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SWAMP 2015 hosted by Michigan Linguistics

Visit to Chippewa Community in Upper Peninsula

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Linguistic Institute

Deborah Keller-Cohen’s research featured on UM News website

Robin Queen and Julie Boland in “Linguistics Vanguard”

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Michigan alums take top honors in LSA Student Abstract Award

Robin Queen delivers keynote at "Language in the Media 6" in Hamburg, Germany

Congratulations, Dr. Sujeewa Hettiarachchi!

Congratulations, Dr. Jae-Young Shim!

Andries Coetzee deliver keynote at ICPP, Tokyo

Michigan at the "Linguistic Society of Southern Africa"

John Swales in "English for Specific Purposes"

Carmel O'Shannessy in Australia

Meet our incoming graduate students

In memoriam: Edward Mason Anthony Jr. (UM PhD, 1954)

Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL

A very busy summer for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy featured speaker at workshop on at Australian National University

Welcome to baby Ilona Ilieva Smirnova!

Debby Keller-Cohen in "Research on Aging"

Harim Kwon receives best paper award at ICPhS 2015

Productive fieldwork trip for Carmel O'Shannesy

LSA Program Committee meeting in Ann Arbor

Michigan at the ICPhS 2015

A new website for the Linguistics Department

Michigan at the “Second Language Research Forum”

Anne Curzan and Robin Queen at "Investing in Ability Week"

Anastasia Smirnova in “Linguistic Inquiry”

Moira Saltzman visits “Mango Languages”

Honorary doctorate for John Swales

Robin Queen Elected to the LSA Executive Committee

Anastasia Smirnova in Journal of Language and Politics.

Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires present at BUCLD

Baxter/Sagart receive "Bloomfield Book Award" from LSA

Michigan Linguistics presence at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

PhD Student Alan Ke (Co-authored with Professor Samuel Epstein, Richard Lewis, and Acrisio Pires) Published "The Quantificational Domain of Dou: An Experimental Study"

Sunny Hyon's (PhD '94) "Introducing Genre and English for Specific Purposes" Published by Routledge

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Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at ACBLPE at the University of Stockholm

Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Field Work in Cape Verde

Marlyse Baptista delivers presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Human History in Jena, Germany

Marlyse Baptista Elected to Leadership Post at Linguistic Society of America

News from the Linguistic Society of America

Ezra Keshet Publishes Paper, Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic: A Simple Analysis of Complex Anaphora

Barbra Meek Presents Talk, Linguistics and the Fierce Urgency of Now

Natasha Abner and Savithry Namboodiripad are Giving Talks at the Workshop on the Emergence of Universals at The Ohio State University

Just Announced -- The Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Pam Beddor, Andries Coetzee, and Will Styler Publish Plosive Voicing in Afrikaans: Differential cue Weighting and Tonogenesis

John M. Swales Gave a Colloquium to the English Department at the University of Arizona

Hayley Heaton Awarded a Presidential Honorary Membership in the American Dialect Society

Andries Coetzee and Megan Crowhurst Present Webinar for Linguistic Society of America

Barbra Meek Co-edited Engaging Native American Publics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key

Lucy Chiang awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship and the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Andries Coetzee in BBC News Hour

PhD Candidate Emma Santelmann featured in CAS Newsletter

Celebrating the end of Fall ‘22

Congratulations, Dr. Sedarous!

Linguistic Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting

(formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Felicia Bisnath Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2023-2024 Academic Year

Danielle Burgess Successfully Defends Dissertation

What are you going to do with that?

Congratulations, Danielle!

Keynote talk by PhD alumna Rachel Weissler at TESOL23

Paper in Language by Lecturer I, Andrew McInnerney

Graduation is Just Around the Corner

Graduate Student Profile: Danielle Burgess

Congratulations, Linguistics 2023 Graduates!

Sophie Eakins Receives 2023 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Professor Boland featured in The Atlantic

Shaquetta Morris Receives 2023 LSA Staff Achievement Award

Graduate Student Profile: Dominique Canning

Graduate Student Profile: Lucy Chiang

In Memoriam: Dr. Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez

Talking Black in America

PhD Alum Sujeewa Hettiarachchi’s new faculty position at Newcastle University

Do you talk more like a millennial or a boomer at work?

Signs of Language & Signs of Change

PhD Alum Kelly Wright Awarded Best Paper in Language

Andrew McInnerney and Yushi Sugimoto publish at Cambridge U. Press

Tzu-Yun Tung Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation

Justin Craft Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation

Aya Halabi receives award from Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics

Congratulations, Linguistics Fall 2023 Graduates!

Cecilia Solís-Barroso Inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at U-M

Doug Merchant featured in The Blade

Natasha Abner published in Science

Jessi Grieser in Smithsonian Magazine

U-M Linguistics Alumni in Tech

Martin Mössmer published in Journal of Child Language

International Mother Language Day

Linguistics Society of America 2024 Annual Meeting

Sophia Eakins Receives Outstanding GSI Award

Professors Anne Curzan, Robin Queen, and Heather Thompson's Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture

Diane Larsen-Freeman Honored for Her Contributions to Linguistics and Cognitive Science

Midwest Speech & Language Days

Demet Kayabaşı Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Jeonghwa Cho Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation

Sovoya Davis Receives 2024 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Huteng Dai to join U-M Linguistics as new Assistant Professor of computational linguistics and phonology

Congratulations, Linguistics 2024 Graduates!

U-M Linguistics at 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

The Melodic Linguistics of Jessi Grieser

Celebrating Inclusion

Department Hosts the Human Sentence Processing 2024 Conference

Ojibwe Language Research and Pedagogy Workshop: A Campus and Statewide Initiative

Lauretta Cheng Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation

Felicia Bisnath Successfully Defends PhD Dissertation

Celebrating Jennifer Nguyen

Congratulations, Ezra Keshet!

Andries Coetzee Awarded Collegiate Professorship of Linguistics

Jessi Grieser feature in Crain's Detroit

Exploring the Intersection of Language and Politics

Beyond Spoken Words: Exploring the Intricacies of Sign and Gesture

Transforming Futures with the Pre-Speech & Hearing Club

Professor San Duanmu Presents at Cornell

Highlights from FEAST 2024

The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology

University of Michigan at Speech Prosody 2024

Namboodiripad et al. Publish in Language

Jessi Grieser quoted in an ABC Good Morning America Article

Undergraduate Linguistic field work experience in Australia

Pires and Rothman recognized by "International Journal of Bilingualism"

Associate Professor Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper in Australia

Assistant Professor Nick Henriksen Published in January 2016 Edition of Phonetica

Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting

Sally Thomason in the "Upper Swan Valley Historical Society" newsletter

Seven presentations for Diane Larsen-Freeman

Carmel O'Shannessy in "First Language"

Andries Coetzee at UC Berkeley and UC Merced

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger Hopes to Defend his Dissertation this Spring

Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger is Working on a Dissertation on the Linguistic Properties of Idioms

A Festschrift for UM Emeritus Professor Robbins Burling Published

UM Linguistics Connects to High School Students in Maryland

Sally Thomason Takes Part in International Conference

From Doctoral Student to Student Services Coordinator, Jennifer Nguyen is a Wolverine Through and Through

Marjorie Herbert Earns First Publication for Her Work on German Sign Language

UM Professor San Duanmu Contemplates His Next Project

Professors From UM Linguistics Examine Reactions to Written Errors

Calling all Undergraduate Students Interested in Linguistics Research!

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Student Gives Two Talks at Penn Linguistics Conference 40!

A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Lorenzo García-Amaya

Sally Thomason featured in The Paris Review!

New Volume on Language Contact in Australia Marks a New Era of Linguistic Work Edited by Carmel O’Shannessy

Nicholas Henriksen Publishes Co-Edited Volume on Ibero-Romance Intonation

Marjorie Herbert Receives Prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from National Science Foundation

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper at Australian Languages Workshop

Paper by Professor Acrisio Pires and PhD Alumnus Sujeewa Hettiarachchi in Proceedings of GALANA

San Duanmu Proposes a Solution to a Long-Standing Problem in Phonetic Transcriptions in His Newly Published Book!

Ling 497 Poster Session

UM Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate Will Nediger Helps UM Quiz Bowl Team to National Championship Title!

What Do You Know About the Pre-Speech & Hearing Club?

UM Undergraduates Meet Online with Students at Sakhnin Teachers' College, Israel

Professor Marlyse Baptista and Ph.D. Candidate Marcus Berger Spoke at LSUGA II

Marcus Berger, Moira Saltzman, and Kate Sherwood Have Each Been Awarded Funding Grants to Further Their Research!

Marlyse Baptista is the New Guest Columnist for the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

UM Linguistics Professor Andries Coetzee Nominated as Next Editor of Language!

From Student to Candidate: Marcus Berger Successfully Completes His Qualifying Research Paper

End of Year Message from the Chair

What are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?

Justin Craft Participated in the Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP)

Associate Professor Ezra Keshet Presented on Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)

Hayley Heaton Gives Guest Talk on “Representing American Southern English in Fictional Television Dramas”

Eric Swanson Will Speak at the 2016 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistic Philosophy Conference Later This Week

Warlpiri Speakers and U-M Professor Participate in Kriol and Contact Languages Workshop in Australia

Carmel O'Shannessy Presents at Workshop on the Emergence of Modern Hebrew

Bilingual Communities in South America

U-M Linguists Starting a Project to Document the Language and Culture of Native Americans in Michigan

Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced!

U-M Linguistics Well Represented at Speech Prosody 2016

Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at the University of Brasilia

Jon Brennan and Coauthors Publish Paper on Neural Responses to Phonotactics in Autism Spectrum Disorder

University of Michigan Linguistics Community Well Represented at LabPhon15

Ezra Keshet and the Phenomenon of Language Peevishness in Epic Grammar Fails

Carmel O'Shannessy was a Keynote Speaker at BilForum 2016

Carmel O'Shannessy Published in Linguistic Variation

Andries Coetzee Publishes Paper on Phonological Variation in Phonology

Carmel O'Shannessy Involved in Project Awarded Funding by Australian Research Council

Marjorie Herbert Presents QRP Work on Contact Between Spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL) at LCILP

U-M Professor's Work Featured in British Museum Exhibition

Doctoral Student Marjorie Herbert and Professor Acrisio Pires Presented at BilForum 2016

Marlyse Baptista Has Been Named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Ariana Bancu Presents Research on Transylvanian Saxon at NWAV45 in Vancouver

GradeCraft Lets Students Fail Productively

Giving Blueday is November 29, 2016!

Andries Coetzee Elected Editor of "Language"

Jon Brennan Awarded an NSF Grant for Project on Neurocomputational Models of Natural Language Processing

New Directory for the Department of Linguistics Installed

U-M Linguistics Presents at Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America & the Acoustical Society of Japan

Nicholas Henriksen and Sarah Harper Published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Anne Curzan will be the 2017 Recipient of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award

Tamarae Hildebrandt Research Evolves Beyond Syntax to Phonetics and Phonology

Marjorie Herbert Presents Poster of QRP Project at LSA 2017

Chia-Wen Lo Awarded 2016-2017 Rackham International Student Fellowship / Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship

Will Nediger’s Research Evolves Due to Collaborative Environment at U-M Linguistics

Jelena Krivokapić Awarded NSF Grant for Project on Prosodic Structure

Interest in the Individual, the Place, and Language Drives Barbara Johnstone’s Research

Professor Emeritus John M. Swales Gave Plenary Talk for Conference at Moscow State University

PhD Student Justin Craft Just Wants to Be Happy

Naomi Gottschalk Traveled to Basque Country to Study Their Language Isolate

Dave Ogden Seeks to Make a Difference and Improve Lives with His Research

“Overcoming Empirical Challenges for an Extended Approach to Condition C” by Will Nediger Featured in Winter 2017 Volume of "Linguistic Inquiry"

William Baxter Travelled to Singapore, Germany, and China for Talks and Conferences

Two Teams Featuring Members from U-M Linguistics Awarded 2017 Proposal Development Grants

U-M Linguistics Doctoral Student Ariana Bancu Awarded 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Professor Samuel Epstein Gave a Talk Entitled “The Nature of Nurture and Non-Linguistic Language Variation” at The University of Arizona

Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty

Emily Atkinson Joins U-M Linguistics as Language Learning Assistant Professor

Savithry Namboodiripad to Join U-M as Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics

U-M Linguistics Was Well-Represented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table

Carmel O'Shannessy Gave Keynote Speech at Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany

Moira Saltzman and Carmel O'Shannessy Represented U-M Linguistics at ICLDC and ComputEL-2 in Hawaii

Dave Ogden Awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18 Academic Year

“Speaking in Code” Explores Where Computer Science Meets the Humanities

U-M Linguistics Reaches Out to Seaholm High School

PhD Student Emily Rae Sabo Organizing 2017 Andean Circle Conference

Jelena Krivokapic Publishes Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures

Jeff Heath Receives Funding From the National Endowment for the Humanities as Part of the Documenting Endangered Languages Program

U-M Linguistics Alumnus Chris Odato Featured on The Humanities PhD Project

Marlyse Baptista Gives Keynote Speech at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Marlyse Baptista, Rocky Meade and Sarah Thomason Pay Tribute to John Holm

Will Nediger Successfully Defends his Dissertation

Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Fieldwork in the Cape Verde Islands

Congratulations to Jelena Krivokapić on Her Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics

Ariana Bancu, From Student to Linguist

Marjorie Herbert Finds the Perfect Combination of Language and Science in Linguistics

Ariana Bancu Presents Paper at Michicagoan 2017

The Newest Little Linguist Has Arrived

Michael Opper to Join College of International Studies at Southwest University

University of Kelaniya Building Named After U-M Alumna Manique Gunesekera (PhD ‘89)

U-M Linguistics Remembers PhD Alumna Kazuko Inoue, One of the Leading Generative Linguists in Japan

End of Year Message from the Chair

In Exploring Activities With Her Border Collie, U-M Linguist Robin Queen Discovered a New Research Interest

Language of the Creole-Speaking People of Cape Verde Passed Down Through Generations in a Way Similar to Genetics

Acrisio Pires Co-Authors Journal Paper on "Bilingualism and Language Change: The Case of Pronominal Clitics in Catalan and Spanish"

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Deadline to Apply is October 2, 2017

Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced

Nicholas Henriksen Published in Journal of Phonetics

Marjorie Herbert Presents Work at GALA 17

PhD Student Kelly E. Wright Led a Workshop at the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute

PhD Student Kelly E. Wright to Give Talk at Seminar Slam

Will Styler Gives Colloquium at Michigan State University

Dr. Hiba Babiker to Visit U-M Linguistics Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Fully Funded Summer Opportunity for Training in Linguistic Fieldwork and Language Documentation in Indonesia

Andries Coetzee Named Associate Director of the African Studies Center

Eric Swanson to Present at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Professor Sally Thomason Presents a Talk on Deliberate Language Changes

HistLing Reading for Nov 3

Sally Thomason to Give a Distinguished University Professorship Lecture on the Vanishing of the World’s Languages and Why We Should Care

Professor Sally Thomason to Receive Linguistic Society of America's Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service

Festschrift Published in Honor of Professor Emerita Diane Larsen-Freeman

Giving BlueDay is Almost Here!

Should Language Be More Gender Neutral?

Deaf Hip-Hop Artist Sean Forbes Visits University of Michigan

Jiseung Kim Awarded Barbour Scholarship

Berger and Ke Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships

Hayley Heaton Successfully Defends Dissertation

LSA Article Highlights Baptista's Research

Bouavichith receives 2018 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2018

Natasha Abner Invited to Present Lecture at UCLA

Andries Coetzee Promoted to Professor of Linguistics; Named 2018 John Dewey Award Winner

Linguistics Alumnus Tim Chou Receives 2017 Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators

Ariana Bancu Receives CEW's Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship

Hildebrandt Research Published in Tu+1 Proceedings Volume

Exploring Dialect Discrimination

The Palm-Up Puzzle

Catching Phonology in the Pokeverse

Meet Postdoctoral Research Fellow Stephen Tobin

Welcome, Linguistics Graduate Students!

Keshet and Medeiros Research Published

Keshet Gives Talk on Semantics in Barcelona

Jon Sprouse Gives Talk on Syntax

International Institute Conference

Language Documentation in West Africa

Fall 2018 Linguistics Colloquium

Humanities Collaboratory Video

New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47

Giving Blueday - November 27, 2018

2018 Giving Blueday a Success

LanguageMatters: Lightning Talk Workshop

Linguistics Fall 2018 Colloquium Series

NCID Research & Scholarship Seminar Series

New Book Published: A Guide to Old Spanish

Congratulations, Tzu-Yun Tung!

Capstone Poster Session

Alumni Profile: Joseph Tyler

2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Linguistics Colloquium

LSA Annual Meeting 2019 in NYC

Herbert Authors Article Published in Sign Language & Linguistics

The Power of Words

Winter 2019 Linguistics Colloquium

Welcome, Katy White

Winter 2019 Linguistics Colloquium

The Best of Language: Volume III

Graduate Student Profile: Alan Ke

Jonathan Brennan Recommended for Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages

Winter 2019 Colloquium Series

Celebrate Your Dialect at Work

New Paper by Alan Ke Published Online

Emily Atkinson to Present Research

Celebrating Your Dialect at Work

Graduate Student Profile: Alicia Stevers

Stephen Tyndall Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations, Dom!

Congratulations, Professor Nick Ellis!

Congratulations, Danielle!

Graduate Student Colloquia

Chiang Research Published in Proceedings

Peltier Receives Ford Foundation Honorable Mention

Carly Marten Receives Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award

Capstone Poster Session Features Projects on Gesture, Sign, and Speech

Yourdanis Sedarous receives 2019 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2019!

GASLA XV Conference

Congratulations, Jon!

Humanities Collaboratory Research

Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship

Webinar on Submitting an Abstract for LSA 2020

Congratulations, Danielle and Lauretta!

Nerd Nite Ann Arbor: Emily Sabo to present on June 20

Jonathan Brennan Receives 2019 Early Career Award

Anne Curzan Appointed Dean of LSA

Welcome, Lisa Levinson

New Research Published

Alan (Hezao) Ke Successfully Defends Dissertation

Ariana Bancu Successfully Defends Dissertation

2019 Linguistics Institute: Linguistics in the Digital Era

Dave Ogden Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations, Marcus Berger

U-M Linguists (Past and Present) Gather at ICPhS 2019

High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun

Joy Peltier Presents at Dominica Country Conference

Graduate Student Profile: Ian Calloway

Linguistics Colloquium Series

Constructing a Sign Language Family Tree

Linguistics Colloquium Series

2019 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture: “In the Future, Robots will Speak Chickasaw"

Language Matters Initiative Hosts Lightning Talk Workshop

Welcome, Sarah Heineken

Linguistics Open House

San Duanmu to Speak at MSU

Congratulations, Alicia!

Best Paper in Language Award

Congratulations, Carrie!

Linguistics Colloquium

Giving BlueDay 2019

Graduate Student Profile: Moira Saltzman

Graduate Student Colloquia

Integrating Research and Public Engagement

Capstone Poster Session

Congratulations, Kate!

Graduate Student Profile: Jiseung Kim

2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium

Emily Sabo Quoted in Gizmodo Article

Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting

Ezra Keshet Presents Research at University of Amsterdam and MIT

Professor Sarah (Sally) Thomason Edits Special Journal Issue on Indigenous Languages

Department Colloquium: "Linguistics for the Common Good"

"Language and Discrimination" and "Fantastic Linguistics"

New Views on the Flint Water Crisis

Graduate Student Profile: Emily Rae Sabo

Linguistics Colloquium

COVID-19 Updates and Resources

Congratulations, Ian!

Research: Trinidad and Tobago Sign Languages

Chia-Wen Lo Awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship

ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards

Congratulations, Yourdanis!

Virtual 'Loose Lips' Comedy Show

Jeffrey Heath Receives National Science Foundation Grant

Celebrating the Linguistics Class of 2020!

Stay in Touch During Spring and Summer Terms

Joy Peltier Receives Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for 2019-20

Two Recipients Chosen to Receive Matt Alexander Awards

Paper by Marlyse Baptista Published in March 2020 Issue of Language

Native American Language Resource Center

Emily Rae Sabo Dissertation Defense Scheduled for Friday, Sept. 18 (1-3 pm)

Workshop on Word Order Flexibility

Welcome Back, Students and Faculty!

Welcome, Shaquetta!

Linguistics Colloquium

Congratulations, Emily!

Honors Seminar Series: Julie Boland

Linguistics Colloquium

Being a Linguist on Social Media

Lorenzo García-Amaya to Give Golden Apple Award Lecture on October 16

Linguistics Colloquium

Congratulations, Andries!

Raising Our Voices 2020

Lisa Levinson Gives Keynote Talk at NELS 51 Conference

Rackham Article Features Graduate Student Role in Patagonian-Afrikaans Project

Graduate Student Colloquium: Joy Peltier and Moira Saltzman

Career Panel on Positions in the Tech Industry

Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at International Conference

Professor Acrisio Pires Appointed Interim Department Chair

Associate Professor Nicholas Henriksen receives the Linguistic Society of America’s 2021 Early Career Award

Linguistics Graduate Candidate Fahad Alrashed Successfully Defends his Dissertation

Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting Held Jan. 7-10

Professor Richard Lewis Named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Kelly Wright Coauthors “Among the New Words” Article in American Speech

Joy Peltier Gives Colloquium Talk at University of Georgia

Giving BlueDay 2021

Susan Gelman Delivers 2021 Henry Russel Lecture

PhD Candidate Moira Saltzman and UROP Students Give Talk at ICLDC 7

Graduate Students to Give Presentations at 45th Penn Linguistics Conference

Kelly Wright to be Inducted into Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Cecilia Solís-Barroso Receives FLAS Fellowship

PhD Candidate Lucy Chiang Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Graduate Student Profile: Chia-Wen Lo

Graduate Students to Present at WCCFL 39 Conference

Rachel Weissler Receives Outstanding GSI Award

Congratulations, Chia-Wen!

LSA Article Features Q&A with Kelly Wright

Tamarae Hildebrandt Gives Plenary Talk at MULS 2021

Paper by Yushi Sugimoto Published in Studia Linguistica

Students Share Research Projects During Capstone Poster Session

Linguistics Career Launch Event Kicks off in July

Wil Gonzales Receives Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

In the News: Kelly Wright Quoted in The New York Times

Linguistics Alum Gives Presentation at Lavender Languages Conference

Natasha Abner, Savithry Namboodiripad Coauthor Article in Language Learning and Development

2021 Juneteenth Symposium: Celebrating Black Joy, Hope, and Healing

Congratulations, Rachel!

Linguistics Department Adopts Standard Language Ideology Statement

Sarah Heineken Receives 2021 LSA Staff Achievement Award

Kelly Wright Featured in Linguistic Society of America Member Spotlight

Graduate Student Spotlight: Rawan Bonais

'One Weird Consequence of the Pandemic? Forgetting Words'

Andrew McInnerney Authors Paper on Parentheticals

Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy

Yourdanis Sedarous Awarded Predoctoral Fellowships

'How I Got Here and Where I'm Going Next'

Alumni Profile: Beatrice Teodoro Oshika

Thinking about Studying Linguistics?

Graduate Student Profile: Justin Craft

Jeonghwa Cho Gives Talk at University of Cambridge

Graduate Student Colloquium: Danielle Burgess and Justin Craft

New Research Examines Impact of Zoom Calls on the Brain and Speech

Students Present Research During Capstone Poster Session

Andries Coetzee Receives NWU Alumni Excellence Award

Congratulations, Kelly!

New Leadership Roles Announced

Alumni Profile: Tony Natoci

Graduate Student Profile: Tamarae Hildebrandt

Kelly Wright Featured in Rackham Spotlight

CCN Forum Hosts Esti Blanco-Elorrieta (Harvard) on Friday, Jan. 28

Marlyse Baptista Presents at NWAV 49, Boston University, MIT

Alumni Profile: Ariana Bancu

Deborah Keller-Cohen Coauthors Paper in Advances in Mental Health

Linguistic Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting

PhD Student Profile: Joy Peltier

PhD Student Profile: Yushi Sugimoto

Neurocomputational Models of Language Processing

Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense

Language Across Modalities Event

Natasha Abner to Present at Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory

Congratulations, Wil!

Virtual Professionalization Workshop: Tuesday, April 5

Congratulations, Rawan!

Congratulations, Joy!

Congratulations, Yushi!

Graduate Student Profile: Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

Graduate Student Profile: Jian Zhu

Aidan Wolford Presents Thesis Work at HSP 2022

Sophia Eakins Receives Rackham Travel Grant

Andrew McInnerney to Give Talk at Chicago Linguistic Society Conference

GLOW 45 Colloquium

23rd Annual Michicagoan Conference Set for May 6-7

Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2022!

Student Videos Explore Origin of Human Language

Demet Kayabaşı and Natasha Abner Publish Paper in Frontiers in Psychology

Danuta Allen Receives 2022 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award

Congratulations, Andrew!

Kelly Wright Successfully Defends Dissertation

Demet Kayabasi is Lead Author on Paper Published in Language Learning and Development

MICHHERS Students Visit Linguistics

New Leadership Role

NWAV50 Conference

Congratulations, Dr. Hildebrandt!

PhD alumna Kelly E. Wright publishes paper on bias in automatic speech recognition

Andrew McInnerney in the Press

Natasha Abner Becomes Associate Professor and Receives Teaching Award

U-M Linguistics at Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2023 Summer Institute

Graduate Student Profile: Tzu-Yun Tung

Sophia Eakins Awarded LSA Fellowship to Attend LSA Summer Institute

Graduate Student Profile: Lauretta Cheng

Olawale Akingbade Receives Grant and Conducts Fieldwork in Nigeria

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Graduate Student Profile: Felicia Bisnath

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Graduate Student Profile: Sophia Eakins

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