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Students from CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) joined their advisor Professor Kira Hall to deliver a well received panel at the AAA/CASCA conference in Vancouver, Canada, November 2019. Entitled 鈥淟anguage and Middleclassness,鈥� the panel originated from a Spring 2019 CU 麻豆影院 seminar of the same...

The Department is pleased to announce that Jes煤s Villalpando-Qui帽onez successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019. The title of the dissertation is "Grammatical Aspect in Norogachi Rar谩muri (Tarahumara; Uto-Aztecan)". His Ph.D. Committee, chaired by Prof. Zygmunt Frajzyngier , was impressed by the quality of the dissertation and...

Dr. Rai Farrelly , CU Linguistics Director of TESOL Certificate Programs , has been elected to the Nominating Committee of the TESOL International Association . This committee of eight individuals represents the entire TESOL membership in determining the slate of candidates for the Board of Directors and President for the...

2019 Linguistics PhD graduate Tim O'Gorman , an expert in deep learning of semantic representations and corpus development, has taken a post-doctoral research position at the UMass Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory , working with Prof. Andrew McCallum. The aim of IESL is to increase our ability to mine actionable...

The Department is pleased to announce that, on Monday, November 11th, Marcus Avelar successfully defended his dissertation, entitled 鈥淯rban Spirits: Language, Race, and Modernity among Umbandistas in S茫o Paulo, Brazil.鈥� Committee members characterized the dissertation as a 鈥減age turner,鈥� which speaks to the elegance with which Marcus was able to...

Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine interviewed Prof. Chase Raymond about a recent study, published in Language and Communiciation , in which he and colleagues examined the Senate Judiciary Committee's questioning of then-Supreme Court Justice nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. In collaboration with CU-麻豆影院 Linguistics PhD alumnus, Nick...

Prof. Kira Hall 鈥檚 undergraduate course on Language and Digital Media is central to a recent article published in CPR News (October 30, 2019). Titled 鈥淭eens Aren鈥檛 Breaking Language, They鈥檙e Adding To It,鈥� the article focuses on the rapidly evolving nature of digital forms of expression. Drawing from research conducted...

The Department is excited to announce that our very own Prof. Bhuvana Narasimhan has been selected to receive one of this year鈥檚 Provost鈥檚 Faculty Achievement Awards in recognition of work for pathbreaking collaborative research at the intersection of language, development, and cognition, which demonstrates cross-linguistic variation in how meanings are...

We are happy to announce the publication of Colorado Research in Linguistics (CRIL)鈥檚 twenty fourth volume, after a nearly 7-year hiatus! CRIL 24 covers a broad range of topics, from indexicality and language and identity , to Construction Grammar , NLP, and corpus linguistics , drawing upon linguistic data from...

Dr. Mia Thomas-Ru啪i膰 retired this year after many years of service to the Department of Linguistics as a TESOL instructor, advisor and administrator. Among many other things, she was the heart and brains behind our TESOL BA certificate program , and even as she approached retirement, was the developer of...