Thesis Defense
Title: "Does this make sense?": The effect of matching guise in regional accent on grammatical acceptability judgments
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GSC 231
Thesis Defense
Title: LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES IN DEEP SOUTH KOREA: VOICES OF JEOLLANAMDO ENGLISH TEACHERS
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GSC 330E
Dr. Rusty Barrett Chosen as 2023 Arnold Zwicky Award Recipient
Excerpt from the LSA website: "The Zwicky Award recognizes LGBTQ+ linguists who have made significant contributions to the discipline, the Society, or the wider LGBTQ+ community through scholarship, outreach, service, and/or teaching. Eligible applicants will be current members of the LSA and identify within the LGBTQ+ community. Eligibility is open to applicants at any career stage."
Read more: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards
Dr. Allison Burkette Named ADS Professor for 2023 Linguistic Institute
The 2023 Linguistic Institute will be at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The Linguistic Institute is a biennial, month-long session of courses that span a variety of linguistics related topics. Named professors at the institute teach a month-long course.
Dr. Jennifer Cramer interviewed by CNN
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Read the article here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/us/maam-sir-polarizing-words-cec/index.h…
Linguistics Undergraduate Celebration of Research
Student who completed an independent study with a linguistics faculty member in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 will give a presentation. Budding Linguist awards will be given to selected recipients.
Presentation Information:
Title: Civility and Politeness in the Breadalbane Collection of 16th-Century Scottish Letters.
Presenter: Max Ederington, student at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - Math, Science and Technology Center.
Short tentative summary: The University of Edinburgh's Breadalbane Collection is a corpus of letters taken from the 16th-century, written during the time of the Campbell-MacGregor feud and the Marian civil war. Using these letters, this project investigated politeness across rank and gender during this time of strife in Scotland.
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Location:
WTY Alumni Gallery
This is What a Wildcat Sounds Like
A short video celebrating the linguistic diversity here on the beautiful campus of the University of Kentucky! Our Wildcats come from all over Kentucky, the USA, and around the world! We are thankful to have so many perspectives, dreams, talents, and distinct voices doing amazing things here at UK and beyond.
Dr. Dennis Preston Featured in USA Today
Read the article "Hold up, y'all: Slow-speaking states survey sells US language patterns short, linguists say" here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/01/21/american-slow-tal…
Linguistics Colloquium Series
Studying grammatical variables in Spanish: New approaches and insights for sociolinguistics
Investigating grammatical (i.e., morphological, syntactic, discourse-pragmatic) variables poses some well-known challenges. To begin with, the approach pioneered for phonic variables (Labov 1963) must be modified in order to successfully apply variationist methods to the study of grammatical variables. As well, there is a long-standing assumption (see Schwenter 2011) that the social or stylistic significance of grammatical variables is harder to capture than it is for phonic variables, particularly because grammatical variants are typically less frequent in discourse. In this talk, I will draw on my research with Spanish speakers in distinct settings to show how the study of grammatical variables can lead to fruitful areas of discovery for sociolinguistics, similar to what has been shown for phonic variables. The range of phenomena to be covered include variation of the simple present and present progressive among classroom learners of Spanish, subject pronoun expression by bilingual Latino children in the U.S. South, and double possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish.
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Location:
Cornerstone Esports Theater
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