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.

PhD students Jianrong Yu (Linguistics) and William Cotter (Linguistics & Anthropology) recently received fellowships from the Linguistic Society of America to attend the 2017 LSA Summer Institute. This year's Institute is being held at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, with Jianrong and William receiving two of the 22 fellowships awarded by the LSA for the upcoming Institute. The full list of fellowship recipients can be viewed here.

The University of Arizona was well-represented at the 11th annual Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia) symposium, held at the National University of Singapore. Alumnus Yosuke Sato, a professor at NUS, co-organized the event, and current and former students and professors presented research results. Thanks to the organizers, we have several excellent photos of the event. Enjoy!