UK Students Receive Scholarships to Study Critical Languages
Two UK students have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships to study Arabic and Turkish languages.
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Mapping Linguistic Diversity: Benjamin Kinsella and Haralambos Symeonidis
How many languages do you speak? Benjamin Kinsella is fluent in English, speaks Spanish, and now also knows touch of Guaraní. He graduated from UK in December of 2012, and worked with Professor Haralambos Symeonidis of the Hispanic Studies Department on a linguistic atlas project, Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico.
'Homegrown Kentucky' Empowers Eastern Ky. Community
Seven UK students created a project redefining community service. The group established a small-scale farm in Owsley County, Ky., revitalizing 10 acres of land owned by the school district, which will yield 100 percent of the produce for the local schools and aims to strengthen the county's economy.
Homegrown Kentucky: Adam Meredith and Luke McAnally
Adam Meredith and Luke McAnally, two A&S majors, were part of a small group of students that went to the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Washington, D.C. last month.
Dr Kirk Hazen Lecture: Appalachian Dialect Features
This is part of the Linguistics program speaker series. Dr. Hazen is lecturing to a class about Appalachian dialect features.
Something Old and Something New: The Study of Dialect Trends In West Virginia
Dr. Kirk Hazen Lecture part of the Linguistic lecture speaker series.
Fading Appalachian Dialect Features
Dr. Kirk Hazen from West Virginia University discusses Fading Appalachian Dialect Features. This is part of the linguistics program speaker series.
Summarizing Sarikoli: Clint Parker Discusses Translating Chinese
Clint Parker is an undergraduate student in Chinese and Linguistics. Parker recently began work on a project translating a descriptive summary of a minority dialect called Sarikoli. The descriptive summary is in Chinese, and Parker is translating it into English.
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