and Education in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was organized by the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group,…
Congratulations to all our Fall 2023 graduates! BA: Bethany Cox and Liv PeraltaMA: Angeli Noelle CabreraPhD: Porpla Nusartlert, Kavon Hooshiar and Tom Dougherty
PhD student Anongnard Porpla Nusartlert and Professor Kamil Deen presented a paper at the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in May 2023. Their paper was entitled "Intergenerational Transmission of Isan and Thai: The Passive Voice as…
PhD student Emma Breslow presented her poster "The macher wears a yarmi: A comparative study of Australian and American familiarity with Jewish English lexical items" at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in 2023. Congratulations, Emma!
In 2023, PhD students Blaine Billings and Jacob Hakim were each awarded the American Institute for Indonesian Studies - Council of American Overseas Research Centers (AIFIS-CAORC) Research Fellowship for fieldwork in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia working with Nasal speakers to…
On November 1-3, 2023 the department hosted a meeting of the Governance Council of the the Endangered Languages Project, welcoming three new Council members: Gabriela Perez-Baez (University of Oregon), Madoka Haminne (Meio University) and Nicholas Barla (Adivasi language advocate).
PhD student Olivia Waring has been selected to teach a workshop at CoLang 2024 which will be hosted by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the University of Arizona in June 2024. The class is titled "Community Radio and…
PhD student Carolyn Siegman presented at the NWAV conference held at Queen's College in October 2023. Her paper was titled "Variation in /st/ cluster production of Western Andalusian Spanish." Congratulations, Carolyn!
Professor Andrew Cheng has had multiple papers published or accepted for publication in recent months: Jeon, L. & Cheng, A. (Forthcoming). American English phonology. In K. Bolton (Ed.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Cheng, A., McClay, E. , Yeung,…
Professor Shelece Easterday recently delivered a two-part plenary address at the 6th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology in December 2023. Her talk was entitled "Can we talk? Bridging the divide between phonological typology and historical phonology." Her talk addressed ways…