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Congratulations to Professor Craige Roberts, who has been awarded a position as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest, from October, 2014…

Congratulations to Peter Culicover, who has been invited for an Erskine Visiting Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, NZ (for the winter - April 24 through June 6). In addition to lecturing…

Congratulations to Micha Elsner, who with Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland) has been awarded an NSF grant for the 3-year project, "Cognitive models of the acquisition of vowels in context."…

Congratulations to Jon Dehdari (Ph.D. 2014), who has accepted a position as a researcher in machine translation at DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) in Saarbruecken Germany…

Brian Joseph is having a high-profile summer. Read an interview with him here in this month's LSA Member Spotlight.

Don't miss this video clip, including emeritus faculty member Cathy Callaghan (at 1:09 minutes), who'll appear in the documentary, "How Dead do I look?" by Rick Bacigalupi. The clip appears in a…

We're pleased to note the substantial number of our faculty, students and alumni at LabPhon14, in Tokyo, Japan. Mary Beckman notes that at the annual meeting of the Association for Laboratory…

Congratulations to our summer 2014 Ph.D. recipients, Jon Dehdari and Deborah Morton! Jon's dissertation is titled: A Neurophysiologically-Inspired Statistical Language Model (advisor, William…

Don't miss Professor Joseph in the U.S. News article "How Language Changes, Courtesty of Yelp and The Gray Lady," which comments on two web tools that can track popular language trends.