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New Co-Authored Paper by Eleonora Rossi Published

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Eleonora Rossi, whose co-authored paper with Antonio Iniesta, M. Teresa Bajo, and Daniela Paolieri, titled, “The Influence of Cross-Linguistic Similarity and Language Background on Writing to Dictation” was recently published online in Frontiers in Psychology. Link to the paper can be found here and abstract is below. Way to go Eleonora! […]

New Book Co-Edited by Edith Kaan Published

Congratulations to Associate Professor Edith Kaan, whose co-edited volume with Theres Grüter, titled, “Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning” was just published in print. This edited volume also contains chapters by affiliated faculty member Jorge Valdés Kroff (Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies) and former students Aleks Tomic and Eunjin Chun! Link to the volume can be […]

New Co-authored Publication by Ratree Wayland Published

Congratulations to Professor Ratree Wayland, whose co-authored paper with Si Chen and Yike Yang, titled, “Categorical Perception of Mandarin Pitch Directions by Cantonese-Speaking Musicians and Non-musicians” was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology. Link to the paper can be found here and purpose statement is below. Way to go Ratree! “This study is to investigate […]

New Faculty Spotlight: Sarah Moeller

For our first faculty spotlight this semester, we are highlighting our newest faculty member, Sarah Moeller! Sarah comes to us from (most recently) Colorado where she completed her PhD this past May at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation applied machine learning to nine language documentation corpora and discovered that morphological analysis can be done […]

New Co-authored Paper by Paula Golombek Published

Congratulations to Professor Paula Golombek, whose co-authored paper with Karen Johnson, titled, “Recurrent restorying through language teacher narrative inquiry” was recently published in System. Link to the paper can be found here and abstract is below. Way to go Paula! “We propose a novel methodology for analyzing language teacher narrative inquiry: recurrent restorying, teachers engaging […]

Two Linguistics Majors Named 2021-2022 Fulbright Finalists

Congratulations to recent Linguistics graduates Rosana Gutierrez and Alexandra St. Tellien, who were named Fulbright Finalists for the 2021-2022 academic year. Rosana was granted an English Teaching Assistant award in Argentina, while Alexandra was granted an English Teaching Assistant award in Côte d’Ivoire. In addition, TESL Certificate students Zariah Brown and Camille Armada were also named Fulbright […]

Ratree Wayland and Kevin Tang Receive UF Research Seed Fund

Congratulations to Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, and their collaborators Karen Hegland and Yonghee Oh (College of Public Health and Health Professions), who were recently awarded a UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund for their project entitled, “Demystifying perceptual evaluations of parkinsonism sub-categorizations using machine learning”. The abstract for their project is below. Parkinsonism refers to multiple […]