George Aaron Broadwell and his colleague Alejandra Dubcovsky have just published a translation of a 1651 letter written in Timucua, the Native language of most of North Florida. This is the oldest letter written in a Native American language of the United States, and understanding it is important to our knowledge of the language and […]
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Congratulations to PhD student Grace deMeurisse and Professor Edith Kaan on the recent publication of the article titled, “Bilingual attentional control: Evidence from the Partial Repetition Cost paradigm”. It was published online in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. The abstract is below and the link is here. Way to go Grace and Edith! “The effects of […]
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Interested in getting an MA or PhD in Linguistics? Join us on November 17th from 10:00 am to 3:00pm for our Open House. Hear from different professors in our department about all you can study with us. E-mail our Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Steffi Wulff (swulff@ufl.edu), for zoom links for the sessions.
Congratulations to Dr George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor Alejandra Dubcovsky (of University of California–Riverside) for their recent publication: Dubcovsky, A., & Broadwell, G.A. (2023). “Anohebasisiro Nimanibota / We Want to Talk to the Honored One”: Timucua Language and its Uses, Silences, and Protests. Native American and Indigenous Studies 10(2), 69-100. doi:10.1353/nai.2023.a904183.
Congratulations to Drs. Edith Kaan and Eleonora Rossi for being featured in a UF research video on Bilingualism and the Brain that is part of the permanent video wall at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Watch it below!
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Congratulations Kirthana Sane (Health Sciences) for being awarded a UF undergraduate AI Research Scholarship. Kirthana, who is working under the mentorship of Dr. Edith Kaan, was one of the 35 recipients selected from a pool of over 140 applicants.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Zoey Liu and her co-authors (including our own Stefanie Wulff) on the publication of several papers in several highly-prestigious conference proceedings and Linguistics journals. Citations and links for all of them are below. Way to go Dr. Liu! Liu, Z., Spence, J., and Prud’Hommeaux, E. (2023). Investigating data partitioning strategies for […]
Congratulations to PhD students Delin Deng and Fenqi Wang and Professor Ratree Wayland for the publication of their newest article, titled, “The pitch contour of the French discourse marker donc: A corpus-based study using generalized additive mixed modeling, published in Journal of French Language Studies. The abstract is below and the link to the article […]
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Our own Dr George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborator Alejandra Dubcovsky (University of California — Riverside) are interviewed about the Timucua language in the most recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Read the full story here.
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Congratulations to our Office Manager Kelli Granade and graduation senior Reinaldo Cabrera Perez for being honored at the College of Liberal Arts and Science Evening of Excellence. Reinaldo was honored with the CLAS Student Excellence Award, while Kelli was honored with the CLAS Superior Staff Award. Way to go y’all!
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