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 […]

Aaron Broadwell and Collaborators Receive LASA Award

George Aaron Broadwell and his collaborators were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period. Dr Broadwell collaborates with Zapotec speakers from Oaxaca, Mexico and diasporic communities throughout North America, other linguists, and digital scholarship experts who […]

Faculty Spotlight: Eleonora Rossi

This semester, we are starting a new spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our next faculty spotlight, we are highlighting Assistant Professor Dr. Eleonora Rossi. Dr. Rossi joined our department in the Spring of 2019 and is one of the directors of our Brain, Language and […]

New Co-Authored Paper by Crystal Marull and Nathan Campbell Published

Congratulations to our own Dr. Crystal Marull and undergraduate student Nathan Campbell, whose recent co-authored paper, titled, “The Effect of Perceptions: Instructor–Student Dynamics in the Spanish Heritage Classroom” was recently published in the latest issue of Languages. Link to the article is here and abstract is below. The rising population of heritage speakers (HS) in university […]

Graduate Student Spotlight: Joey Radice

This semester, we are doing a spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our next graduate student spotlight, we are highlighting PhD candidate Joey Radice. Joey grew up on a Japanese koi farm in Miami, Florida. Their interest in language and communication started early due to the fact that […]

Linguistics Career Pop-Ups Next Week!

The Career Connections Center will be hosting two Linguistics Career Pop-Up events next week on Tuesday (March 2nd) and Thursday (March 4). Tuesday’s pop-up will focus on creating effective resumes, while Thursday’s will focus on career options in Linguistics. Times and links for each pop-up are below. Tuesday, March 2 (2:30-3:30). Zoom link: http://bit.ly/3nDDuvM Thursday, March […]

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