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I call your attention to the upcoming conference on Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing (SVALP) to be held at Virginia Tech on March 31-April 2, organized by two of our alumni, Abby…

Check out the COSI language pod story of the week called "Training in science education takes place at COSI" - a full-length article on page 6 of today’s issue of onCampus (see it here).

Congratulations to Tsz-Him Tsui, who has been awarded a student Enrichment Grant for $3,000 from the Office of International Affairs for his proposed research, Perception and production of Seiyap…

At the LSA's 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Erhard Hinrichs and two others were unanimously elected as honorary members. There can only be a total of sixty honorary members at any…

Anouschka Foltz in her blog describes how climate change is affecting linguistics, especially language death. As climate change affects areas with high levels of linguistic diversity, there is an…

Congratulations to Hope Dawson, who assumed the Presidency of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), one of the Linguistic Society of America's "sister…

I invite you to read a recent piece by Liz Alcalde of ASC Communications on the "COSI course" taught collaboratively by linguists Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Laura Wagner (Psychology) and…

Jane Mitsch successfully defended Bordering on National Language Varieties: Political and linguistic borders in the Wolof of Senegal and The Gambia, (Advisor: Brian Joseph;…

Congratulations to Professors Marie de Marneffe and Lauren Squires (English), who have been awarded one of this year's five interdisciplinary team-teaching grants (https:/…