Skip to Content
U-M
//
LSA
//
Departments and Units
//
Majors and Minors
//
LSA Gateway
Submit Site Search
Search
Search: {{$root.lsaSearchQuery.q}}, Page {{$root.page}}
{{item.title}}
{{item.snippet}}
{{item.snippet}}
previous
|
next
About Us
People
Research
News and Events
Get Involved
COVID-19 Information
for
Undergraduates
Graduates
Alumni and Friends
U-M
LSA
Departments and Units
Majors and Minors
LSA Gateway
Keyword Search of linguistics
About Us
People
Research
News and Events
Get Involved
COVID-19 Information
Search: {{$root.lsaSearchQuery.q}}, Page {{$root.page}}
{{item.title}}
{{item.snippet}}
{{item.snippet}}
previous
|
next
for
Undergraduates
Graduates
Alumni and Friends
Majoring and Minoring in Linguistics
Cognate Courses
Pre-Speech & Hearing Club
Transfer Credit and Study Abroad
Advising
Honors
Undergraduate Research
2020 Graduation
Linguistics Courses
Linguistics Club
Transfer Students
Planning Your Career
Graduate Admissions
Materials for Current Students
Linguistics Research Guide
Graduate Program Requirements
Funding Opportunities
Linguistics Courses
Linguistics Ph.D. Alumni
Gift Opportunities
In Memoriam
Campaign Priorities
Linguistics PhD Alumni
Sitemap
Sitemap
[X] close
Sitemap
Sitemap
Sitemap
Linguistics
About Us
What Is Linguistics?
Our History
The Early Years (Until 1963)
The last decades of the 20th Century
The 21st Century
U-M Linguistics Timeline
Our Values
Contact Us
U-M Resource Links
People
Faculty
Core Faculty
Courtesy Appointments
Professors Emeriti
Staff
Graduate Students
Linguistics Ph.D. Alumni
PhD Alumni 2020 - Present
PhD Alumni 2015 - 2019
PhD Alumni 2010 - 2014
PhD Alumni 2005 - 2009
PhD Alumni 2000 - 2004
PhD Alumni 1997 - 1999
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
In Memoriam
Samuel David Epstein
Alexander-Zeev Guiora
John C. (Ian) Catford
News and Events
All News
Recent News
SWAMP 2015 hosted by Michigan Linguistics
Visit to Chippewa Community in Upper Peninsula
Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Linguistic Institute
Deborah Keller-Cohen’s research featured on UM News website
Robin Queen and Julie Boland in “Linguistics Vanguard”
Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Michigan alums take top honors in LSA Student Abstract Award
Robin Queen delivers keynote at "Language in the Media 6" in Hamburg, Germany
Congratulations, Dr. Sujeewa Hettiarachchi!
Congratulations, Dr. Jae-Young Shim!
Andries Coetzee deliver keynote at ICPP, Tokyo
Michigan at the "Linguistic Society of Southern Africa"
John Swales in "English for Specific Purposes"
Carmel O'Shannessy in Australia
Meet our incoming graduate students
In memoriam: Edward Mason Anthony Jr. (UM PhD, 1954)
Dragomir Radev Coaches US Linguistics Team to Multiple Wins at IOL
A very busy summer for Diane Larsen-Freeman
Carmel O'Shannessy featured speaker at workshop on at Australian National University
Welcome to baby Ilona Ilieva Smirnova!
Debby Keller-Cohen in "Research on Aging"
Harim Kwon receives best paper award at ICPhS 2015
Productive fieldwork trip for Carmel O'Shannesy
LSA Program Committee meeting in Ann Arbor
Michigan at the ICPhS 2015
A new website for the Linguistics Department
Michigan at the “Second Language Research Forum”
Anne Curzan and Robin Queen at "Investing in Ability Week"
Anastasia Smirnova in “Linguistic Inquiry”
Moira Saltzman visits “Mango Languages”
Honorary doctorate for John Swales
Robin Queen Elected to the LSA Executive Committee
Anastasia Smirnova in Journal of Language and Politics.
Will Nediger and Acrisio Pires present at BUCLD
Baxter/Sagart receive "Bloomfield Book Award" from LSA
Michigan Linguistics presence at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
PhD Student Alan Ke (Co-authored with Professor Samuel Epstein, Richard Lewis, and Acrisio Pires) Published "The Quantificational Domain of Dou: An Experimental Study"
Sunny Hyon's (PhD '94) "Introducing Genre and English for Specific Purposes" Published by Routledge
Submit a News Story
Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Marlyse Baptista Plenary Speaker at ACBLPE at the University of Stockholm
Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Field Work in Cape Verde
Marlyse Baptista delivers presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Human History in Jena, Germany
Marlyse Baptista Elected to Leadership Post at Linguistic Society of America
News from the Linguistic Society of America
Ezra Keshet Publishes Paper, Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic: A Simple Analysis of Complex Anaphora
Barbra Meek Presents Talk, Linguistics and the Fierce Urgency of Now
Natasha Abner and Savithry Namboodiripad are Giving Talks at the Workshop on the Emergence of Universals at The Ohio State University
Just Announced -- The Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Pam Beddor, Andries Coetzee, and Will Styler Publish Plosive Voicing in Afrikaans: Differential cue Weighting and Tonogenesis
John M. Swales Gave a Colloquium to the English Department at the University of Arizona
Hayley Heaton Awarded a Presidential Honorary Membership in the American Dialect Society
Andries Coetzee and Megan Crowhurst Present Webinar for Linguistic Society of America
Barbra Meek Co-edited Engaging Native American Publics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key
Lucy Chiang awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship and the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Search News
Undergraduate Linguistic field work experience in Australia
Pires and Rothman recognized by "International Journal of Bilingualism"
Associate Professor Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper in Australia
Assistant Professor Nick Henriksen Published in January 2016 Edition of Phonetica
Michigan Linguistics at the LSA Annual Meeting
Sally Thomason in the "Upper Swan Valley Historical Society" newsletter
Seven presentations for Diane Larsen-Freeman
Carmel O'Shannessy in "First Language"
Andries Coetzee at UC Berkeley and UC Merced
Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger Hopes to Defend his Dissertation this Spring
Linguistics PhD Student Will Nediger is Working on a Dissertation on the Linguistic Properties of Idioms
A Festschrift for UM Emeritus Professor Robbins Burling Published
UM Linguistics Connects to High School Students in Maryland
Sally Thomason Takes Part in International Conference
From Doctoral Student to Student Services Coordinator, Jennifer Nguyen is a Wolverine Through and Through
Marjorie Herbert Earns First Publication for Her Work on German Sign Language
UM Professor San Duanmu Contemplates His Next Project
Professors From UM Linguistics Examine Reactions to Written Errors
Calling all Undergraduate Students Interested in Linguistics Research!
UM Linguistics Ph.D. Student Gives Two Talks at Penn Linguistics Conference 40!
A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Lorenzo García-Amaya
Sally Thomason featured in The Paris Review!
New Volume on Language Contact in Australia Marks a New Era of Linguistic Work Edited by Carmel O’Shannessy
Nicholas Henriksen Publishes Co-Edited Volume on Ibero-Romance Intonation
Marjorie Herbert Receives Prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from National Science Foundation
Carmel O'Shannessy Presents Paper at Australian Languages Workshop
Paper by Professor Acrisio Pires and PhD Alumnus Sujeewa Hettiarachchi in Proceedings of GALANA
San Duanmu Proposes a Solution to a Long-Standing Problem in Phonetic Transcriptions in His Newly Published Book!
Ling 497 Poster Session
UM Linguistics Ph.D. Candidate Will Nediger Helps UM Quiz Bowl Team to National Championship Title!
What Do You Know About the Pre-Speech & Hearing Club?
UM Undergraduates Meet Online with Students at Sakhnin Teachers' College, Israel
Professor Marlyse Baptista and Ph.D. Candidate Marcus Berger Spoke at LSUGA II
Marcus Berger, Moira Saltzman, and Kate Sherwood Have Each Been Awarded Funding Grants to Further Their Research!
Marlyse Baptista is the New Guest Columnist for the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
UM Linguistics Professor Andries Coetzee Nominated as Next Editor of Language!
From Student to Candidate: Marcus Berger Successfully Completes His Qualifying Research Paper
End of Year Message from the Chair
What are your thoughts on the Oxford comma?
Justin Craft Participated in the Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics (STEP)
Associate Professor Ezra Keshet Presented on Dynamic Update Anaphora Logic (DUAL)
Hayley Heaton Gives Guest Talk on “Representing American Southern English in Fictional Television Dramas”
Eric Swanson Will Speak at the 2016 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistic Philosophy Conference Later This Week
Warlpiri Speakers and U-M Professor Participate in Kriol and Contact Languages Workshop in Australia
Carmel O'Shannessy Presents at Workshop on the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
Bilingual Communities in South America
U-M Linguists Starting a Project to Document the Language and Culture of Native Americans in Michigan
Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced!
U-M Linguistics Well Represented at Speech Prosody 2016
Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at the University of Brasilia
Jon Brennan and Coauthors Publish Paper on Neural Responses to Phonotactics in Autism Spectrum Disorder
University of Michigan Linguistics Community Well Represented at LabPhon15
Ezra Keshet and the Phenomenon of Language Peevishness in Epic Grammar Fails
Carmel O'Shannessy was a Keynote Speaker at BilForum 2016
Carmel O'Shannessy Published in Linguistic Variation
Andries Coetzee Publishes Paper on Phonological Variation in Phonology
Carmel O'Shannessy Involved in Project Awarded Funding by Australian Research Council
Marjorie Herbert Presents QRP Work on Contact Between Spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL) at LCILP
U-M Professor's Work Featured in British Museum Exhibition
Doctoral Student Marjorie Herbert and Professor Acrisio Pires Presented at BilForum 2016
Marlyse Baptista Has Been Named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
Ariana Bancu Presents Research on Transylvanian Saxon at NWAV45 in Vancouver
GradeCraft Lets Students Fail Productively
Giving Blueday is November 29, 2016!
Andries Coetzee Elected Editor of "Language"
Jon Brennan Awarded an NSF Grant for Project on Neurocomputational Models of Natural Language Processing
New Directory for the Department of Linguistics Installed
U-M Linguistics Presents at Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America & the Acoustical Society of Japan
Nicholas Henriksen and Sarah Harper Published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association
Anne Curzan will be the 2017 Recipient of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award
Tamarae Hildebrandt Research Evolves Beyond Syntax to Phonetics and Phonology
Marjorie Herbert Presents Poster of QRP Project at LSA 2017
Chia-Wen Lo Awarded 2016-2017 Rackham International Student Fellowship / Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Will Nediger’s Research Evolves Due to Collaborative Environment at U-M Linguistics
Jelena Krivokapić Awarded NSF Grant for Project on Prosodic Structure
Interest in the Individual, the Place, and Language Drives Barbara Johnstone’s Research
Professor Emeritus John M. Swales Gave Plenary Talk for Conference at Moscow State University
PhD Student Justin Craft Just Wants to Be Happy
Naomi Gottschalk Traveled to Basque Country to Study Their Language Isolate
Dave Ogden Seeks to Make a Difference and Improve Lives with His Research
“Overcoming Empirical Challenges for an Extended Approach to Condition C” by Will Nediger Featured in Winter 2017 Volume of "Linguistic Inquiry"
William Baxter Travelled to Singapore, Germany, and China for Talks and Conferences
Two Teams Featuring Members from U-M Linguistics Awarded 2017 Proposal Development Grants
U-M Linguistics Doctoral Student Ariana Bancu Awarded 2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Professor Samuel Epstein Gave a Talk Entitled “The Nature of Nurture and Non-Linguistic Language Variation” at The University of Arizona
Natasha Abner to Join U-M Linguistics Faculty
Emily Atkinson Joins U-M Linguistics as Language Learning Assistant Professor
Savithry Namboodiripad to Join U-M as Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics
U-M Linguistics Was Well-Represented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table
Carmel O'Shannessy Gave Keynote Speech at Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany
Moira Saltzman and Carmel O'Shannessy Represented U-M Linguistics at ICLDC and ComputEL-2 in Hawaii
Dave Ogden Awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2017/18 Academic Year
“Speaking in Code” Explores Where Computer Science Meets the Humanities
U-M Linguistics Reaches Out to Seaholm High School
PhD Student Emily Rae Sabo Organizing 2017 Andean Circle Conference
Jelena Krivokapic Publishes Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures
Jeff Heath Receives Funding From the National Endowment for the Humanities as Part of the Documenting Endangered Languages Program
U-M Linguistics Alumnus Chris Odato Featured on The Humanities PhD Project
Marlyse Baptista Gives Keynote Speech at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Marlyse Baptista, Rocky Meade and Sarah Thomason Pay Tribute to John Holm
Will Nediger Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Marlyse Baptista and Team Conduct Fieldwork in the Cape Verde Islands
Congratulations to Jelena Krivokapić on Her Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics
Ariana Bancu, From Student to Linguist
Marjorie Herbert Finds the Perfect Combination of Language and Science in Linguistics
Ariana Bancu Presents Paper at Michicagoan 2017
The Newest Little Linguist Has Arrived
Michael Opper to Join College of International Studies at Southwest University
University of Kelaniya Building Named After U-M Alumna Manique Gunesekera (PhD ‘89)
U-M Linguistics Remembers PhD Alumna Kazuko Inoue, One of the Leading Generative Linguists in Japan
End of Year Message from the Chair
In Exploring Activities With Her Border Collie, U-M Linguist Robin Queen Discovered a New Research Interest
Language of the Creole-Speaking People of Cape Verde Passed Down Through Generations in a Way Similar to Genetics
Acrisio Pires Co-Authors Journal Paper on "Bilingualism and Language Change: The Case of Pronominal Clitics in Catalan and Spanish"
LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Deadline to Apply is October 2, 2017
Five-Minute Linguist Finalists Announced
Nicholas Henriksen Published in Journal of Phonetics
Marjorie Herbert Presents Work at GALA 17
PhD Student Kelly E. Wright Led a Workshop at the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute
PhD Student Kelly E. Wright to Give Talk at Seminar Slam
Will Styler Gives Colloquium at Michigan State University
Dr. Hiba Babiker to Visit U-M Linguistics Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Fully Funded Summer Opportunity for Training in Linguistic Fieldwork and Language Documentation in Indonesia
Andries Coetzee Named Associate Director of the African Studies Center
Eric Swanson to Present at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Professor Sally Thomason Presents a Talk on Deliberate Language Changes
HistLing Reading for Nov 3
Sally Thomason to Give a Distinguished University Professorship Lecture on the Vanishing of the World’s Languages and Why We Should Care
Professor Sally Thomason to Receive Linguistic Society of America's Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service
Festschrift Published in Honor of Professor Emerita Diane Larsen-Freeman
Giving BlueDay is Almost Here!
Should Language Be More Gender Neutral?
Deaf Hip-Hop Artist Sean Forbes Visits University of Michigan
Jiseung Kim Awarded Barbour Scholarship
Berger and Ke Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships
Hayley Heaton Successfully Defends Dissertation
LSA Article Highlights Baptista's Research
Bouavichith receives 2018 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award
Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2018
Natasha Abner Invited to Present Lecture at UCLA
Andries Coetzee Promoted to Professor of Linguistics; Named 2018 John Dewey Award Winner
Linguistics Alumnus Tim Chou Receives 2017 Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators
Ariana Bancu Receives CEW's Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship
Hildebrandt Research Published in Tu+1 Proceedings Volume
Exploring Dialect Discrimination
The Palm-Up Puzzle
Catching Phonology in the Pokeverse
Meet Postdoctoral Research Fellow Stephen Tobin
Welcome, Linguistics Graduate Students!
Keshet and Medeiros Research Published
Keshet Gives Talk on Semantics in Barcelona
Jon Sprouse Gives Talk on Syntax
International Institute Conference
Language Documentation in West Africa
Fall 2018 Linguistics Colloquium
Humanities Collaboratory Video
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47
Giving Blueday - November 27, 2018
2018 Giving Blueday a Success
LanguageMatters: Lightning Talk Workshop
Linguistics Fall 2018 Colloquium Series
NCID Research & Scholarship Seminar Series
New Book Published: A Guide to Old Spanish
Congratulations, Tzu-Yun Tung!
Capstone Poster Session
Alumni Profile: Joseph Tyler
2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Linguistics Colloquium
LSA Annual Meeting 2019 in NYC
Herbert Authors Article Published in Sign Language & Linguistics
The Power of Words
Winter 2019 Linguistics Colloquium
Welcome, Katy White
Winter 2019 Linguistics Colloquium
The Best of Language: Volume III
Graduate Student Profile: Alan Ke
Jonathan Brennan Recommended for Promotion to Associate Professor of Linguistics
Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages
Winter 2019 Colloquium Series
Celebrate Your Dialect at Work
New Paper by Alan Ke Published Online
Emily Atkinson to Present Research
Celebrating Your Dialect at Work
Graduate Student Profile: Alicia Stevers
Stephen Tyndall Successfully Defends Dissertation
Congratulations, Dom!
Congratulations, Professor Nick Ellis!
Congratulations, Danielle!
Graduate Student Colloquia
Chiang Research Published in Proceedings
Peltier Receives Ford Foundation Honorable Mention
Carly Marten Receives Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award
Capstone Poster Session Features Projects on Gesture, Sign, and Speech
Yourdanis Sedarous receives 2019 Deborah Keller-Cohen Award
Congratulations, Linguistics Class of 2019!
GASLA XV Conference
Congratulations, Jon!
Humanities Collaboratory Research
Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
Webinar on Submitting an Abstract for LSA 2020
Congratulations, Danielle and Lauretta!
Nerd Nite Ann Arbor: Emily Sabo to present on June 20
Jonathan Brennan Receives 2019 Early Career Award
Anne Curzan Appointed Dean of LSA
Welcome, Lisa Levinson
New Research Published
Alan (Hezao) Ke Successfully Defends Dissertation
Ariana Bancu Successfully Defends Dissertation
2019 Linguistics Institute: Linguistics in the Digital Era
Dave Ogden Successfully Defends Dissertation
Congratulations, Marcus Berger
U-M Linguists (Past and Present) Gather at ICPhS 2019
Welcome!
High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun
Joy Peltier Presents at Dominica Country Conference
Graduate Student Profile: Ian Calloway
Linguistics Colloquium Series
Constructing a Sign Language Family Tree
Linguistics Colloquium Series
2019 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture: “In the Future, Robots will Speak Chickasaw"
Language Matters Initiative Hosts Lightning Talk Workshop
Welcome, Sarah Heineken
Linguistics Open House
San Duanmu to Speak at MSU
Congratulations, Alicia!
Best Paper in Language Award
Congratulations, Carrie!
Linguistics Colloquium
Giving BlueDay 2019
Graduate Student Profile: Moira Saltzman
Graduate Student Colloquia
Integrating Research and Public Engagement
Capstone Poster Session
Congratulations, Kate!
Graduate Student Profile: Jiseung Kim
2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium
Emily Sabo Quoted in Gizmodo Article
Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting
Ezra Keshet Presents Research at University of Amsterdam and MIT
Professor Sarah (Sally) Thomason Edits Special Journal Issue on Indigenous Languages
Department Colloquium: "Linguistics for the Common Good"
"Language and Discrimination" and "Fantastic Linguistics"
New Views on the Flint Water Crisis
Graduate Student Profile: Emily Rae Sabo
Linguistics Colloquium
COVID-19 Updates and Resources
Congratulations, Ian!
Research: Trinidad and Tobago Sign Languages
Chia-Wen Lo Awarded Rackham Barbour Scholarship
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
Congratulations, Yourdanis!
Virtual 'Loose Lips' Comedy Show
Jeffrey Heath Receives National Science Foundation Grant
Celebrating the Linguistics Class of 2020!
Stay in Touch During Spring and Summer Terms
Joy Peltier Receives Deborah Keller-Cohen Award for 2019-20
Two Recipients Chosen to Receive Matt Alexander Awards
Paper by Marlyse Baptista Published in March 2020 Issue of Language
Native American Language Resource Center
Emily Rae Sabo Dissertation Defense Scheduled for Friday, Sept. 18 (1-3 pm)
In the News
Workshop on Word Order Flexibility
Welcome Back, Students and Faculty!
Welcome, Shaquetta!
Linguistics Colloquium
Congratulations, Emily!
Honors Seminar Series: Julie Boland
Linguistics Colloquium
Being a Linguist on Social Media
Lorenzo García-Amaya to Give Golden Apple Award Lecture on October 16
Linguistics Colloquium
Congratulations, Andries!
Raising Our Voices 2020
Lisa Levinson Gives Keynote Talk at NELS 51 Conference
Rackham Article Features Graduate Student Role in Patagonian-Afrikaans Project
Graduate Student Colloquium: Joy Peltier and Moira Saltzman
Career Panel on Positions in the Tech Industry
Sally Thomason Gives Plenary Talk at International Conference
Professor Acrisio Pires Appointed Interim Department Chair
Associate Professor Nick Henriksen received the Linguistic Society of America’s 2021 Early Career Award
Linguistics Graduate Candidate Fahad Alrashed Successfully Defends his Dissertation
Archived News
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
All Events
Colloquium Series
Discussion Group Events
Archived Events
2015
January 2015
SoConDi: Haley Heaton on "Prosody of Southern television characters"
HistLing: Sally Thomason on sound suppression and sound change
MLK Colloquium: Walt Wolfram (NC State)
Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on nasality and VOT
Pizza and a Movie: "First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee"
February 2015
HistLing: Piotr Michalowski: Changing a dead language: the standardization of Sumerian
Colloquium: Acrisio Pires: "Syntactic competence and access to Universal Grammar by second language learners"
SoConDi: Group member introductions with prospective students
SynSem: Shim and Epstein on "Unification of Theta Relations"
Phondi: Dave Ogden: "Phonetic Context Effects in L2 Phonetic Category Discrimination"
Linguistics Journal Club: "How Nature Meets Nurture"
SonConDi: Eric Acton on pragmatics and social meaning
HistLing: English as a Viking Language
Phondi: Benjamin Swets on "Individual Variation in the Scope of Sentence Planning"
Colloquium: Lisa Green, UMass "Inversion in African American English: When Negation Isn’t Enough"
Phondi: Emily M. Provost, "Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior"
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
March 2015
Colloquium: Meredith Tamminga (UPenn) "Towards a dynamic view of sociolinguistic production"
SoConDi: Anastasia Smirnova on "Linguistic biases survive a military conflict: Language ideology in Ukraine"
HistLing: Ben Fortson on "Reflections on retroflexion across word-boundary in the Rigveda: Knotty, naughty, and nutty nati."
Phondi: Sagan Blue
LINGFO: Linguistics Information Session
SynSem: Jan-Wouter Zwart presents
Linguistics Journal Club: Fodor on the mind and cognitive science
Phondi: San Duanmu "Phonological Analysis and Marginal Syllables"
Colloquium: Barbra Meek: Idealizing (NDN) language
SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee and Marlyse Baptista on :Copular predicates in Bengali"
SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on Language Change in German Sign Language
HistLing: Bill Baxter on Tangut
Phondi: Kate Sherwood
April 2015
Capstone Seminar Poster Presentations
Colloquium: Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Batia Snir (Linguistics Graduate Students)
Phondi: Coetzee, García-Amaya and Henriksen: Rhythmic transfer in language contact: Spanish and Afrikaans in Patagonia
HistLing: Ben Fortson on the history of Burushaski
Phondi: Krivokapic et al: "Temporal effects of prosodic structure on articulatory and manual gestures"
Colloquium: Amy Schafer: "Processing coreference: Evidence from Korean, English, and Japanese/Korean learners of English"
Phondi: Pam Beddor & Andries Coetzee: "The relation between production and perception of coarticulation"
2014
December 2014
Department Holiday Lunch
Capstone Poster Sessions
Colloquium: Yan Dong and Will Nediger
SoConDi: Ariana Bancu on "Transylvanian Saxon in Romania"
HistLing: Ratliff and Taguchi on Mo Piu (North Vietnam)
Phondi: Theo Stern on South African English Vowels in the UK
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
November 2014
SoConDi
SynSem: Batia Snir on "Coherence Relations"
HistLing: Marcus Berger on Proto-Zaparoan Syntax
Phondi: O'Shannessy/Bancu on the Phonology of Mixed Languages
Colloquium: Robert Podesva on the Three Waves in Sociolinguistics
SenSem: Smirnova on Evidentiality in Bulgarian
SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee on English acquisition by English-Bengali speakers
Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
Journal Club: Utopian for Beginners
Hist Ling: Ben Fortson reports on UCLA Indo-European Conference
October 2014
SoConDi: Sandhya Narayanan on Quechua-Aymara-Spanish contact
Phondi: Arthur Brakel on Portuguese verb structure
Colloquium: Nicholas Henriksen on "Vowel harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish"
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Dialects on TV
Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House
Phondi: Harim Kwon on Korean stops
Journal Club Meeting
SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on German Sign Language
HistLing: Coptic in the history of Egypt
Colloquium: Patricia Keating (UCLA) - "Linguistic Voice Quality"
SoConDi/SynSem: Discussion about semantic fieldwork
Phondi: Henriksen et al. on falsetto in Andalusian Spanish
September 2014
SynSem: Will Nediger presents
HistLing: Organizational & Sally Thomason on Pacific Northwest Languages
SoConDi: Organizational & Carmel on her fieldwork
Phondi: Theo Stern on high, front vowels in South African English
Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany -"How does the brain deal with language variability?"
Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "How does the brain deal with language variability?"
HistLing/SoConDi: Bilingual Language Development: Turkish and German in Berlin 1983-2013
Phondi: Organizational meeting
April 2014
Capstone Poster Session
Grad Student Colloquium - Stephen Tyndall & Jae-Young Shim
Syntax/Semantics - Sujeewa Hettiarachchi
HistLing
Phondi
Colloquium: Heather Brookes - "Urban Youth ‘Languages’ in South Africa: A Case Study of tsotsitaal in a South African township"
SoConDi - Ariana Bancu
Phondi
HistLing
Phondi
March 2014
Department Journal Club
Phondi
Colloquium: Robert Henderson - "Dependent Indefinites and Their Post-Suppositions"
SoConDi - Barb Meek (SALSA keynote)
HistLing
Phondi
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Syntax/Semantics
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Phondi
February 2014
Colloquium: Jon Brennan - "Linking Linguistic and Neural Impairments in Autism"
SoConDi - Dave Ogden (Corpus Analysis of Child Language)
HistLing
Syntax/Semantics - Marcus Berger
Phondi
Department Journal Club
Phondi
SoConDi - Daniel Davis (Teaching Courses on Arab American English)
January 2014
Colloquium: Shigeru Miyagawa - "The Integration Hypothesis of Human Language Evolution and Its Implications for the Study of Contemporary Languages"
Syntax/Semantics - Danuta Allen
HistLing
Phondi
Department Journal Club
SoConDi - Language and Diversity on Campus Brainstorm
Phondi
Colloquium: Carole Chaski - "Science and Conscience in Forensic Linguistics"
HistLing
Phondi
2013
December 2013
Syntax/Semantics: Ed Cormany
Graduate Student Colloquium - Tridha Chatterjee and Harim Kwon
SoConDi: Marlyse Baptista
HistLing
PhonDi Research Group - Nick Henriksen
November 2013
SoConDi: Inge Kral - Youth Language in Australia
HistLing
PhonDi: Jelena Krivokapic
Agraphia Discussion Group
Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House
Colloquium: Mark Janse - "Definitely an Object? Differential Object Marking and Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek"
SoConDi: Robin Queen
HistLing: Mark Janse - "Wanna Be a Dennil Floss Tycoon? The development of dental fricatives in Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)
PhonDi: San Duanmu
Agraphia Discussion Group
Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group
PhonDi: Yan Dong
October 2013
Cognitive Science Major Information Session
Department Journal Club Meeting
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton - Authenticity in the portrayal of Brenda Johnson in "The Closer"
Agraphia Discussion Group
Colloquium: John Hale - "Entropy Reduction and the Subject Advantage across East Asian Languages"
Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group
PhonDi: Theo Stern
Historical Linguistics Discussion Group
Agraphia Discussion Group
Colloquium: Rajesh Bhatt - "An Argument for Semantically Contentful Head Movement"
SoConDi: John Swales - Citation Practices
PhonDi: Jiseung Kim
September 2013
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group
Colloquium: Marlyse Baptista, Susan Gelman & Erica Beck - "Testing the Convergence Hypothesis in Creole Genesis"
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group
Historical Linguistics Discussion Group
PhonDi: Harim Kwon
Dissertation Defense: Erica Beck - "The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children"
April 2013
Journal Club Meeting: Infant and Pet Directed Speech
SoConDi: Anne Curzan on Prescriptivism
HistLing: Stephen Tyndall on Akkadian Gender Morphology
Phondi: Nick Henrickson on the prosody of Manchego Spanish
Colloquium: Andrew Wedel
Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on phonetic imitation
March 2013
Joint Phondi/SoConDi Meeting: Amy Hemmeter on Vocal Fry
HistLing Meeting: Bill Baxter on Tibetan Tonogenesis
Mid-Phon 18
Colloquium speaker: Eric Russell Webb
SoConDi: Nick Emlen presents
HistLing Meeting: Discussion of Bowern's paper on syntactic change
Phondi: Sagan Blue and Kate Sherwood present
SoConDi Meeting: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the South
February 2013
Colloquium: Ezra Keshet on the Effect of Context on Meaning
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: Chou and Hettiarachchi presents
Joint HistLing/SoConDi Meeting: Sally Thomason presents
Phondi: Jon Yip presents
Journal Club Meeting: McConnel-Ginet on "Words in the World"
SoConDi meeting: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa
HistLing Meeting: Nick Emlen
Phondi: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese
Linguistic Institute Information Session
Colloquium speaker: Lisa Levinson
SoConDi: Research roundup
Phondi Meeting: (i) Mike Opper presents, (ii) Information about MidPhon
January 2013
MLK Colloquium with Ann Charity Hudley
2012
December 2012
Phondi Meeting: Kuniko Nielsen presents
November 2012
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton presents
HistLing Meeting:Stephen Tyndall presents
Phondi Meeting: Mike Opper presents
Colloquium: Rick Lewis (U-M Psychology Department)
Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of data in syntax
SoCondi: Karla Mallette on Lingua Franca
HistLing Meeting: Bailey Doolittle on Middle English Syntax
Phondi Meeting: Yan Dong presents
Film Screening: Voices from El-Sayed
Phondi Meeting: Nick Henriksen presents
October 2012
Syn/Sem Discussion: Presentation by Marisa Boston
SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment
HistLing: Bill Baxter presents on Chinese etymology
Phondi Meeting: Andries Coetzee on voicing co-ocurrence in Afrikaans
Journal Club Meeting: Poplack on syntax and language contact
Phondi Meeting: Jon Yip presents
Rackham Centennial Colloquium: Loraine Obler (The City University of New York)
SoConDi: Q&A with Alison Cornish
Syntax Support Group: Presentation by Ljiljana Progovac
HistLing: Sound change in Elvish
Department Coffee Hour
Phondi Meeting: Discussing paper by Andrew Wedel
September 2012
Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents
First meeting of the new Journal Club
HistLing Meeting: Mythbusters
SoConDi: Organizational meeting
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: David Medeiros to present
Fall Welcome Picnic
Departmental Round Table Colloquium
Phondi: Organizational Meeting
February 2012
Recruitment Colloquium-department speaker TBD
2011
December 2011
December 9, 2011-Student Colloquium
November 2011
November 18, 2011-Diogo Almeida
November 4, 2011-Katherine Kinzler
October 2011
October 21, 2011-Pieter Muysken
September 2011
September 23, 2011-Barbra Meek
May 2011
Ling Faculty Retreat
April 2011
Ling Department Graduation Reception
Winter Classes End
HistLing Discussion Group-Sally Thomason
On NPs, Clauses, Phrases, Everything…
March 2011
Barbra Meek (Cancelled), University of Michigan
Rethinking Language Revitalization
February 2011
Language Digitization
Lexical category variation and the grammar of property concepts
January 2011
The emergence of hybrid grammars: Contact, Language Change and Creation
2010
December 2010
En Nuestra Lengua: L1 acquisition of object pronouns in Heritage Spanish-English speakers
November 2010
Linguistic Methodology in Editing Old English Laws
October 2010
Tracking Choice
Linguistic Structure and Linguistic Working Memory
Linguistic Masking in Speech-in-Speech Perception
September 2010
Colloqium, Round Table Discussion
March 2010
Syllable Onsets in Haitian and Saramaccan: Between Substrate and Superstrate
Search Events
Get Involved
NACLO
Undergraduates
Majoring and Minoring in Linguistics
Advising
Linguistics Courses
Cognate Courses
Honors
Linguistics Club
Pre-Speech & Hearing Club
Undergraduate Research
Transfer Students
Transfer Credit and Study Abroad
2020 Graduation
Planning Your Career
Graduates
Graduate Admissions
English Proficiency Requirements
Frequently Asked Questions
Graduate Program Requirements
Linguistics Courses
Materials for Current Students
Funding Opportunities
Linguistics Block Grant
Linguistics Department Fellowships
Linguistics Ph.D. Alumni
PhD Alumni 2015 - 2019
PhD Alumni 2010 - 2014
PhD Alumni 2005 - 2009
PhD Alumni 2000 - 2004
PhD Alumni 1997 - 1999
Linguistics Research Guide
Alumni and Friends
Gift Opportunities
Campaign Priorities
Linguistics PhD Alumni
PhD Alumni 2015 - 2019
PhD Alumni 2010 - 2014
PhD Alumni 2005 - 2009
PhD Alumni 2000 - 2004
PhD Alumni 1997 - 1999
In Memoriam
Samuel David Epstein
Alexander-Zeev Guiora
John C. (Ian) Catford
Resources
Fields of Study
Sitemap
Job Opportunity
COVID-19 Information