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The "Linguistics in Children's Museum Tucson" project is a collaboration between UA and Children's Museum Tucson that aims to introduce children to scientific research in an informal setting. Click through to the UA News article below to hear more about the initiative from Cecile McKee, who leads the project team, PhD candidate Elly Zimmer, and anthropology undergraduate Genesis Grijalva. ... Read more Post date: Wed, 18/11/2015 - 11:39am |
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Andy Wedel was on KGUN9 local news discussing new research that suggests that physical properties of the local environment can potentially shape the consonant inventories of languages over time. It's great to see linguistics in the news, and even better to see UA linguists there. You can see his interview at the link below. Post date: Thu, 12/11/2015 - 4:43pm |
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Ofelia Zepeda will be receiving the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) Local Genius Award on April 16, 2016. The MOCA Local Genius Awards honor those visionary and innovative Tucsonans whose activities have a global impact, and whose talents have been internationally recognized. Congratulations, Ofelia! Post date: Tue, 27/10/2015 - 3:57pm |
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PhD student Noah Nelson will be presenting at the Cognitive Science Colloquium this Friday, Oct 30, from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Room 205 of the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Building. Title: Hyperarticulated Speech Correlates with Phonetically Specific Lexical Competition Abstract: http://cogsci.arizona.edu/sites/... Read more Post date: Tue, 27/10/2015 - 3:56pm |
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The flyer for the 9th annual meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC9) has been released! The conference will be held on Nov 6-8, 2015.
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The University of Arizona Linguistics Department was ranked #4 nationwide in Graduate Program's 4th Annual Fall 2015 Rankings for Linguistics. The rankings are determined by responses from current and recent graduate students. Thank you everyone for your hard work making the University of Arizona a great place to study linguistics at the highest level!
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There will be a Linguistics Colloquium held this Friday (October 23) from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Communication 311. The speaker will be Dr. Paul Pietroski (UMD). Title: "Semantic Internalism" (http://linguistics.arizona.edu/current-colloquium#Oct-23) All are welcome! Post date: Mon, 19/10/2015 - 2:29pm |
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Robert Henderson attended NELS 46 at Concordia University in Montreal over the weekend. On Oct 17th, he put on his syntax hat to present joint work with Jessica Coon (McGill) on some prima facie exceptions to the ban on the extraction of ergative subjects from canonical transitive clauses in Kaqchikel (Mayan). The conference was a big success. Check out the full program here: http://linguistics.concordia.ca/nels46/program/ Post date: Mon, 19/10/2015 - 12:50pm |
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The UA Linguistics Department participated in Tucson Meet Yourself on Saturday, October 10. Check out some of the photos from the event below!
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Linguistics was well-represented at this week's Meet Your Major Fair. At points it seemed like the entire department was present and talking to prospective students about the linguistics major, as well as showing them their tongues in action on the ultrasound machine! Kudos to Diane Ohala and Noah Nelson for making our booth the most happening at the event! Photos from the event: ... Read more Post date: Wed, 14/10/2015 - 8:56pm |
