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CU Linguistics co-sponsors 麻豆影院 premiere of Modoc Nation films

March 4, 2023

On March 14, CU Linguistics co-sponsored the 麻豆影院 premieres of two films about the endurance, strength and resilience of the Modoc peoples: the moving documentary Modoc Nation: An Untold Story of Survival and a stunning Maqlaqsyals-language short film, This is their Land . The short film, which provides a historical...

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Chase Raymond accepts secondary appointment in School of Medicine

Nov. 29, 2022

CU Linguistics Associate Professor Chase Raymond has recently accepted a secondary appointment in the Department of Family Medicine , at the University of Colorado, Anschutz School of Medicine . He is the first linguist to hold such an appointment. This joint appointment will facilitate a range of research projects on...

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CU Linguistics Professor Kira Hall named CU Distinguished Professor

Nov. 7, 2022

Dr. Kira Hall, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor, the highest designation the university awards to faculty. She shares this honor with six other outstanding CU faculty from across the CU System . This designation recognizes decades of exemplary scholarship, teaching innovation, and...

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54th Algonquian Conference sponsored by CU Linguistics

Oct. 28, 2022

The 54th Algonquian Conference was held Oct. 20-23, 2022 on the CU campus, at the University of Colorado Law School. The special theme for the 54th Conference was the International Decade of Indigenous Languages , 2022-2032, and how the Algonquian language community can respond to, influence, and benefit from this...

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CU partners on roundtable discussion, 鈥淩eclaiming New Speakers, Revising Old Authenticities: Basque, Catalan, and Galician鈥

Sept. 28, 2022

On October 6, EDiSo鈥檚 Research Commission and CU Linguistics' CLASP Program co-sponsored a roundtable discussion, "Reclaiming New Speakers, Revising Old Authenticities: Basque, Catalan, and Galician", a critical conversation about the three main minoritized languages in the Spanish State and their sociolinguistic contexts in this third decade of the 21st century...

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CU Linguistics celebrates the career of Professor Barbara Fox

May 26, 2022

On May 21, 2022, colleagues, research collaborators and grateful former students of CU Professor Emerita Barbara Fox (upper left) gathered on Zoom to celebrate her 37-year career in linguistics. CU faculty members Prof. Bhuvana Narasimhan and Chase Raymond oversaw a day of recollection in which over 20 colleagues and former...

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What the Wordle trend can teach us about language and technology

March 24, 2022

Alexis Palmer , assistant professor of linguistics at CU 麻豆影院, is a self-described word game aficionado. She is also a computational linguist, a subfield of artificial intelligence that sits at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. CU 麻豆影院 Today spoke with Palmer to learn more about the Wordle phenomenon.

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Laura Michaelis named LSA Fellow

Aug. 24, 2021

The Department is thrilled to announce that our current chair, Dr. Laura Michaelis, was recently named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) . This is a highly prestigious honor, recognizing career achievement, which is awarded to only a handful of linguists each year by the LSA, the...

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Joseph Dupris joins CU Linguistics faculty

Aug. 3, 2021

Dr. Joseph Dupris, Jr. is joining the CU faculty this fall, 2021, where he will serve as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Linguistics. Dr. Dupris received his PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2020. Dr. Dupris's work addresses issues around tribal language research,...

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Dr. Rai Farrelly featured in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine

June 25, 2021

Our own Dr. Rai Farrelly has just been featured in 'Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine' ! The article reports that Dr. Farrelly has been selected by the U.S. Department of State to join a two-month English language specialist virtual project focusing on promoting global citizenship and emerging trends in English...

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