Linguistics

Time 2020-07-27 04:04:17

Web Name: Linguistics

WebSite: http://linguistics.ucsd.edu

ID:36060

Keywords:

Linguistics,

Description:

Language is one of the most complex and fascinating biological, cognitive, cultural, and social features of humans. Linguistics is the study of language in all its variety and richness across different groups, populations, and ages. UC San Diego Linguistics Department commitment to anti-racism June 2020The UC San Diego Linguistics faculty express our sadness and anger over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless other Black individuals. As linguists, we understand that language is political and that silence is complicity. Therefore, we affirm unequivocally that Black Lives Matter. We express our support of ongoing protests and other actions against the circumstances of systemic racism that lead to the murders of and violence against Black individuals. We condemn the recent acts of police brutality against protestors, and we condemn those political leaders whose reactions to these events have varied between threatened violence and near-total inaction.We stand in solidarity with all who seek to make fundamental and lasting change to the institutions that we represent and that represent us. As humanistic social scientists who study the structure, acquisition, processing, and use of human language in all of its forms, we understand how language is all too often judged and manipulated in ways that perpetuate systemic racism, that support racist institutions, and that fail to achieveanti-racist goals. We also commit to fighting against the racism which has long persisted in our field, and will continue working to dismantle many of the field's methodological practices and academic incentive structures which have upheld and perpetuated colonialism and white supremacy ( cf. Charity Hudley, Mallinson, Bucholtz, to appear ). This is despite the fact that decades of linguistic research have provided a very compelling argument for the underlying equality of all humans and all human cultures. This fundamental equality should lead us to proclaim, both in word and action, that Black Lives Matter.Alongside the goals and strategies for supporting anti-racist efforts within linguistics stated in the Linguistic Society of America s Statement on Race , and more recently amplified by their Statement on Racial Justice , we hereby commit as a Department to the following concrete actions.We will continue to educate ourselves about active anti-racism, and we will consciously aim to resist institutional pressures and practices that directly or indirectly perpetuate racism, social injustice, and inequality.We will review our undergraduate and graduate curricula and, wherever feasible, add substantive and relevant content to our courses that advocates foranti-racism, social justice, and equality.We will create events and training opportunities to provide our faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and IAs with resources to promote anti-racism, social justice, and equality in the context of our diverse range of linguistics courses.We will feature talks in our colloquium series by language researchers whose work is informed by anti-racism, social justice, and equality.UC San Diego Linguistics Department commitment to anti-racism (PDF)AlertThe situation with the coronavirus (COVID-19) is evolving rapidly across the United States. Please see coronavirus.ucsd.edu for the most up-to-date campus information.All Linguistics Department faculty, lecturers, graduate students, language program instructors and staff are now working remotely and all Spring 2020 linguistics and language courses will be offered online. The physical facilities are closed. View student resources for Spring 2020 term here.Who We AreFounded in 1963, the UC San Diego Linguistics Department conducts research and offers in-depth instruction in the main areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics), contributing to both theoretical and empirical/experimental approaches to language, including computational linguistics, fieldwork, language acquisition, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and sign language.We are an active and integral part of the large language community at UC San Diego, together with colleagues in cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, communication and philosophy.We offer five undergraduate majors, three minors, and a Ph.D. program. Students also have the opportunity to obtain an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Linguistics and a graduate Specialization in Anthropogeny. There is active involvement and collaboration among our undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, visitors and faculty in our many research labs and reading groups, as well as through our Linguistics Undergraduate Association (LingUA), and our department colloquia.The Linguistics Department is also the home of the Linguistics Language Program (LLP), which offers beginning language instruction in American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. It also houses the Heritage Language Program (HLP), which offers courses in Filipino, Hindi, Korean, Persian, and Vietnamese for heritage language speakers.Linguistics Department StatementsUC San Diego Linguistics Department policies on bias, harassment, and discrimination Statement on the Presidential decision to end DACA Andrés Aguilar is a new assistant professor at SDSU Welcome the newest assistant professor in Transnational Arts in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University! An expert in Danza Chichimeca Conchera, popularly known as “Aztec” dance, Andrés has been a Ph.D. student in our department and a member of the Phonetics, Phonology, and Fieldwork groups. He recently successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Phonology and phonetics of laryngeal sounds in Chicontepec Nahuatl." Congratulations, Andrés! Ryan Lepic is a new assistant professor at Gallaudet University Alumnus Ryan Lepic (Ph.D. 2015), currently a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago, has just accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University, beginning Fall 2020. Congratulations, Ryan! Qi Cheng is a new assistant professor at University of Washington Welcome the new assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington! Qi's been a Ph.D. student in our department and a member of the Mayberry Lab studying sentence processing and brain-language pathways of late first-language learners. Congratulations, Qi! Linguists making a difference Two members in Professor Mayberry's lab are helping deaf communities meet the challenges in today's COVID-19 environment. Postdoc Deniz Ilkbasaran is working with deaf organizations in Turkey to facilitate access to on-line information and instruction in Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili, TİD). Grad student Matthew Zaslansky who works with Profs Ackerman and Mayberry, is working to make COVID-19 information available in Georgian Sign Language (GSL) as he completes his Fulbright research in the country of Georgia. Nina Hagen Kaldhol awarded ASF Scholarship Graduate student Nina Hagen Kaldhol has been awarded a Graduate Study and Research Scholarship by the American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) in collaboration with the Norway-America Association (NORAM). Congratulations, Nina! Michael Obiri-Yeboah awarded prestigious Mellon/ACLS fellowship Graduate student Michael Obiri-Yeboah was awarded a highly competitive, prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his dissertation on the phonetics and phonology of Gua. Congratulations, Michael! Q A with Alistair Gray, Linguistics major and Jeopardy participant Alistair Gray, a second-year double major undergraduate in Linguistics and Computer Science at UC San Diego was one of the 15 students selected to compete in the annual Jeopardy college tournament. In a Q A on Facebook, we asked him about his experience as a Linguistics major. He was also featured on ThisWeek@UCSanDiego. Eva Wittenberg's pressure-sensitive pen project is featured on ThisWeek@UCSanDiego In collaboration with Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor Annie Colin, Prof. Eva Wittenberg and her Language Comprehension Lab are running a series of technical tests and pilot studies to see whether a novel pressure-sensitive pen can become a useful tool in psycholinguistic research. While the technological development is still in its infancy, pilot data indicate that the novel instrument seems to be able to replicate previous experimental results obtained with different methods, while adding data from the pressure sensors. Now, the focus is to develop a stable data analysis pipeline and further development of data acquisition systems, before moving on to novel research avenues. Qi Cheng awarded NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant Graduate student Qi Cheng, a Ph.D candidate in our department and a member of Rachel Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (#1917922) for her dissertation work. Her research examines the biological foundations of human language with a focus on early language experience, linking observations from language learning, processing, and the brain network. Congratulations, Qi! Nina Semushina awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Nina Semushina, a PhD candidate and graduate student in Prof. Mayberry's lab. was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (Ling-DDRI) for the project "The development of numerical cognition and linguistic number use: Insights from sign languages". The goal of the project is to study the effects of language deprivation on the acquisition of numeracy and linguistic number use in American sign language, taking into account some modality-specific properties of numeral systems and plural morphology in sign languages. Congratulations, Nina!

TAGS:Linguistics 

<<< Thank you for your visit >>>

Hot Websites