Abstract submissions for the American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, to be hosted by the Department of Linguistics, are now open! The conference will take place April 18-19, 2026 on the campus of the University of Florida. For more information, click the link: https://lin.ufl.edu/aacl-2026/
Congratulations to our newest faculty member, Dr. Irina Burukina, on the publication of her recent article with co-author Dr. Maria Polinsky in Journal of Linguistics. The paper is titled The antipassive and verbal projections and is available at the link here. Abstract is below. Way to go Irina! This paper presents and analyzes antipassive constructions in […]
Starting in Summer B 2025, our Introduction to Linguistics course will have a new number. It will no longer be LIN 3010, but instead LIN 2011. Everything else about the course and its placement in the curriculum (e.g. required for the major, prerequisite for all other major courses, sequence in critical tracking, etc.) will remain […]
Congratulations to Professor Aaron Broadwell, who will be giving this year’s Michael Gannon Lecture, hosted by The George A. Smathers Libraries and the University of Florida. This event will take place April 1 (4:00-5:00) at Smathers Library First Floor Room 100. For more information about the event, follow the link here.
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On February 8, 2025, members of the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism (BLAB) Lab participated in the Girls Do Science event at the Florida Museum for Natural History. This event celebrated “International Women and Girls in Science” Day and featured activities and conversations designed to encourage more female participation in science. Featured in the image is […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Broadwell in the publication of his new book, The Timucua language: A text-based reference grammar. This grammar is a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the Native language of much of North Florida, Timucua. The grammar is based on careful analysis of 17th century materials published in the language, and many […]
Congratulations to Professor Paula Golombek and her co-editors Karen E. Johnson and Jacob Rieker (2017 UF Linguistics graduate) on the release of new edited volume titled, “Transformative L2 Teacher Education Innovations: Insights from Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory”. This book, “features empirical research studies informed by Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory (VSCT) that are explicitly and intentionally designed to […]
Congratulations to Linguistics graduate students Ahmed Firoz and Nitin Venkateswaran and Assistant Professor Dr. Sarah Moeller, who presented a poster on Bangla/Bengali-English machine translation at the UF AI Days on October 29. Their model trained on their data performed better than almost any other machine translation models for this pair of languages. They will present […]
Congratulations to PhD graduate Dr. Joshua Martin, who was recently awarded the Joshua A. Fishman Award from De Gruyter Mouton. This prestigious award, “recognizes outstanding dissertations that push intellectual boundaries and offer innovative, forward-looking perspectives in the sociology of language.” Joshua won for his dissertation titled, “Automatic Speech Recognition Systems, Spoken Corpora, and African American […]
Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Yihan Chen and Professor Eleonora Rossi on the recent publication of their article titled, “Sub-Lexical Processing of Chinese–English Bilinguals: An ERP Analysis” in the latest issue of Brain Sciences. Click the link here to see the article. The abstract is also below. Way to go Drs. Chen and Rossi! “Previous research […]
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