"Mutsun community members and tribal chair Val Lopez in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natasha Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez."

"Mutsun community members in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natasha Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez".

"Mutsun community members in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natahsa Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez".

"Andrew Carnie, Diane Ohala, Mike Hammond, Muriel Fisher and Andrea Fulgham in Scotland on the way to research sites in Bangor, Wales, and Skye, Scotland."

The department celebrates the Spring 2017 graduates with bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees across ANLI, NAMA, HLT, and the Linguistics Ph.D. programs.

The last session of the elicitation class with Daban Mamood, the Sorani language consultant.

Massumeh Farhad gave the Department of Linguistics' 7th Annual Teleghani Lecture on "When Paintings Speak: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp and Its Inscriptions"

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Rebecca Sheley, a student in Diane Ohala's Intro to Linguistics class, participating in PhD student Sam Johnston's ultrasound demonstration.
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Graduate students Rachel Brown, Leah Rice, Stanley Donahoo and Shannon Grippando at the Core dEEG Skills course run by EGI in Summer 2015.
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PhD student Keisha Josephs and her colleague Sheldon Noel are helping to support revitalization efforts for the Lokono language in Guyana.
Check out the article on the Guyana Chronicle (link) for more details!
Photo Credit: The Guyana Chronicle Online

Dane Bell putting an EEG net on Rachel Brown for an experiment.
Check out the Daily Wildcat article on some of the department's recent research here.
(Photo credit: Zi Yang Lai, The Daily Wildcat)

Ryan Smith, Stanley Donahoo, Megan Figueroa and Skye Anderson at the LSA's 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute. More information on the institute here.

Aildi students playing a lenape game.

Aildi students playing morphology game.

Muriel Fisher describing traditional fishing in the bay at Gleann Dàil, Isle of Skye to Ian Clayton. Click here for more info about the field work.

Congratulations to our Spring 2015 graduates! More information here.

Congrats to Joshua Meyer and Melodie Yen who are recipients of the NSF graduate fellowship! More info here!
Photo courtesy of LSA website.

Congratulations to Adam Ussishkin, Andy Wedel, Samantha Wray, and Shiloh Drake, who have all had papers accepted to the upcoming 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. More information on the June 24-26 conference at the University of Torino in Italy can be found here.

"The Science of Language" summer camp was held by the Department of Linguistics from June 1-5, 2015. Click here for more information!

Maria Florez Leyva doing transcription of Hiaki audio files.

Spring 2015 graduate Patricia Ogunmola working on an independent study with Dr. Diane Ohala.

Robert Henderson meeting with the members of Kaqchikel Cholchi', the governing body of the Kaqchikel language.

Graduate students Shiloh Drake and Noah Nelson at Tucson Festival of Books on March 16, 2014. Visitors to our exhibit used a finger-tapper to see that language is left-lateralized. 

Robert Henderson to join the UA Linguistics Department in Fall 2015! For more information click here!