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Until further notice, the University of Arizona, in accordance with the guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, encourages all employees to work remotely. Our offices are closed to the public, but you can reach us Monday–Friday 8:30am-4pm.For current linguistics majors/minors and prospective students who need advising, please contact:Linguistics Undergraduate Advising ( ling.ugadv@gmail.com )Director of Undergrad Studies, Diane Ohala ( ohalad@arizona.edu )For all other inquiries, please contact:Administrative Associate, Marian Wiseley ( mwiseley@arizona.edu )Department Head, Natasha Warner ( nwarner@arizona.edu )Get COVID-19 updates and information for the University of Arizona community. Also, see SBS resources for continuing instruction and learning. The departmental graduation event this morning celebrated graduates completing their bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees. The second year Navajo class wrote and put on a Navajo version of Romeo and Juliet. Congratulations to Professor Tsosie-Paddock and her class! The ALC13 Committee kicks off the first day of the Arizona Linguistics Circle conference, from left to right: Remo Nitschke, Kristina Mihajlović, Kerry McCullough, Roya Kabiri, Maria Alexeeva, Damián Yukio Romero Díaz, Serene Tseng, Christina Newhall. UA Linguist Amy Fountain and Coeur d’Alene Language Programs Director Audra visited the University of Montana to speak with students about collaborative research for Indigenous language communities. Linguistics departmental graduation! Lots of people graduating with the BA, MA, MS, and PHD. Masters in Native American linguistics, masters in human language technology, PhD in linguistics and linguistics plus anthropology, bachelors in linguistics! UA students, Jeremiah Foster (undergrad), Amanda Cheromiah (Graduate PHD), Felisia Tagaban (Graduate, masters), Kiana Poncho (undergrad) and Dr. Aresta Tsosie-Paddock (lead faculty) are participating in the Indigenous Cultural and Educational Exchange in Tasmania. NAMA students and Wilson Silva presented a panel "Celebrating 20 years of training Native Scholars in linguistics." Shiloh Drake and Natasha Warner demonstrate linguistics activities to Magellan Circle members at a  Magellan reception. Neda Maghbouleh, 2019 Taleghani Lecture Series Speaker, delivered a talk based on her 2017 book:  The Limits of Whiteness. At Tucson Festival of Books 2019, graduate student Shannon Grippando shows one way to learn that language is left-lateralized. Linguists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Cecile McKee (chair of the language science section), Jaycie Martin, and Mai Naji supported the language sciences booth at the association's Family Science Days festival in Washington, DC, February 16-17, 2019. The UA's demonstration on syntactic ambiguity is shown here, with Martin in the banana suit. (photo: Laura Wagner, OSU) Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), where the project Amy Fountain worked with was awarded the 2019 Ken Hale Prize.The project name is the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center. The people in the photo are, left to right:Cheffrey Sailto, Coeur d’Alene Language ProgramsJohn Ivens, University of Arizona,Prof. Amy Fountain,Shannon Bischoff, Purdue University Fort Wayne,Audra Vincent, Coeur d’Alene Language Programs, John Lyon, CSU Fresno Michelle Clark, Coeur d’Alene Language Programs. The Gregory School has a new class offering this year, one where mythology discussions are part of the curriculum, everything ties back to Tolkien somehow, and where the syllabus is written in Dwarven runes. The class is called “Fantasy Literature and Creative Writing,” and it’s a chance for students to exercise creativity and critical thinking on a whole new level.  https://www.gregoryschool.org/events/item/511-fantasy-literature-and-creative-wr… Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) recently presented at the fourth International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association,  Donahoo’s presentation, entitled “Experimental evidence for defining the semantic representation of expressive content” spoke to effects induced when comprehending swear words.  Based on the merits of the submitted abstract, Donahoo was selected for a Graduate Student Travel Award by the scientific committee of the conference. Wilson Silva, Megan Harvey and Robert Henderson at the Sound System of Latin America 3 Conference at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Thank you to the professors and graduate students that presented at the Sonoran Science Academy during an outreach school visit. Stanley Donahoo, doctoral candidate in Linguistics (Cognitive Science GIDP minor) presented at the 3rd Infant Studies on Language Development in Europe, at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Stanley presented research which employs the EEG methodology in adults.  The conference featured a series of lectures on applying the technique to infant populations.Next ANLI student, Christina Laree Newhall, interned at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. over summer 2018 and assisted in making guides intended to support language revitalization projects. The project's aim is to create language specific guides for navigating the National Anthropological Archives, whereby making archived materials related to languages of Native North America and original people of Mexico, more accessible to Native American researchers involved in language and cultural revitalization efforts, and to support archival projects like Breath of Life Institute and Rising Voices.  On August 1 and 2, three members of the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Language Programs (program manager Audra Vincent and colleagues Michelle Clark and Cheffrey Sailto) visited the UA in order to meet with AILDI program coordinator Alyce Sadongei and director Ofelia Zepeda, as well as the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center technical team (John Ivens, technical lead, UA undergraduate Timothy Chartier), and co-PIs Shannon Bischoff (Purdue University Fort Wayne) and Amy Fountain (UA) to plan work funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Documenting Endangered Languages program (Award PD-261031-18). On August 1 and 2, three members of the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Language Programs (program manager Audra Vincent and colleagues Michelle Clark and Cheffrey Sailto) visited the UA in order to meet with AILDI program coordinator Alyce Sadongei and director Ofelia Zepeda, as well as the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center technical team (John Ivens, technical lead, UA undergraduate Timothy Chartier), and co-PIs Shannon Bischoff (Purdue University Fort Wayne) and Amy Fountain (UA) to plan work funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Documenting Endangered Languages program (Award PD-261031-18). On August 1 and 2, three members of the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Language Programs (program manager Audra Vincent and colleagues Michelle Clark and Cheffrey Sailto) visited the UA in order to meet with AILDI program coordinator Alyce Sadongei and director Ofelia Zepeda, as well as the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center technical team (John Ivens, technical lead, UA undergraduate Timothy Chartier), and co-PIs Shannon Bischoff (Purdue University Fort Wayne) and Amy Fountain (UA) to plan work funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Documenting Endangered Languages program (Award PD-261031-18). Niiĝuĝim Tunuu and Qawalangim Tunuu dialect teams - including ANLI student Joe Dupris - wrap up at the Where Are Your Keys? 2018 Unangam Tunuu Summer Language Intensive in Anchorage, Alaska Genesis Hernandez, B.A. graduate of the Department of Linguistics (2017), presented a poster at the Acoustical Society of American Meeting in Minneapolis. Natasha Warner worked with Peter Nelson (Coast Miwok and San Diego State University) on language revitalization for Coast Miwok at the Breath of Life workshop at University of California Berkeley. Current UA student Seongjin Park, UA alumni Jae-Hyun Sung and Gwanhi Yun, and Natasha Warner presented posters and talks at the Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language in Seoul, Korea. University of Hong Kong Fulbright Scholar Suki Yiu presented her research on Metrical and Tonal Prominence in Swatow at the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages in Berlin, Germany during her 6-month stay in the University of Arizona Department of Linguistics. Linguistics Professor Andrew Carnie, Linguistics Research Scientist Muriel Fisher, and Professor of English Meg Lota Brown lead a study abroad tour to Scotland this summer. The topic was “The Scottish Enlightenment and Gaelic Culture”. Linguistics majors Grace Johnson and Max Mule were among the participants.  Bri Alexander presented at the Cherokee Nation Community and Cultural Outreach's Annual Conference of Community Leaders in Tahlequah, OK.In the pic, from left to right, is: CN's Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr., CN's Deputy Chief Joe Crittenden, CN's Master-Apprentice Program Head Howard Paden, Bri Alexander (co-presenter), CN's Principal Chief Bill John Baker, and Carey Flack (co-presenter). Dr. Silva's collaboration team working on the A'ingae, Desano, and Siriano documentation projects at NAMA, U of Arizona. July 9-13, 2018. The department celebrates Spring 2018 graduates with bachelor's, masters and doctoral degrees across NAMA, HLT and the Linguistics Ph.D. programs. Congratulations to all of you! Current and former UA linguists Jeff Punske, Samantha Wray, Amy LaCross, Nick Kloehn, Adam King, Shiloh Drake and Adam Ussishkin at the University of Kentucky for the Workshop on Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, funded by NSF grant to Andrea Sims (OSU) and Adam Ussishkin. "Mutsun community members and tribal chair Val Lopez in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natasha Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez." "Mutsun community members in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natasha Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez". "Mutsun community members in San Juan Bautista, California, with UA linguist Natahsa Warner, learning to use the new Mutsun dictionary. Picture by Frank Perez".  "Andrew Carnie, Diane Ohala, Mike Hammond, Muriel Fisher and Andrea Fulgham in Scotland on the way to research sites in Bangor, Wales, and Skye, Scotland." The department celebrates the Spring 2017 graduates with bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees across ANLI, NAMA, HLT, and the Linguistics Ph.D. programs. PhD student Keisha Josephs and her colleague Sheldon Noel are helping to support revitalization efforts for the Lokono language in Guyana.Check out the article on the Guyana Chronicle (link) for more details!Photo Credit: The Guyana Chronicle Online Congratulations to Adam Ussishkin, Andy Wedel, Samantha Wray, and Shiloh Drake, who have all had papers accepted to the upcoming 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. More information on the June 24-26 conference at the University of Torino in Italy can be found here. Welcome to the Department of LinguisticsThe Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona offers undergraduate and graduate programs in linguistics and human language technology. Our faculty has research specializations in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and biolinguistics, represented by diverse interests in a variety of languages. We also offer unique programs in Native American linguistics. The department trains students for careers in teaching, research, and industry, and is equipped with a variety of laboratory facilities.more about [Linguistics] Coyote Papers Vol 22 Congratulations and thank you to Remo Nietzsche, Damián Yukio, Gabriela DC, and John Powell on the completion of the new volume of the Coyote Papers (Coyote Papers 22: Proceedings of the Arizona Linguistics Circle 13)! They wish to thank their... read more Graduation Video 2020 Congratultaions to the Class of 2020! Mosiah Bluecloud Congratulations to Mosiah Bluecloud on winning the prestigious University Fellows Award.Location of Department:Communications BuildingRoom 109The University of ArizonaGeneral Information: Marian WiseleyPhone: (520) 621-6897Fax: (520) 626-9014Mailing Address: Department of Linguistics      P.O. Box 210025The University of ArizonaTucson AZ 85721USADeparment Head: Dr. Natasha WarnerEmail: nwarner@email.arizona.eduDirector of Graduate Studies: Dr. Diana ArchangeliEmail: dba@email.arizona.eduGraduate Program: Stephanie AmadoEmail: samado@email.arizona.eduDirector of Undergraduate Studies: Dr. Diane OhalaEmail:  ohalad@email.arizona.edu

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