Joint Anthropology & Linguistics PhD student William Cotter has recently published an article in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. William's article, titled 'Gaza at the Margins? Legibility and Indeterminacy in the Israel-Palestine Conflict' examines military leaflets and SMS messages disseminated by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. The article highlights how language use in this context is used to reinforce notions of democratic order,... Read more

University of Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology alumnus Shannon Bischoff (now Associate Professor at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne), Ivy Doak (University of North Texas), Amy Fountain (UA) and software engineer John W. Ivens (UA) traveled to Plummer, Idaho in July to meet with Coeur d'Alene Language Programs Director Audra Vincent and Language Teacher Michelle Clarke to further their collaboration on the Coeur d'Alene Online Language Resource Center (COLRC). The COLRC is... Read more

Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) was recently awarded three fellowships to conduct pragmatics research in Germany. For the 2017-2018 academic year, Stanley will join the researchers at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, contributing to the priority program for new pragmatic theories based on experimental evidence. Ultimately, Stanley has selected the federally funded research fellowship from the German Academic Exchange... Read more

Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) recently presented at four conferences abroad.

Stanley co-presented research with fellow cohort-mate Leah Rice at the 5th edition of the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Mahon, Spain. Their research project seeks to clarify aspects of phase theory through experimental methods.

Stanley then presented at the 7th biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference in Cologne, Germany. He... Read more

World-renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky, who has been a regular guest speaker and teacher at the University of Arizona over the past five years, is about to become a permanent fixture on campus.

Chomsky has been hired by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences as a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics. He... Read more

Massumeh Farhad gave the Department of Linguistics' 7th Annual Teleghani Lecture on "When Paintings Speak: The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp and Its Inscriptions". The lecture each year co-occurs with the awarding of scholarships to support graduate student research at the University of Arizona. This year, the lecture in art history was beautiful and fascinating, the music at the lecture was wonderful, and it was interesting to hear the awardees' descriptions of their research.

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Adam Ussishkin is currently carrying out psycholinguistic studies on Maltese at the University of Malta.
Thomas Pace and Manwel Mifsud of the National Maltese Language Council produce a weekly radio show on the Maltese language, and on Saturday, March 18, they interviewed Adam on national radio about his research.

Shiloh Drake, linguistics PhD candidate, has received a Research and Projects grant from GPSC and a Dissertation Research grant from SBSRI to fund her dissertation on native language biases in learning morphological structures.