Peter Norquest, a 2007 graduate of the Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics and postdoctoral researcher in the UA Department of Anthropology, has published a book: A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Congratulations, Peter! http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=104473
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Shannon Grippando received an NSF EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute, $5,400) for research in Japan along with $5,000 from JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). He also received round trip airfare for his travels to Japan. Congratulations, Shannon! Post date: Mon, 20/06/2016 - 7:31pm |
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2nd year PhD students Skye Anderson and Ryan Walter Smith presented their co-authored talk "An Analysis of Plural Reduplication in Tohono O'odham in Harmonic Serialism" at the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), held this year from April 29th to May 1st in Salt Lake City, Utah. Post date: Thu, 05/05/2016 - 1:05pm |
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Congratulations Shayna! We are proud that your excellence has been recognized. Post date: Mon, 02/05/2016 - 5:32pm |
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Colleen Patton, a 2nd year PhD student in the Language Revitalization major, has been awarded a $2000 research grant from the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council. "Islay voices: An Audio-video documentation of Gàidhlig, with special focus on local ecological knowledge" will be Colleen's first independent language documentation project, immediately following her participation as a research assistant during fieldwork on the Isle of Skye, for NSF grant #1500220: "Collaborative research... Read more Post date: Tue, 26/04/2016 - 9:24am |
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2nd year PhD student Colleen Patton will be presenting four talks at three different conferences in the United Kingdom this summer. Colleen's first presentation will be in early June, at the SOILLSE-hosted conference Small Language Planning: Communities in Crisis, in Glasgow, Scotland; her talk, "Meso- and Micro-Level Planning: Fostering Culturally Embedded Language Experiences for Urban Speakers of Scottish Gaelic and Breton" contrasts two case studies of Celtic language revitalization... Read more Post date: Tue, 26/04/2016 - 9:24am |
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Linguistics faculty members Adam Ussishkin and Andy Wedel visited the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon April 14-17. In a back-to-back double feature, each of them gave an hour-long colloquium presentation on April 15. Adam spoke about his recent work teasing apart the effects of consonant overlap from those of morphological structure in Maltese lexical access, and Andy gave a talk on contrastive hyperarticulation in natural speech. In addition, Adam gave a two-hour... Read more Post date: Tue, 19/04/2016 - 12:07pm |
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Elise Bell (3rd year Linguistics PhD student) has received a Tinker Field Research grant to conduct early dissertation fieldwork with Welsh-Spanish bilinguals in southern Argentina. Her research focuses on how bilingualism with Spanish affects the production and perception of Welsh vowels. Post date: Tue, 19/04/2016 - 12:07pm |
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Ph.D. Candidate Maureen Hoffmann received an SBSRI Dissertation Research Grant for her upcoming dissertation research with Burmese refugees. Her research will include an investigation of language use and youth identity, as well as phonetic documentation of the languages they speak. Post date: Tue, 19/04/2016 - 12:05pm |
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We had a wonderfully successful Navajo Immersion Workshop! Thanks to our friends from Dine College who made it possible, as well as Professors Aresta La Russo and Amy Fountain. Here's a picture of Professor Simin Karimi learning some Navajo from Professor Amelia Black, of Dine College, over dinner after the workshop; they are discussing the word "spoon" here. Post date: Tue, 12/04/2016 - 5:41pm |
