UGA Department of Linguistics

UGA Department of Linguistics is a diverse and vibrant academic community dedicated to the scientific study of language in all its aspects. #UGALinguistics

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Just in case you forgot, we're hiring!

To assure full consideration, application materials should be received by November 1, 2024.

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We're Hiring! 🙌

The Department of Linguistics is seeking a candidate with a documented record of research in computational linguistics that engages with theoretical and methodological questions relevant to general linguistics.

Please visit https://t.co/2c5CWcDN3T to apply!

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Congratulations to Dr. Linda Harklau, UGA Linguistics affiliated faculty member!

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Congratulations to Linda Harklau, Winner of the AAAL 2025 Distinguished Scholarship & Service Award!

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We're Hiring! 🙌

The Department of Linguistics is seeking a candidate with a documented record of research in computational linguistics that engages with theoretical and methodological questions relevant to general linguistics.

Please visit https://t.co/2c5CWcDN3T to apply!

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Looking for another class to take in the fall? Are you fascinated by otherworldly languages? Check out our new course, LING 4940!

(Only Prerequisite: LING 2100👀)

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Congrats to Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant Jean Costa-Silva on receiving a Graduate Research Award from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board for his project: “Acquisition of Motion Descriptions by Portuguese and English Foreign Language Learners”!

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Congratulations to Linguistics Undergraduate student Morgan Riley, who last month was awarded the Presidential Award of Excellence.

This honor is awarded to undergraduate students in their final year of study who exemplify the best of UGA. Well done, Morgan!

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Registering for Summer courses? Try the Digital Life of Language or Forensic Linguistics!

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Congratulations to M.A. student Michael Wolfman on the successful defense of his thesis, "Beyond the Surface: An Investigation into the role of hierarchical structure on human sentence processing using LLMs," this past Monday!

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Monday after Spring break, look forward to a special presentation by Linguistics Ph.D. student Andrew Campman! Andrew will be providing an introduction into historical linguistics for undergraduate students interested in the subject area. Come on out and learn something new!

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Congratulations Dr. Langston on the well-deserved recognition! https://t.co/Qaj61erEMH

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Congratulations to Dr. Chad Howe, who was selected as the Graduate Coordinator recipient of the 2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education! Chad has done a great job, and we will be very sorry to lose him to his new post as interim director of LACSI.

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Congratulations to the organizers for LCUGA who helped put on such a successful conference this weekend!

In addition to two plenary talks, there were a total of 35 presentations (including two special sessions).

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We are very much looking forward to starting our annual UGA Linguistics Conference on Saturday morning!

Interested students and faculty can take a look at the program and conference information on our website: https://t.co/y22mfDjfJd

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The Linguistics department offers its sincere congratulations to Ph.D. student Jean Costa-Silva, who has won the well-deserved 2024 Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award. The UGA Center for Teaching and Learning mentioned that they were “blown away” by all Jean has done.

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LSUGA will be hosting the Linguistics Conference at UGA (LCUGA) on February 17-18th in-person in Athens, GA. The theme of this year's conference is "Modeling Language." We are excited to announce this year's plenary speakers: Luis Ulloa (SUNY) & Dr. Sashank (GA TECH).

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We are excited to announce the beginning of our first event series as part of the UNESCO Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. This week, Dr. Sara Snyder & Rainy Brake will be discussing Cherokee language learning. Come & check it out!

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We announce with all possible éclat that the UGA Linguistics SPARK Award applications are now open!

Completed applications can be submitted to Amy Smoler at [email protected] or 142 Gilbert Hall.

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This year, doctoral students Donald Dunagan and Jean Costa Silva presented their research in the 100th Linguistics Society of America Meeting. It was held in New York City from January 4th to January 7th.

Thanks for representing, Jean & Donald!

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Congratulations to Meg Fletcher, who last month was admitted to the Future Faculty Fellows cohort! We cannot wait to see how she is able to grow through 3FP's training.

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Congratulations to Dr. Jon Forrest and Dr. Peggy Renwick, whose research on Southern English is a UGA top research story of 2023! https://t.co/5nBF7tsQsS